These 70 Photos From January To December Speak 1,000 Words About The Year That Was
As the year 2014 comes to a close, it's time to take a look back at some of the most memorable events and images of 2014, a particularly brutal and devastating year for the world.
By Sadho Ram — 27 Dec 2014, 04:10 PM — Updated almost 10 years ago
6 January 2014: A tire blocking the door at a Goodyear plant, where workers in France, held two managers captive in a pay-related dispute. Police intervened and ended the standoff.
6 January 2014: Mount Sinabung in Indonesia spewing volcanic ash over a corn field. The volcanic activity in Karo, North Sumatra, displaced thousands of people.
7 January 2014: A grieving man carrying a baby (status of whether the baby was alive or dead is not known) away from the scene of an airstrike in Damascus, Syria.
9 January 2014: A man pictured sitting in front of people unloading belongings in Minkammen, South Sudan, after fleeing violence in the country's Bor region.
17 January 2014: Protesters helping a fellow protester who was injured when an explosive device was thrown at anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok.
17 January 2014: Afghan police helping an injured man after a suicide bombing at a restaurant in Kabul.
21 January 2014: A huge boulder detached during a landslide in Ronchi di Termeno in Northern Italy. While the boulder missed a farmhouse, it destroyed the barn and stopped in the vineyard.
22 January 2014: A masked man pointing a handgun during a clash with police in Kiev, Ukraine
26 January 2014: Indian Border Security Force dog squad personnel taking part in a march during Republic Day celebrations in Jammu.
31 January 2014: Thousands of Yarmouk refugees waiting for food distribution. The Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus is home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in Syria.
5 February 2014: A patient being treated for gunshot wounds to the face, chest and throat sitting in a wheelchair in the Malakal teaching hospital in South Sudan.
13 February 2014: After weeks of rumbling, when Mount Kelud erupted on the Indonesian island of Java, many of the cities and towns nearest to Mount Kelud turned grey. Here, a housing complex in Yogyakarta is covered in thick, grey, ash.
18 February 2014: An injured Thai riot police officer being helped by his colleagues after a bomb attack during clashes with anti-government protesters in Bangkok.
20 February 2014: Protesters burning as they stood behind burning barricades during clashes with police in Kiev, Ukraine.
20 February 2014: Anti-government protesters clashing with police in Independence Square despite a truce between the Ukrainian president and opposition leaders in Kiev.
4 March 2014: Wrestlers practicing at a traditional Indian wrestling center in Mumbai. Kushti, or mud wrestling, is a traditional sport in India.
8 March 2014: A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crying as she talks on her mobile phone at the Beijing Capital International Airport. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers en route from KL to Beijing.
15 March 2014: A search team hunts for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in the Indian Ocean, near the tip of Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The flight has not been found even after 10 months into its disappearance.
16 March 2014: A girl smiling as other girls apply coloured paint on her face during Holi celebrations in Chennai, India. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
22 March 2014: Anti-government protesters kiss during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas.
7 April 2014: Oscar Pistorius getting emotional during his trial in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defense for the shooting of his girlfriend in 2013. He was later sentenced to five years in prison.
13 April 2014: Sparks flowing past a person trying to put out flames during a forest fire in Valparaiso, Chile. The fires displaced thousands of people and killed more than a dozen people.
15 April 2014: Maryam Hosseinzadeh, right, and her husband Abdolghani, left, removing the noose from the neck of blindfolded Bilal who was convicted of murdering their son Abdollah in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed.
16 April 2014: South Korean coast guard officers and rescue team members trying to rescue passengers from the ferry Sewol. The ferry sank with 476 people aboard, mostly secondary school students. 295 died as the Sewol sank, leading to widespread anger and criticism of the actions of the crew, captain, owners, and government regulators.
10 May 2014: Austrian artist Conchita Wurst thrusting her trophy in the air after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen with the song 'Rise Like a Phoenix'.
13 May 2014: A man kissing his son after he was rescued from a collapsed coal mine in Manisa, Turkey. The mine explosion and ensuing fire killed hundreds of people.
14 May 2014: Yusuf Yerkel, an adviser to Turkey's prime minister, kicking a protester during a visit to the site of a mining disaster that killed hundreds of people. Mr. Yerkel later apologised for the incident.
20 May 2014: A woman fleeing from riot police officers in Nairobi, Kenya. Hundreds of Nairobi University students took to the streets to protest a proposed increase in student fees.
28 May 2014: He Liang riding his homemade suitcase scooter along a street in Changsha, China. He spent 10 years modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven scooter.
4 June 2014: A health worker giving a polio vaccine to children in Lahore, Pakistan.
6 June 2014: Sikhs wielding swords during their clash inside the complex of the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar.
7 July 2014: A man being rescued from the rubble following a reported barrel-bomb attack in Aleppo, Syria.
13 July 2014: The son of one of the members of Tayseer Al-Batsh's family, who hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourning during their funeral in Gaza City.
16 July 2014: The mother of one of the four Palestinian children who were killed on a beach in Gaza by an Israeli attack grieving outside a morgue in Gaza City.
