Cancer-Stricken Dad Walks 11-Year-Old Down The ‘Aisle’ Because He Won’t Be There For The Real Thing

Faiz, 40, and Ghulam, 11, sit for a portrait in her home before their wedding in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Department of State report “Human Rights Practices for 2011,” approximately 60 percent of girls were married younger than the legal age of 16. Once the girl’s father has agreed to the engagement, she is pulled out of school immediately.

Young man just found out his brother was killed

Man using the suicide hotline at the Golden Gate bridge.

A terrified Syrian with haunted eyes waits for medical care after an airstrike

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

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 month

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

A well-nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during food distribution at a humanitarian aid feeding center in Ajiep, Sudan in 1998

Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

Hand of Hope – A unborn baby pulls out his hand out of the incision made in the uterus of his mother during an operation and suddenly grabs the hand of the surgeon.

Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

Pictured here in this famous photograph we see a Jewish man, kneeling before a pit filled with bodies, about to be shot by a German soldier. This photograph was found among a German soldier’s photo album, and on the back was written the title “The Last Jew of Vinnitsa”.

An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument

Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of mutual respect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism.

Indian homeless men wait to receive free food outside a mosque in New Delhi, India

Alcoholic Father with child

“La Jeune Fille a la Fleur,” a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower power movement.

Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber: which was used in Hitler‘s time to kill Jews, mostly women and innocent children. This image shows the nail scratches of the victims who were slowly suffocated to death by the poisonous gas.

Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.

Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

A health worker disinfects a corpse in an Ebola isolation ward, once a primary school, in Monrovia, Liberia

Parents still looking for their missing child

Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp “death train” near the Elbe in 1945.

A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.

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

Dead German soldiers after the Battle of Stalingrad. 1943

A bus of caring people save a woman who tried to commit suicide in China.

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion. While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.

Taken by Mike Well, this picture shows us the hand of an Ugandan Boy held by a missionary. This image strikes us a reminder about the disparity in this world.

South Vietnam’s police chief fires his pistol into the head of a suspected Viet Cong officer in Saigon, February 1, 1968

John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s coffin along with the honor guard.

Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. (Héctor Rondón Lovera

POW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with

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

Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.

An Iraqi man comforts his son at a holding center for prisoners of war in An Najaf, Iraq, 31 March 2003.

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