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3. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 59 Smoke plumes areseen above thePopocatepetlvolcano, viewed from the Dolores chappelin San Andres Cholula, Puebla,Mexico, April 18, 2012.(FranciscoGuasco/EPA)
60. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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)#