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100 Iconic Photos of the Decade
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A picture does more than words. It doesn't just tell a story. A picture can elicit emotion. From the devastation you feel looking into a hungry orphan's eyes to the jubilation you feel at Canadians celebrating an Olympic win, one single snapshot can silently bring you back to a time gone by. From Y2K to 9/11 to Katrina to Obama-mania, CTV.ca takes you on a trip through time with 100 of the most iconic pictures of the decade. Warning: some images might disturb sensitive viewers.
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Y2K / 2000 celebration
Fireworks illuminate the Eiffel Tower for millennium celebrations in Paris, on Jan. 1, 2000.
AP Photo/Michel Euler
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Elian Gonzalez
Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy, in the early morning on April 22, 2000, in Miami.
AP Photo/Alan Diaz
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Walkerton water crisis
Residents carry fresh water at a depot in Walkerton, Ont. on Wednesday, May 24, 2000. Tens of thousands of litres of water were donated by local businesses. Seven people died following what one health official in this southwestern Ontario town called the worst E. coli outbreak in Canadian history.
Kevin Frayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Walkerton water crisis
Resident Alan Cooper, 15-years-old rides his bike passed a sign offering sympathy for the sick children of Walkerton, Ont. Saturday May 27, 2000.
Kevin Frayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Air France Concorde crash
Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, on July 25, 2000. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground.
AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato
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Trudeau dies
RCMP pall bearer carry the casket of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau from the Centre Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 2, 2000 followed by his sons Alexandre, or Sacha on the left and Justin on the right, and then prime-minister Jean Chretien and his wife Aline.
Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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USS Cole bombing
This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows damage sustained on the USS Cole after a suspected terrorist bomb exploded during a refuellng operation in the port of Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000.
AP Photo/U.S. Navy
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Mideast conflict
A Palestinian stone thrower faces an Israeli tank, during clashes at the Karni crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on the outskirts of Gaza City, on Oct. 29, 2000. According to Enaam Udah, 41, her son Fares Udah, 13, is the boy in the picture and was shot dead by Israeli gunfire on November 8, 2000. "We don't send our sons to an easy death," said Udah "But if this is fated by God, then I cannot change that."
AP Photo/Laurent Rebours
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2000 U.S. election
This is the third edition of the Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2000, issue of the Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas. The newspaper printed four different front pages throughout the night in order to keep up with the changing election results between presidential candidates Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.
AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman
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Bush inauguration
Then U.S. President Bush and his father former President Bush put their hands over their hearts as the American flag goes by during the inaugural parade in Washington on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001.
AP Photo/M. Spencer Green
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Bush inauguration protests
Political artist Darrius Baker of Los Angeles, protests the presidential inauguration of George W. Bush during a rally in downtown Los Angeles, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001, where more than 2,000 people shouted anti-Bush slogans and waved handmade signs.
AP Photo/Michael Caulfield
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9/11 terrorist attacks
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler
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9/11 terrorist attacks
A jet airliner nears one of the World Trade Center towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
AP Photo/Carmen Taylor
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9/11 terrorist attacks
People run from the collapse of a World Trade Center Tower In New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
AP
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9/11 terrorist attacks
A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers.
AP Photo/Richard Drew,
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9/11 terrorist attacks
The early morning sun lights the sky behind the damaged section of the Pentagon on Sept. 13, 2001, as rescue work continues after terrorists crashed a hijacked airliner into it.
AP Photo/Ron Edmonds
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9/11 terrorist attacks
Then U.S. President Bush puts his arms around firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the World Trade Center debris during a tour of the devastation in New York on Sept. 14, 2001.
AP Photo/Doug Mills
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Bin Laden takes credit
Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast on Oct. 7, 2001. Bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and swore America "will never dream of security" until "the infidel's armies leave the land of Muhammad," in a videotaped statement aired after the strike launched by the U.S. and Britain in Afghanistan.
AP Photo/Al Jazeera
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Olympic hockey gold
Team Canada's executive director Wayne Gretzky hugs team captain Mario Lemieux after defeating the USA 5-2 in the men's hockey final a at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in West Valley City, Utah, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002.
