The decade in pictures

Ten years in pictures — a period defined by attacks, the world economy … and the onward march of celebrity culture.

This has been a decade which, more than any other, has been defined by the suicide bomber, since that fateful day in September 2001 when Al Qaeda terrorists crashed airliners into the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

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Labour Party Fundraiser Lord Levy, who spent much of the decade fighting allegations that he offered honours in exchange for cash. However, Levy had the last laugh when the case against him collapsed.