1990 - Nelson Mandela freed
He spent nearly 27 years in prison and was an icon for the struggle against white rule in South Africa but very few people had actually seen Nelson Mandela. When he took his first steps of freedom, the world's press was waiting to capture the moment.
1991 - Gorbachev and the 大象传媒
When Communist hardliners in the army staged a shortlived coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev he was kept under house arrest in the Crimea. While there, he listened to the 大象传媒's Russian service to find out what was going on in Moscow.
1992 - War atrocities in Bosnia
When the media went into Bosnian prison camps to investigate rumours of atrocities against Muslims, startling images of skeletal men with shaven heads behind barbed wire emerged. This convinced many outside the conflict that the Serbs were in the wrong.
1993 - Battle for Mogadishu
Operation Restore Hope, the American intervention to help the UN famine relief team in Somalia had gone wrong. Pictures of a dead US soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu turned the mood at home and in 1994 the troops were being withdrawn.
1994 - Genocide in Rwanda
Almost one million Tutsis or moderate Hutus were killed in less than four months in Rwanda. Radio Milles Collines encouraged and celebrated the murders. Two of its senior staff were found guilty of genocide, incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity.
1995 - Royal media battle
After the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana ended, she gave an emotional 大象传媒 interview in which she blamed her husband for the collapse of the marriage. Her openness was seen as a stark contrast to the Royal family's stiff exterior.
1996 - The Unabomber caught
Ted Kazinski sent parcel bombs across the US without getting caught for over 17 years. But when he demanded publication of his manifesto in the New York Times and Washington Post, it was read by millions of ordinary americans, including his brother David who turned him in.
1997 - Death of Princess Diana
On August 31, broadcasters around the world cancelled normal progamming to focus on the news that Princess Diana had died in a car crash in Paris as she was followed by paparazzi photographers. Many believe she was literally hounded to death by the tabloid press.
1998 - The Rise of Google
It's the American dream, two students set up business in a garage and within a decade Larry Page and Sergei Brin own one of the world's most powerful communications companies. Google is now the most popular search engine in the world, worth almost $200 billion.
1999 - The Y2K Bug
There were fears that the Millenium Bug would cause chaos with every computer in the world at the stroke of midnight on the last day of 1999, causing global systems meltdown. But after massive amounts of preparation and reprogramming, 2000 came without any mishaps.
