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2010 in Photos: January

In January, the world’s tallest building was unveiled; Irish passports were forged by the Israeli secret service; and longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium occured.

THE YEAR STARTED with a bang, when the tallest man-made structure in the world was officially opened in Dubai.

Later in the month bleaker scenes reached Haiti, when it was rocked by a devastating earthquake that killed 200,000 people and left millions homeless.

2010 in Photos: January
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  • World's tallest building unveiled

  • No Pants Day

  • Haiti Earthquake

  • Berlin Fashion Week

  • WWI Cemetery, France

  • Solar Eclipse

  • Lebanon Plane Crash

  • Hot Air Balloon Festival, Switzerland

  • Haiti

  • Haiti

  • Haiti

  • Irish passports forged

  • Pope gunman released

  • Ukraine Election

  • 'Chemical Ali' hanged

Now turn to February in review >

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