2013_The Year in 365 Pictures

2013 The Year in 365 Pictures

2013 The Year in 365 Pictures

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Jan. 1, 2013. Young residents watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during new year celebrations at the Pavao Pavaozinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Jan. 2, 2013. Fatme Ulanova stands during her wedding ceremony with Djamal Sirakov (not pictured) in the village of Ribnovo, in southwestern Bulgaria.

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Jan. 3, 2013. Sandy Hook Elementary students leave on a school bus in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Jan. 4, 2013. Tammy Holmes, second from left, and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, four-year-old Esther Walker, third from left, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, second from right, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, right, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia.

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Jan. 5, 2013. The roller coaster knocked off the amusement pier by Hurricane Sandy is seen partially submerged in the Atlantic Ocean in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

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Jan. 6, 2013. Men jump into the waters of a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Jan. 7, 2013. Palestinian Greek Orthodox Christian altar boys attend Christmas mass at the Orthodox Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip.

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Jan. 8, 2013. Classical dancers of the Latvian National Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal of 'Giselle' at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.

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Jan. 9, 2013. South Africa's Riaan Van Niekerk falls with his KTM during the 5th stage of the Dakar Rally 2013 from Arequipa in Peru to Arica in Chile.

Jan. 10, 2013. Children play in an abandoned building at a snow covered field in the Golan Heights on the border with Syria.

Jan. 11, 2013. Members of a local winter swimming club take part in their weekly bath in the Yenisei River, while air temperatures stand at minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the town of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Jan. 12, 2013. The largest camp for displaced Syrians on the border with Turkey provides shelter to nearly 13,000 people. Most of them are children; due to the harsh living conditions, they are often in need of treatment in the only medical facility set up in the camp.

Jan. 13, 2013. Workers fix a lightpost, one of many that will illuminate the vast grounds receiving the millions of Hindu devotees that will congregate here for the next couple of months to celebrate the Kumbh Mela, in Allahabad, India.

Jan. 14, 2013. A female Hindu pilgrim takes a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, India.

Jan. 15, 2013. A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world.

Jan. 16, 2013. An Iranian officer lashes a man, convicted of rape, at the northeastern city of Sabzevar, Iran.

Jan. 17, 2013. Om Mustafa stands with five of her seven children in front of the tent she is staying in on farmland outside of Saadnayal, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.

Jan. 18, 2013. People carry the coffin of the Kurdish activist Sakine Cansiz, shot dead in the French capital, in Tunceli.

Jan. 19, 2013. A boy plays with balloons by Buriganga river as smoke emits from a dump yard during sunset in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Jan. 20, 2013. A French soldier wearing a skeleton mask stands next to a tank on a street in Niono, Mali.

Jan. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (C) pauses with his escorts before walking through the Lower West Terrace Door of the US Capitol to begin swearing-in ceremonies in Washington.

Jan. 22, 2013. Malian women sift wheat in a field near Segou, central Mali.

Jan. 23, 2013. A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago,

Jan. 24, 2013. The outfit worn by the two-year-old Princess Anne at Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on June 2, 1953, is seen during a photo opportunity at the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace in central London.

Jan. 25, 2013. The shadow of a relative's hand is projected onto the coffins of victims, killed in massacres executed by Shining Path militant group and the army in Peru's southern district of Chungui between 1984 and 1985, during a funeral ceremony in Ayacucho city.

Jan. 26, 2013. An Egyptian 'Ahly Ultra' soccer fan holds a smoke flare above his head during celebrations after the announcement that 21 fans of the Al Masry football club involved in a football stadium massacre last year were sentence to death in Cairo, Egypt.

Jan. 27, 2013. Relatives wait to identify victims killed in the Kiss night club fire, at the municipal gymnasium in Santa Maria.

Jan. 28, 2013. US surfer Garrett McNamara rides a wave off Praia do Norte beach in Nazare, Portugal.

Jan. 29, 2013. Sixth grade students from the Park Maitland School in Maitland, Florida, watch as Marine One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama takes off from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington as he departs for Las Vegas

Jan. 30, 2013. Bodies float down a stream in Aleppo, Syria, more than 24 hours after a massacre.

Jan. 31, 2013. Hundreds of containers full of equipment are stacked in the yards of Forward Operating Base Shank, the logistical hub for American operations in Logar Province.

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Feb. 1, 2013. Masha, an 11-year-old bear from a traveling circus troupe based in Moscow, practices a tightrope walking act during rehearsals at the Circus on Fontanka in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Feb. 2, 2013. French President Francois Hollande, upper center, is surrounded by security as he greets well-wishers during his two-hour-long visit to Timbuktu, