3. 3Fireworks light up the skyline and Big Benjust after
midnight, January 1, 2012 in London, England.Thousands of people
lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to ring in
the New Yearwith a spectacular fireworks display. (Dan
Kitwood/GettyImages)
4. 4Former Egyptian president HosniMubarak leaves on astretcher
after a newsession of his trial at thePolice Academy, inCairo,
Egypt, Jan. 22012. The trial of Mubarak will resume Jan. 3, where
theprosecution will give its closing argument over three days.
(EPA)#
5. 5Protesters chant slogans asthey march through Ikorodu road
during aprotest against a fuelsubsidy removal in Lagos, Jan. 9,
2012. Thousands of Nigerians took to thestreets across Africas top
oil producing nation, launching an indefinitenationwide strike to
protest against the axing of fuelsubsidies. (Akintunde
Akinleye/Reuters)#
6. 6A man injured in a bomb blast puts on his shoe before being
taken to the hospital inthe Khyber region, near Peshawar,Pakistan.
A bomb targeting a tribal militiaopposed to the Pakistani Taliban
explodedin a market close to the Afghan border, killing dozens of
people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months,
Jan.10, 2012. (Qazi Rauf/Associsted Press)#
7. 7 Anti-riot police takecover behind shieldsafter residents
threwa Molotov cocktailduring the demolition of shanties in Corazon
De Jesusvillage in San Juancity, metro Manila,Jan. 11, 2012. At
least12 people wereinjured during clashes as a demolition team
attempted to clear the area to makeway for a new city hall.
(RomeoRanoco/Reuters)#
8. 8People travel on an outdoor public escalator atCommune 13
in Medellin, Jan. 12, 2012. A huge, 384 metres (1,260 ft) long
outdoor escalator,divided into six sections, has been erected in
one of the poorest districts of Colombias second largest city to
help the 12,000 residents there getaround. (Fredy
Builes/Reuters)#
9. 9Internally displacedpeople in Pibor, Jan. 12, 2012. The
World FoodProgramme (WFP)started distributing food to
60,000internally displacedpeople in SouthSudan, accordingto the
UnitedNations Mission inSouth Sudan.(Isaac Billy/UNMISS/Reuter
s/Handout)#
10. 10An instructor from the Tianjiao Special
Guard/SecurityConsultant Ltd. Co, smashes a bottle over a female
recruits head during a training session for Chinas first female
bodyguards in Beijing, Jan. 13, 2012. According to the company, the
training session consists of 20 women,mostly college graduates, who
will undergo 8-10 months oftraining to develop sufficient skills to
become security guards. The company will then offer the best
trainee achance to attend the International Security Academy in
Israel. (David Gray/Reuters
11. 11A man rides a horse through a bonfire, Jan. 16, 2012
inthe small village of SanBartolome de Pinares, Spain.In honor of
San Anton, the patron saint of animals,horses are riden through the
bonfires on the night before the official day of honoringanimals in
Spain. (Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)#
12. 12 A demonstrator wears aGuy Fawkes mask during an "Occupy
Congress"rally at the West FrontLawn of the Capitol, Jan.17, 2012
in Washington,DC. Hundreds of members of the"Occupy" movement from
across the countryparticipated in the Occupy Congress rallyon
Capitol Hill. (AlexWong/Getty Images)#
13. 13 The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia run aground off
the coast of Giglio in this Jan. 17,2012 DigitalGlobe
satellitephotograph. Eleven people areconfirmed dead and at least
23 are still missing from more than 4,200 passengers andcrew after
the Concordia ranaground two hours into a week-long cruise of the
westernMediterranean.(DigitalGlobe/Reuters/Handout )#
14. 14 Authorities detained a manduring a march inwhich
hundreds ofpeopleparticipated pleading for theirdemands and called
by the Association of Housing Debtors onthe main avenue
ofdowntownSantiago de Chile heading to thepresidential palaceLa
Moneda, inSantiago, Chile, Jan. 7, 2012. (MarioRuiz/EPA)#
15. 15A Palestinian man reacts upon the arrival of the body of
a man, killed byan Israeli strike, at ahospital in Beit Hanoun in
