The Decade in Pictures

A Kenyan boy screams as he sees Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 Jan. 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protesters. (Walter Astrada, AFP / Getty Images)

A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (Richard Drew, AP)

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is seen in this picture sent to news media organizations by his kidnappers. Pearl, a 38-year-old American, was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan Jan. 23, 2002 by a group calling itself "The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty." U.S. President George W. Bush said Feb. 1, 2002 that his administration will follow all leads that may lead to the Pearl's rescue. (CNN, Getty Images)

An Iraqi prisoner of war conforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, in this March 31, 2003 photo. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son and the U.S. military did not want to separate father and son. (Jean-Marc Bouju, AP)

Children attend ballet lessons wearing masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, in Hong Kong, April 27, 2003. (Vincent Yu, AP)

A 9-year-old Iraqi girl recovers from a skull fracture and two broken legs in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004, as hospital staff x-ray a Marine injured in Fallujah in the background. A U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicle crashed into her family's car, according to her parents. The hospital is considered the busiest American combat trauma hospital in the world. (John Moore, AP)

A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy's ten-year old brother, Qusay, was injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year. (Adem Hadei, AP)

A photo taken 09 July 2006 shows French midfielder Zinedine Zidane (L) gesturing after head-butting Italian defender Marco Materazzi during the World Cup 2006 final football match between Italy and France at Berlin's Olympic Stadium. (John Macdougall, AFP / Getty Images)

Barack Obama stands for a moment in a crowded hallway at the U.S. Capitol moments before walking out to be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. (Charles Ommanney, Getty Images)