CNN’s top 100 digital stories of 2019
CNN’s top 100 digital stories of 2019
Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A child sleeps in a bag in the Syrian village of Beit Sawa in March 2018.
<img alt="Cindy Tersme throws herself on the rubble of Ecole St. Gerard, a school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country in January 2010. Tersme screamed in anguish after finding the lifeless body of her 14-year-old brother, Jean Gaelle Dersmorne. “I can see my brother's feet but can't pull him out,” she said, weeping. The earthquake's death toll has been estimated at 220,000-300,000.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Cindy Tersme throws herself on the rubble of Ecole St. Gerard, a school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country in January 2010. Tersme screamed in anguish after finding the lifeless body of her 14-year-old brother, Jean Gaelle Dersmorne. “I can see my brother's feet but can't pull him out,” she said, weeping. The earthquake's death toll has been estimated at 220,000-300,000.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219162133-01-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Cindy Tersme throws herself on the rubble of Ecole St. Gerard, a school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country in January 2010. Tersme screamed in anguish after finding the lifeless body of her 14-year-old brother, Jean Gaelle Dersmorne. “I can see my brother’s feet but can’t pull him out,” she said, weeping. The earthquake’s death toll has been estimated at 220,000-300,000.
<img alt="A bird is covered in oil at Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island in June 2010. Two months earlier, an explosion occurred aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a BP-contracted oil rig stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. For 87 straight days, oil and methane gas spewed from an uncapped wellhead 1 mile below the surface of the ocean. President Barack Obama described the oil spill as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.”” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A bird is covered in oil at Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island in June 2010. Two months earlier, an explosion occurred aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a BP-contracted oil rig stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. For 87 straight days, oil and methane gas spewed from an uncapped wellhead 1 mile below the surface of the ocean. President Barack Obama described the oil spill as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.”” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219162418-02-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A bird is covered in oil at Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island in June 2010. Two months earlier, an explosion occurred aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a BP-contracted oil rig stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. For 87 straight days, oil and methane gas spewed from an uncapped wellhead 1 mile below the surface of the ocean. President Barack Obama described the oil spill as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.”
<img alt="Lady Gaga wears a dress made of real meat at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2010. Appearing later on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Gaga said the dress “has many interpretations, but for me … if we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones.”” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Lady Gaga wears a dress made of real meat at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2010. Appearing later on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Gaga said the dress “has many interpretations, but for me … if we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones.”” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219162533-04-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Lady Gaga wears a dress made of real meat at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2010. Appearing later on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Gaga said the dress “has many interpretations, but for me … if we don’t stand up for what we believe in and if we don’t fight for our rights pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones.”
<img alt="This photo of Afghan woman Aesha Mohammadzai appeared on the cover of Time magazine in August 2010. Her Taliban husband and in-laws punished her for running away by hacking off her nose and ears and leaving her for dead. She became a symbol of the oppression of women in her war-torn country. She was flown to the United States, where she underwent multiple surgeries to reconstruct her nose.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="This photo of Afghan woman Aesha Mohammadzai appeared on the cover of Time magazine in August 2010. Her Taliban husband and in-laws punished her for running away by hacking off her nose and ears and leaving her for dead. She became a symbol of the oppression of women in her war-torn country. She was flown to the United States, where she underwent multiple surgeries to reconstruct her nose.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191220135023-108-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
This photo of Afghan woman Aesha Mohammadzai appeared on the cover of Time magazine in August 2010. Her Taliban husband and in-laws punished her for running away by hacking off her nose and ears and leaving her for dead. She became a symbol of the oppression of women in her war-torn country. She was flown to the United States, where she underwent multiple surgeries to reconstruct her nose.
<img alt="WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen behind the heavily tinted window of a police van as he arrives at a London prison in December 2010. Assange has been a key figure in the major leaks of classified government documents, cables and videos. He spent much of the decade at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after the government of Ecuador granted him asylum. That asylum was revoked in 2019, and Assange is now fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces charges under the Espionage Act. Assange has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen behind the heavily tinted window of a police van as he arrives at a London prison in December 2010. Assange has been a key figure in the major leaks of classified government documents, cables and videos. He spent much of the decade at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after the government of Ecuador granted him asylum. That asylum was revoked in 2019, and Assange is now fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces charges under the Espionage Act. Assange has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219162711-05-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen behind the heavily tinted window of a police van as he arrives at a London prison in December 2010. Assange has been a key figure in the major leaks of classified government documents, cables and videos. He spent much of the decade at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after the government of Ecuador granted him asylum. That asylum was revoked in 2019, and Assange is now fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces charges under the Espionage Act. Assange has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
<img alt="A wave approaches Miyako, Japan, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in March 2011. The earthquake caused a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damaged several nuclear reactors in the area. It is the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A wave approaches Miyako, Japan, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in March 2011. The earthquake caused a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damaged several nuclear reactors in the area. It is the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219163110-06-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A wave approaches Miyako, Japan, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in March 2011. The earthquake caused a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damaged several nuclear reactors in the area. It is the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan.
<img alt="A rebel celebrates as his comrades fire rockets at troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in April 2011. Gadhafi was killed in October 2011 after being captured by rebel forces. He had been in power since 1969.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A rebel celebrates as his comrades fire rockets at troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in April 2011. Gadhafi was killed in October 2011 after being captured by rebel forces. He had been in power since 1969.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219163313-07-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A rebel celebrates as his comrades fire rockets at troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in April 2011. Gadhafi was killed in October 2011 after being captured by rebel forces. He had been in power since 1969.
<img alt="Britain's Prince William kisses his new wife, Catherine, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in April 2011. The wedding was watched by millions around the world.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Britain's Prince William kisses his new wife, Catherine, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in April 2011. The wedding was watched by millions around the world.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219234319-08b-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Britain’s Prince William kisses his new wife, Catherine, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in April 2011. The wedding was watched by millions around the world.
<img alt="US President Barack Obama and members of his national security team monitor the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. "Fourteen people crammed into the room, the President sitting in a folding chair on the corner of the table's head," said CNN's Peter Bergen as he relived the bin Laden raid five years later. “They sat in this room until the SEALs returned to Afghanistan.” (Editor's note: The classified document in front of Hillary Clinton was obscured by the White House.)” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="US President Barack Obama and members of his national security team monitor the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. "Fourteen people crammed into the room, the President sitting in a folding chair on the corner of the table's head," said CNN's Peter Bergen as he relived the bin Laden raid five years later. “They sat in this room until the SEALs returned to Afghanistan.” (Editor's note: The classified document in front of Hillary Clinton was obscured by the White House.)” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219163544-09-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
US President Barack Obama and members of his national security team monitor the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. “Fourteen people crammed into the room, the President sitting in a folding chair on the corner of the table’s head,” said CNN’s Peter Bergen as he relived the bin Laden raid five years later. “They sat in this room until the SEALs returned to Afghanistan.” (Editor’s note: The classified document in front of Hillary Clinton was obscured by the White House.)
<img alt="A couple kisses on a street after riots broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 2011. Angry hockey fans, fuming over their team's loss in the Stanley Cup Final, wreaked havoc across downtown sections of Vancouver.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A couple kisses on a street after riots broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 2011. Angry hockey fans, fuming over their team's loss in the Stanley Cup Final, wreaked havoc across downtown sections of Vancouver.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219163720-10-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A couple kisses on a street after riots broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 2011. Angry hockey fans, fuming over their team’s loss in the Stanley Cup Final, wreaked havoc across downtown sections of Vancouver.
<img alt="Hillary Clinton, while US secretary of state, checks her BlackBerry on a military plane in October 2011. Clinton said she used a private email account for her official work at the State Department and that she did so out of convenience. The FBI investigated whether Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way. In 2016, FBI Director James Comey said he would not recommend charges against Clinton, but he rebuked her and her aides for being “extremely careless” in the handling of classified information.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Hillary Clinton, while US secretary of state, checks her BlackBerry on a military plane in October 2011. Clinton said she used a private email account for her official work at the State Department and that she did so out of convenience. The FBI investigated whether Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way. In 2016, FBI Director James Comey said he would not recommend charges against Clinton, but he rebuked her and her aides for being “extremely careless” in the handling of classified information.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164008-11-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Hillary Clinton, while US secretary of state, checks her BlackBerry on a military plane in October 2011. Clinton said she used a private email account for her official work at the State Department and that she did so out of convenience. The FBI investigated whether Clinton or her aides had mishandled classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way. In 2016, FBI Director James Comey said he would not recommend charges against Clinton, but he rebuked her and her aides for being “extremely careless” in the handling of classified information.
<img alt="Tarana Akbari, 12, screams after a suicide bomber attacked the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2011. Twin bomb blasts killed dozens of Afghan people on the holy day of Ashura.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Tarana Akbari, 12, screams after a suicide bomber attacked the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2011. Twin bomb blasts killed dozens of Afghan people on the holy day of Ashura.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164110-12-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Tarana Akbari, 12, screams after a suicide bomber attacked the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2011. Twin bomb blasts killed dozens of Afghan people on the holy day of Ashura.
