Protesters on fire as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police Feb. 20 in Kiev. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
Tear gas reigns down on a woman kneeling in the street with her hands in the air after a demonstration over the killing of teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri Aug. 17. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Medical workers take James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola, into the J.F.K. treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia Sept. 5. Dorbor died a short time later. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
Firefighters and members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces conduct a rescue operation at a cabin near the peak of Mount Ontake in central Japan Sept. 28. Mount Ontake erupted spewing large white plumes of gas and ash high into the sky and blanketing the surrounding area in ash. (The Associated Press)
Palestinians flee their destroyed neighbourhood on a horse and cart in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun Aug.18. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
Oscar Pistorius reacts in the Pretoria High Court Sept. 11. He was found guilty of culpable homicide for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (Getty Images)
Undocumented migrants pass a boy between two cars on a moving northbound freight train known as The Beast because of rampant accidents and violent crime as it passes through Tenosique, Mexico July 2. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
A Spanish Civil Guard pulls an African migrant from a border fence as officers stand underneath during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla Oct. 15. (Reuters)
A man holds a girl as she tries to escape when she realised she is to to be married near the town of Marigat, Kenya Dec. 7. As Pokot tradition dictates, the future husband arrived to her family home with a group of men to collect the girl. (Siegfried Modola /Reuters)
Firefighters battling the King Fire watch as a backfire burns along Highway 50 in Fresh Pond, California Sept. 16. (Noah Berger/Reuters)
Palestinian refugees waiting for food aid in the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria Jan. 31. (United Nations/The New York Times)
A man moves out of the way of a leopard in the northern Indian city of Meerut, India. Forestry officials and police armed with tranquilizer darts searched for a leopard that injured six people in the northern Indian city, creating panic and driving people indoors. (The Associated Press)
A hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a café under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia Dec. 15. (Rob Griffith/The Associated Press)
A masked pro-Russian protester sits on a chair as he poses for a picture inside a regional government building in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
Smoke rises from a house days after part of the ground it was resting on collapsed into Lake Whitney, Texas June 13. The house was destroyed by a controlled burn after it was condemned due to cliff erosion. (Brandon Wade/Reuters)
The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion maritime search aircraft is seen on low-level clouds as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, in this March 31. (Rob Griffith/Reuters)