17 July 2014: Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which was downed in eastern Ukraine near Donetsk.
19 July 2014: A body lies in a wheat field, still strapped to a seat, at the site of the crash of MH17 carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine. MH17 fell from the sky in pieces, presumably shot down with all 298 passengers and crew dead, as debris scattered across a rural area controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
23 July 2014: A convoy of hearses carrying coffins containing the remains of MH17 victims, drives from the Eindhoven Airbase to Hilversum.
28 July 2014: Relatives mourning over the bodies of Palestinian children at the morgue at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
3 August 2014: Three men found guilty by a Somali military court of killing civilians and masterminding a recent attack on the Presidential Palace standing tied to poles shortly before they were executed by a firing squad in Mogadishu.
6 August 2014: Commuters pushing a train to free a passenger's leg trapped between the train and the gap in Perth, Western Australia.
7 August 2014: Ka'apor Indians beating loggers with sticks during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory in the Amazon basin in Brazil.
11 August 2014: Police wearing riot gear walking toward a man with his hands raised in Ferguson, two days after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.
15 August 2014: A Liberian health worker disinfecting a corpse after the man died in a classroom now used as an Ebola isolation ward in the capital city of Monrovia.
19 August 2014: This undated image shows a frame of journalist James Foley from a video released by ISIS. Foley was beheaded in the video. Following which, ISIS beheaded several other westerners and released their videos.
26 August 2014: Palestinian children holding guns as they celebrate with others what they said was a victory over Israel, following a ceasefire in Gaza City.
3 September 2014: An 18-year-old Mangli Munda getting married to a stray dog in order to pass the evil spirits to the animal. The wedding was hastily organised by village elders after a local guru led Mangli's parents to believe that the teenager possessed ill-luck and that marrying a man would bring destruction to the family and her community.
6 September 2014: A temple stands amid the waters of the overflowing river Tawi during heavy rains in Jammu. Authorities declared a disaster alert in the northern region after heavy rain hit villages across the Kashmir valley, causing the worst flooding in decades.
9 September 2014: An injured man sitting at a field hospital after airstrikes in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.
9 September 2014: An Indian Kashmiri man crossing over floodwaters in Srinagar. Families packed into makeshift relief centers after fleeing floods in India and Pakistan that claimed hundreds of lives.
14 September 2014: A man looking up at a sack of relief goods being dropped from a helicopter in the flooded village of Multan district, Pakistan.
24 September 2014: Mountains of used tires lay sprawled across a dump in Sesena Nuevo, near Madrid.
17 October 2014: A health-care worker carrying a 2-month-old to a re-opened Ebola holding center in Monrovia, Liberia.
19 October 2014: A Muslim woman touching a dog at a special event held for the curious to overcome their fear of dogs. It was aptly titled 'I Want To Touch A Dog'. The event, while a success among animal lovers and social activists, there was a lot of brouhaha in Malaysia over it.
22 October 2014: People aiding a fallen soldier at Canada's National War Memorial as police responded to a gunman who was later killed in the Parliament building.
28 October 2014: Pro-democracy protesters open their umbrellas for 87 seconds marking the 87 rounds of tear gas that Hong Kong police fired at unarmed student protesters in the same location one month before.
31 October 2014: Palestinians praying as Israeli police officers standing guard during Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz.
7 November 2014: A young boy attending the funeral of a Kurdish Women's Protection Unit fighter who died during fighting in a Syrian border town.
14 November 2014: Women, who underwent sterilisation surgery at a government-run camp, posing for pictures inside a hospital in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh. As per reports, women were 'herded like cattle' in the camp which after saw 12 die and scores were injured following botched operations.
14 November 2014: Men in Dimapur, India, performing a post-harvest festival dance.
25 November 2014: A demonstrator sitting in front of a street fire during a demonstration in Oakland, California, following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown.
28 November 2014: A man preparing to sacrifice a buffalo during the Gadhimai festival held in the Nepalese town of Bariyarpur. Thousands of animals were slaughtered in a ritual sacrifice amid criticism by animal-rights activists.
5 December 2014: 21-year-old farmer Agustin Gomez Perez is lit on fire as a form of protest outside the Chiapas state legislature in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico.
5 December 2014: Filipino residents taking shelter inside a gymnasium in Cebu province after fleeing their homes ahead of the approaching Supertyphoon Hagupit.
15 December 2014: Hostages holding up a flag inside a cafe in Sydney. The 16-hour Sydney siege ended with three people dead, including the lone gunman holding them captive.
16 December 2014: Family members mourning a student who was killed during a massacre by Taliban inside the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. More than 140 people were killed, including 132 schoolchildren.
27 December 2014: Covered in mud, a man walks out of his damaged house in Kampung Manek Urai Lama in Kuala Krai, Kelantan. Malaysians in east coast have been devastated by floods, worst since 1971.
28 December 2014: Bride-to-be Louise Sitharta, whose fiancé was on the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, being surrounded by reporters.
30 December 2014: Medics helping a family member of one of the passengers onboard the AirAsia Flight QZ8501. The family member collapsed after hearing the news of passengers' bodies being found.