<img alt="Egyptian soldiers arrest a protester during deadly clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square in December 2011. Images of the protester being stomped stoked anger among the pro-democracy demonstrators battling Egyptian security. Tahrir Square was the symbolic center of the uprising that brought down President Hosni Mubarak earlier in the year.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Egyptian soldiers arrest a protester during deadly clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square in December 2011. Images of the protester being stomped stoked anger among the pro-democracy demonstrators battling Egyptian security. Tahrir Square was the symbolic center of the uprising that brought down President Hosni Mubarak earlier in the year.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164242-13-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Egyptian soldiers arrest a protester during deadly clashes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in December 2011. Images of the protester being stomped stoked anger among the pro-democracy demonstrators battling Egyptian security. Tahrir Square was the symbolic center of the uprising that brought down President Hosni Mubarak earlier in the year.
<img alt="A protester reacts as the US mission in Benghazi was set on fire in September 2012. The US ambassador to Libya and three other US nationals were killed during the attack. The Obama administration initially thought the attack was carried out by an angry mob responding to a video, made in the United States, that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. But the storming of the mission was later determined to have been a terrorist attack.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A protester reacts as the US mission in Benghazi was set on fire in September 2012. The US ambassador to Libya and three other US nationals were killed during the attack. The Obama administration initially thought the attack was carried out by an angry mob responding to a video, made in the United States, that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. But the storming of the mission was later determined to have been a terrorist attack.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164441-14-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A protester reacts as the US mission in Benghazi was set on fire in September 2012. The US ambassador to Libya and three other US nationals were killed during the attack. The Obama administration initially thought the attack was carried out by an angry mob responding to a video, made in the United States, that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. But the storming of the mission was later determined to have been a terrorist attack.
<img alt="An amusement park in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, is left in ruins after Hurricane Sandy hit the area in October 2012. The storm affected 24 states and all of the eastern seaboard, causing an estimated $70 billion in damages.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="An amusement park in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, is left in ruins after Hurricane Sandy hit the area in October 2012. The storm affected 24 states and all of the eastern seaboard, causing an estimated $70 billion in damages.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164623-15-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
An amusement park in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, is left in ruins after Hurricane Sandy hit the area in October 2012. The storm affected 24 states and all of the eastern seaboard, causing an estimated $70 billion in damages.
<img alt="Children are escorted out of Sandy Hook Elementary School after a mass shooting occurred at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Six adults and 20 children were killed by Adam Lanza, who had earlier killed his mother in their home. The photograph, taken by local journalist Shannon Hicks, made it onto the front pages of newspapers, magazines and websites around the world. “I knew that, coming out of the building — as terrified as they were — those children were safe,” Hicks later told Time magazine. “I just felt that it was an important moment.”” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Children are escorted out of Sandy Hook Elementary School after a mass shooting occurred at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Six adults and 20 children were killed by Adam Lanza, who had earlier killed his mother in their home. The photograph, taken by local journalist Shannon Hicks, made it onto the front pages of newspapers, magazines and websites around the world. “I knew that, coming out of the building — as terrified as they were — those children were safe,” Hicks later told Time magazine. “I just felt that it was an important moment.”” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164726-16-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Children are escorted out of Sandy Hook Elementary School after a mass shooting occurred at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Six adults and 20 children were killed by Adam Lanza, who had earlier killed his mother in their home. The photograph, taken by local journalist Shannon Hicks, made it onto the front pages of newspapers, magazines and websites around the world. “I knew that, coming out of the building — as terrified as they were — those children were safe,” Hicks later told Time magazine. “I just felt that it was an important moment.”
Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
African migrants in Djibouti raise their phones to try to catch an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia in February 2013. Djibouti is a common stop-off point for African migrants seeking a better life in Europe and the Middle East.
<img alt="Police officers stand over marathon runner Bill Iffrig as a second explosion sounds near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Three people were killed and at least 264 were injured in the terror attack.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Police officers stand over marathon runner Bill Iffrig as a second explosion sounds near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Three people were killed and at least 264 were injured in the terror attack.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219164902-18-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Police officers stand over marathon runner Bill Iffrig as a second explosion sounds near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Three people were killed and at least 264 were injured in the terror attack.
<img alt="Two victims are seen in the rubble after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh, in April 2013. More than 1,000 people were killed.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Two victims are seen in the rubble after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh, in April 2013. More than 1,000 people were killed.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191220090738-105-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Two victims are seen in the rubble after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh, in April 2013. More than 1,000 people were killed.
<img alt="A Turkish police officer uses tear gas in May 2013 as people protested the government's plans to demolish Istanbul's Gezi Park. Protests evolved into anti-government dissent across the nation.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A Turkish police officer uses tear gas in May 2013 as people protested the government's plans to demolish Istanbul's Gezi Park. Protests evolved into anti-government dissent across the nation.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219165451-20-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A Turkish police officer uses tear gas in May 2013 as people protested the government’s plans to demolish Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Protests evolved into anti-government dissent across the nation.
<img alt="Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus perform on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2013. The provocative performance dominated the headlines and had many people discussing whether it was too risque.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus perform on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2013. The provocative performance dominated the headlines and had many people discussing whether it was too risque.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219165722-21-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus perform on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2013. The provocative performance dominated the headlines and had many people discussing whether it was too risque.
<img alt="People take cover behind a counter at the Westgate shopping mall after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2013. The Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a bloody four-day siege at the upscale mall. At least 67 people were killed.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="People take cover behind a counter at the Westgate shopping mall after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2013. The Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a bloody four-day siege at the upscale mall. At least 67 people were killed.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219165839-22-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
People take cover behind a counter at the Westgate shopping mall after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2013. The Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a bloody four-day siege at the upscale mall. At least 67 people were killed.
<img alt="Pope Francis embraces Vinicio Riva, a disfigured man suffering from a non-infectious genetic disease, during a public audience at the Vatican in November 2013. Images of the embrace went viral on social media. Pope Francis was elected in February 2013 after Pope Benedict retired.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Pope Francis embraces Vinicio Riva, a disfigured man suffering from a non-infectious genetic disease, during a public audience at the Vatican in November 2013. Images of the embrace went viral on social media. Pope Francis was elected in February 2013 after Pope Benedict retired.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191220001859-104-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Pope Francis embraces Vinicio Riva, a disfigured man suffering from a non-infectious genetic disease, during a public audience at the Vatican in November 2013. Images of the embrace went viral on social media. Pope Francis was elected in February 2013 after Pope Benedict retired.
<img alt="Anti-government protesters clash with police in Kiev, Ukraine, in February 2014. Kiev's Independence Square had been the center of anti-government protests since November 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision on a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia. The protests soon led to the ouster of Yanukovych and triggered a chain of events that included Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Anti-government protesters clash with police in Kiev, Ukraine, in February 2014. Kiev's Independence Square had been the center of anti-government protests since November 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision on a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia. The protests soon led to the ouster of Yanukovych and triggered a chain of events that included Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219170054-23-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Anti-government protesters clash with police in Kiev, Ukraine, in February 2014. Kiev’s Independence Square had been the center of anti-government protests since November 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision on a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia. The protests soon led to the ouster of Yanukovych and triggered a chain of events that included Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
<img alt="Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres takes a moment to orchestrate a selfie with a group of movie stars at the awards show in March 2014. Actor Bradley Cooper, seen in the foreground, was holding the phone at the time. "If only Bradley's arm was longer," DeGeneres tweeted. “Best photo ever.” It became the most retweeted post of all time.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres takes a moment to orchestrate a selfie with a group of movie stars at the awards show in March 2014. Actor Bradley Cooper, seen in the foreground, was holding the phone at the time. "If only Bradley's arm was longer," DeGeneres tweeted. “Best photo ever.” It became the most retweeted post of all time.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219170250-24-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres takes a moment to orchestrate a selfie with a group of movie stars at the awards show in March 2014. Actor Bradley Cooper, seen in the foreground, was holding the phone at the time. “If only Bradley’s arm was longer,” DeGeneres tweeted. “Best photo ever.” It became the most retweeted post of all time.
<img alt="In August 2014, a helicopter delivering aid to Yazidi civilians trapped by ISIS militants crashed in the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iraq. In this photo, survivors of the crash are loaded onto a second rescue helicopter bound for Kurdish territory. The pilot killed in the crash lies under the wounded.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="In August 2014, a helicopter delivering aid to Yazidi civilians trapped by ISIS militants crashed in the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iraq. In this photo, survivors of the crash are loaded onto a second rescue helicopter bound for Kurdish territory. The pilot killed in the crash lies under the wounded.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219170552-25-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
In August 2014, a helicopter delivering aid to Yazidi civilians trapped by ISIS militants crashed in the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iraq. In this photo, survivors of the crash are loaded onto a second rescue helicopter bound for Kurdish territory. The pilot killed in the crash lies under the wounded.
