The Year in Pictures 2000

August
When a submarine sinks — a seeming contradiction in terms, though it happens — the tension on the surface is sickening as well. When the world learned that on Aug. 12 the Russian nuclear sub Kursk had plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea, memories were awakened of the USS Thresher in 1963, or the Soviet Komsomlets in 1989. Here the relatives of the 118 crewmen of the Kursk pay their last respects at the site where it sank.

• Person of the Year 2000: George W. Bush