The brightest and most emotional photos of happy people

A few days ago, the results of another study by British scientists became known: it turns out that people feel the happiest at 23 and 69 years old. Our selection is ready to argue with the results and show happy people of all ages.

(Total 38 photos)

1. Irish rugby star Brian O'Driscoll visits a young fan in the hospital with the Heineken Cup. (sportsgrid.com)

2. The guy is waiting for the return of Nelson Mandela home for the first time in 26 years. (Corbis)

3. Gladys Louis Jane just pulled out of the rubble of a house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2010. (Patrick Farrell/AP)

4. 101-year-old man enjoys a successful landing at London airport. This man was born before the invention of the airplane and had never flown before. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

5. North Korean Seo Gi Sok cries of joy as he hugs his South Korean mother, Kim Kum-yai. (POOL / Reuters)

6. A Pakistani is a sheep in a flooded area of the city. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)

7. A five-year-old boy plays with a dolphin in a special center for the disabled in Moscow. A boy has 30-minute sessions with dolphins to help him fight his cerebral palsy. (Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters)

8. Patients and hospital workers in Seoul rejoice in the passage of the South Korean team in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. (Stringer Korea / Reuters)

9. Released Palestinian prisoner Shirin Khalifa runs to her mother. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

10. Michael Johnson sets the world record in the 200 meters at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

11. A happy father holds his son in his arms, who has found hearing and heard his father for the first time in his life. (STRINGER/Reuters)

12. Indian children play with umbrellas in the rain, which saved the country from a long drought. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

13. An Egyptian woman rejoices at the resignation of Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (Getty)

14. A 12-year-old boy rejoices to see his family for the first time in three years in South Sudan. (Handout Old/Reuters)

15. Pakistani fishermen rejoice in their release from an Indian prison. They were arrested for illegal fishing in the Arabian Sea. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

16. Teenagers rejoice at the release of their friend - a Filipino hostage, released after a 72-hour arrest. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)

17. The Germans cross the border between Hungary and Austria. In 1989, thousands of Germans from the GDR were able to escape to the FRG after the destruction of the Iron Curtain. (Reuters)

18. Myron Levine and Philip Zinderman rejoice as they leave the Manhattan registry office, where they have just registered their marriage. They have lived together for 51 years. (Allison Joyce/Reuters)

19. Seven-month-old Enferns Negron awaits his father's return from duty in North Carolina in 2003. (Randy Davey/Reuters)

20. The owners hug a one and a half year old dog, who was rescued after he got stuck on a mountain ledge. (Norsk Telegrambyra/Reuters)

21. A soldier hugs a girl after returning home from duty. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

22. Odette Edumke reunited with her 8-year-old daughter in the Congo. The Red Cross organization reunited 25 children from the rebellious city with their families, who were separated by the war. (Finbarr O'Reilly WS / Reuters)

23. Brazilian patient and his daughter Carolina rejoice in the success of the national team in the match against Portugal in a hospital that treats cancer patients in Sao Paulo. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)

24. Irish children rejoice at the ceasefire in West Belfast. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

25. Emmy Van Dyken rejoices after winning 4 gold medals at the Olympics. (Nick Didlick/Reuters)

26. A smiling Palestinian casts his vote in the first general elections in Palestine. (David Silverman/Reuters)

27. Two Bosnian refugees from Srebrenica cry with joy, having met for the first time in four years. (Oleg Popov / Reuters)

28. People in Beijing rejoice to learn that their country has been chosen to host the 2008 Olympic Games. (Hungwon Kang/Reuters)

29. Grandmothers Wang Hui Qio and Guo Hua Li enjoy their newborn grandson in a hospital in Shanghai. The baby's parents, Yang Huiqing and her husband Chen Yiming, were both born during the one-child policy. This is their first and only child. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

30. Mother and daughter reunited after the signing of the Dayton peace treaty. (Danilo Krstanovic / Reuters)

31. An elderly Bosnian woman was reunited with her daughter, whom she had not seen for three years. (Stringer/Reuters)

32. Jack Nicholson celebrates the Los Angeles Lakers' victory over the Houston Rockets in 2006. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

33. Rescuers smile as they carry a teenage girl they got out of the rubble of a house in India. (Str Old / Reuters)

34. Maria Rodriguez and Mindy Wilson weep with joy, meeting a combat squad returning home from duty. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)

35. A family finds a cat that was lost 16 days ago after a tornado in Joplin, Missouri. (joplinglobe.com)

36. A family rejoices to learn that 12 miners were rescued alive in Sago, Virginia, in 2006. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

37. Another photo from the same series. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

38. "Child 81" from Sri Lanka reunited with his parents two months after he was found under the rubble of the house as a result of the tsunami. (Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi/Reuters)