<img alt="Edward Crawford returns a tear-gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. Some protests in the city turned into clashes between angry citizens and police after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Edward Crawford returns a tear-gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. Some protests in the city turned into clashes between angry citizens and police after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219171027-26-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Edward Crawford returns a tear-gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. Some protests in the city turned into clashes between angry citizens and police after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
<img alt="Medical workers in Monrovia, Liberia, carry James Dorbor, an 8-year-old suspected of having the Ebola virus, into a treatment facility in September 2014. West Africa was dealing with the deadliest-ever outbreak of Ebola. The outbreak ended in 2016 after more than 11,000 deaths.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Medical workers in Monrovia, Liberia, carry James Dorbor, an 8-year-old suspected of having the Ebola virus, into a treatment facility in September 2014. West Africa was dealing with the deadliest-ever outbreak of Ebola. The outbreak ended in 2016 after more than 11,000 deaths.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219171127-27-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Medical workers in Monrovia, Liberia, carry James Dorbor, an 8-year-old suspected of having the Ebola virus, into a treatment facility in September 2014. West Africa was dealing with the deadliest-ever outbreak of Ebola. The outbreak ended in 2016 after more than 11,000 deaths.
<img alt="Actor George Clooney, right, and his fiancee, lawyer Amal Alamuddin, arrive in Venice, Italy, in September 2014. The two were married in a private ceremony attended by some of their celebrity friends.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Actor George Clooney, right, and his fiancee, lawyer Amal Alamuddin, arrive in Venice, Italy, in September 2014. The two were married in a private ceremony attended by some of their celebrity friends.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219182016-28-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Actor George Clooney, right, and his fiancee, lawyer Amal Alamuddin, arrive in Venice, Italy, in September 2014. The two were married in a private ceremony attended by some of their celebrity friends.
<img alt="ISIS militants stand near the site of an airstrike near the Turkey-Syria border in October 2014. The United States and several Arab nations were bombing ISIS targets to take out the group's ability to command, train and resupply its fighters.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="ISIS militants stand near the site of an airstrike near the Turkey-Syria border in October 2014. The United States and several Arab nations were bombing ISIS targets to take out the group's ability to command, train and resupply its fighters.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219171252-29-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
ISIS militants stand near the site of an airstrike near the Turkey-Syria border in October 2014. The United States and several Arab nations were bombing ISIS targets to take out the group’s ability to command, train and resupply its fighters.
<img alt="In this aerial photo, taken in April 2015, a housing development meets the edge of undeveloped desert in Cathedral City, California. California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed mandatory water restrictions on residents, businesses and farms in the drought-ravaged state, ordering cities and towns to reduce their usage by 25%.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="In this aerial photo, taken in April 2015, a housing development meets the edge of undeveloped desert in Cathedral City, California. California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed mandatory water restrictions on residents, businesses and farms in the drought-ravaged state, ordering cities and towns to reduce their usage by 25%.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219171442-30-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
In this aerial photo, taken in April 2015, a housing development meets the edge of undeveloped desert in Cathedral City, California. California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed mandatory water restrictions on residents, businesses and farms in the drought-ravaged state, ordering cities and towns to reduce their usage by 25%.
<img alt="Rohingya migrants jump off a boat to collect food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter in May 2015. The boat, drifting in Thai waters, was crammed with scores of migrants. More than 740,000 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh after Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the ethnic Muslim minority. Myanmar has defended its actions, saying it was targeting terrorists.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Rohingya migrants jump off a boat to collect food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter in May 2015. The boat, drifting in Thai waters, was crammed with scores of migrants. More than 740,000 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh after Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the ethnic Muslim minority. Myanmar has defended its actions, saying it was targeting terrorists.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219171627-31-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Rohingya migrants jump off a boat to collect food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter in May 2015. The boat, drifting in Thai waters, was crammed with scores of migrants. More than 740,000 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh after Myanmar’s military launched a campaign of violence against the ethnic Muslim minority. Myanmar has defended its actions, saying it was targeting terrorists.
<img alt="German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Barack Obama near the Bavarian Alps in June 2015. Obama and other world leaders were in Germany for the annual G7 summit.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Barack Obama near the Bavarian Alps in June 2015. Obama and other world leaders were in Germany for the annual G7 summit.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219171820-32-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Barack Obama near the Bavarian Alps in June 2015. Obama and other world leaders were in Germany for the annual G7 summit.
<img alt="Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the ESPY Awards in July 2015. In her first speech since identifying as transgender, Jenner said she wants to “reshape the landscape of how trans issues are viewed.” Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, won the Olympic decathlon in 1976 and became a popular television personality.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the ESPY Awards in July 2015. In her first speech since identifying as transgender, Jenner said she wants to “reshape the landscape of how trans issues are viewed.” Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, won the Olympic decathlon in 1976 and became a popular television personality.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219172007-34-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the ESPY Awards in July 2015. In her first speech since identifying as transgender, Jenner said she wants to “reshape the landscape of how trans issues are viewed.” Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, won the Olympic decathlon in 1976 and became a popular television personality.
Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
FIFA President Sepp Blatter is showered by dollar bills during a news conference in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2015. The money was thrown at Blatter by British comedian Simon Brodkin, who was then ushered away from the stage. Blatter had led soccer’s governing body since 1998, but he decided to stand down as FIFA battled corruption scandals.
<img alt="Officers in Bodrum, Turkey, stand near the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee who washed up on shore in September 2015. The 2-year-old was one of 12 refugees who drowned that day during a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos. This photo went viral around the world, often with a Turkish hashtag that means “Flotsam of Humanity.”” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Officers in Bodrum, Turkey, stand near the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee who washed up on shore in September 2015. The 2-year-old was one of 12 refugees who drowned that day during a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos. This photo went viral around the world, often with a Turkish hashtag that means “Flotsam of Humanity.”” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219172218-36-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Officers in Bodrum, Turkey, stand near the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee who washed up on shore in September 2015. The 2-year-old was one of 12 refugees who drowned that day during a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos. This photo went viral around the world, often with a Turkish hashtag that means “Flotsam of Humanity.”
<img alt="Baynazar Mohammad Nazar lies dead on an operating table inside a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The hospital was “accidentally struck” by US bombs after Afghan forces called for air support in October 2015, said Gen. John Campbell, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Baynazar Mohammad Nazar lies dead on an operating table inside a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The hospital was “accidentally struck” by US bombs after Afghan forces called for air support in October 2015, said Gen. John Campbell, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191220091436-106-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Baynazar Mohammad Nazar lies dead on an operating table inside a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The hospital was “accidentally struck” by US bombs after Afghan forces called for air support in October 2015, said Gen. John Campbell, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
<img alt="Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers at a federal hangar in Mexico City in January 2016. Members of Mexico's navy caught Guzman in an early morning raid in the coastal city of Los Mochis, a senior law enforcement official told CNN. Mexico extradited Guzman to the United States, where he was convicted on all of the federal charges against him.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers at a federal hangar in Mexico City in January 2016. Members of Mexico's navy caught Guzman in an early morning raid in the coastal city of Los Mochis, a senior law enforcement official told CNN. Mexico extradited Guzman to the United States, where he was convicted on all of the federal charges against him.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219172516-38-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers at a federal hangar in Mexico City in January 2016. Members of Mexico’s navy caught Guzman in an early morning raid in the coastal city of Los Mochis, a senior law enforcement official told CNN. Mexico extradited Guzman to the United States, where he was convicted on all of the federal charges against him.
<img alt="Jose Wesley, a baby born with microcephaly, cries in Bonito, Brazil, in January 2016. Microcephaly is a neurological disorder that results in newborns with small heads and abnormal brain development. An outbreak of the Zika virus was linked to a surge of babies with the birth defect.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Jose Wesley, a baby born with microcephaly, cries in Bonito, Brazil, in January 2016. Microcephaly is a neurological disorder that results in newborns with small heads and abnormal brain development. An outbreak of the Zika virus was linked to a surge of babies with the birth defect.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219172556-39-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Jose Wesley, a baby born with microcephaly, cries in Bonito, Brazil, in January 2016. Microcephaly is a neurological disorder that results in newborns with small heads and abnormal brain development. An outbreak of the Zika virus was linked to a surge of babies with the birth defect.
<img alt="Two wounded women sit in the airport in Brussels, Belgium, after two explosions rocked the facility in March 2016. A subway station in the city was also targeted in terrorist attacks that killed 32 people and injured hundreds more. ISIS claimed responsibility for both attacks.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Two wounded women sit in the airport in Brussels, Belgium, after two explosions rocked the facility in March 2016. A subway station in the city was also targeted in terrorist attacks that killed 32 people and injured hundreds more. ISIS claimed responsibility for both attacks.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219172736-40-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Two wounded women sit in the airport in Brussels, Belgium, after two explosions rocked the facility in March 2016. A subway station in the city was also targeted in terrorist attacks that killed 32 people and injured hundreds more. ISIS claimed responsibility for both attacks.