the northern Gaza Strip,Jan. 18, 2012. An Israeli aircraft and tank
strikekilled at least onePalestinian close to theborder fence in
the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. (MohammedSalem/Reuters)#
16. An Israeli homeless woman withher child warm themselves
bythe fire outside of the tents 16during a cold weather snap
inSacher Park in Jerusalem, Israel,Jan. 23, 2012. The
homelesspeople staying at Sacher Parkhave lived in tents since
thesummer 2011 protest and havenot been able to find a
housingsolution. (Abir Sultan/ EPA)#
17. 17Two Russian Orthodox priests lift a child from the
ice-coldwater to mark celebrationsof the Epiphany Orthodoxholiday,
outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 19, 2012. People believe
thatdipping into blessed waters during the holiday of Epiphany
strengthens theirspirit and body. (AnatolyMaltxev/EPA)#
18. 18Mother of Palestinian Mohammed AbuOdah kisses his body
during his funeral in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Jan. 18,
2012. Israeli forces attacked a group of suspected Palestinian
militantsbelieved to have been planting a bomb along Gazas border
with the Jewishstate. (Ali Ali/EPA)#
19. 19Severely malnourished two-year-old girl,Rajni, is weighed
by health workers at theNutritional Rehabilitation Centre of
Shivpuridistrict in the central Indian state of MadhyaPradesh, Feb.
1, 2012. India has failed toreduce its high prevalence of
childmalnutrition despite its economy doublingbetween 1990 and 2005
to become Asiasthird largest. A government-supportedsurvey last
month said 42 percent of childrenunder five are underweight -
almost doublethat of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43percent
five years ago. The statistic - whichmeans 3,000 children dying
daily due toillnesses related to poor diets - forced PrimeMinister
Manmohan Singh to admit lastmonth that malnutrition was "a
nationalshame" and was putting the health of thenation in jeopardy.
(Adnan Abidi/Reuters)#
20. 20A protester with tear gas cartridges shot by theriot
police during clashes between protestersand riot police near the
interior ministry, Feb. 3, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. The protest
follows thedeaths of 74 football fans who were killed inclashes
between rival fans following the matchbetween al-Masry and al-Alhy
in Port Said,Egypt. Three-days of mourning have beenannounced and
marches are scheduled toprotest at the lack of protection provided
bypolice who were at the stadium when theviolence occurred.
(Carsten Koall/Getty Images)#
21. 21Two people standin front of theColosseum during a
snowfall in Rome, Italy, Feb. 10, 2012.Schools and publicoffices
were closed and snow-removalcrews were inplace as Rome was on high
alert for a second winter blast. (MassimoPercossi/EPA)#
22. 22A child, with eyelashescovered with hoarfrost, along a
street in theeastern Siberian city ofYakutsk in Sakha (Yakutia)
Republic, Feb. 10, 2012. The airtemperature in Yakutsk is about
minus 35 degreesCelsius (minus 31degrees Fahrenheit).
(ViktorEverstov/Reuters)#
23. 23 Demonstrators throw fire bombs toward riot police during
violent protests in central Athens, Feb. 12, 2012. Thousands
ofdemonstrators clashed with police as the Greek parliament
prepared to vote on a new and deeply unpopular EU/IMF austerity
deal,to secure a 130 billion euro bailout, aimed at saving Greece
from bankruptcy and what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned
would be "uncontrollable economic chaos". (Milos Bicanski/Getty
Images)#
24. 24A picture combo shows a sightseeing boat on the roof of
aguesthouse in Otsuchi, northern Japan, May 7, 2011, and aview of
the same guesthouse, Feb. 15 2012. March 11, 2012marked the first
anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami
that devastatednortheastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster
at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
(KimimasaMayama/EPA)#
25. 25 An Afghan shows acopy of the holy Koranthat was
allegedly burnt by US soldiers during a protest in Bagram, about
60kilometres (40 miles)north of Kabul,Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2012.