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Olympic hockey gold
Canada's women's hockey team forward Jennifer Botterill, of Winnipeg, celebrates with her teammates after their gold medal win over the United States at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002.
Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Olympic skating controversy
David Pelletier of Canada hugs Elena Berezhnaya of Russia as Anton Sikharulidze of Russia reaches for Pelletier's partner Jamie Sale at a special awards ceremony for the figure skating pairs competition at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2002.
AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau
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Olympic sweetheart
Canada's Catriona Le May Doan holds a Canadian flag during her victory lap after winning the gold in the women's 500m Olympic speedskating competition in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2002.
AP Photo/Dusan Vranic
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Afghan mission begins
Afghan children from Kandahar, Afghanistan, are given sweets by Canadian soldier Andy Maclean after he stopped his patrol of the area near the military air base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, March 18, 2002. The children give the patrols a warm welcome when they pass by.
AP Photo/Adam Butler
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Winona Ryder on trial
Actress Winona Ryder talks to a Los Angeles County Sheriff officer as they wait for the court session to end after the verdict was read in her shoplifting trial on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2002, at the courthouse in Beverly Hills, Calif. Ryder was found guilty of vandalism and grand theft but was found not guilty of the burglary charges.
AP Photo/Lee Celano
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Columbia shuttle
Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, on Feb. 1, 2003. The homeward-bound space shuttle Columbia broke up in orange flames and contrails of smoke over Texas, killing all seven astronauts aboard on a mission that was only 16 minutes away from a successful completion.
AP Photo/Dr. Scott Lieberman
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003.
AP Photo/Elise Amendola
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The U.S. invades Iraq
An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, on March 31, 2003. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son and the U.S. military did not want to separate father and son.
AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju
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The U.S. takes Baghdad
Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
AP Photo/Jerome Delay
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The Mission Accomplished banner
U.S. President Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast on May 1, 2003. The White House said April 30, 2008, that U.S. President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner as it became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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The SARS health crisis
Children attend ballet lessons wearing masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, in Hong Kong on April 27, 2003.
AP Photo/Vincent Yu
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Vancouver wins Olympic bid
Olympic fans celebrate the announcement that Vancouver will host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games at GM Place in Vancouver Wednesday, July 2, 2003.
Richard Lam / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Harry Potter mania
Ten-year-old Conar Paterson is one of the first of hundreds lined up in front of Mable's Fables Children's Bookstore to purchase the new J.K. Rowling book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" in Toronto, shortly after midnight on Saturday, June 21, 2003.
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Britney-Madonna kiss
Britney Spears, left, and Madonna kiss during the opening performance of the MTV Video Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hal on Aug. 28, 2003.
AP Photo/Julie Jacobson
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Hurricane Juan
Harvey Whidden pauses as he views the damage to a milking parlour on his farm near Stewiacke, N.S. on Friday, Oct. 3, 2003. Winds from Hurricane Juan toppled a massive concrete silo that flattened his barn, putting him out of the dairy business.
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California fires
Firefighters watch a monstrous cloud of smoke approach as a 16 km-wide wall of flames climbs the mountains on Oct. 28, 2003, in the Lake Cuyamaca area just south of the town of Julian, Calif. during wildfires that devastated the area.
AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi
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Saddam captured
Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein undergoes medical examinations in Baghdad on Dec. 14, 2003, in this image from television.
AP Photo/US Military via APTN
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Janet's wardrobe malfunction
Entertainer Janet Jackson, left, covers her breast after her outfit came undone during the half time performance with Justin Timberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2004. A federal appeals court threw out a $550,000 fine issued by the Federal Communications Commission against CBS, Monday, July 21, 2008, for the 2004 Super Bowl half time show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."
AP Photo/David Phillip
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Iraqis hangs U.S. soldiers
Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad on March 31, 2004.
AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed
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Abu Ghraib prison photo
In this undated photo released by the New Yorker, a hooded and wired Iraqi prisoner is seen at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, Iraq.
AP Photo/Courtesy of The New Yorker
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Spain train bomb
An image taken by close circuit television shows explosions and people fleeing in panic in the first seconds of the deadly March 11, 2004, attacks on Madrid's train system. Bombs exploded on four trains at three stations, killing 192 people and wounding about 1,800.
