Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province on August 7, 2010.

On January 12, 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti killing an estimated two hundred and fifty thousand people, leaving millions homeless and the capital city of Port-au-Prince in ruins. Here, a man lay dead in a makeshift stretcher outside the main hospital.

Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ibrahim Sesay is interrogated by prisoners for the disappearance of a pair of slippers at Pademba Central Prison. Ibrahim was accused of stealing a mobile phone at his school. He was arrested in August 2009 and spent eight days at the police station without food. The police report stated he was 19 years old instead of 14, which is how old he says he is. He has been sentenced to 18 months.

"I realized I was shot when my leg started burning and I saw holes in my leg. I was just crying, hoping that the ambulance would hurry up and come." Three bullets tore into 10-year-old Erica Miranda's back, knee, and hip while playing basketball outside her home when a young man walked up to a crowded street corner in Compton and pulled out a handgun and started shooting. Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators believe a 17-year-old relative of her stepfather was the intended target. Both males were shot three times and survived. Erica will not be paralyzed, doctors say. But there is significant nerve damage in her right leg.

Tigers live in perhaps the highest density in Kaziranga National Park of any place in India. In other national parks in India, tigers are in greater peril, but poachers here tend to target the Indian one-horned rhinos instead. Here, a young male emerges from the elephant grass.