Captain Marwan Lazgin Ahmed, of the Kurdish Zawita special forces company guarding the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) buildings in Makhmour, Iraq.

Dr. Luba Matic stands at the entrance to a storage container full of semi-frozen corpses, victims of the tsunami in Thailand. These containers are at the Bang Muang temple, in the Khao Lak region, where the greatest number of people died.

A glue-sniffing street kid poses for a photographer in the square outside the Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad.

Jawad Amer Said Al-Shemary (49) descends through the trap-door entrance to his hiding place in his house in Shammar village, near Numaniya, Iraq. Al-Shemary hid for 22 years in a false wall in the house to avoid arrest and execution by Saddam Hussein's regime. He had joined the Shia political party "Dawa" in 1981, and after two friends were arrested and killed, he went into hiding.

Azeeza Masikh Dehash (74), the mother of Jawad Amer Said Al-Shemary (49), in their house in Shammar village, near Numaniya, Iraq. Dehash took care of her son for 22 years while he hid behind a false wall in the house to avoid arrest and execution by Saddam Hussein's regime. He had joined the Shia political party "Dawa" in 1981, and after two friends were arrested and killed, he went into hiding. PHOTO BY DAVID I. GROSS/JUNE 4, 2003

A man posed with a skull in a mass grave near Al-Musayab, Iraq. When the diggers saw him do this, they chased him out of the grave.

Arabs in a village south of Baghdad, Iraq, who left their villages in the north as Kurds returned home. The Arabs had been moved into the Kurdish villages as part of government's Arabization of the Kurdish areas.

Recep Tayip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, in his office at a family home in Istanbul, Turkey.

Michael Laferrier, a firefighter with the Taos 5 hotshots.

a firefighter with the Smokey Bear hotshots.