<img alt="Former Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius walks without his prosthetic legs during his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, in June 2015. His attorney was arguing that he was a vulnerable figure who should receive a lesser sentence for the 2014 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A judge sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison, but that sentence was later increased to 13 years and five months in 2017.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Former Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius walks without his prosthetic legs during his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, in June 2015. His attorney was arguing that he was a vulnerable figure who should receive a lesser sentence for the 2014 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A judge sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison, but that sentence was later increased to 13 years and five months in 2017.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219172941-41-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Former Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius walks without his prosthetic legs during his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, in June 2015. His attorney was arguing that he was a vulnerable figure who should receive a lesser sentence for the 2014 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A judge sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison, but that sentence was later increased to 13 years and five months in 2017.
<img alt="Activist Ieshia Evans stands in the street in July 2016 as two police officers move in to arrest her near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana. She was one of hundreds of protesters who blocked a Baton Rouge roadway to decry police brutality. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by one of two white police officers who confronted him outside a Baton Rouge convenience store. Cell phone video showed Sterling pinned to the ground by the officers before he was shot; police said Sterling was shot because he was reaching for a gun.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Activist Ieshia Evans stands in the street in July 2016 as two police officers move in to arrest her near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana. She was one of hundreds of protesters who blocked a Baton Rouge roadway to decry police brutality. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by one of two white police officers who confronted him outside a Baton Rouge convenience store. Cell phone video showed Sterling pinned to the ground by the officers before he was shot; police said Sterling was shot because he was reaching for a gun.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219173126-42-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Activist Ieshia Evans stands in the street in July 2016 as two police officers move in to arrest her near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana. She was one of hundreds of protesters who blocked a Baton Rouge roadway to decry police brutality. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by one of two white police officers who confronted him outside a Baton Rouge convenience store. Cell phone video showed Sterling pinned to the ground by the officers before he was shot; police said Sterling was shot because he was reaching for a gun.
<img alt="South African swimmer Chad Le Clos glances at US swimmer Michael Phelps during the Olympic final of the 200-meter butterfly in August 2016. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, won the race for his 20th career gold medal. He avenged one of the few losses of his Olympic career — a second-place finish to Le Clos in 2012. Le Clos finished fourth.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="South African swimmer Chad Le Clos glances at US swimmer Michael Phelps during the Olympic final of the 200-meter butterfly in August 2016. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, won the race for his 20th career gold medal. He avenged one of the few losses of his Olympic career — a second-place finish to Le Clos in 2012. Le Clos finished fourth.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219173249-43-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
South African swimmer Chad Le Clos glances at US swimmer Michael Phelps during the Olympic final of the 200-meter butterfly in August 2016. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, won the race for his 20th career gold medal. He avenged one of the few losses of his Olympic career — a second-place finish to Le Clos in 2012. Le Clos finished fourth.
<img alt="Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks back at his Olympic competitors during a 100-meter semifinal in August 2016. Bolt won the final a short time later, becoming the first man in history to win the 100 meters at three straight Olympic Games. His legendary career includes eight Olympic gold medals and world records in the 100 and 200 meters.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks back at his Olympic competitors during a 100-meter semifinal in August 2016. Bolt won the final a short time later, becoming the first man in history to win the 100 meters at three straight Olympic Games. His legendary career includes eight Olympic gold medals and world records in the 100 and 200 meters.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219173333-44-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks back at his Olympic competitors during a 100-meter semifinal in August 2016. Bolt won the final a short time later, becoming the first man in history to win the 100 meters at three straight Olympic Games. His legendary career includes eight Olympic gold medals and world records in the 100 and 200 meters.
<img alt="This still image, taken from a video posted by the Aleppo Media Center, shows a young boy in an ambulance after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, in August 2016. It took nearly an hour to dig the boy, identified as Omran Daqneesh, out from the rubble, an activist told CNN. The airstrike destroyed his home where he lived with his parents and two siblings. The Syrian civil war started in April 2011 and is still ongoing.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="This still image, taken from a video posted by the Aleppo Media Center, shows a young boy in an ambulance after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, in August 2016. It took nearly an hour to dig the boy, identified as Omran Daqneesh, out from the rubble, an activist told CNN. The airstrike destroyed his home where he lived with his parents and two siblings. The Syrian civil war started in April 2011 and is still ongoing.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219173436-45-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
This still image, taken from a video posted by the Aleppo Media Center, shows a young boy in an ambulance after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, in August 2016. It took nearly an hour to dig the boy, identified as Omran Daqneesh, out from the rubble, an activist told CNN. The airstrike destroyed his home where he lived with his parents and two siblings. The Syrian civil war started in April 2011 and is still ongoing.
<img alt="The Chicago Cubs celebrate after winning Game 7 of the World Series in November 2016. The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in 10 innings to end the longest championship drought in major US sports. The Cubs hadn't won the World Series since 1908.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="The Chicago Cubs celebrate after winning Game 7 of the World Series in November 2016. The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in 10 innings to end the longest championship drought in major US sports. The Cubs hadn't won the World Series since 1908.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219195727-98-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
The Chicago Cubs celebrate after winning Game 7 of the World Series in November 2016. The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in 10 innings to end the longest championship drought in major US sports. The Cubs hadn’t won the World Series since 1908.
<img alt="Katie Stubblefield poses for a portrait in November 2016. Stubblefield was at the Cleveland Clinic to receive a face transplant. She shot herself in 2014 when she was 18. Now, she hopes to use her historic surgery to raise awareness about the lasting harms of suicide and the precious value of life.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Katie Stubblefield poses for a portrait in November 2016. Stubblefield was at the Cleveland Clinic to receive a face transplant. She shot herself in 2014 when she was 18. Now, she hopes to use her historic surgery to raise awareness about the lasting harms of suicide and the precious value of life.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191220101516-107-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Katie Stubblefield poses for a portrait in November 2016. Stubblefield was at the Cleveland Clinic to receive a face transplant. She shot herself in 2014 when she was 18. Now, she hopes to use her historic surgery to raise awareness about the lasting harms of suicide and the precious value of life.
<img alt="Mevlut Mert Altintas gestures after assassinating Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at a photo exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, in December 2016. Altintas, an off-duty Turkish police officer, was then fatally shot during a shootout. In a video that circulated on social media, Altintas was heard shouting, “Allahu akbar (God is greatest). Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria! Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria!” Russia is an ally of the Syrian regime and has carried out airstrikes to prop up embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. Karlov, 62, had served in Ankara since 2013.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Mevlut Mert Altintas gestures after assassinating Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at a photo exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, in December 2016. Altintas, an off-duty Turkish police officer, was then fatally shot during a shootout. In a video that circulated on social media, Altintas was heard shouting, “Allahu akbar (God is greatest). Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria! Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria!” Russia is an ally of the Syrian regime and has carried out airstrikes to prop up embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. Karlov, 62, had served in Ankara since 2013.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219174055-49-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Mevlut Mert Altintas gestures after assassinating Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at a photo exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, in December 2016. Altintas, an off-duty Turkish police officer, was then fatally shot during a shootout. In a video that circulated on social media, Altintas was heard shouting, “Allahu akbar (God is greatest). Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria! Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria!” Russia is an ally of the Syrian regime and has carried out airstrikes to prop up embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. Karlov, 62, had served in Ankara since 2013.
<img alt="From left, San Francisco 49ers Eli Harold, Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid kneel during the National Anthem in December 2016. All season, Kaepernick refused to stand during the National Anthem because he did not want to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” An increasing number of NFL players joined him and began to kneel or raise their fists during the anthem, but critics perceived the protests as unpatriotic and disrespectful of the American flag and US military.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="From left, San Francisco 49ers Eli Harold, Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid kneel during the National Anthem in December 2016. All season, Kaepernick refused to stand during the National Anthem because he did not want to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” An increasing number of NFL players joined him and began to kneel or raise their fists during the anthem, but critics perceived the protests as unpatriotic and disrespectful of the American flag and US military.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219174217-50-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
From left, San Francisco 49ers Eli Harold, Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid kneel during the National Anthem in December 2016. All season, Kaepernick refused to stand during the National Anthem because he did not want to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” An increasing number of NFL players joined him and began to kneel or raise their fists during the anthem, but critics perceived the protests as unpatriotic and disrespectful of the American flag and US military.
<img alt="US President-elect Donald Trump arrives at his inauguration ceremony in January 2017. The real estate magnate and former reality star defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. His inaugural address centered on the themes that animated his stunning outsider campaign, which shattered political conventions and gave voice to heartland voters who felt badly let down by more established politicians.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="US President-elect Donald Trump arrives at his inauguration ceremony in January 2017. The real estate magnate and former reality star defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. His inaugural address centered on the themes that animated his stunning outsider campaign, which shattered political conventions and gave voice to heartland voters who felt badly let down by more established politicians.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219174423-51-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
US President-elect Donald Trump arrives at his inauguration ceremony in January 2017. The real estate magnate and former reality star defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. His inaugural address centered on the themes that animated his stunning outsider campaign, which shattered political conventions and gave voice to heartland voters who felt badly let down by more established politicians.
