Year of living dangerously

Gori, Georgia: Soldiers escape their burning armoured vehicle on the road to Tbilisi. Russia called for Georgian forces to surrender in the separatist enclave of Abkhazia after Georgia called a ceasefire and withdrew their forces from South Ossetia, leaving Russian forces firmly in control in the disputed region Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

The Hague, Netherlands: The scene inside the court as former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic takes his place at the international criminal tribunal Photograph: Jerry Lampen/EPA

Kabul, Afghanistan: Locals run away from the scene of a suicide attack on the Indian embassy. A Taliban suicide car bomb killed 41 people and wounded 139 Photograph: Pajwak News Agency/Reuters

Mumbai, India: A policeman walks with an elderly man after shootings by unidentified assailants at a railway station Photograph: Reuters

Beijing, China: Blake Aldridge and Tom Daley competing in the men's 10m synchro diving final Photograph: Tom Jenkins

New York, US: A trader looks at the closing numbers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Internally Displaced People march into the provincial capital. Thousands of Congolese people arrived into Goma from the Kibati provisional camp after violence started between Forces loyal to renegade Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army Photograph: Walter Astrada/AFP

Harare, Zimbabwe: A party worker for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change awaits treatment at a clinic. He said that he was attacked last week by a group of ruling party activists, who tied his hands behind his back, put him face down on the ground and beat him with a rubber hose Photograph: Getty Images

Nashua, US: A supporter of Barack Obama holds up a magazine cover at a primary night rally Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images