1. Torquato, Diego Frazao
At his teacher’s funeral, 12-year-old Brazilian Diego Frazão Torquato played the violin. Through music, the instructor had assisted him in escaping poverty and violence.
2. Terri Gurrola and her daughter are reunited
After seven months of service in Iraq, Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter.
3. A missionary and a starving youngster
A missionary and a starving youngster.
4. 1949 and 2009: A father and son
Between 1949 and 2009, a father and son.
5. A koala receives water from a firefighter
During Victoria, Australia’s horrific Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, a firefighter provides water to a koala.
6. “Daddy, wait for me,”
Claude P. Dettloff, “Wait For Me, Daddy,” New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940.
7. Brad Pitt
Coco, Greg Cook’s dog, gets hugged.
8. Many stray cats are saved by a brave villager
A brave villager saved many stray cats during the 2011 floods in Cuttack City, India, by carrying them in a basket perched on his head.
9. The Graves
Holland, 1888: The Graves of a Catholic Woman and Her Protestant Husband.
10. At her owner’s grave
For the second day in a row, a dog named “Leao” waits at her owner’s grave. Her owner perished in the devastating landslides that occurred close to Rio de Janeiro in 2011.
11. Seeing the Yu
As rain falls over the destroyed remnants of his home near Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, 29-year-old Hhaing The Yu holds his face in his hand.
Cyclone Nargis hit southern Myanmar in May 2008, killing over 100,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
12. A father who drinks with his son
A parent who drinks with his son.
13. A cardiac surgeon
heart surgeon following a successful heart transplant that lasted 23 hours. In the corner, his aide is dozing off.
14. A young man recently learned of his brother’s murder
A young man recently learned of his brother’s passing.
15. Mars’s sunset
Mars sunset.
