3. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head

4. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

6. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012

7. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

8. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011

9. Protestors place flowers into the rifle barrels of armed officers

12. A dog named "Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.

13. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives

15. Sunset on Mars

16. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

17. Alcoholic father with his son

18. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. "The Falling Man.”

19. Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000

20. Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India

22. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009

23. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

24. Young man just found out his brother was killed