Best Pictures of the Year 2005

year in pictures 2005
PhilLip Blenkinsop / VU for TIME

Swept Away
A week after the tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in 12 countries, this family returned to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to find that only debris remained where their home once stood.

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