PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004

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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Flowers, notes, and photos of Christopher Reeve and wife Dana and a Superman doll mark the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of 'Superman' actor Christopher Reeve in Hollywood October 11, 2004. Reeve died in a New York hospital of heart failure October 10, 2004, his publicist said on October 11, 2004. Reeve, 52, went into a coma on October 9, when he suffered a heart attack during treatment for an infected pressure wound and died in the afternoon October 10. Reeve was paralyzed when he fell from a horse in 1995. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Reuters - Dec 09 11:15 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Twenty-year-old Chris Paulette walks along a five foot in diameter oak tree that split his house in half as Tropical Storm Jeanne passed through Tallahassee, Florida in the early morning hours of September 27, 2004. Paulette was pulled from his bed under the wood and insulation that buried him in his bedroom inside the window at right by roommates. REUTERS/Mark Wallheiser
Reuters - Dec 09 11:13 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - England's David Beckham reacts during their Group B Euro 2004 soccer match against France at the Luz Stadium in Lisbon, June 13, 2004. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Reuters - Dec 09 11:16 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - A man is rescued from the rubble after a bomb explosion at Mount Lebanon hotel in central Baghdad March 17, 2004. The blast on Wednesday evening was probably caused by a car bomb and killed at least 25 people, with at least 45 wounded, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Jones said at the scene. REUTERS/Ammar Awad REUTERS
Reuters - Dec 09 11:16 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - An Iranian asylum seeker known only as Hassan screams in pain after setting himself on fire outside the UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur, January 27, 2004. Hassan torched himself on Tuesday after failing to obtain political asylum and was due to be sent back. Hassan survived the self immolation and was sent to the hospital for treatment. MALAYSIA OUT REUTERS
Reuters - Dec 09 11:15 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - ATTENTION EDITORS; VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY. A woman grieves over the body of her child killed when Russian troops stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin REUTERS
Reuters - Dec 09 11:14 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Terry Fry sits in front of his home which was devistated by hurricane Charlie in Port Charlotte, Florida, August 14, 2004. Fry protects his home with a twelve guage shotgun and a sign to scare off looters. REUTERS/Marc Serota
Reuters - Dec 09 11:15 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Standing at his desk in the Oval Office, President George W. Bush receives a phone call from Democratic nominee John Kerry , in which the Senator conceded defeat in the 2004 presidential election, November 3, 2004. Kerry's concession squashed prospects of a lengthy legal challenge and endless ballot counting in Ohio, where the election had been too close to call and delayed the final outcome for hours. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Eric Draper/The White House/Handout
Reuters - Dec 09 11:18 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian medics carry four children with the youngest being six month old (R), who were wounded after an Israeli tank fired a shell while they were sleeping at their home, in Beit Lahiya town north of Gaza Strip October 6, 2004. Israeli tanks shelled a town in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding 10 children in their houses, witnesses and medics said. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem REUTERS
Reuters - Dec 09 11:18 AM
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai is seen talking on the phone in Nyeri; 160 Km east of Kenya's capital Nairobi soon after she was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize October 8, 2004. She is the first African woman to win such an award for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation. 'Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment', the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes said in announcing the winner. He praised her 'contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace'. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya REUTERS
Reuters - Dec 09 11:18 AM
Unidentified woman begs at a Johannesburg traffic light. South Africa, once Africa's last bastion of white rule, has something you don't see elsewhere on the continent: poor whites. An unimagineable sight in South Africa just a few years ago, whites begging at traffic lights or working as parking attendants have become common. Picture taken September 9, 2004. TO GO WITH A STORY BC-SAFRICA-POVERTY-WHITES. REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya
Reuters - Dec 09 9:13 AM
An undentified school girl studies inside a tiny shack at the Vanderbijl park, south of Johannesburg. South Africa, once Africa's last bastion of white rule, has something you don't see elsewhere on the continent: poor whites. An unimagineable sight in South Africa just a few years ago, whites begging at traffic lights or working as parking attendants have become common. Picture taken September 9, 2004. TO GO WITH A STORY BC-SAFRICA-POVERTY-WHITES. REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya
Reuters - Dec 09 9:02 AM
South Korean protesters participate next to U.S. President George W. Bush 's picture during an anti-government rally near the National Assembly in Seoul, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. President Roh Moo-hyun made a surprise visit Wednesday to northern Iraq . The trip came as a parliamentary committee on Wednesday approved a government proposal to extend the deployment of South Korean troops in Iraq for another year. The Korean letters say on the banner ' Withdraw the Occupation Forces from Iraq'. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
AP - Dec 09 7:09 AM
A snow man salutes as Cuban soldiers stand guard outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, December 7, 2004. Since the legalization of Christmas festivities by the Fidel Castro administration following Pope John Paul II's visit here in 1997, nearly 30 years since Castro outlawed them, one of the most public Christmas displays can always be found in front of the U.S. mission, just across from the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a square where the government organizes the largest anti-American protests. PICTURE TAKEN DECEMBER 7 REUTERS/Claudia Daut
Reuters - Dec 08 9:59 AM
A Cuban soldier stands guard in the front of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana where employees of the mission set up Christmas decorations, December 7, 2004. Since the legalization of Christmas festivities by the Fidel Castro administration following Pope John Paul II's visit here in 1997, nearly 30 years since Castro outlawed them, one of the most public Christmas displays can always be found in front of the U.S. mission, just across from the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a square where the government organizes the largest anti-American protests. PICTURE TAKEN DECEMBER 7 REUTERS/Claudia Daut
Reuters - Dec 08 10:01 AM
Cars drive past the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana with its front yard adorned with Christmas decoration, December 7, 2004. Since the legalization of Christmas festivities by the Fidel Castro administration following Pope John Paul II's visit here in 1997, nearly 30 years since Castro outlawed them, one of the most public Christmas displays can always be found in front of the U.S. mission, just across from the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a square where the government organizes the largest anti-American protests. PICTURE TAKEN DECEMBER 7 REUTERS/Claudia Daut
Reuters - Dec 08 10:01 AM
This year's Christmas decorations at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana include a lit-up display of the number 75, seen in the front yard of the compound on December 7, 2004, remembering the March 2003 mass arrest of 75 opponents of Cuba's communist government. Cuban authorities recently freed seven of the jailed dissidents. Since April, a total of 14 have been released from prison, where 61 dissidents remain behind bars serving sentences of up to 28 years for conspiring with the United States to undermine President Fidel Castro 's government. Cuba labels all dissidents as 'counter-revolutionaries' on Washington's payroll. PICTURE TAKEN DECEMBER 7 REUTERS/Claudia Daut
Reuters - Dec 08 9:56 AM
Nikolai Makurin, a 73-years-old inhabitant of the remote taiga settlement Lugovatka, about 780 kms northwest of Krasnoyarsk, takes water from a well, December 7, 2004. Makurin belongs to 'starovers' (old-believers), who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church over 300 years ago in revolt against the church's proposed liturgical reforms. They live independently in the Siberian taiga very far from cities and villages and rarely contact with the external world, usually only to exchange goods. The starovers do not watch TV, nor read the newspapers and limit the education of their children to the knowledge necessary for a forest life. The 'starovers' keep ancient Russian religious, spiritual and cultural traditions and strictly limit the influence of the modern world on their communities. Picture taken December 7, 2004. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Reuters - Dec 08 5:41 AM
Vasily Zebzeev, a 65-year-old inhabitant of the remote taiga settlement Alexandrovsky Shlyuz, about 750 km northwest of Krasnoyarsk, performs his daily ski walk outside the settlement, December 6, 2004. Zebzeev belongs to 'starovers' (old-believers), who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church over 300 years ago in revolt against the church's proposed liturgical reforms. They live independently in the Siberian taiga very far from cities and villages and rarely contact with the external world, usually only to exchange goods. The starovers do not watch TV, nor read the newspapers and limit the education of their children to the knowledge necessary for a forest life. The 'starovers' keep ancient Russian religious, spiritual and cultural traditions and strictly limit the influence of the modern world on their communities. Picture taken on December 6, 2004. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Reuters - Dec 08 5:12 AM