<img alt="US President Donald Trump has a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of several world leaders he talked to after taking office in January 2017. Joining Trump in the Oval Office, from left, are Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior adviser Steve Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer and national security adviser Michael Flynn. Priebus, Bannon, Spicer and Flynn are no longer part of the administration.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="US President Donald Trump has a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of several world leaders he talked to after taking office in January 2017. Joining Trump in the Oval Office, from left, are Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior adviser Steve Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer and national security adviser Michael Flynn. Priebus, Bannon, Spicer and Flynn are no longer part of the administration.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219174931-52-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
US President Donald Trump has a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of several world leaders he talked to after taking office in January 2017. Joining Trump in the Oval Office, from left, are Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior adviser Steve Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer and national security adviser Michael Flynn. Priebus, Bannon, Spicer and Flynn are no longer part of the administration.
<img alt=""La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz holds up a card at the 2017 Academy Awards, proving that there was a mistake and that "Moonlight" had actually won the Oscar for best picture. "La La Land" was initially announced as the winner, but presenter Warren Beatty explained to the crowd that he was given the wrong envelope. See how the scene unfolded” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt=""La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz holds up a card at the 2017 Academy Awards, proving that there was a mistake and that "Moonlight" had actually won the Oscar for best picture. "La La Land" was initially announced as the winner, but presenter Warren Beatty explained to the crowd that he was given the wrong envelope. See how the scene unfolded” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219175042-53-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
“La La Land” producer Jordan Horowitz holds up a card at the 2017 Academy Awards, proving that there was a mistake and that “Moonlight” had actually won the Oscar for best picture. “La La Land” was initially announced as the winner, but presenter Warren Beatty explained to the crowd that he was given the wrong envelope. See how the scene unfolded
<img alt="This April 2017 photo, provided by the activist Idlib Media Center, shows dead children after a suspected chemical attack in the rebel-held city of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. Dozens of people were killed, according to multiple activist groups. The United States responded a few days later by launching between 50-60 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government airbase. US officials said the base was home to warplanes that carried out the chemical attack. Syria repeatedly denied it had anything to do with the attack.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="This April 2017 photo, provided by the activist Idlib Media Center, shows dead children after a suspected chemical attack in the rebel-held city of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. Dozens of people were killed, according to multiple activist groups. The United States responded a few days later by launching between 50-60 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government airbase. US officials said the base was home to warplanes that carried out the chemical attack. Syria repeatedly denied it had anything to do with the attack.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219184500-54-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
This April 2017 photo, provided by the activist Idlib Media Center, shows dead children after a suspected chemical attack in the rebel-held city of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. Dozens of people were killed, according to multiple activist groups. The United States responded a few days later by launching between 50-60 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government airbase. US officials said the base was home to warplanes that carried out the chemical attack. Syria repeatedly denied it had anything to do with the attack.
<img alt="Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, also known as Canada's “Iceberg Alley,” near Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, in April 2017.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, also known as Canada's “Iceberg Alley,” near Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, in April 2017.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219175156-55-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, also known as Canada’s “Iceberg Alley,” near Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, in April 2017.
Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A demonstrator catches on fire during anti-government protests in Caracas, Venezuela, in May 2017. It happened as protesters clashed with police and the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded. Other photos from the scene showed the man being attended to with burns on his body.
<img alt="Sincere Smith, a 2-year-old from Flint, Michigan, suffers from a full-body rash that his mother blamed on municipal water he bathed in. Cost-cutting measures in Flint led to tainted water that contained lead and other toxins.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Sincere Smith, a 2-year-old from Flint, Michigan, suffers from a full-body rash that his mother blamed on municipal water he bathed in. Cost-cutting measures in Flint led to tainted water that contained lead and other toxins.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219175328-57-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Sincere Smith, a 2-year-old from Flint, Michigan, suffers from a full-body rash that his mother blamed on municipal water he bathed in. Cost-cutting measures in Flint led to tainted water that contained lead and other toxins.
<img alt="Pope Francis stands with US President Donald Trump and his family during a private audience at the Vatican in May 2017. Joining the President were his wife, Melania, and his daughter Ivanka.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Pope Francis stands with US President Donald Trump and his family during a private audience at the Vatican in May 2017. Joining the President were his wife, Melania, and his daughter Ivanka.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181444-58-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Pope Francis stands with US President Donald Trump and his family during a private audience at the Vatican in May 2017. Joining the President were his wife, Melania, and his daughter Ivanka.
<img alt="Former FBI Director James Comey is photographed before testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, one month after US President Donald Trump fired him in May 2017. Comey discussed the FBI's Russia investigation, his private interactions with Trump and how he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Former FBI Director James Comey is photographed before testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, one month after US President Donald Trump fired him in May 2017. Comey discussed the FBI's Russia investigation, his private interactions with Trump and how he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181525-59-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Former FBI Director James Comey is photographed before testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, one month after US President Donald Trump fired him in May 2017. Comey discussed the FBI’s Russia investigation, his private interactions with Trump and how he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe.
<img alt="Firefighters remove an American flag as a wildfire closes in on a home in Oroville, California, in July 2017. Raging wildfires forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across the western United States. Scientists point to a number of conditions that have led to deadlier wildfires in recent years, all related to climate change.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Firefighters remove an American flag as a wildfire closes in on a home in Oroville, California, in July 2017. Raging wildfires forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across the western United States. Scientists point to a number of conditions that have led to deadlier wildfires in recent years, all related to climate change.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181608-60-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Firefighters remove an American flag as a wildfire closes in on a home in Oroville, California, in July 2017. Raging wildfires forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across the western United States. Scientists point to a number of conditions that have led to deadlier wildfires in recent years, all related to climate change.
<img alt="White nationalists chant at counterprotesters after marching through the University of Virginia's Charlottesville campus in August 2017. Chanting "blood and soil" and "you will not replace us," the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before clashing with the counterprotesters, CNN affiliate WWBT reported. Charlottesville became the latest Southern battleground over the contested removal of Confederate monuments. In February 2017, the city council voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The council also voted to rename two city parks that had been named for Confederate generals.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="White nationalists chant at counterprotesters after marching through the University of Virginia's Charlottesville campus in August 2017. Chanting "blood and soil" and "you will not replace us," the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before clashing with the counterprotesters, CNN affiliate WWBT reported. Charlottesville became the latest Southern battleground over the contested removal of Confederate monuments. In February 2017, the city council voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The council also voted to rename two city parks that had been named for Confederate generals.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181734-61-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
White nationalists chant at counterprotesters after marching through the University of Virginia’s Charlottesville campus in August 2017. Chanting “blood and soil” and “you will not replace us,” the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before clashing with the counterprotesters, CNN affiliate WWBT reported. Charlottesville became the latest Southern battleground over the contested removal of Confederate monuments. In February 2017, the city council voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The council also voted to rename two city parks that had been named for Confederate generals.
<img alt="A car plows into a group of counterprotesters who were marching against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman from Charlottesville, was killed and 19 others were injured. A 20-year-old man, James Alex Fields, was accused of ramming his car into the crowd. He was convicted of first-degree murder and nine other charges in 2018, and he was sentenced to life in prison.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A car plows into a group of counterprotesters who were marching against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman from Charlottesville, was killed and 19 others were injured. A 20-year-old man, James Alex Fields, was accused of ramming his car into the crowd. He was convicted of first-degree murder and nine other charges in 2018, and he was sentenced to life in prison.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181808-62-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A car plows into a group of counterprotesters who were marching against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman from Charlottesville, was killed and 19 others were injured. A 20-year-old man, James Alex Fields, was accused of ramming his car into the crowd. He was convicted of first-degree murder and nine other charges in 2018, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
<img alt="An elderly patient waits to be rescued from Hurricane Harvey floodwaters in Port Arthur, Texas. Harvey flooded the city of Houston and flattened many homes along the state's Gulf Coast in August 2017. Climate scientists have said that warming oceans are making storms stronger and more damaging.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="An elderly patient waits to be rescued from Hurricane Harvey floodwaters in Port Arthur, Texas. Harvey flooded the city of Houston and flattened many homes along the state's Gulf Coast in August 2017. Climate scientists have said that warming oceans are making storms stronger and more damaging.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181930-64-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
An elderly patient waits to be rescued from Hurricane Harvey floodwaters in Port Arthur, Texas. Harvey flooded the city of Houston and flattened many homes along the state’s Gulf Coast in August 2017. Climate scientists have said that warming oceans are making storms stronger and more damaging.
<img alt="The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse seen near Redmond, Oregon, in August 2017. It was the first total solar eclipse to cross the United States since 1918.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse seen near Redmond, Oregon, in August 2017. It was the first total solar eclipse to cross the United States since 1918.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219181855-63-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse seen near Redmond, Oregon, in August 2017. It was the first total solar eclipse to cross the United States since 1918.
