Best News Pictures of 2009: World Press Winners

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Second Prize, People in the News
Photograph courtesy David Guttenfelder, The Associated Press

A picture by Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder captures three U.S. soldiers responding to Taliban fire outside a bunker in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan in May.

Specialist Zachery Boyd (left), who had been sleeping in his bunk when the attack began, rushed to support fellow platoon members, arriving in a T-shirt and pink "I Love NY" boxer shorts.

Published April 6, 2010



Second Prize, People in the News (Series)
Photograph courtesy Charles Ommanney, Getty Images for Newsweek

British photographer Charles Ommanney snapped a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama in a seemingly quiet moment, immediately before his swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C., on January 20.

Ommanney told the White House Correspondents Insider, a news blog dedicated to covering the White House press corps, that this photograph "sums up everything to me" about the president.

"There were millions of people watching around the world, and there was a single figure who was very much in the moment. He wasn't freaking out; he was kind of just on an incredible ride."

more:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100405-best-photos-2009-world-press-photo-pictures/

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