10 Eyewitness Accounts of The Year's Most Defining Moments

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Money, money, money: Sepp Blater (suspended FIFA president) confronts the future after an 8 year league ban as fake dollar bills fall to the ground all around him.

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A Tragic Fireball: the moment a fighter jet crashed into traffic on A27.

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Safe landing: Laith Majid from Deir Ezzor in Syria, holding his son and daughter, breaks out in tears of joy after arriving via a flimsy inflatable boat crammed with about 15 men, women and children on the shore of the island of Kos in Greece.

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The far edge: a combination of images of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colors to show differences in the composition and texture of the planet’s surface.

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We have lift-off: Martin Le-May shot this image in Hornchurch Country Park in London. The weasel attacked the woodpecker and refused to give up even when the bird took flight.

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Hue and cry: the color-changing dress.

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Lethal aim: a still from the video posted on Bryce Williams’s Twitter account of the moment he shot Alison Parker as she conducts a live on-air interview with Vicki Gardner.

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Fleeing from terror: three images taken from a smartphone video by Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny shows spectators escaping the Bataclan.

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On his bike: Yanis Varoufakis leaves the finance ministry in Athens.

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Making an entrance: Rihanna pauses on the stairs as she walks into the 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art annual gala. She looks like she's dragging a big ass pizza dough.