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The Guardian. Iraqi boys

View Journalists attempt to interview a woman who is the relative of a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, as she crouches on the floor crying, at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, March 8, 2014.

In the first of a series of fiery suicides by Buddhist monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. June 11, 1963. This photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Diem government.

MOSUL, Iraq - Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war. "My brother was sick, and we were taking him to the hospital and on the way back, this happened," Samar said.

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has been covering Afghanistan since the late 80s, and his indelible images capture the suffering, heroism, and endurance on all sides of the conflict.

Attack on the Kenyan Mall: Scenes from inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi as shoppers fled the assault. Note: Contains graphic images.

Do you want to present visual messages in new ways? Are you looking for new design tools to help you create visual content? Social media is nothing without images. From simple blog graphics to memes and videos, visuals help us communicate with and engage our audiences.

It is a scene from which many of us would naturally recoil, or at least avert our eyes: a grievously injured young man, fallen on a rough patch of earth; his open-mouthed and unseeing stare registering - who can know what?

Seven years after the beginning of the Iraq war - and with U.S. troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeding 5,000 - a look at some of the bedrooms America's young war dead left behind.

Man Falling, World Trade Center 9/11.