Thousands ofAfghans took to thestreet in a Bagram to protest the
burning of the Koran by NATO-led troops. (S. Sabawoon/EPA)#
26. Afghan children who lost theirparents in a land mine blast
involatile Helmand province, sit26near a stove in a refugeescamp in
Kabul, Afghanistan,Feb. 24, 2012. At least 24children have died in
refugeecamps in Afghanistan as aresult of freezing temperaturesover
the past two weeks.(Jawad Jalali/EPA)#
27. 27 A physically disabledwoman clashes withriot police in
the centreof La Paz, Feb. 23, 2012. Hundreds of physicallydisabled
peoplearrived in La Paz after completing a protestmarch of some
1600 km (994 miles) over ahundred days todemand that Bolivias
government offer support in the form of3000 bolivianos ($434)
payment to eachphysically disabled Bolivian. (David
Mercado/Reuters)#
28. 28 Bodies of two who were killed after aheavy shelling
bygovernment forcesare covered with a mat in Sermeennear the
northern city of Idlib, Feb.28, 2012. (ZohraBensemra/Reuters)#
29. 29A man confronts hooded protesters whowere vandalizing a
bank facility during aprotest against spending cuts in
publiceducation in Barcelona, Feb. 29, 2012. (Albert
Gea/Retuers)#
30. 30Steve McDonald stands in the debrisfrom the home of
hismother-in-law, Mary Osman, who waskilled after a tornado touched
down, Feb. 29, 2012 inHarrisburg, Illinois. At least nine people
died in tornadoesacross the Midwest. (Whitney
Curtis/GettyImages)#
31. 31The body of a man killed in a suspected drug-related
executionlies along the path where he was shot, March 1, 2012 in
Acapulco, Mexico. Drug violence surged in the coastal resort in the
last year, making Acapulco the second most deadly city inMexico
after Juarez. One of Mexicos top tourist destinations, Acapulco has
suffered a drop in business, especially fromforeign tourists.
Toursim accounts for some 9 percent of Mexicos economy and about 70
percent of the output of Acapulcosstate of Guerrero. (John
Moore/Getty
32. 32Men wait to buybread in front of abakery shop
duringwinter weather in AlQusayr, a city inwestern Syria about
4.8km (3 miles) southwest of Homs, March 1, 2012.
(GoranTomasevic/Reuters)#
33. 33 Students embrace after leavingthe burial of Chardon High
school student Daniel Parmertorin Chardon, Ohio, March 3,
2012.Three students were killed and two others wounded by suspect
TJ Lane in a shooting rampageat Chardon High school.(Shannon
Stapleton/Reuters)#
34. 34 A doctor at a makeshifthospital displays a bulletremoved
from the hand of a young girl woundedduring what protesters said
was an attack by SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assadsforces, at the
Khalidiyaneighborhood in Homs, March 8, 2012. (Reuters) #
35. A pro-reform protester performs prayers using the Bahraini
flagon a blocked highway during clashes with police following
amarch along Budaiya Highway, north of the Bahraini capital
35Manama, March9, 2012. Thousands of opposition supportersmarched
on the outskirts of Manama, demanding democraticreforms, in one of
the largest rallies to be witnessed by the Gulfisland since last
years pro-reform protests. (Mazen Mahdi/EPA)#
36. Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March11,
2011 earthquake and tsunami at Kitaizumi beachin Minamisoma,
Fukushima prefecture, some 25 km(15 miles) from the
tsunami-crippled Fukushima36Daiichi nuclear power plant March 10,
2012, a daybefore the disasters one-year anniversary. Themagnitude
9.0 earthquake on March 11, last year,unleashed a tsunami that
killed about 16,000 andtriggered the worlds worst nuclear crisis
sinceChernobyl. About 326,000 people are still homelessand nearly
3,300 remain unaccounted for. (YurikoNakao/Reuters)#
37. 37 A girl with hearing challenges criesafter her ears were
cleaned at anevent held by Starkey HearingFoundation at St. Monica
in Gulu, 364 km (226 miles) north of Ugandas capital Kampala, March
13, 2012.(XavierToya/Reuters)#
38. 38 A Balinese mancarries the body of a flash flood victim
at Pinggan villagein Kintamani, Bali,Indonesia, March 14, 2012.