<img alt="San Juan, Puerto Rico, is seen during a blackout after Hurricane Maria made landfall in September 2017. Maria was the strongest storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years. It came ashore with sustained winds of 155 mph, knocking out power to the entire island. Trees were uprooted, homes were destroyed, and there was also widespread flooding.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="San Juan, Puerto Rico, is seen during a blackout after Hurricane Maria made landfall in September 2017. Maria was the strongest storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years. It came ashore with sustained winds of 155 mph, knocking out power to the entire island. Trees were uprooted, homes were destroyed, and there was also widespread flooding.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219190016-65-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
San Juan, Puerto Rico, is seen during a blackout after Hurricane Maria made landfall in September 2017. Maria was the strongest storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years. It came ashore with sustained winds of 155 mph, knocking out power to the entire island. Trees were uprooted, homes were destroyed, and there was also widespread flooding.
<img alt="Concertgoers dive over a fence to take cover from gunfire after shots rang out at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in October 2017. Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds were injured when a gunman opened fire on the crowd. Police said the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, fired from the Mandalay Bay hotel, several hundred feet southwest of the concert grounds. He was found dead in his hotel room, and authorities said he killed himself. It is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Concertgoers dive over a fence to take cover from gunfire after shots rang out at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in October 2017. Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds were injured when a gunman opened fire on the crowd. Police said the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, fired from the Mandalay Bay hotel, several hundred feet southwest of the concert grounds. He was found dead in his hotel room, and authorities said he killed himself. It is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219193542-83-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Concertgoers dive over a fence to take cover from gunfire after shots rang out at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in October 2017. Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds were injured when a gunman opened fire on the crowd. Police said the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, fired from the Mandalay Bay hotel, several hundred feet southwest of the concert grounds. He was found dead in his hotel room, and authorities said he killed himself. It is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
<img alt="US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills in November 2017. The notes were the first to feature Mnuchin's signature. Linton was widely criticized earlier in the year when she posted a photo on Instagram that showed her stepping off a government plane, flaunting her designer wardrobe by tagging the designers. The photo kicked off an investigation into Mnuchin's use of government planes. The Treasury Department's inspector general ultimately found no evidence of wrongdoing but said the Trump administration had cut corners during the approval process for Mnuchin's trips.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills in November 2017. The notes were the first to feature Mnuchin's signature. Linton was widely criticized earlier in the year when she posted a photo on Instagram that showed her stepping off a government plane, flaunting her designer wardrobe by tagging the designers. The photo kicked off an investigation into Mnuchin's use of government planes. The Treasury Department's inspector general ultimately found no evidence of wrongdoing but said the Trump administration had cut corners during the approval process for Mnuchin's trips.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219190236-66-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills in November 2017. The notes were the first to feature Mnuchin’s signature. Linton was widely criticized earlier in the year when she posted a photo on Instagram that showed her stepping off a government plane, flaunting her designer wardrobe by tagging the designers. The photo kicked off an investigation into Mnuchin’s use of government planes. The Treasury Department’s inspector general ultimately found no evidence of wrongdoing but said the Trump administration had cut corners during the approval process for Mnuchin’s trips.
<img alt="Randall Margraves, left, lunges at Larry Nassar, bottom right, during Nassar's third and final sentencing hearing in February 2018. Nassar, a former team doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct and admitted to sexually assaulting and abusing young girls under the guise of providing medical treatment. Margraves, whose three daughters say they were abused by Nassar, tried to attack Nassar before being tackled and detained by security. Margraves was brought back into the court in handcuffs during a lunch break, and he apologized to the court.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Randall Margraves, left, lunges at Larry Nassar, bottom right, during Nassar's third and final sentencing hearing in February 2018. Nassar, a former team doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct and admitted to sexually assaulting and abusing young girls under the guise of providing medical treatment. Margraves, whose three daughters say they were abused by Nassar, tried to attack Nassar before being tackled and detained by security. Margraves was brought back into the court in handcuffs during a lunch break, and he apologized to the court.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219195929-99-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Randall Margraves, left, lunges at Larry Nassar, bottom right, during Nassar’s third and final sentencing hearing in February 2018. Nassar, a former team doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct and admitted to sexually assaulting and abusing young girls under the guise of providing medical treatment. Margraves, whose three daughters say they were abused by Nassar, tried to attack Nassar before being tackled and detained by security. Margraves was brought back into the court in handcuffs during a lunch break, and he apologized to the court.
<img alt="Students evacuate Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting at the school killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. Former student Nikolas Cruz is facing 34 counts of premeditated and attempted murder. His defense team has offered a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole, but only if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table. Prosecutors have rejected the plea.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Students evacuate Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting at the school killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. Former student Nikolas Cruz is facing 34 counts of premeditated and attempted murder. His defense team has offered a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole, but only if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table. Prosecutors have rejected the plea.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219190326-67-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Students evacuate Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting at the school killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. Former student Nikolas Cruz is facing 34 counts of premeditated and attempted murder. His defense team has offered a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole, but only if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table. Prosecutors have rejected the plea.
<img alt="Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, a northern white rhino, moments before the animal died at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in March 2018. Sudan was 45 years old and in poor health. The life he lived: Photos of the last male northern white rhino” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, a northern white rhino, moments before the animal died at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in March 2018. Sudan was 45 years old and in poor health. The life he lived: Photos of the last male northern white rhino” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219233153-103-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, a northern white rhino, moments before the animal died at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in March 2018. Sudan was 45 years old and in poor health. The life he lived: Photos of the last male northern white rhino
<img alt="Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, becomes emotional as she speaks during March for Our Lives, a March 2018 protest that called for stricter gun-control legislation. She stood on a stage in Washington for what was the length of the gunman's shooting spree. “Six minutes and about 20 seconds,” she said. “In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured and everyone in the Douglas community was forever altered.” ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, becomes emotional as she speaks during March for Our Lives, a March 2018 protest that called for stricter gun-control legislation. She stood on a stage in Washington for what was the length of the gunman's shooting spree. “Six minutes and about 20 seconds,” she said. “In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured and everyone in the Douglas community was forever altered.” ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219190429-70-decade-in-photos-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, becomes emotional as she speaks during March for Our Lives, a March 2018 protest that called for stricter gun-control legislation. She stood on a stage in Washington for what was the length of the gunman’s shooting spree. “Six minutes and about 20 seconds,” she said. “In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured and everyone in the Douglas community was forever altered.”
<img alt="Palestinian protesters shout during clashes with Israeli troops near the Israel-Gaza border in April 2018. Israeli troops fired live rounds against Palestinians attempting to break through the border fence, the Israeli military said, a week after violence led to the bloodiest day in Gaza since 2014. On that day, Israeli officials estimated, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters marched toward the border fence during protests called the March of Return. The goal of those protests, Palestinians say, is to cross the border fence and return to their lands, which became part of Israel seven decades ago.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Palestinian protesters shout during clashes with Israeli troops near the Israel-Gaza border in April 2018. Israeli troops fired live rounds against Palestinians attempting to break through the border fence, the Israeli military said, a week after violence led to the bloodiest day in Gaza since 2014. On that day, Israeli officials estimated, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters marched toward the border fence during protests called the March of Return. The goal of those protests, Palestinians say, is to cross the border fence and return to their lands, which became part of Israel seven decades ago.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219190552-71-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Palestinian protesters shout during clashes with Israeli troops near the Israel-Gaza border in April 2018. Israeli troops fired live rounds against Palestinians attempting to break through the border fence, the Israeli military said, a week after violence led to the bloodiest day in Gaza since 2014. On that day, Israeli officials estimated, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters marched toward the border fence during protests called the March of Return. The goal of those protests, Palestinians say, is to cross the border fence and return to their lands, which became part of Israel seven decades ago.
<img alt="Former US President George H.W. Bush, front center, joins other former Presidents and first ladies at the funeral ceremony for his wife, Barbara, in April 2018. Behind Bush, from left, are Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and current first lady Melania Trump. The story behind the photo” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Former US President George H.W. Bush, front center, joins other former Presidents and first ladies at the funeral ceremony for his wife, Barbara, in April 2018. Behind Bush, from left, are Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and current first lady Melania Trump. The story behind the photo” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219190801-73-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Former US President George H.W. Bush, front center, joins other former Presidents and first ladies at the funeral ceremony for his wife, Barbara, in April 2018. Behind Bush, from left, are Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and current first lady Melania Trump. The story behind the photo
<img alt="History was made in April 2018 when Kim Jong Un, left, became the first North Korean leader to cross into South Korean territory since 1953. South Korean President Moon Jae-in was waiting to greet him at the military demarcation line that has long divided the two Koreas. The two leaders shook hands at the line, and then, in a symbolic move, Moon joined Kim on the northern side of the line before they crossed into the southern side together. Their summit culminated with a declaration that the two countries — who have been technically at war for almost 70 years now — would later sign a peace treaty. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="History was made in April 2018 when Kim Jong Un, left, became the first North Korean leader to cross into South Korean territory since 1953. South Korean President Moon Jae-in was waiting to greet him at the military demarcation line that has long divided the two Koreas. The two leaders shook hands at the line, and then, in a symbolic move, Moon joined Kim on the northern side of the line before they crossed into the southern side together. Their summit culminated with a declaration that the two countries — who have been technically at war for almost 70 years now — would later sign a peace treaty. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219191224-74-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
History was made in April 2018 when Kim Jong Un, left, became the first North Korean leader to cross into South Korean territory since 1953. South Korean President Moon Jae-in was waiting to greet him at the military demarcation line that has long divided the two Koreas. The two leaders shook hands at the line, and then, in a symbolic move, Moon joined Kim on the northern side of the line before they crossed into the southern side together. Their summit culminated with a declaration that the two countries — who have been technically at war for almost 70 years now — would later sign a peace treaty.
