An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012

The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011

Flower power

An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument

“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.

Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives

Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke

Sunset on Mars

Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music

Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

Starving boy and missionary

Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994