Sisters pose in the same way, years apart, showing the effects of time over humans.
Bucharest, Romania
A child offers a heart-shaped balloon to a riot policeman during a major protest.
Photo: Ioana Moldovan
Philadelphian Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating himself at a Wall Street protest in 2011.
Photo: Johnny Milano
Shanxi Taiyuan, China
A monk is praying for the soul of a man who passed away suddenly at a train station.
Photo: Asianewsphoto / Reuters
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
A dog named Leao is spending her second day near the grave of her owner, who passed away during the massive landslides in 2011.
Photo: Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images
During the 1968 Olympics, African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fist as a symbol of solidarity. Peter Norman, the Australian silver medal winner, wore a badge that shows his support for the two. Both contestants were expelled from the game.
Photo: Associated Press / AP
Dozens of Jewish prisoners are running away from the ‘death train’ camp where they were held nearby the Elbe, back in 1945.
Cairo, Egypt
Christians are protecting Muslims during a massive prayer session during the uprisings of 2011.
A North-Korean old man salutes his South-Korean relative from the train while he weeps. In 2010, 436 South Koreans were allowed to visit their relatives in North Korea for 3 days after they were separated since the 1950 war.
Photo: Kim Ho-Young / Reuters
Venezuela
Luis Padillo, the chaptain of the Navy, is giving the last rites to a soldier previously attacked during a sniper fire as part of a revolt.
Vancouver, British Colombia
Young Australian Scott Jones kisses his girlfriend after she was knocked to the ground by a policeman’s riot shield.
Photo: Rich Lam / Getty Images
Houston James, one of the few Pearl Harbour survivors, weeps as he embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. as part of the Dallas Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt. Mark Graunke, a former member of the Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg and one eye during a bomb attack in Iraq, back in 2004.
Photo: Jim Mahoney/Dallas Morning News / AP
New York, US
76-year-old Phyllis Siegel and 84-year-old Connie Kopelov are embracing after becoming the first same-sex couple to be married at the Manhattan’s City Clerk in 2011.
Photo: Stan Honda / Getty Images
A French civilian is desperately crying as he watchez the Nazi occupy Paris during WWII.
Jaqueline Kennedy is wearing a pink Channel suit that still has stains from her husband’s blood on it. As Lady Bird Johnson, who was also there at the moment, says, “Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed … I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband’s blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.”
Nihonmatsu, Japan
A girl standing in isolation for radiation screening is talking to her dog through a window.
Yuriko Nakao / Reuters
Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling reunite with their families after coming back home. The two were arrested in North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, but they were later released owing to a diplomatic intervention of the USA.
Photo: Robyn Beck / Getty Images
This is the well-known photo of Tank Man, an unknown rebel who stood in front of several Chinese tanks as an act of defiance in 1989.
Photo: Jeff Widener / AP
Soldier Terri Gurolla sees her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
Another photo, which was only recently published, shows the Tank Man event from a different view. Here, the Tank Man can be seen between the trees on the left, as he waits for the tanks (right) to come closer.
Photo: Terril Jones/AP
Wootton Bassett, England
Helen Fisher kisses the car carrying the coffin of her 20-year-old cousin, as he and his fellow soldiers are brought back home.
Photo: Getty Images
A former prisoner during the German WWII reunites with his daughter whom he hasn’t seen since the child was 1 year old.
Photo: Helmuth Pirath
An 8-year-old boy weeps as he accepts the flag for his father, who was shot on patrol during an Iraq tour he volunteered for.
Photo: Daily News Journal, Aaron Thompson, File / AP
Pele and the British captain Bobby Moore are trading jerseys as a symbol of mutual respect during the 1970 World Cup.
A soldier of the Sudan’s People Liberation Army awaits for the South Sudan’s independence from Sudan to be announced.