A boy suffering from malnutrition cries while being measured in a makeshift hospital in the town of Aguie, near Maradi, Niger, on July 26, 2005. Rains and a locust invasion during last year's harvest tipped Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, past its usual chronic food shortages into a hunger crisis in 2005.
A Pakistani policeman carries a girl injured in an earthquake as he searches for an empty bed for her in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Oct. 10, 2005. Medics set up make-shift tents outside the hospital to deal with the overflow as scores of injured arrived around the clock. The Oct. 8, 2005 quake killed 87,000 people in Pakistan and India.
A Mayan woman cries in a mudslide area of Panabaj, Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, 112 miles south of Guatemala City, on Oct 8, 2005. Rains linked to Hurricane Stan unleashed devastation that caused hundreds of deaths and left hundreds of missing across Central America and Mexico.
Bodies of adults and children killed by the tsunami lie in a mass grave near Wat Bang Muang on Jan. 7, 2005 in Takuapa, Thailand. The total toll of dead and missing from last year's Indian Ocean tsunami is at least 216,858, according to government and aid agency figures, although different agencies in Indonesia and Sri Lanka are reporting different figures.
Juana Garcia, 104, sleeps between debris at her damaged residence in Huara, some 60 miles from Iquique Port City in Chile, on June 14, 2005. An earthquake of 7.9 magnitude killed at least a dozen people.
New Orleans Police and volunteers use boats to rescue residents from a flooded neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans on Aug. 31, 2005. Hurricane Katrina left much of the city under water.
A home was destroyed by a wildfire that moved through the Mojave Desert community of Morongo Valley, Calif., on June 22, 2005.
A view of the village of Hotkan, which was destroyed by an earthquake, some 25 miles from the city of Zarand in central Iran on Feb. 22, 2005. The powerful earthquake flattened villages in the mountains of central Iran, killing hundreds of people. The quake was a magnitude 6.4.
A dog peers through the bars in a flooded home in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, La., Sept. 5, 2005. Thousands of animals were left stranded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The body of Bernardo Cifuentes is removed by rescue workers after a landslide in Bello near Medellin, about 160 miles northwest of Bogota, Colombia, on Oct.7, 2005.
A Pakistani earthquake survivor shivers in the rain as he waits outside a Pakistani army aid distribution site hoping for a tent or a blanket in Balakot, Pakistan, Oct. 15, 2005. The quake killed 87,000 people in Pakistan and India.
A home is surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita on Sept. 25, 2005, in Johnson Bayou, La.
Leonard Thomas, 23, cries after a SWAT team burst into the flooded New Orleans' home he and his family were living in Sept. 5, 2005. Neighbors had reported that they were squatting in the house in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Authorities left after his family proved they owned the house.
Milvertha Hendricks, 84, waits in the rain with other flood victims outside the convention center in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005. Because of Hurricane Katrina, officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city.
Steam, rocks and ash erupt from a vent Dec 12, 2005, in Lake Vui on Mount Manaro, which is on the island of Ambae in Vanuatu. The volcano has continued activity since it began Nov. 27, 2005.
A New Orleans resident walks through floodwaters coated with a fine layer of oil in the flooded downtown area on Aug. 30, 2005. Hurricane Katrina pounded the region when it made landfall.
Rani Amma, 50, grieves for her family who died in the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami. She is sitting near a small temple she made at the spot where her home once stood in Nagappattinam, which is in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 12, 2005.
A man who tried to recover his belongings from his flooded house is rescued after he went into the flooded Coatan river in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, on Oct. 9, 2005. Rains linked to Hurricane Stan unleashed devastation that caused hundreds of deaths and left hundreds missing across Central America and Mexico.
Oklahoma National Guard Spc. Craig Yates walks the streets of New Orleans on Sept. 8, 2005, during a night patrol after Hurricane Katrina.
The body of a dead student is found at Shaheen school in the outskirts of Balakot, Pakistan, on Oct. 14, 2005. The Oct. 8, 2005 quake killed 87,000 people in Pakistan and India.