Murdo Macleod Scotland 2006 Great Cormorant threatened by avian flu

1 Robert Stolarik New Orleans 2005 Hurricane Katrina rescue

2 David Rochkind New Orleans 2005 Hurricane Katrina casualty

3 Eric Grigorian New Orleans 2005 Hurricane Katrina rescue

4 Aaron Huey New Orleans 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastation

5 Robert Stolarik New Orleans 2005 Hurricane Katrina flooding

6 Sven Creutzmann Cuba 2005 Hurricane Katrina flooding

1 Benoit Aquin Quebec 2006 Inuits seal hunting

2 Jessica Brandi Lifland Nevada 2005 Family ranching

3 David Rochkind Kabul 2006 Avian flu spreads

4 Evelyn Hockstein Kenya 2006 Drought strikes

5 Yannis Kontos Nepal 2006 Maoist guerillas cook goat heads

6 Sam Hollenshead India 2006 Avian flu spreads

7 Aaron Huey Utah 2005 Buffaloes on the Skull Valley Indian reservation

8 Laura Leon Gaza 2006 Palestinian widow with her camels

1 Johann Spanner Iraq 2006 US troops arrest Iraqi suspects

2 Peter Van Agtmael Iraq 2006 Sergeant Joshua Jump in hospital after IED attack

3 Ziv Koren Israel 2006 Israel Tank team readies ammunition

4 Johann Spanner Iraq 2005 Marines evacuate wounded

5 Peter Van Agtmael Iraq 2006 US medics attend to wounded Iraqi soldier

6 Max Becherer Iraq 2006 Car bomb explosion in Shiite neighborhood

7 Michael Kamber Nigeria 2006 Muslims slain in revenge killings

1 Donald Weber Chernobyl 2006 Skinning rabbits near the exclusion zone

2 Kate Brooks Afghanistan 2005 Women exit voting station

3 Ben Depp India 2006 Street kid punished by Police

4 Andre Vieira Amazon 2005 Mother and child in drought stricken region

5 Patrick Andrade Kashmir 2005 Child hurt during earthquake

6 Scout Tufankjian Gaza 2005 Children at PFLP rally

1 Jay L. Clendenin Washington,DC 2005 Redskins cheerleaders before the game

2 Ziv Koren Ethiopia 2006 Ethiopian Jewish women at morning prayer

3 Yannis Kontos Nepal 2006 Maoist women guerillas enjoy fresh water

4 Adriana Zehbrauskas Mexico 2006 Women undress to protest US trade policies

5 Evelyn Hockstein India 2005 Female tea leaf pickers

6 Newsha Tavakolian Iran 2006 Soccer match pits Iranian and German women

1 Matthew McDermott New York 2006 Fireman facing blaze

2 Jay L. Clendenin Louisiana 2006 Wheeling a soldier during exercise

3 Sven Creutzmann Havana 2006 Fidel Castro speaks

4 Alessandro Digaetano Taiwan 2005 Bather enjoys hot springs

5 Steve Hebert Kansas 2006 Dog in kennel before quail hunt

6 Stephen Shaver Vietnam 2006 Farmer in rice field

7 Yannis Kontos Albania 2005 Tirana building artfully decorated

8 Vincent Laforet Brooklyn 2006 The beach at Coney Island

9 Hermann Bredehorst Hesse 2006 Germany opens Holocaust archives

Robert King Arkansas 2006 FEMA trailers for Katrina homeless remain vacant