UPI 2009 Top 50 News Pictures (51 images)

Iran's reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi (C) waves among his supporters on the streets of Tehran to demonstrate against the results of the Iranian presidential election, in Tehran, Iran on June 15, 2009. The march came hours after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered an examination into election fraud. UPI

The site of a car bomb attack in Peshawar, Pakistan is seen on October 28, 2009. A car bomb exploded at a market in northwestern Pakistan killing at least 100 and wounding over 200 people. UPI/Sajjad Ali Qureshi

President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Medicine Crow - High Bird, at the White House in Washington on August 12, 2009. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

A man holds a wounded boy while waiting for medical treatment in a hospital in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district on April 24, 2009. In a second day of major bloodshed, two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up at the gates of a revered Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Baghdad on Friday, killing 60 people, Iraqi police said. UPI/Ali Jasim