<img alt="People play golf on Hawaii's Big Island as an ash plume from the Kilauea volcano rises in the distance. The volcano erupted in May 2018, sending a smoldering flow of lava into residential areas.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="People play golf on Hawaii's Big Island as an ash plume from the Kilauea volcano rises in the distance. The volcano erupted in May 2018, sending a smoldering flow of lava into residential areas.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219191621-75-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
People play golf on Hawaii’s Big Island as an ash plume from the Kilauea volcano rises in the distance. The volcano erupted in May 2018, sending a smoldering flow of lava into residential areas.
<img alt="Britain's Prince Harry and his new wife, Meghan, kiss on the steps of St. George's Chapel shortly after being married in Windsor, England, in May 2018.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Britain's Prince Harry and his new wife, Meghan, kiss on the steps of St. George's Chapel shortly after being married in Windsor, England, in May 2018.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219200049-100-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Britain’s Prince Harry and his new wife, Meghan, kiss on the steps of St. George’s Chapel shortly after being married in Windsor, England, in May 2018.
<img alt="Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul whose alleged sexual assaults sparked the international #MeToo movement, turns himself in to the New York Police Department in May 2018. He was charged with rape and sex abuse in cases involving three women. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul whose alleged sexual assaults sparked the international #MeToo movement, turns himself in to the New York Police Department in May 2018. He was charged with rape and sex abuse in cases involving three women. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219191713-76-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul whose alleged sexual assaults sparked the international #MeToo movement, turns himself in to the New York Police Department in May 2018. He was charged with rape and sex abuse in cases involving three women. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
<img alt="In this June 2018 photo provided by the German Government Press Office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Donald Trump, seated, as they are surrounded by other leaders at the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec. According to two senior diplomatic sources, the photo was taken when there was a difficult conversation taking place regarding the G7's communique and several issues the United States had leading up to it. Analysis: The iconic G7 photo is a Trump Rorschach test ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="In this June 2018 photo provided by the German Government Press Office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Donald Trump, seated, as they are surrounded by other leaders at the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec. According to two senior diplomatic sources, the photo was taken when there was a difficult conversation taking place regarding the G7's communique and several issues the United States had leading up to it. Analysis: The iconic G7 photo is a Trump Rorschach test ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219192442-77-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
In this June 2018 photo provided by the German Government Press Office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Donald Trump, seated, as they are surrounded by other leaders at the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec. According to two senior diplomatic sources, the photo was taken when there was a difficult conversation taking place regarding the G7’s communique and several issues the United States had leading up to it. Analysis: The iconic G7 photo is a Trump Rorschach test
<img alt="A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as her mother is searched and detained in McAllen, Texas, near the US-Mexico border in June 2018. They had rafted across the Rio Grande and were stopped by US Border Patrol agents, according to Getty Images photographer John Moore. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as her mother is searched and detained in McAllen, Texas, near the US-Mexico border in June 2018. They had rafted across the Rio Grande and were stopped by US Border Patrol agents, according to Getty Images photographer John Moore. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219192525-78-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as her mother is searched and detained in McAllen, Texas, near the US-Mexico border in June 2018. They had rafted across the Rio Grande and were stopped by US Border Patrol agents, according to Getty Images photographer John Moore.
<img alt="Immigrant children who had been separated from their families walk between tents at a temporary shelter in Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018. Two days later, after facing intense pressure from across the political spectrum, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop families from being separated at the border. Related story: A look inside the places where child migrants are held ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Immigrant children who had been separated from their families walk between tents at a temporary shelter in Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018. Two days later, after facing intense pressure from across the political spectrum, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop families from being separated at the border. Related story: A look inside the places where child migrants are held ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219192635-79-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Immigrant children who had been separated from their families walk between tents at a temporary shelter in Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018. Two days later, after facing intense pressure from across the political spectrum, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop families from being separated at the border. Related story: A look inside the places where child migrants are held
Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Josepha, a migrant from Cameroon, is rescued from a wrecked boat in the Mediterranean Sea in July 2018. Migrants from Africa and the Middle East, many of them seeking refuge from war-torn areas, have arrived in Europe over the last decade.
<img alt="Llamas are tied to a lifeguard stand as the Woolsey Fire comes down a hill in Malibu, California, in November 2018. In pictures: Wildfires tear across California” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Llamas are tied to a lifeguard stand as the Woolsey Fire comes down a hill in Malibu, California, in November 2018. In pictures: Wildfires tear across California” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219200157-101-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Llamas are tied to a lifeguard stand as the Woolsey Fire comes down a hill in Malibu, California, in November 2018. In pictures: Wildfires tear across California
<img alt="Tennis star Naomi Osaka is comforted by Serena Williams as boos rain down during the US Open trophy ceremony in September 2018. Osaka defeated Williams in the final to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title. But some in the crowd were unhappy of how the match unfolded, with fan favorite Williams being docked a game after clashing with chair umpire Carlos Ramos.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Tennis star Naomi Osaka is comforted by Serena Williams as boos rain down during the US Open trophy ceremony in September 2018. Osaka defeated Williams in the final to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title. But some in the crowd were unhappy of how the match unfolded, with fan favorite Williams being docked a game after clashing with chair umpire Carlos Ramos.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219192924-81-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Tennis star Naomi Osaka is comforted by Serena Williams as boos rain down during the US Open trophy ceremony in September 2018. Osaka defeated Williams in the final to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title. But some in the crowd were unhappy of how the match unfolded, with fan favorite Williams being docked a game after clashing with chair umpire Carlos Ramos.
<img alt="Christine Blasey Ford, who accused US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is sworn in before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2018. She and Kavanaugh both gave emotional statements to the committee and took questions from its members. Ford said the incident took place in the 1980s, when the two were at a party during their high-school years. Kavanaugh repeatedly denied the allegation and said he was facing a politically motivated “smear campaign.” He was sworn in a month later after being confirmed by a vote of 50-48.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Christine Blasey Ford, who accused US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is sworn in before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2018. She and Kavanaugh both gave emotional statements to the committee and took questions from its members. Ford said the incident took place in the 1980s, when the two were at a party during their high-school years. Kavanaugh repeatedly denied the allegation and said he was facing a politically motivated “smear campaign.” He was sworn in a month later after being confirmed by a vote of 50-48.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219193252-82-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Christine Blasey Ford, who accused US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is sworn in before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2018. She and Kavanaugh both gave emotional statements to the committee and took questions from its members. Ford said the incident took place in the 1980s, when the two were at a party during their high-school years. Kavanaugh repeatedly denied the allegation and said he was facing a politically motivated “smear campaign.” He was sworn in a month later after being confirmed by a vote of 50-48.
<img alt="Employees from the Sotheby's auction house pose with Banksy's “Love is in the Bin” in October 2018. The art was created a week earlier when Banksy's “Girl with Balloon” painting, which had just sold for $1.4 million, was damaged by a paper shredder hidden inside the frame. After it was clear that this was the artist's intention, the buyer decided to keep it. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Employees from the Sotheby's auction house pose with Banksy's “Love is in the Bin” in October 2018. The art was created a week earlier when Banksy's “Girl with Balloon” painting, which had just sold for $1.4 million, was damaged by a paper shredder hidden inside the frame. After it was clear that this was the artist's intention, the buyer decided to keep it. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219193826-84-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Employees from the Sotheby’s auction house pose with Banksy’s “Love is in the Bin” in October 2018. The art was created a week earlier when Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon” painting, which had just sold for $1.4 million, was damaged by a paper shredder hidden inside the frame. After it was clear that this was the artist’s intention, the buyer decided to keep it.
<img alt="Amal Hussain, a 7-year-old suffering from malnutrition, lies in a bed at a mobile UNICEF clinic in Aslam, Yemen, in October 2018. She died days after The New York Times published a story about her and the famine crisis in Yemen.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Amal Hussain, a 7-year-old suffering from malnutrition, lies in a bed at a mobile UNICEF clinic in Aslam, Yemen, in October 2018. She died days after The New York Times published a story about her and the famine crisis in Yemen.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219193945-85-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Amal Hussain, a 7-year-old suffering from malnutrition, lies in a bed at a mobile UNICEF clinic in Aslam, Yemen, in October 2018. She died days after The New York Times published a story about her and the famine crisis in Yemen.