AP Photo/EFE/El Pais
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Beslan school massacre
A wounded boy is carried after he escaped from a seized school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004. Hundreds were killed in the standoff that ended when Russian security forces stormed the building.
AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev
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Same sex marriage
Same sex couple Stephany Cholakis, left, and Michelle Ritchot celebrate with a kiss after receiving a marriage certificate in Winnipeg, on Thursday, Sept.16, 2004. Manitoba became the fourth province to legalize same-sex marriage after a judge declared the province’s current definition of marriage unconstitutional.
Jeff De Booy / Winnipeg Free Press / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Tsunami disaster
Tidal waves wash through houses at Maddampegama, about 60 kilometres south of Colombo, Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004. Massive waves triggered by earthquakes crashed into villages along a wide stretch of the Sri Lankan coast, killing at least 216,858 people and displacing a million others.
AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe
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Tsunami disaster
A Sri Lankan man carries the body of his son, killed by the tsunami, out of a hospital in the town of Galle, 117 kilometres south of Colombo, Sri Lanka on Dec. 27, 2004. The total toll of dead and missing from the Indian Ocean tsunami is at least 216,858, according to government and aid agency figures, although different agencies in Indonesia and Sri Lanka report different numbers.
AP Photo/Vincent Thian
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Mayerthorpe massacre
Four candles burn beside the images of four RCMP officers killed, at a memorial service on the Alexis reserve, 30 kilometres east of Mayerthorpe, Alta., on Sunday, March 6, 2005.
Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Michael Jackson trial
Michael Jackson, centre, is supported by his security personnel as he walks into the courthouse with his father Joe Jackson, right, after arriving late at Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, Calif., on March 10, 2005. Jackson was eventually acquitted on all abuse charges.
AP Photo/Kimberly White
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Pope John Paul II dies
Pope John Paul II's body begins its journey from the Apostolic Palace to St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing on April 4, 2005, four days before his remains will be entombed in the grotto below the church.
AP Photo/Luca Bruno
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London tube bombing
Paul Dadge, right, helps injured tube passenger Davinia Turrell away from Edgware Road tube station in London following an explosion, July 7, 2005. The explosion was part of a series of bombings that killed dozens and injured hundreds more.
AP Photo/Jane Mingay
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Hurricane Katrina
Bay St. Louis Emergency Management Agency volunteer crews rescue the Taylor family from the roof of their SUV, which became trapped on US 90 due to flooding during Hurricane Katrina in Bay St. Louis, Miss., on Aug. 28, 2005.
AP Photo/Ben Sklar
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Hurricane Katrina
Residents are rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005.
AP Photo/David J. Phillip
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Hurricane Katrina
A makeshift tomb at a New Orleans street corner conceals a body that had been lying on the sidewalk for days in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on Sept. 4, 2005. The message reads, "Here lies Vera. God Help Us."
AP Photo/Dave Martin
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Saddam on trial
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, front centre, and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, back centre, berate the court during their trial in Baghdad on Dec. 5, 2005.
AP Photo/David Furst
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Harper wins minority
Then Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper, his wife Laureen Teskey and kids Ben and Rachel celebrate his minority government win in the Canadian federal election in Calgary, Alta., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2006.
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West Bank settlement conflict
A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Feb. 1, 2006. Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up behind barbed wire in the illegal West Bank outpost, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes there.
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Klassen kicks butt
Canadian speedskater Cindy Klassen shows off her gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006. The 27-year-old from Winnipeg won a whopping five medals at the Winter Games to become Canada's most decorated Olympian. Her historic effort made her a landslide winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canadian female athlete of the year in a survey by The Canadian Press and Broadcast News.
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Lebanon-Israel conflict
Israeli gunners react as they stand in the shock wave after an artillery piece fires into southern Lebanon from a position near Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel on July 14, 2006.
AP Photo/Kevin Frayer
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Lebanon-Israel conflict
Lebanese citizens watch Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speak on television as black smoke rises from new Israeli attacks on the Hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon during his speech on July 16, 2006. Nasrallah said that his guerrillas were "in their full strength and power" after a five-day Israeli bombardment, and said the battle had just begun.
AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian
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Dawson College shooting
Students run from Dawson College after reports of a gunman in the building in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2006. A man dressed in military fatigues stormed into the cafeteria of the Montreal college and began shooting, killing one student.
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Dawson College shooting
Evacuated students react during a shooting incident at Dawson College in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006. A gunman killed one student and wounded twenty others before killing himself.
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Dawson College shooting
Students are overcome with emotion at a makeshift memorial in front of Dawson College in Montreal Friday, Sept. 15, 2006.
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Laval overpass collapse
Rescue workers survey the site of an overpass that collapsed onto autoroute 19 in Laval, Que., Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006. Five people were killed in the incident.
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TomKat wedding
U.S. actor Tom Cruise, right, and U.S. actress Katie Holmes, with their daughter Suri, who became engaged in June 2005, hold hands as they leave their hotel in Rome on Nov. 16, 2006, ahead of their lavish wedding in an Italian castle.
AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia
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Britney shaves her head
In this photo made from video provided by KABC-TV, pp singer Britney Spears appears at a Sherman Oaks, Calif., tattoo parlor Friday night, Feb. 16, 2007. Spears was there to get a couple of tiny tattoos and eventually left with a shaved head.
AP Photo/KABC-TV
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Virginia Tech massacre
An unidentified person is carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., after a shooting incident on April 16, 2007. A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom on the campus, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Alan Kim
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iPhone debut
James Budd celebrates in the Apple Store on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Friday, June 29, 2007, after purchasing a new iPhone, Apple Inc.'s new product that combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod media player and wireless Web browser.
AP Photo/M. Spencer Green
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Taser death
Robert Dziekanski holds a small table at the Vancouver Airport in this image from video on Oct. 14, 2007. Gripping video of a would-be Polish immigrant's last minutes in the Vancouver airport has been released to the public. The video shows Dziekanski alternating between fear and calm as he stands in the international arrivals terminal.
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Bhutto assassinated
A supporter of Pakistan former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto mourns deaths of his colleagues after a suicide attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Dec. 27, 2007. Bhutto was assassinated in the attack that also killed at least 20 others during a campaign rally.
AP Photo/B.K.Bangash
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Sarkozy and Carla
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new companion Italian supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni, left, look back at photographers as they admire a view of the Giza Pyramids at sunset in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007.
AP Photo/Ben Curtis
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Tom Brady's rise
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass to tight end Benjamin Watson during the second half of an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, in Foxborough, Mass., on Jan. 12, 2008. Tom Brady began the decade as an obscure backup. He closes it as the most accomplished player in the U.S.'s most popular sport, a three-time champion whose persona has transcended football.
AP Photo/Winslow Townson
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Heath Ledger dies The body of actor Heath Ledger is removed from a Soho apartment by the NYC Medical Examiner in New York on Jan. 22, 2008.
AP Photo/Louis Lanzano
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Obama vs. Clinton
Then Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, gestures for time as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., responds to a question during a Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2008.
AP Photo/Chris Carlson
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China Earthquake
A woman mourns for her grandson who died in the May 12 earthquake, in the debris of the collapsed Xingjian elementary School as they mark the Children day in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan Province on June 1, 2008.
AP Photo/Oded Balilty
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Obama-mania strikes Europe
Then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves as he arrives at the Victory Column in Berlin on July 24, 2008.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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Bus beheading
RCMP officers investigate a "major incident" that occurred on a Greyhound bus about 18km west of Portage La Prairie, Man., on Thursday, July 31, 2008 A passenger was stabbed then decapitated onboard the bus late Wednesday, July 30, 2008.
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Olympic opening ceremony
Fireworks explode as the torch is lit during the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008.
AP Photo/Luca Bruno
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Phelps dominates
United States' Michael Phelps and his teammate Garret Weber-Gale, right, celebrate as their team wins the gold in the men's 4x100-metre freestyle relay final during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Centre at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Aug. 11, 2008.
AP Photo/David J. Phillip
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Listeria outbreak
A sign at a Metro store is seen in Montreal Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, advising customers that Maple Leaf products found on their shelves are not part of the recall. A number of deaths across Canada have been linked to an outbreak of Listeria which originated from a Maple Leaf plant in Ontario.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Hurricane Ike
Fire destroys homes along the beach on Galveston Island, Texas as Hurricane Ike approaches on Sept. 12, 2008.
