Most popular Yahoo News photo galleries of 2014

The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year

 

No. 1

Red Carpet at the 2014 White House Correspondent's Dinner

Actress Sofia Vergara attends the 100th Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on May 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/WireImage via Getty Images)
Actress Sofia Vergara attends the 100th Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on May 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/WireImage via Getty Images)

 

No. 2

9/11: Then and now

One World Trade Center and the steeple of Trinity Church are seen from Broadway and Rector Street on Wednesday, September 10, 2013. (AP/Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
One World Trade Center and the steeple of Trinity Church are seen from Broadway and Rector Street on Wednesday, September 10, 2013. (AP/Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

 

No. 3

Sony World Photography Awards 2014: Professional shortlist revealed

The Fighter' is a series of photographs detailing the story of Jorge Herrera's life. He fled from an abusive father and a Chilean dictatorship at nine-years-old, caused trouble as a youth in Tingbjerg, Copenhagen, did drugs, was violent and has been to jail. Memory loss and injuries on the hard‐trained body is starting to show after a hard lived life, so at 35, Jorge has started to recreate his life. (Jorge Herrera/Sony World Photography Awards)

 

No. 4

Building collapse in NYC

A New York City Firefighter climbs on top of the remains of building that collapsed after explosion on Park Ave. and 116th Street in New York on Wednesday March 12, 2014. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A New York City Firefighter climbs on top of the remains of building that collapsed after explosion on Park Ave. and 116th Street in New York on Wednesday March 12, 2014. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

 

No. 5

Ebola outbreak in West Africa

A child, center, stands underneath a signboard reading 'Police order quarantined home unauthorised should keep off' as a family home is placed under quarantine due to the Ebola virus in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. U.S. authorities said Wednesday that everyone traveling into the U.S. from Ebola-stricken nations will be monitored for symptoms for 21 days. That includes returning American aid workers, federal health employees and journalists, as well as West African travelers. The program will start Monday in six states that represent 70 percent of people arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and New Guinea, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)

No. 6

The D-Day landings, 70 years later: then and now

The 2nd Battalion U.S. Army Rangers, tasked with capturing the German heavy coastal defence battery at Pointe du Hoc to the west of the D-Day landing zone of Omaha Beach, march to their landing craft in Weymouth, England, on June 5, 1944, left and Tourists walk along the beach-front in the Dorset holiday town of Weymouth, England, July 13, 2013. (REUTERS/US National Archives/Chris Helgren)

No. 7

Strong earthquake rocks California

A mailbox is all that remains of one of four mobile homes which were destroyed in a gas fire Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park, in Napa, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
A mailbox is all that remains of one of four mobile homes which were destroyed in a gas fire Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park, in Napa, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

No. 8

Protesters leave Ferguson in shambles

A sign rests in the rubble of a strip mall that was set on fire when rioting erupted following the grand jury announcement in the Michael Brown case on November 25, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was killed by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, on August 9. At least 12 buildings were torched and more than 50 people were arrested during the night-long rioting. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

No. 9

The first total lunar eclipse of 2014

A man takes a picture during moon rise in a suburb of Shanghai April 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
A man takes a picture during moon rise in a suburb of Shanghai April 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Aly Song)

No. 10

Calling a Boeing home

Bruce Campbell sits on his futon bed while using a laptop in his Boeing 727 home in the woods outside the suburbs of Portland, Oregon May 21, 2014. In 1999, the former electrical engineer had a vision: To save retired jetliners from becoming scrap metal by reusing them. Campbell, 64, is one of a small number of people worldwide who have transformed retired aircraft into a living space or other creative project, although a spokesman for the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association was unable to say precisely how many planes are re-used this way. (REUTERS/Steve Dipaola)

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