Midterm Elections
Photographed by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum for TIME
Raymond Hubbard, an Iraq-war veteran, casts his ballot in Sharon, Wis.
Remembering Hurricane Katrina
Photographed by Mario Tama / Getty Images for TIME
A man carries an American flag during the Valley of the Silent Men Social Aid and Pleasure Club's 25th annual second line parade in New Orleans.
Iraq War U.S. Troop Drawdown
Photographed by Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME
Soldiers from the Virginia National Guard's 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry await takeoff in the plane that will bring them home.
Afghan Civilian Casualty
Photographed by Adam Ferguson / VII Network for TIME
Corporal Nathaniel Matos from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, looks away from the body of Gulmakay, a 14-year-old Afghan girl who was killed by a U.S. Marines mortar strike in the village of Abdullah Jan.
The Chilean Miners Are Discovered
Photograph by Reuters
Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Copiapó, Chile, peers into a video camera that was dropped down a borehole into the chamber where the men sought safety after the cave-in.
Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone
Photographed by Lynsey Addario / VII Network
Comforted by her sister and a nurse, Mamma Sessay, 18, screams in pain and fear as she prepares to deliver the second of twins at a hospital in Sierra Leone. Sessay had postpartum hemmorrhaging and died while being brought to the one doctor in the hospital.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Photographed by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum for TIME
The waters near Venice, La., in June, more than two months after the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion spewed millions of tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
New Stadium
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Fans watch two local teams during the first match to be played in Soccer City Stadium.
Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
Photographed by Ragnar Th Sigurdsson / Arctic Images
Eyjafjallajokull's eruption lights up the Icelandic sky. It was an awesome spectacle, but the ash that followed created a global mess.
Protests in Thailand
Photographed by James Nachtwey / VII for TIME
Coffins are displayed at a memorial ceremony for those who were killed during the April 10 demonstrations in Bangkok.
A Soldier's Loved Ones
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Rosie Ricketts, the widow of Staff Sergeant William "Seth" Ricketts, who was killed in an ambush on Feb. 27 in western Afghanistan, wakes her son Aiden before a viewing of her late husband's body at a funeral home in Corinth, Miss.
Funeral in Haiti
Photographed by Shaul Schwarz / Reportage / Getty Images for TIME
The Port-au-Prince cemetery had no more room, but the dead kept coming.
President Obama: One Year in Office
Photographed by Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME
"I think we've done a pretty good job of working in this town without being completely consumed by it," the President said in an interview with TIME on Jan. 15.