AP Photo/David J. Phillip
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Markets crash
Trader Christopher Crotty rubs his eyes as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 17, 2008.
AP Photo/Richard Drew
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Obama wins presidency
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, left, his wife Michelle Obama, right, and two daughters, Malia, 7. and Sasha, 10, wave at the election night rally in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2008.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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Mumbai terror attacks
Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel continues to burn in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks.
AP Photo/Gautam Singh
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Mideast conflict
A Palestinian man reacts as he carries a girl, who according to Palestinian medical sources was killed in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on Jan. 5, 2009.
AP Photo/Khalil Hamra
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Miracle on the Hudson
Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines on Jan. 15, 2009.
AP
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Obama inauguration
A crowd gathers to watch the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
AP Photo/ Scott Andrews
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Obama inauguration
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance together at the Eastern Inaugural Ball in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009. Fashion designer Jason Wu says the inauguration ball dress he designed for Michelle Obama grew out of his childhood fascination with dolls.
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
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Brangelina clan
U.S. actor Brad Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie arrive with their children at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009.
AP
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Highway of heroes
Supporters stand on a bridge in Whitby, Ont., as limousines carrying the families four fallen soldiers pass on Monday, March 23, 2009. All four soldiers were based at CFB Petawawa, Ont.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
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N.L. Chopper crash
The wreckage of the Cougar Helicopter flight CH191, that crashed off the coast of Newfoundland killing 17 people, is displayed to the media as the Transportation Safety Board reports on its findings, in St. John's on Thursday, March 26, 2009.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly
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Swine flu outbreak
A model wearing mask is seen during Fashion Week in Santo Domingo, Friday, June 5, 2009.
AP Photo/Kena Betancur
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Air France
Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from a missing Air France jet in the Atlantic Ocean on June 8, 2009. The cause of the June 1, 2009 crash off Brazil's northeastern coast that killed 228 people is unknown.
AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force
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Iran unrest
A supporter of Iranian reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, holds a piece of stone. His face is covered with green scarf symbolizing his party's colour, as others burn a trash bin in Tehran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Supporters of the main election challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police and set up barricades of burning tires as authorities claimed the hard-line president was re-elected in a landslide.
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Michael Jackson dies
Newspaper front pages report the death of Michael Jackson, in New York on Friday, June 26, 2009. Jackson, the sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer, before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, June 25, 2009.
AP Photo/Richard Drew
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Michael Jackson dies
Singer Janet Jackson, left, Paris Katherine Jackson, Prince Michael Jackson II, and LaToya Jackson are seen on stage during the memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
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Farrah Fawcett dies
Ryan O'Neal touches the back of the hearse carrying actress Farrah Fawcett's casket after her funeral service on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 in Los Angeles. Fawcett died on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 62.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
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Social networking takes off
A Facebook user logs into their account in Ottawa, Ont., on July 16, 2009. In the last decade, first-generation social networks, little more than online address books, gave way to sites such as Facebook and Twitter, where we add our words, photos, links and video posts to a collective stream of consciousness.
The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick
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Putin goes shirtless
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen feeding a horse in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region in Russia, during a short vacation on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009.
AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Drizhinin
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Korean hostage crisis
Laura Ling, third from left, and Euna Lee, right, two American journalists who were arrested in March after allegedly crossing into North Korea from China, are joined by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Lee and Ling, the two American journalists freed by North Korea, returned home after being held for nearly five months.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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Afghan election
An Afghan man walks with his donkey carrying ballot boxes to remote areas in Hisarak village in Rokha in Panjshir province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Afghans went to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president.
AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
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Swayze dies
Flowers decorate Patrick Swayze's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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Balloon boy
Six-year-old Falcon Heene is shown with his father, Richard, outside the family's home in Fort Collins, Colo., after Falcon Heene was found hiding in a box in a space above the garage on Oct. 15, 2009. Falcon Heene at first had been reported to be aboard a flying-saucer-shaped balloon fashioned by his father and then carried by high winds on to the plains of eastern Colorado.
AP Photo/David Zalubowski
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