Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties Part 05

121. Pope John Paul II closes the Holy Door in St. Peter's Square January 6, 2001.The 80-year-old Pope ended the 2000 Jubilee Year by closing the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica, celebrating a mass for more than 100,000 people in the square
outside and issuing an 82-page Apostolic Letter onthe new millennium. REUTERS/Vatican

122. U.S. President George W. Bush (R) listens as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informs him of a second plane hitting the World Trade Center while Bush was conducting a reading seminar at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida September 11, 2001. Bush made a brief statement before leaving the school and immediately returned to Washington. REUTERS/Win McNamee

123. An Afghan refugee begs while sitting outside a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on November 1, 2001. Pakistan hosts over 2.5 million displaced Afghans. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

124. Ferrari Formula One driver Michael Schumacher of Germany celebrates after winning the San Marino Grand Prix in the Italian town of Imola April 23, 2006. REUTERS/Max Rossi

125. A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after 5 years of Taliban Sharia law as she waits at a food distribution centre in central Kabul November 14, 2001. Under its strict interpretation of Islam, the Taliban ordered all women hidden behind head-to-toe burqas. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

126. A video grab from an undated footage from the Internet shows Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden making statements from an unknown location. Osama bin Laden praises martyrdom as a weapon and a path to glory for Muslims in a video that CNN said on July 14, 2007 was intercepted before it was to appear on radical Islamist Web sites. REUTERS/REUTERS TV

127. Turkey named Liberty surprises President George W. Bush at the annual turkey pardoning event at the White House, three days ahead of Thanksgiving, November 19, 2001. The fortunate bird will spend the rest of his days on a farm in Virginia. With the president are turkey industry representatives Jeff Radford (L) and Stuart Proctor. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

128. A Muslim student from the University of Indonesia attends an anti-U.S. and anti-U.N. protest near the United Nations office in central Jakarta October 10, 2001. Some 300 Indonesian students staged a rally protesting the United Nation's support of the U.S.-led strikes of Afghanistan.REUTERS/Beawiharta

129. Entertainer Michael Jackson waves to fans from atop a vehicle following his arraignment on child molestation charges, in Santa Maria, California, January 16, 2004. Jackson, free on $3 million bail, pled not guilty to the charges. REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian/POOL

130. File photo showing singer Janet Jackson (L) performing after fellow singer Justin Timberlake ripped off one of her chest plates, at the end of their half time performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, on February 1, 2004. Jackson's right breast during a halftime Super Bowl performance has become the most-searched image in Internet history, online companies said on Wednesday. Jackson's unscripted flash of flesh during Sunday's Super Bowl halftime sent Internet surfers seeking pictures of the snafu in greater numbers over a 24 hour period than searches for September 11 or Madonna's kiss with Britney Spears. REUTERS/Win McNamee

131. Police tape marked as a Foreclosure Free Zone is seen outside the foreclosed home of Marie Elie in Elmont, New York, April 9, 2009. Demonstrators from ACORN gathered as Home Defenders calling on a one year foreclosure moratorium that would stop evictions. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

132. Supporters of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto crowd around an ambulance carrying her body during her funeral procession in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh near Naudero December 28, 2007. Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads and chests as the body of Bhutto left her ancestral home at the start of the funeral procession on Friday.REUTERS/Zahid Hussein

133. A diver dives from 6m springboard during a free training session in the Olympic aquatic centre in Athens August 5, 2004, eight days before of start of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. REUTERS/Marcelo Del Pozo

134. U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks to supporters during his election night rally after being declared the winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign in Chicago, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

135. Pete Sampras of the United States kisses the trophy after winning the U.S. Open in Flushing, New York, September 8, 2002. Sampras defeated compatriot Andre Agassi 6-3 6-4 5-7 6-4 to claim his 14th grand slam title. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

136. Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

137. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt (R) hugs her mother Yolanda Pulecio after her arrival at Catam military airport in Bogota July 2, 2008. Betancourt, three Americans and 11 other hostages held for years in jungle captivity were rescued on Wednesday from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops posing as aid workers.
REUTERS/Carlos Duran

138. Muslims attend prayers on the eve of the first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Surabaya, East Java August 31, 2008. Muslims around the world congregate for special evening prayers called Tarawih during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas

139. Protestors hold signs behind Richard Fuld, Chairman and Chief Executive of Lehman Brothers Holdings, as he takes his seat to testify at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the causes and effects of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 6, 2008. Fuld told Congress on Monday that U.S. banking regulators knew exactly how Lehman was pricing its distressed assets and about its liquidity in the months before its collapse. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

140. U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) arrives to speak to supporters with his wife Michelle (L) and their children Malia (2nd L) and Sasha (2nd R) during his election night rally after being declared the winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign in Chicago November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

141. Severely malnourished Sadiki Basilaki, 9, receives a mug of milk at a catholic mission feeding center in Rutshuru, 70kms (50 miles) north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 13, 2008. Malnutrition rates in Rutshuru, which has seen weeks of fighting between government soldiers and dissident Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda's rebels, are almost double emergency thresholds and aid workers are battling insecurity to deliver rations. The latest wave of fighting has worsened a humanitarian disaster that began in the 1600s. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

142. A policeman walks with an elderly man after shootings by unidentified assailants at a railway station in Mumbai November 26, 2008. At least 80 people have been killed in a series of attacks in Mumbai, police said. REUTERS/Stringer

143. Northern Alliance fighters ride on a T-62 tank past a dead body on the motorway 3 km north of Kabul, as Northern Alliance fighters approached the Afghan capital, November 13, 2001. Forces of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance entered Kabul on Tuesday after Taliban forces fled the capital, and were greeted by civilians.

144. Tourists watch the sun being blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse in the Australian outback town of Lyndhurst, located around 700 kilometres (437 miles) north of Adelaide December 4, 2002. The town is one of only four in Australia where the 26 second-long full eclipse of the sun could be seen and occurred during celebrations for the Year of the Outback. The shadow path of whats called totality, where the diamond ring effect becomes visible, can be seen on a path that is just 36 kilometres wide. REUTERS/David Gray