Defining moments of our time
COLOMBIA - NOVEMBER 2007: Judith and Isa, two female FARC guerrillas from the bloque movil Arturo Ruiz, inside one of the FARC camps. The Bloque Movil Arturo Ruiz of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) are a special unit of FARC who fight in many different regions of Colombia. This unit is like a quick reaction force who help other sub-groups of FARC. They are allegedly responsible for hostage-taking. (Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Reportage by Getty Images)
BUKIMA, VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, EASTERN CONGO - JULY 24: Conservation Rangers from an Anti-Poaching unit work with locals to evacuate the bodies of four Mountain Gorrillas killed in mysterious circumstances in the park, July 24, 2007, Virunga National Park, Eastern Congo. A Silver-Back Alpha male, the leader of the group was shot, three females were also killed. Two of the females had babies and the other was pregnant. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images)
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JUNE 23, 2006: Peter, a victim of a life threatening attack where he was stabbed several times, shows his defiance to his attackers at his home in Easterhouse. (Photo by David Gillanders/Reportage by Getty Images)
WEST ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS - MARCH 21: Nelida Bagley helps to lift her son, former Sgt. Jose Pequeno of the New Hampshire National Guard, from his bed at the West Roxbury VA Medical Center on March 21, 2008 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Thirty-four-year-old Pequeno, the chief of police of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, lost forty percent of his brain after a grenade exploded in his Humvee while on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq on March 1, 2006. (Photo by Eugene Richards/Reportage by Getty Images)
RAS LANUF, LIBYA - MARCH 9, 2011: Anti-Gaddafi rebels in combat with pro-Gaddafi troops on March 9, 2011 outside Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels, who control the east of the country, have been trying to push back the Gaddafi troops to be able to take control of the town of Ben Jawad. They have used Katusha rockets and other weapons. (Photo by Jerome Sessini/Reportage by Getty Images)
GADABEDJI, NIGER - JUNE 27: Entrails of dead animals are seen hanged as meet traders buy the animals dead bodies to cook them on the spot and send them to Nigeria on June 27, 2010 in the village of Gadabedji in Niger. The stench from dead animals is very bad in Dakoro, about 450 km north-east of the Nigerien capital, Niamey. This vast reserve in Gadabedji is the last grazing outpost for animals across this large West African State. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Reportage by Getty Images for UNICEF)
AMONA, WEST BANK - FEBRUARY 1: Israeli settlers stand arm in arm Israeli riot police February 1, 2006 in the West Bank outpost of Amona. The residents of Amona compose one of eighty-seven unauthorized West Bank settlements, according to the Israeli government. An Israeli High Court ruling has rejected a petition to prevent the demolition of 9 new houses at the settlement but has said the settlers can continue to live in their caravans. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz/Reportage by Getty Images)
TIJUANA, MEXICO - MARCH 11, 2009: A junkie stands near one of the many heroin shooting galleries where addicts live and shoot near the U.S border in Tijuana, Mexico on March 11, 2009. The border canal has become a regular spot for junkies to use heroin. Tijuana is one of the major battlegrounds of the cartels in the ongoing Mexico Drug War, which has taken the lives of over 7,000 people since the beginning of 2007. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz/Reportage by Getty Images
AJIEP, SUDAN - JULY 1998: A Dinka mother and her starving children wait silently for food at the Medecins Sans Frontieres feeding centre in Ajiep, southern Sudan, during the 1998 famine. (Photo By Tom Stoddart/Reportage by Getty Images)
HOBYO, SOMALIA - OCTOBER 27, 2008: Abdul Hassan, 39, carries an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) near a small boat with some of his crew. He is nicknamed "the one who never sleeps" and is a chief of the pirate group called the "Central Regional Coast Guard". This group has 350 men in its ranks, and about 100 speed boats. In 2008, the group attacked 29 ships, earning a total of USD $10million from it. Abdul Hassan himself collected USD $350,000. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)