Yahoo Selects 212 Most Iconic Images Of 2010: From Haiti To The Saints

Its been quite a year. But then we say that every year around this time. We can barely go twelve days without something taking over our airwaves and ruling water cooler conversations, so its no shock that when looking back on the year 2010, Yahoo! could only whittle it down to 212 of the most iconic images. From the earthquake in Haiti to the Saints winning the Super Bowl and from the BP oil spill to the Spanish win at the World Cup, this year has seen high highs and low lows, but then it's not over yet. Here's a small selection of Yahoo's all-inclusive slideshow. To see the full selection, click here.
(All images: AP Images)

Devastating earthquake in Haiti

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, scavengers walk over the rubble of quake-damaged buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince.

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, scavengers walk over the rubble of quake-damaged buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince.

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[fishnetdiver]

06:43 AM on 12/16/2010

plus Huff_Po left out what is, IMHO, the most powerful one of the set: The very first image on the site of the lone woman walking down the streets of Port-au-Prince after the earthquake.
haunting image.

[RobertFromMN]

05:07 AM on 12/17/2010

(These were selected by Yahoo!)

[fishnetdiver]

06:41 AM on 12/16/2010

that pic of the XYXYXXYYXJELAIACIOEXPIALIDOCIOUS Volcano is about the closest you can get to a picture of He//...utterly fascinating in it's vi0lent power.

[shthar]

12:12 AM on 12/16/2010

How bout a pic of the 600 people they laid off?

Cleaning out thier desks, applying for unemployment, dusting off the resume, just some casual pics.

[Bad Bad Kitty]

10:53 PM on 12/15/2010

This isn't great photojournalism.
sorry.
try again, Huffpost. Try again

[Harold Martin]

09:54 PM on 12/15/2010

I've seen better photos. These weren't exactly great.........yawning.

[Barringtonmorr]

08:01 PM on 12/15/2010

Two things:

1. Don't like, I hate, the slide show interface ...They should just use the one I'm used to. The one with the little blue arrows in the upper corners. So much easier.

2. I don't like this word---> Eyjafjallajokull (the volcano)..... Someone got on a QWERTY keyboard and banged their face against it and called the creation language.

[fishnetdiver]

06:39 AM on 12/16/2010

yeah I've never had anything but problems whenever they use this particular type of slideshow...always wind-up just refreshing the page and looking at the pics on the original site.

[jalosa]

07:17 PM on 12/15/2010

New Orleans Saints, ftw

[WPF]

05:50 PM on 12/15/2010

they should've included a picture of spanish people celebrating instead of the team. oh well. and i absolutely loved the pope one, even though im not catholic

[xpx]

10:06 PM on 12/15/2010

Goes well with the little figurines all the abuelas have in the curio cabinets.

[Progress08]

04:51 PM on 12/15/2010

I was afraid of Volcanos before, but now they have lightning?

[heartsmindsvision]

04:16 PM on 12/15/2010

What are the "b's" representing?

[heartsmindsvision]

04:15 PM on 12/15/2010

What happen? Where are the mediators?

[CHMB]

04:09 PM on 12/15/2010

Sports photo's, to me, aren't iconic, they spring up everywhere.

[Progress08]

04:52 PM on 12/15/2010

Ditto. A more apt photo would've been the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards freaking out in the public square in Madrid.

[WPF]

06:01 PM on 12/15/2010

my thoughts exactly!

[naschkatze]

01:36 PM on 12/18/2010

Super Bowl and American girl athlete not iconic of 2010 at all. Those types crop up any year. The photos should be iconic of one year in particular so that you could look at them and immediately say 2010. If they had waited a bit longer, they could have included the repeal of DADT.

[CHMB]

04:38 PM on 12/18/2010

Absolutely correct.

What about some more photo's of the extent of the damage of the BP Oil Spill, too. There is more to "iconic" photo's than T and A.

[Ljilja]

04:04 PM on 12/15/2010

To me, the joyous images of Chilean miners will always stand for hope and optimism of 2010, despite all the hardships and negativity of the year's events and politics.

http://graciouslivingdaybyday.com/

[naschkatze]

01:37 PM on 12/18/2010

It was a great moment, but all in all, hardship and negativity dominated 2010.

[heartsmindsvision]

04:09 PM on 12/15/2010

What's this?

[GaBu2]

04:20 PM on 12/15/2010

I suspect it's now learning the alphabet

[Progress08]

04:53 PM on 12/15/2010

It's the robot from Buck Rogers.

[Dan Stewart]

03:55 PM on 12/15/2010

This image of the Israeli flag with the caption "Flotilla headed to Gaza under fire" was obviously agitprop with the flag looking tattered).