TIME – The year 2007 in Images

Posted by YILKA in Entertainment, PhotosDec 28th, 2007 | 1 Comment

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2008 is around the corner, did you spend sometime looking back to 2007 I bet you’re too busy for that TIME already captured the moments of year 2007 in images, from the campaign trail to wildfires in California to war in Iraq.

Below are my favorite ones The full photo essay can be found here.

Dust Storm
A gigantic cloud of dust, known as a “Haboob” advances on Khartoum, Sudan in April. These seasonal types of monsoons can reach a heights of 3000 feet.

Child Labor
Sixteen-year-old Rubel works at an aluminum factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The Killer Among Us
The class photograph of Seung-Hui Cho is isolated in the 2002 yearbook of Westfield High School in Falls Church, Virginia. Twenty-three-year old Cho went on a shooting rampage that claimed the lives of 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty members.

Protected
U.S. soldiers shield a wounded comrade from debris kicked up by a rescue helicopter in Qubah, Iraq.

Training
Newly recruited female police officers practice with their rifles before a test on a shooting range in Pol-E Khumri, Afghanistan.

Flood
Water rushes down a stairwell during heavy rains in Chongqing, China in July.

Street Fighting
Kenji Nagai, a Japanese photographer, falls to the ground after being shot in confrontations between Burmese protesters and government security forces. Kenji later died.

Hogwarts Bound
Harry Potter fans board a train to a secret location for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Sydney, Australia.

Collapse
Cars and trunks lie scattered on the remains of Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis shortly after it crashed into the Mississippi River in August.

No Man’s Land
Two women make their way through the rubble of Muqdadiyah, Iraq. Sectarian violence has stripped the town of its male population.

Candidate
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama waits to be introduced at a campaign event in Manning, South Carolina.

Besides those photos picked by TIME, I would like to add one more photo of Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007): the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, in a combined shooting and suicide bomb attack.