A before and after shot of Joplin, Missouri after a massive tornado on May 22, 2011

A new angle of his act of protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through the trees on the left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right.

The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

Soldiers first meeting with his child

Christians protecting Muslims with a human shield during a prayer, Cairo, Egypt 2011

Couple die hugging in the rubble of a collapsed factory

Fallout cloud above the Japanese city of Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945

2 Year Old Offering Food To Her Handicapped Mom

A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage. Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her.

His last wish was seeing his pony

Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India

Those eyes have seen a nuclear blast

John McCain being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi-1967

An 8-year-old died from head injury, but her donated organs savedbettered 4 lives. The doctors are bowing to thank her for her kidneylivercornea etc

Child trying to bring his alcoholic father home

World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year after WWII finished. This year he was the only person from the unit.

Firefighters of Ladder Company 4, which lost seven men on 911, perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead

Russians soldiers about to begin the battle of Kursk in July 1943.

Figo, a Kentucky police dog, pays his last respects to his human partner, Officer Jason Ellis, who was killed in an ambush five days earlier.

Surgeon after performing a successfully 23 hour long heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner

Terri Gurrola sees her daughter for the first time after serving 7 months in Iraq.

The Berlin Wall coming down. November 11, 1989

The Mighty Titanic Prepares to Leave Port. 1912

The power of a flower

A terminally ill mother watched her daughters first dance over Skype

Brothers Nguyen Van Chuoi 26 and Nguyen VanTrong 22 are held by their father as they suffer the effects of Agent Orange more than 30 years after the war in Vietnam

Woman cries in the middle of the city of Natori, destroyed after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March 2011

Scratch marks inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

Young man just discovered that his brother was killed.

Zanjeer, the dog who saved thousands of lives during the explosions in Mumbai 1993,Honored as a hero