Natalia Golovkova carries her little daughter in the remote taiga settlement Staroverovsky, about 850 kms northwest of Krasnoyarsk, December 7, 2004. Golovkova belongs to 'starovers' (old-believers), who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church over 300 years ago in revolt against the church's proposed liturgical reforms. They live independently in the Siberian taiga very far from cities and villages and rarely contact with the external world, usually only to exchange goods. The starovers do not watch TV, nor read the newspapers and limit the education of their children to the knowledge necessary for a forest life. The 'starovers' keep ancient Russian religious, spiritual and cultural traditions and strictly limit the influence of the modern world on their communities. Picture taken on December 7, 2004. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Reuters - Dec 08 2:15 AM
- Ulyan Sidorkin, the inhabitant of a remote taiga settlement Staroverovsky, about 850 kms northwest of Krasnoyarsk, reads the 17th century Gospel, December 7, 2004, which he inherited from his ancestors. This Gospel complies to 'starovers' (old-believers), who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church over 300 years ago in revolt against the church's proposed liturgical reforms. They live independently in the Siberian taiga remotely from cities and villages and rarely contact with the external world, usually only to exchange goods. The starovers do not watch TV, nor read the newspapers and limit the education of their children to the knowledge necessary for a forest life. The 'starovers' keep ancient Russian religious, spiritual and cultural traditions and strictly limit the influence of the modern world on their communities. Picture taken on December 7, 2004. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
  Reuters - Dec 08 2:11 AM
- In this picture released by the British Broadcasting Corp., BBC, Director-General Mark Thompson speaks to BBC staff at Television Center in west London Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, where he outlined a new vision for programs and content focused on 'excellence', plus radical plans for funding the ideas and transforming the BBC into a simpler, more agile and creative digital broadcaster. The BBC has confirmed plans to cut about 2,900 jobs over the next three years under moves to make savings of 320 million pounds (US$245; euro 183) or nearly 10 percent of its annual expenditure. (AP Photo/Tim Anderson/BBC)
  AP - Dec 07 6:56 AM
- Actor Kirk Douglas (L) and son actor Michael Douglas attend ceremonies for Jack Valenti, president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America, honoring him with a footprint and handprint ceremony at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. Los Angeles mayor James Hahn is shown left of Kirk Douglas.REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 11:42 PM
- Jack Valenti (5th-L), president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America, poses with the heads of the major Hollywood studios (L-R) Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chris McGurk, vice chairman and COO of MGM, Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corporation, Barry Meyer, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Sherry Lansing, chairman Paramount Pictures, actor Kirk Douglas , Jim Gianpulos, chairman of 20th Century Fox, Alex Yemenidjian, chairman and CEO of MGM and Los Angeles mayor James Hahn, after hand and footprint ceremonies honoring Valenti at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 11:30 PM
- Jack Valenti (C), president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America, poses with the heads of major Hollywood studios (L-R), Chris McGurk, vice chairman and COO of MGM, Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corporation, Barry Meyer, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Johnny Grant, honorary mayor of Hollywood, Sherry Lansing, chairman of Paramount Pictures and Ron Meyer, president and COO of Universal Studios, after hand and footprint ceremonies honouring Valenti at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 11:23 PM
- Jack Valenti, president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America poses with long time friends actors Kirk Douglas (L) and Michael Douglas (R) after Valenti placed his hand and footprints in cement during ceremonies honoring him at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 10:04 PM
- Jack Valenti, president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America, shows his hands after placing them in cement during ceremonies honoring him at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 6:13 PM
- Actor Kirk Douglas (L) and son actor Michael Douglas attend ceremonies honoring Jack Valenti, president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America, to honor him with a footprint and handprint ceremony at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 5:58 PM
- Jack Valenti, president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America places his cowboy boot footprints in cement during ceremonies honoring him at the forecourt of Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, December 6, 2004. Valenti served as president of the association for 38 years and was instrumental in launching the movie rating system. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
  Reuters - Dec 06 5:57 PM
- Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner prepares to BASE jump from the giant Christ Redentor statue in Rio de Janeiro in this picture taken December 5, 1999. On December 5, 2004, exactly five years after Baumgartner's jump from the Christ statue, he jumped out of a helicopter above Copacabana beach. Baumgartner jumped from the helicopter at an altitude of 1000 metres and opened the parachute 50 metres from the ground. 'It was the lowest parachute opening in my career', Baumgartner explained. Picture taken December 5, 1999. NO ARCHIVES NO SALES REUTERS/Wolfgang Luif/Handout
  Reuters - Dec 05 9:34 PM
- Motion Picture Association of America President and CEO Dan Glickman and his wife Rhoda arrive for the Kennedy Center Honors gala performance at the Kennedy Center, December 5, 2004 in Washington. This year the Kennedy Center is honoring actor Warren Beatty , singer Sir Elton John , conductor John Williams, soprano Joan Sutherland and husband and wife team Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
  Reuters - Dec 05 6:49 PM
- (L-R) Director Terry George, Paul Rusesabagina and actress Anglina Jolie arrive for the premiere of 'Hotel Rwanda' at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills December 2, 2004. 'Hotel Rwanda' tells the real-life story of Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda who secretly used his position to shelter more than a thousand refugees during the genocide crisis ten years ago. The film opens in the United States December 22. Jolie co-hosted the event with actor Harrison Ford . REUTERS/Jim Ruymen
  Reuters - Dec 02 10:13 PM
- 'Godzilla' walks the red carpet as he arrives for the world premiere of the film 'Godzilla Final Wars' in Hollywood, California November 29, 2004. The picture is set to be the last of 28 Godzilla films that have been made over the past 50 years. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
  Reuters - Dec 02 6:59 PM
- Brazilan photographers take pictures of a new dinousar model during a press conference at Rio's Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, December 2, 2004. Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe. Paleontologist Luciano Leal said the herbivorous Triassic period dinosaur, called Unaysaurus tolentinoi, is 'among the oldest finds in the world.' REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
  Reuters - Dec 02 1:58 PM
- A commuter walks past an illuminated sign carrying the latest market price for the US Dollar against the British Pound Sterling, in London, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. The dollar rallied after falling to new lows against the euro and the British pound in European trading Thursday, on continuing worries about the U.S. trade and budget deficits, at one point the pound reached a new 12-year high of $1.9438. The sign shows the rate of US $1.935 to the pound at the time the picture was taken. (AP Photo/ Alastair Grant)
  AP - Dec 02 9:53 AM
- Lions Gate opens Kevin Spacey's labor of love about the late singer Bobby Darin on December 17, 2004 in New York and Los Angeles. Two-time Academy Award winner Spacey, who sought the rights to Darin's story for years, co-produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in the picture; he sings and dances in the Darin role. Spacey (L), is shown with Darin's son Dodd at the premiere in Los Angeles, Nov. 4. Photo by Jim Ruymen/Reuters
  Reuters - Dec 02 7:26 AM
- Lions Gate opens Kevin Spacey 's labor of love about the late singer Bobby Darin on December 17, 2004 in New York and Los Angeles. Two-time Academy Award winner Spacey, who sought the rights to Darin's story for years, co-produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in the picture; he sings and dances in the Darin role. Spacey (L), is shown with Darin's son Dodd at the premiere in Los Angeles, Nov. 4. (Jim Ruymen/Reuters)
  Reuters - Dec 02 7:25 AM
- A Taiwan history teacher draws a map of China to teach students Chinese history in Taipei in this picture taken on November 11, 2004. Taiwan's Education Ministry has drafted new guidelines for the 2006 academic year, ordering high schools to create a separate textbook for Taiwan history, currently included under Chinese history. A separate course on Chinese culture, mandatory today, will become optional. Picture taken on November 11, 2004. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE TAIWAN-CHINA-HISTORY REUTERS/Richard Chung
  Reuters - Dec 01 6:34 PM
- A group of Taiwan high school students leave their classroom during a break in Taipei in this picture taken on November 11, 2004. Taiwan's Education Ministry has drafted new guidelines for the 2006 academic year, ordering high schools to create a separate textbook for Taiwan history, currently included under Chinese history. A separate course on Chinese culture, mandatory today, will become optional. Picture taken on November 11, 2004. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE TAIWAN-CHINA-HISTORY REUTERS/Richard Chung
  Reuters - Dec 01 6:32 PM
- In a picture taken off a television screen, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw gathers his papers at the end of his final broadcast of the NBC Nightly News in New York December 1, 2004. Brokaw is retiring from the broadcast after 23 years on the show. Brokaw hands the anchor spot to Brian Williams. Photo courtesy of NBC News. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
  Reuters - Dec 01 4

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