<img alt="Migrant Maria Meza and her 5-year-old twin daughters, Saira Mejia Meza and Cheili Mejia Meza, run from tear gas that was deployed by US Border Patrol agents near the fence between Mexico and the United States. The tear gas was fired after some migrants on the Mexican side of the border overran police and tried to cross the border in November 2018. The incident marked an escalation of tensions that had been mounting since groups of Central American migrants began arriving in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, drawing threats from US President Donald Trump to close the border.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Migrant Maria Meza and her 5-year-old twin daughters, Saira Mejia Meza and Cheili Mejia Meza, run from tear gas that was deployed by US Border Patrol agents near the fence between Mexico and the United States. The tear gas was fired after some migrants on the Mexican side of the border overran police and tried to cross the border in November 2018. The incident marked an escalation of tensions that had been mounting since groups of Central American migrants began arriving in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, drawing threats from US President Donald Trump to close the border.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194052-86-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Migrant Maria Meza and her 5-year-old twin daughters, Saira Mejia Meza and Cheili Mejia Meza, run from tear gas that was deployed by US Border Patrol agents near the fence between Mexico and the United States. The tear gas was fired after some migrants on the Mexican side of the border overran police and tried to cross the border in November 2018. The incident marked an escalation of tensions that had been mounting since groups of Central American migrants began arriving in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, drawing threats from US President Donald Trump to close the border.
<img alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence clap during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in February 2019. Because of a record-long government shutdown, Trump's speech came a week later than originally planned.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence clap during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in February 2019. Because of a record-long government shutdown, Trump's speech came a week later than originally planned.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194338-87-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence clap during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in February 2019. Because of a record-long government shutdown, Trump’s speech came a week later than originally planned.
<img alt="Researchers at the National Science Foundation announced in April 2019 that this is the first-ever picture of a black hole. The black hole is in the center of M87, a massive galaxy near the Virgo galaxy cluster 55 million light-years from Earth. It has a mass that is 6.5 billion times that of our sun.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Researchers at the National Science Foundation announced in April 2019 that this is the first-ever picture of a black hole. The black hole is in the center of M87, a massive galaxy near the Virgo galaxy cluster 55 million light-years from Earth. It has a mass that is 6.5 billion times that of our sun.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219200314-102-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Researchers at the National Science Foundation announced in April 2019 that this is the first-ever picture of a black hole. The black hole is in the center of M87, a massive galaxy near the Virgo galaxy cluster 55 million light-years from Earth. It has a mass that is 6.5 billion times that of our sun.
<img alt="Smoke and flames rise from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019. A catastrophic fire engulfed the 850-year-old structure, destroying its iconic spire and roof.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Smoke and flames rise from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019. A catastrophic fire engulfed the 850-year-old structure, destroying its iconic spire and roof.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194504-88-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Smoke and flames rise from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019. A catastrophic fire engulfed the 850-year-old structure, destroying its iconic spire and roof.
<img alt="Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks at her new great-grandchild, Archie, in May 2019. Archie is the first child of Prince Harry, second from left, and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Prince Philip is on the far left. Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, is next to her at right. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks at her new great-grandchild, Archie, in May 2019. Archie is the first child of Prince Harry, second from left, and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Prince Philip is on the far left. Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, is next to her at right. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194542-89-decade-in-pictures-restricted-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II looks at her new great-grandchild, Archie, in May 2019. Archie is the first child of Prince Harry, second from left, and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Prince Philip is on the far left. Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, is next to her at right.
<img alt="Sled dogs travel through melted ice water in northwest Greenland in June 2019. Greenland's melt season typically begins around the end of May. This year, it began at the start. Greenland is often considered by scientists to be ground zero of the Earth's climate change. The massive island is mostly in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Melting ice from Greenland's ice sheet is the largest contributor of all land sources to the rising sea levels that could become catastrophic for coastal cities around the world. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Sled dogs travel through melted ice water in northwest Greenland in June 2019. Greenland's melt season typically begins around the end of May. This year, it began at the start. Greenland is often considered by scientists to be ground zero of the Earth's climate change. The massive island is mostly in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Melting ice from Greenland's ice sheet is the largest contributor of all land sources to the rising sea levels that could become catastrophic for coastal cities around the world. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194927-92-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Sled dogs travel through melted ice water in northwest Greenland in June 2019. Greenland’s melt season typically begins around the end of May. This year, it began at the start. Greenland is often considered by scientists to be ground zero of the Earth’s climate change. The massive island is mostly in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Melting ice from Greenland’s ice sheet is the largest contributor of all land sources to the rising sea levels that could become catastrophic for coastal cities around the world.
<img alt="People march in the streets of Hong Kong to protest a controversial extradition bill in June 2019. Critics feared the bill would allow citizens to be sent across the border into mainland China. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the bill on September 4, but she refused to give ground on protesters' four other demands, which include greater democracy for the city and an independent commission into police conduct.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="People march in the streets of Hong Kong to protest a controversial extradition bill in June 2019. Critics feared the bill would allow citizens to be sent across the border into mainland China. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the bill on September 4, but she refused to give ground on protesters' four other demands, which include greater democracy for the city and an independent commission into police conduct.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194839-90-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
People march in the streets of Hong Kong to protest a controversial extradition bill in June 2019. Critics feared the bill would allow citizens to be sent across the border into mainland China. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the bill on September 4, but she refused to give ground on protesters’ four other demands, which include greater democracy for the city and an independent commission into police conduct.
<img alt="The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Angie Valeria, lie on the bank of the Rio Grande near Matamoros, Mexico, in June 2019. They drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. The shocking image was a grim reminder of the dangerous journey migrants take to get to the United States.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Angie Valeria, lie on the bank of the Rio Grande near Matamoros, Mexico, in June 2019. They drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. The shocking image was a grim reminder of the dangerous journey migrants take to get to the United States.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219194903-91-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Angie Valeria, lie on the bank of the Rio Grande near Matamoros, Mexico, in June 2019. They drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. The shocking image was a grim reminder of the dangerous journey migrants take to get to the United States.
<img alt="US soccer player Megan Rapinoe celebrates her first of two goals in the World Cup quarterfinal win over France in June 2019. Rapinoe scored a tournament-high six goals as the Americans won their second straight World Cup title.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="US soccer player Megan Rapinoe celebrates her first of two goals in the World Cup quarterfinal win over France in June 2019. Rapinoe scored a tournament-high six goals as the Americans won their second straight World Cup title.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219195029-93-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
US soccer player Megan Rapinoe celebrates her first of two goals in the World Cup quarterfinal win over France in June 2019. Rapinoe scored a tournament-high six goals as the Americans won their second straight World Cup title.
<img alt="Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2019. A day earlier, the White House released a transcript of a conversation that Trump and Zelensky had in July. According to the transcript, Trump repeatedly pushed for Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, a former vice president and potential 2020 political rival. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she would be opening a formal impeachment inquiry on Trump. Trump has insisted he did nothing wrong in his phone call with Zelensky, saying there was “no pressure whatsoever.”” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2019. A day earlier, the White House released a transcript of a conversation that Trump and Zelensky had in July. According to the transcript, Trump repeatedly pushed for Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, a former vice president and potential 2020 political rival. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she would be opening a formal impeachment inquiry on Trump. Trump has insisted he did nothing wrong in his phone call with Zelensky, saying there was “no pressure whatsoever.”” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219195214-96-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2019. A day earlier, the White House released a transcript of a conversation that Trump and Zelensky had in July. According to the transcript, Trump repeatedly pushed for Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, a former vice president and potential 2020 political rival. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she would be opening a formal impeachment inquiry on Trump. Trump has insisted he did nothing wrong in his phone call with Zelensky, saying there was “no pressure whatsoever.”
<img alt="Brandt Jean hugs Amber Guyger, the woman who fatally shot his younger brother, after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2019. He said he forgave Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, for shooting his brother, Botham, in 2018. ” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="Brandt Jean hugs Amber Guyger, the woman who fatally shot his younger brother, after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2019. He said he forgave Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, for shooting his brother, Botham, in 2018. ” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219195101-94-decade-in-picutres-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
Brandt Jean hugs Amber Guyger, the woman who fatally shot his younger brother, after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2019. He said he forgave Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, for shooting his brother, Botham, in 2018.
<img alt="American Simone Biles competes on the floor exercise at the World Gymnastics Championships in October 2019. Biles won yet another gold in the individual all-around. It was her 25th career medal at the World Championships. During this year's competition, Biles also nailed two moves that will be named after her.” src=”image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7″ /><img alt="American Simone Biles competes on the floor exercise at the World Gymnastics Championships in October 2019. Biles won yet another gold in the individual all-around. It was her 25th career medal at the World Championships. During this year's competition, Biles also nailed two moves that will be named after her.” src=”https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191219195151-95-decade-in-pictures-super-169.jpg” />Photos: 100 photos that defined the decade
American Simone Biles competes on the floor exercise at the World Gymnastics Championships in October 2019. Biles won yet another gold in the individual all-around. It was her 25th career medal at the World Championships. During this year’s competition, Biles also nailed two moves that will be named after her.
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