Flash floods andlandslides sweptthrough a village. Six people
arereported killed.(Made Nagi/EPA)#
39. 39 U.S. President BarackObama accidentially steps on First
lady MichelleObamas dress as they walk onto the North Porticobefore
the arrival of BritishPrime Minister DavidCameron and his
wifeSamantha Cameron at the White House, March 14,2012 in
Washington, DC.Cameron is on a three-day visit to the U.S. and he
wasexpected to have talkswith Obama on the situations in
Afghanistan,Syria and Iran. (AlexWong/Getty Images)#
40. 40 Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews of theVizhnitz Hasidic
dynasty stand on ladders as theyfollow the funeralprocession of
their rabbiMoshe Yhoshua Hagersbody wrapped in a prayer Shawl
before hisfuneral, March 14, 2012 inBnei Brak, Israel. Rabbi Moshe
Yehoshua Hager,who was the head of Israels second largest Hasidic
community, died aged 95 and was buriedbeside his fathers gravein
the Tel Aviv suburb ofBrei . (Uriel Sinai/GettyImages)#
41. 41 An Afghan police helicopter flies over HazratAli
(Kart-i-Sakhi) shrinewhere Afghans celebratethe Afghan New Year
(Nawroz) in Kabul, March20, 2012. Afghanistan usesthe Persian
calendar whichruns from the vernal equinox. The calendartakes as
its start date thetime when the ProphetMohammad moved fromMecca to
Medina in 621AD. The current Persian year is 1391.
(OmarSobhani/Reuters)#
42. 42 Military police restrainmourners surrounding the
ambulance carrying the coffin of Pope Shenouda III,the head of
Egypts Coptic Orthodox Church, upon itsarrival for burial at St
BishoyMonastery in Wadi al- Natrun, 100km (62 miles)north of Cairo,
March 20,2012. Thousands of mournersdressed in black gathered in
Cairo for the funeral of Egypts Orthodox Christian Pope Shenouda,
who spenthis final years trying tocomfort a community disturbed by
the rise of political Islam. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)#
43. 43 Huang Sufang reactsas she sees a part ofher house being
takendown by demolition workers at Yangjivillage in
centralGuangzhou city,Guangdong province, March 21, 2012.Huang, who
is a resident of Yangjivillage, clashed with demolition workers
asthey mistakenly tookdown a part of herhome, which is notincluded
in thedemolition project. (Reuters)#
44. 44 Myanmar pro-democracy leader,Aung San Suu Kyi, returns
after givinga speech to hersupporters duringthe election campaign
atKawhmu Township,March 22, 2012.(Reuters)#
45. A boy stands near the coffins ofsome of the victims of a
buscrash in Switzerland, during aceremony at the Saint
Pieterschurch in Leuven, March 22, 452012. A bus carrying a
Belgianschool party home from a ski tripcrashed into the wall of a
tunnelin Sierre in the Valais region ofSwitzerland, killing 28
people, 22of them children. The bustransported 52 people,
mostlyschool children from Heverleeand Lommel in Belgian
Flanders.(Benoit Doppagne YorickJansens/BELGA/Reuters)#
46. 46Faithful pray in anevangelical church "The light of
world"before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI in Leon, March 22,
2012. The Pope will arrive on March 23for a three-day visit to the
Mexicanstate ofGuanajuato. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)#
47. 47A coach scolds a young gymnastics student during a
training session at agymnastics school inShanghai, March 23,2012.
