The 12 Emotional Pictures that Brought the World to a Stop

Reuters: The Hunger hand. starving child holds missionary's hand in Uganda

Getty images: A French man cries as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.

Courtesy/unknown:Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, Private Douglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers are brought through the town of Wootton Bassett in England

Courtesy: The Sudan famine, Vulture stands behind a boy

Getty Images: The Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks in  1989.

Picture/Courtesy: 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 on January 15, 2011.

Reuters: A Sudan People’s Liberation Army soldier stands at South Sudan’s independence celebration.

Picture Courtesy: Irish boy yells at the police during Northern Ireland unrest.

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Mother comforts her son in Alabama after a tornado destroyed their house in April of 2011.

Getty Images: 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music

Reuters: Woman reunited with her husband’s body after more than 60 years. 

Picture/courtesy: Couple found in a tight embrace after factory collapsed on them :-(.