Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 13 2003 Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been captured near his home town of Tikrit, the U.S. military has confirmed. Saddam, who ruled Iraq for 23 years until his ouster in April, has been a fugitive since then with a $25 million bounty on his head. In an address to the nation, President Bush gave the following message to Iraqis: "You do not have to fear the rule of Saddam Hussein ever again."

He said Saddam's capture will bring sovereignty and dignity to Iraq and the opportunity for a better life. "It is the end of the road for him," he said. "And for the Baathists, there will be no return to privilege in Iraq." "Iraqis who have chosen the side of freedom, now have won," said President Bush.

The U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, opened the press conference with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him." "This is a great day in Iraq's history," Bremer said. "The tyrant is a prisoner."

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World Trade Center Terrorist Attack  September 11, 2001 No single image has yet emerged as the canonical one. In this case: millions around the world saw footage in real time on TV and then replays.

Abu Ghraib Prison Iraq 2004 The photo says it. Private England, dragging  a prisoner like a dog on a  leash was just one of the photos she proudly posed for. The others depict England  cigarette dangling from her mouth, is giving a thumbs-up sign and pointing at the genitals of a young Iraqi, who is naked except for a sandbag over his head.

In another, England stands arm in arm with Specialist Graner; both are grinning and giving the thumbs-up behind seven naked Iraqis, knees bent, piled clumsily on top of each other in a pyramid.

Australia - Two miners who survived for two weeks in a kennel-size cage trapped 3,000 feet underground walked out of the  Beaconsfield Gold Mine and punched the air, freed by rescue crews drilling round-the-clock by hand. Hundreds of well-wishers gathered at the mine gates erupted in cheers when Brant Webb, 37 & Todd Russell, 34, emerged, their head torches glowing in the pre-dawn light. 

The miners bear-hugged family & friends before clambering into two ambulances,  laughing and joking. Before going, they removed their identity tags from the wall outside the elevator. A standard measure carried out by all miners when they finish a shift

October 9, 2000 It could be the most shocking tabloid story in America - Splashed across newspaper delivery lorries making their rounds in the north-eastern states of America are the words, 'No Elvis. No Aliens. No UFOs' It's not, of course, that aliens have stopped abducting or that Elvis no longer eats at Burger King, it's just that the new management at American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, the Globe and the Star, has decreed that readers and Elvis Fans will no longer be hearing of it. 

America's tabloids are undergoing a reinvention under the leadership of David Pecker, a 48-year-old alumnus of the French company that publishes glossy magazines such as Elle and George. He believes that the way to halt the precipitous drop in readership that all the supermarket tabloids have suffered over the past decade is to take them upmarket.

The National Enquirer's circulation has dropped from 3.1m in 1994 to 2.1m last year. Over the same period, the Star's figures slid from 2.8m to 1.8m and the Globe's from 1m to just over 800,000. National Examiner will focus on human interest stories. The Star on celebrity. The Globe will still dish the dirt on the rich and famous.

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