More than 30 children, aged between 5 and 9, were chosen fromlocal
kindergartens or elementary schools toattend training courses five
times a week. (AlySong/Reuters)#
48. 48A beer bottle is thrown at Italian Police as Alcoa
aluminium companyworkers protest againstdismissals from employment
in front of the Ministry ofEmployment building in Rome, March 27,
2012. Alcoa is the worldsleading integrated aluminium
company,providing jobs to 61,000 employees across 31countries.
(Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)#
49. 49 Pope Benedict XVIand Cuban President Raul Castro wave
tothe media after ameeting at theConsejos de Estadoon the second
day of his three day visit, March 27, 2012 inHavana, Cuba. Fourteen
years after Pope John Paul II visited Cuba, PopeBenedict is making
hisfirst trip to thecommunist country. (Joe
Raedle/GettyImages)#
50. 50Afghan security forcesescort Taliban militants cladin
Afghan women dresses at the Afghan intelligence department in
Mehterlam,Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, March28,
2012. AfghanIntelligence forces arrested seven Taliban militants
inQarghayi district of Laghman province. (Rahmat Gul/Associated
Press#
51. 51 Sebahat Tuncel, a Kurdish member of parliament, runs for
cover as riot police disperse demonstrators during a protestagainst
a government attempt to railroad a new educationbill through
parliament in Ankara, March 29, 2012. Members ofteachers union and
opposition supporters gathered in the Turkish capital of Ankara to
protest against a governmentattempt to railroad the new education
bill through parliament which secular parties say is designed to
promote Islamicschooling. The government wants to overturn a 1997
law imposed with the backing of the military which extended
compulsory education from five to eight years, but alsostopped
under-15s attending religious "imam hatip" schools.(Umit
Bektas/Reuters)#
52. 52Israeli border police officers use pepper spray asthey
detain an injured Palestinian protester duringclashes on Land Day
after Friday prayers outsideDamascus Gate in Jerusalems Old City,
March 30,2012. Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets,
teargas and stun grenades to break up groups ofPalestinian
stone-throwers as annual Land Day rallies turned violent. Police
said they made five arrests at Damascus Gate. Land Day commemorates
the killing by security forces of six Arabs in 1976 duringprotests
against government plans to confiscateland in northern Israels
Galilee region. (AmmarAwad/Reuters)#
53. 53A Yemeni man learns to walk with a prosthetic limb at a
prostheticscenter in Sanaa,Yemen, April 3, 2012.According to
officialstatistics, landmines and explosive remnants ofwar remain a
significantproblem in Yemen dueto the fact that it does not have
accurate mapping of the landmine-affectedareas. In 2009 only 37,111
landmines and explosives were discovered. (YahyaArhab/EPA)#
54. 54 A tornado touches down in Lancaster, Texas, south of
Dallas. Tornadoes tore through theDallas area, peeling roofs off
homes, tossingbig-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened
tractor trailers strewn along highways andparking lots. (Parrish
Velasco/The DallasMorning News)#
55. 55Children sit in front of a tombstone waiting for
theirrelatives at a public cemetery during the Qingming Festival,
or TombSweeping Day, in Jinjiang,Fujian province, April 4, 2012.
