From the cold north of Russia to the tip of South Africa, the second installment of a three-part TIME.com photo essay documenting the arrival of the new millennium. 12/99

From Tonga's first-in-the-world welcome of the 21st Century to troubled Chechnya, the first installment of a three-part TIME.com photo essay documenting the arrival of the new millennium. 12/99

Paris bears the brunt of the damage as high winds wreak havoc in Western Europe. 12/99

Torrential rains have wreaked havoc in this oil-rich but poverty-stricken South American nation. TIME.com documents the devastation. 12/99

Seven months after their high school was shattered by the evil plotting of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, TIME.com revisits Littleton, Colorado, a community still fighting to come to grips with a tragedy beyond reason. 12/99

An exclusive TIME.com photo essay about a new kind of shelter that helps troubled parents stop child abuse before it starts. 12/99

December's meeting of the World Trade Organization brought a deluge of protest. TIME.com monitored the mayhem. 12/99

TIME.com looks at the cartoon craze that is sweeping the nation. 11/99

10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall bits of the barrier can be found from Buenos Aires to the Big Apple. 11/99

A retrospective of the Berlin Wall on the ten year anniversary of its demise

TIME.com brings you photos recapping the American and National League championship playoffs.

Welcome to high school in the heartland of America, circa 2000

A tropical depression raging in the Gulf of Mexico has covered the area in 2 1/2 feet of water in just a few days - more than a year's worth of rainfall.

Scenes from the anniversary celebrations of the People's Republic

Photos from Taiwan after a massive earthquake shook the island country before dawn Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1999. 9/99

Fortunately for Florida, the Storm of the Century didn't quite turn out that way, although high winds and rising waters did do some damage in Jacksonville Beach and all along the state's Atlantic coast. 9/99

It may be dangerous, but some people can't stop themselves from gawking at a hurricane's fury. 9/99

Scenes from a nation's struggle for independence. 9/99

The fragile coalition that is the Indonesian archipelago frayed even more as East Timor began a vote this weekend on whether to become an independent state. Violence was the order of the days leading up to the weekend vote. 9/99

Bret was the biggest storm to hit Texas in 20 years. This photo essay looks at the warnings, the storm and the aftermath. 8/99

A rare tornado touched down in downtown Salt Lake City on Wednesday August 11, 1999. Time.com takes a look at the aftermath in pictures. 8/99

Images from the total eclipse of the sun on Wednesday, August 11, 1999. 8/99

Images from the national farewell to John Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette. 7/99

Photos of the uneasy peace in Kosovo. 6/99

The Puerto Rican Martin has already sold more than 15 million records worldwide, but with the phenomenal success of his single, the English-language "Livin' La Vida Loca" ("Livin' the Crazy Life"), the former Menudo member has become an American superstar.4/99

On March 20, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first aviators to circle the globe nonstop in a hot air balloon. Take a look at some highlights from the trip in photos. 3/99

For centuries, the Aral Sea was the lifeline for a vast, arid region whose steppes carried Genghis Khan into Europe and French silk merchants into Asia. Now, shortsighted environmental policy is causing the sea to dry up. 8/99

The earthquake that hit western Turkey on Tuesday, August 17, 1999, weighed in at a heavy 7.8 on the Richter scale, a number that placed it in the neighborhood of the big (7.9 magnitude) San Francisco quake of 1906. 8/99

The filmmakers created a chilling but fictional documentary and made it seem all too real. Artisan Entertainment built a hugely successful publicity campaign by leaving the question — real or Memorex? — open. Take a look at some images from the film and solve the mystery for yourself. 8/99

Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the outskirts of Miami, the Everglades make up 1.5 million acres of swampy marsh entirely dependent on water for its survival. Join TIME.com on a photographic tour of the many threats facing this delicate ecosystem. 7/99

Few people have grown up so completely in the public eye as John Kennedy Jr. The little boy bravely saluting at his father's funeral grew up to be a magazine publisher — and the cameras were there every step of the way. 7/99