1. Diego Frazao Torquato

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

2. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter

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

3. Starving boy and missionary

Starving boy and missionary.

4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

Father and son (1949 vs 2009).

5. A firefighter gives water to a koala

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009.

6. “Wait For Me, Daddy,”

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

7. Brad Pitt

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco. 

8. A heroic villager saves numerous stray cats

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

9. The Graves

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

10…at the grave of her owner

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

11. Hhaing The Yu

Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon.

In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives.

12. Alcoholic father with his son

Alcoholic father with his son. 

13. Heart surgeon

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

14. A young man just found out his brother was killed

A Young man just found out his brother was dead. 

15. Sunset on Mars

Sunset on Mars.