دهه نخست هزاره سوم: صد عکس برتر به انتخاب رویترز
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Mays, a young Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell which landed outside the family's home in a Najaf residential area injured her uncle August 18, 2004. The leader of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq agreed on Wednesday to leave a holy shrine encircled by U.S. marines, hours after the interim government threatened to storm it and drive out his fighters. But even after the announcement, explosions and gun fire echoed through the streets as U.S. forces battled Sadr's Mehdi Army militiamen, whose two-week-old uprising poses the biggest challenge yet to Iraq's interim government. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
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Senegalese children run as locusts spread in the capital Dakar September 1, 2004. Only a military-style operation with bases across West Africa can stop the worst locust invasion for 15 years, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade said on Tuesday as the insects swept into his capital. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned last week that the locust swarms infesting countries from Mauritania to Chad could develop into a full-scale plague without additional foreign aid. REUTERS/Pierre Holtz
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A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 2, 2004. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
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A Ukrainian woman places carnations into the shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kyiv, November 24, 2004. Ukraine's authorities raised the stakes in a face-off with their liberal opposition on Wednesday as they prepared to announce results of a disputed election that are likely to infuriate thousands of protesters in the streets. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative (R) who was killed in tsunami on Sunday in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta
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A Lebanese man shouts for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion in Beirut February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront on Tuesday, witnesses and security sources said. At least eight others, some of them his bodyguards, also died. REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir
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A Lebanese girl looks through the window of a bus carrying Shi'ite Muslim women to Beirut's Martyrs square. A Lebanese girl looks through the window of a bus carrying Shi'ite Muslim women to visit the grave of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut's Martyrs square March 20, 2005. In a show of unity between the country's Muslim communities, Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims and supporters of Hizbollah visited the grave of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, a Sunni Muslim who was killed by a bomb on February 14th. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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Cardinals' cassocks are blown by a gust of wind as they arrive for the funeral mass of the Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, 8 April 2005. REUTERS
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester tries to push a bulldozer at a demonstration against the desecration of graves during the construction of a new Israeli highway next to the northern Israeli Kibbutz of Regavim April 14, 2005. Demonstrators scuffled with security guards during the fourth day of protests against the construction of the highway. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen
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The new elected Pope Benedict XVI, known as German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, greets thousands of pilgrims from the balcony of the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 19, 2005. German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach