It has been an extraordinary year, filled with historic events. There was chaos and despair, but also heroism, hope and resilience. Here's a look back at the year 2021, in pictures.
The year 2021 was extraordinary, even unprecedented, with news unraveling swiftly starting with the violent assault on the US Capitol, bursting into our consciousness on just the sixth day of January.
As the year progressed, the coronavirus pandemic continued to soar, with the global death toll surpassing 5 million people. We saw overwhelmed hospitals around the world, mass cremations in India and mass graves in the Amazon. We had repeating evidence of climate change, with melting ice sheets in Greenland, sweeping fires in Greece, deadly flooding in China and severe drought in the western United States.
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