Palastinian Kids Playing With Real Guns

Robert Peraza pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.

A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11.

Boat balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan.

Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1

Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

A before and after shot of Joplin, Missouri after a massive tornado on May 22.

A monstrous dust storm (Haboob) roared through Phoenix, Arizona in July.

An aerial shot of the damage immediately following the Japanese tsunami.

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

A man sits in front of a destroyed apartment building following the Joplin, Missouri tornado.

University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in

A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April.

Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.

People celebrate Osama Bin Laden's death at Ground Zero on May 2.

A makeshift Steve Jobs memorial at the Apple Store in SOHO New York.

Cars abandoned on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive during the 'Snowapocalypse'

Facebook played an extremely important role in the uprisings throughout the Middle East

84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a protest march in Seattle, Washington.

Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer's riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia

Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood . Built in 1903, It was destroyed by Hurricane Irene

Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya.

A woman jumps from a burning building during the London riots in August.

Office workers look for a way out of a high rise building in central Christchurch, New Zeland on February 22. A strong earthquake killed at least 180 people.

A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami.

A Libyan rebel is pictured with Gadhafi's golden gun.

A phone hangs off the hook on Wall Street.

woman hangs onto a street sign in chest deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok on October 24

A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage.

A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy.

Protesters in Uganda are sprayed with paint.

My personal choice for most powerful image of 2011 is : Slain Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson's dog, Hawkeye, mourning the loss of his master.