As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Reuters has selected some of the most dramatic moments and striking imagery from its global coverage of news from the past decade. DNA presents a selection of the first images, all released on a Tuesday.

Liberty in peril: Smoke from the remains of New York’s World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New York Harbour from Jersey City, New Jersey on September 12, 2001. Each of the twin towers were hit by hijacked airliners and collapsed in one of the numerous acts of terrorism directed at the United States on September 11, 2001. —Ray Stubblebine