The festival marks a day for the Chinese toremember and honor ones
ancestors. Chinese expertshave called for legislative efforts to
standardizefuneral services, in an attempt to regulate the countrys
unscrupulousfuneral service providers who siphon huge profits from
the relatives of thedead. (China Daily/Reuters)#
56. 56 A soldier stands guard infront of the Unha-3 (Milky Way
3) rocket sitting on alaunch pad at the WestSea Satellite Launch
Site, during a guided media tour by North Koreanauthorities in the
northwestof Pyongyang, April 8,2012. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)#
57. 57 Dorothy Jackson and others pray together for Trayvon
Martin at the Allen Chapel A.M.E. church after the Florida Special
Prosecutor,Angela Corey, announced to the media that George
Zimmerman has been charged withsecond degree murder in the death of
Martin,April 11, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. Martin waskilled by
Zimmerman on February 26th whileZimmerman was on neighborhood watch
patrolin the gated community of The Retreat at Twin Lakes, Florida.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)#
58. 58North Korean leader KimJong-Un waves during the Fourth
Conference of the Workers Party ofKorea (WPK) inPyongyang, April
11,2012. WPK named Kim as "first secretary," theofficial KCNA
newsagency said. (KCNA/Reuters)#
59. 59 Smoke plumes areseen above thePopocatepetlvolcano,
viewed from the Dolores chappelin San Andres Cholula,
Puebla,Mexico, April 18, 2012.(FranciscoGuasco/EPA)
60. 60Men use ropes to tryand right a supplytruck overloaded
with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in
theMalakand district, about 165 km (100 miles) northwest of
Pakistans capital Islamabad, April 13, 2012. (Mian
Khursheed/Reuters)#
61. 61 A soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade take part in
Exercise Joint Warrior at West Freugh Airfield, April 16, 2012 in
Starnraer, Scotland. The exercise will involve more than 1600
troops, and be supported by Apache, Chinook, and Royal Navy Sea
KingHelicopters from the Joint Helicopter Force. RAF Fast Jets and
support aircraft, as well as several US and French aircraft will
also support the exercise. This year the ABTF will be joined by
anumber of French personnel from 11 Parachute Brigade. (Jeff
JMitchell/Getty Images)#
62. 62Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivikgestures as
he arrives for his terrorism and murder trial in a courtroom in
Oslo, April 16,2012. Breivik, who massacred 77 people last summer,
arrived under heavy armed guard at an Oslo courthouse, lifting his
arm in what hehas called a rightist salute as his trial began.
Breivik, 33, has admitted setting off a carbomb that killed eight
people at governmentheadquarters in Oslo last July, then massacring
69 in a shooting spree at an island summer camp for Labour Party
youths. (Heiko Junge/Reuters)#
63. 63A young boy wears an astronaut costume in the parking lot
of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-
Hazy Center, April 17, 2012 in Chantilly, Virginia. Hundreds
ofpeople gathered at the museumearly in the morning to watch
thearrival of the space shuttleDiscovery, teathered to the back of
a modified 747 jumbo jet. Theoldest and most traveled vehiclein
NASAs space shuttle program, Discovery will be placed on permanent
display at the museum. (ChipSomodevilla/Getty Images)#
64. 64Ayesha Ishaque, sister of Mohammad Saud Ishaque who was
killed in a Boeing 737 airliner crash, cries over his casket at the
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital (PIMS) in
Islamabad, April 21, 2012. ThePakistani airliner with 127 people on
board crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in
Islamabad,scattering wreckage and leaving no sign of survivors.The
Boeing 737, operated by local airline Bhoja Air, was flying to the
capital from Pakistans biggest city andbusiness hub Karachi.
(Rebecca Conway/Reuters
65. 65A pedestrian walks past a traditionalcolonial-era Board
House dating backabout a century on Pademba Road inSierra Leones
capital Freetown, April27, 2012. Scattered across Sierra Leones
capital Freetown stand aging wooden houses, some of which lookmore
like they belong on the east coast of 18th century America than ina
steamy west African city. Others looklike they may have been
builthundreds of years ago in the islands ofthe Caribbean, another
reflection of Sierra Leones history as a colonyestablished for
freed slaves. (Finbarr OReilly/Reuters)#
66. 66 A Nuba woman, injured during a raid by Sudansair force,
sits in a makeshifthospital in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan,
April 28, 2012. Fleeing aerialbombardment by the Sudanese air
forcethousands of people haveabandoned their homesand made
make-shiftshelters between the rocksand boulders. (Goran
Tomasevic/Reuters)#