40 Faces Of Pure Joy

Aww.

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Irish rugby star Brian O’Driscoll visita a young girl in the hospital with the Heineken Cup.

Source: sportsgrid.com

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A boy waits for Nelson Mandela to return home for the first time in 26 years.

Source: Corbis

3.

Gladys Louis Jeune is pulled from the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010.

Image by Patrick Farrell / AP

4.

A 101-year-old man raises his arms after touching down at the London City Airport. Born before the invention of the airplane, he had never flown before.

Image by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

5.

Visiting North Korean So Gi Sok cries as he hugs his South Korean mother Kim kum-yae after being reunited.

Image by POOL / Reuters

6.

A Pakistani man carries his sheep down a flooded road after a heavy downpour.

Image by Mohsin Raza / Reuters

7.

A 5-year-old boy plays with a dolphin at a special centre for people with disabilities in Moscow. The boy spends 30-minute long sessions with the dolphin to help his cerebral paralysis.

Image by Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

8.

Patients and staff in a Seoul hospital celebrate South Korea advancing to the quarter-finals in the World Cup.

Image by Stringer Korea / Reuters

9.

Released Palestinian prisoner Shereen Khalifa runs towards her mother.

Image by Mohammed Salem / Reuters

10.

Maxi the elephant gives his daughter, Chandra, a playful shove. This was the first time the two had met since baby Chandra was born.

Image by Andreas Meier / Reuters

11.

Michael Johnson breaks the world record for the 200 meter run at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. He won Gold, obviously.

Image by Mike Blake / Reuters

12.

A 6-year-old is held by his father as he hears for the first time.

Image by STRINGER / Reuters

13.

Indian children play with umbrellas in a rainstorm that helped relieve a recent drought.

Image by Arko Datta / Reuters

14.

An Egyptian woman celebrates Hosni Mubarak’s departure in 2011.

Source: Getty

15.

A jubilant 12-year-old boy rejoices after seeing his family for the first time in three years in southern Sudan.

Image by Handout Old / Reuters

16.

Pakistani fishermen rejoice after their release from an Indian jail. The man were arrested for illegally fishing in Indian waters in the Arabian Sea.

Image by Amit Dave / Reuters

17.

Jubilant relatives and friends celebrate the release of their comrade, a Filipino hostage released just hours before the 72-hour deadline expired.

Image by Erik de Castro / Reuters

18.

East Germans pass across the border between Hungary and Austria. In 1989 thousands of East Germans were able to flee to the West after the iron curtain was destroyed.

Source: Reuters

19.

Myron Levine and Philip Zinderman celebrate after being married outside the Manhattan City Clerk’s office. They have been together for 51 years.

Image by Allison Joyce / Reuters

20.

7-month-old AnFernce Negron waits to be reunited with his father at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in 2003.

Image by Randy Davey / Reuters

21.

An 18-month-old Pyrenees dog named Leon is hugged after being saved after being stuck on a mountain ledge.

Image by Norsk Telegrambyra / Reuters

22.

A soldier hugs a family member during a homecoming ceremony.

Image by  Lucas Jackson / Reuters

23.

Odette Edumke is reunited with her eight-year-old daughter in Congo. The Red Cross reunited 25 children from a rebel city with their families who were displced years ago by war in Central Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo.

Image by Finbarr O’Reilly WS / Reuters

24.

A Brazilian patient and his daughter Carolina react during a World Cup soccer match against Portugal at the Cancer Institute Hospital in Sao Paulo.

Image by Nacho Doce / Reuters

25.

An Irish child celebrates the Northern Ireland/Republic Of Ireland ceasefire in West Belfast.

Image by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

26.

Amy van Dyken celebrates after becoming the first American woman to win four gold medals in one Olympics.

Image by Nick Didlick / Reuters

27.

A Palestinian man is all smiles as he casts his vote for the first time in the first Palestinian general elections.

Image by David Silverman / Reuters

28.

Two Bosnian women refugees from Srebrenica cry as they meet for the first time in four years.

Image by Oleg Popov / Reuters

29.

A Beijing crowd celebrates after winning the 2008 Olympic vote in front of a department store. The 2008 Olympics were the first ever to be held in China.

Image by Hyungwon Kang / Reuters

30.

Wang Hui Qio and Guo Hua Li, grandmothers of the newborn baby of Yang Huiqing, celebrate her birth in Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai. Yang and her husband Chen Yiming, both born under the one-child policy, had their first baby as the world population was about to reach the seven billion mark.

Image by Carlos Barria / Reuters

31.

Mother and her daughter cry as they reunite under the Dayton peace agreement.

Image by Danilo Krstanovic / Reuters

32.

An elderly Bosnian woman is reunited with her daughter who she has not seen for three years.

Image by Stringer / Reuters

33.

Jack Nicholson celebrates after the Los Angeles Lakers’ double-overtime win over the Houston Rockets in 2006.

Image by Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

34.

Rescuers smile as they carry a young survivor from the rubble of her home in India.

Image by Str Old / Reuters

35.

Maria Rodriguez and Mindy Wilson react as the Third Brigade Combat Team First Cavalry Division arrives on the field during a homecoming ceremony at the Fort Hood Army post.

Image by Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters

36.

A family cat is found alive after being lost in tornado debris for 16 days in Joplin, Missouri.

Source: joplinglobe.com

37.

Family members celebrate after hearing that 12 miners were found alive in Sago, West Virginia in 2006.

Image by Joshua Roberts / Reuters

38.

Another pictures of family members celebrating the miners.

Image by Joshua Roberts / Reuters

39.

Sri Lanka’s “Baby 81” is reunited with his parents two months after he was found alive in tsunami debris.

Image by Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi / Reuters

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