January
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The sun rises Jan. 5 over the mountainous region of Chunchung Province, South Korea. (Chung Sung Jun, Getty Images)
February
Corona resident Christy Sparks, 8, hugs her father, Sgt. Thomas Sparks, before he and others are deployed to serve a year in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The National Guard personnel were honored during a farewell ceremony and picnic in Ontario, Calif., Feb. 16. (Diana Mulvihill, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin / AP)
March
Fans duck for cover as the shattered bat of Minnesota Twins hitter Michael Restovich flies into the crowd in the fourth inning of a game against the Florida Marlins in Fort Myers, Fla., March 14. No one was seriously injured in the incident. (Charles Krupa, AP)
April
A ray swims in an aquarium among fish at the Epson Aqua Stadium in Tokyo, April 4. The amusement park opened April 8 at Shinagawa Prince Hotel. (Kazuhiro Nogi, AFP/Getty Images)
May
This galaxy is commonly known as the Sombrero galaxy because it resembles a broad-brimmed Mexican hat called a sombrero. The Sombrero is one of the most massive objects at the southern edge of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. It is equal in size to 800 billion suns. (NASA / AP)
June
This photo released by NASA June 11, shows the sun setting below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. Because Mars is farther from the sun than the Earth is, the sun appears only about two-thirds the size that it appears in a sunset seen from the Earth. (NASA / AP)
July
One of the two daughters of Jalil Shaalan, a security guard at a local school, reacts after her father was gunned down in front of her outside the school compound in the Amarayah district of Baghdad, July 21. (Hadi Mizban, AP)
August
The fingers of malnourished 1-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother, Fatou Ousseini, at an emergency feeding clinic in Tahoua, Niger, Aug. 1. Droughts have left an estimated 3.6 million people short of food. (Finbarr O’Reilly, Reuters)
September
Giant waves crash over onlookers, washing them off the sea wall of Cape Town's Kalk Bay harbor, Aug. 27. The storms created waves about 30 feet high. Fortunately the two men were later rescued. (Philip Massie, Reuters)
October
Base jumper Ralph Greenaway from Britain appears to walk on air as he launches himself from the observation deck of the KL Tower, the world's tallest building, during the 2005 Kuala Lumpur International Tower Jump, Oct. 2. (Tengku Bahar, AFP / Getty Images)
November
A Pakistani father holds his 9-year-old son as the boy's arm is amputated at a field hospital in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Oct. 30. The boy had been injured in the Oct. 8 earthquake. (David Guttenfelder, AP)
December
A U.S. Marine's M-16 rifle is propped near a window that an Iraqi girl peers into in Saadah, Iraq, Dec. 1. The house near the Syrian border is being used by Marines and Iraqi soldiers as a base to interrogate people. (Jacob Silberberg, AP)
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