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On an afternoon in May, a tornado tore through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, taking with it homes, histories and lives. Returning to the scene of desolation, one journalist captured the natural disaster’s scale of destruction, as a crushed car is cast aside by the wind on a pile of rubble.
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In a brief moment of relief from the tensions and ongoing conflict in Somalia, two children were photographed playing at a guest house in Mogadishu. The surprisingly “happy” scene is one of the first of its kind in more than two decades.
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What started as a peaceful protest in Turkey that hoped to prevent dozens of trees from being uprooted quickly escalated to a violent clash between riot police and unarmed protestors. Here, one member of the police sprays a woman with tear gas in a photo that became an iconic image of the May uprising against an authoritarian government.
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New York Yankees batsman Brennan Boesch couldn’t have had any worse timing at the plate, as his bat snapped in half during the first inning of a training game in Florida. For sports photographers, however, the timing was perfect as they were able to capture the bat mid flight.
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After a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Gansu province of China in July, hundreds of injured people were admitted to hospitals and make-shift medical centers across the province. In one photo, a woman is photographed receiving treatment after the quake and is a reminder of the physical and emotional devastation that was caused.
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It’s not often that photographers get a chance to snap the harvest moon in its full glory, and it’s even rarer that an airplane will fly into the frame at the exact moment the photographer is snapping the shot. This incredible photo of the full moon framing a passenger aircraft as it made its way to Heathrow, UK, beat the photography odds in a image that captured the hearts of people across the world.
