From the archive: published May 1, 2014, 12 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Below are 30 of the most powerful photos that you will ever see. Taken from around the world, these photographs provide a glimpse of heartbreaking and heartwarming stories that will be remembered forever.
A sibling finding out that his brother had just been killed. A man jumps from the World Trade Center following the attacks on 9/11. A missionary holds the hand of a starving young boy.
A young boy attempts to help his alcoholic father stand up. A man clings to a woman underneath the rubble of a collapsed building. The surface of Mars. A dog waits by the gravesite of his owner after the landslides in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. A man weeps after his home is destroyed following the cyclone that hit his home in Myanmar in 2008. A young gypsy boy in France in 2006 where it is common for young boys to smoke in their communities. A young child runs after his father while marching through New Westminister, Canada in 1940. A Russian World War II soldier reunites with the tank he used throughout the war. The walls inside of an Auschwitz gas chamber following World War II. A man hugs his dog after they are reunited when a tornado struck Alabama in 2012. Holland, 1888- The grave of A Protestant man and a Catholic woman. Parents still looking for their daughter that disappeared in 1969. Men of Papua being shown how to properly use a condom in a public market in 2009. A soldier prepares for war in 1943. A man carries kittens across a flooded area in Cuttack City, India in 2011. Vietnam protester places a flower in the barrel of the rifles carried by National Guardsmen. Chechnya- Russian soldier plays an abandoned piano in 1994. A man offers a drink to soldiers in Afghanistan. A heart surgeon rests after a successful 23-hour-long heart transplant. A young woman grieves in the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. Zanjeer the service dog is buried with full honors as he saved countless lives during the Mumbai serial blasts by detecting explosives. Cairo, Egypt- Christians form a circle of protection around a group of Muslims during the uprisings of 2011. A young boy plays at his music teachers funeral that had helped him to break free of the poverty and violence in his community. A Father and son recreating a photo taken of them in 1949. A firefighter offers fresh water to a koala after the devastating fires that took place in Australia in 2009. Homeless men in New Delhi, India wait to receive free food outside of a mosque. A soldier reunited with her daughter after serving overseas for seven months.
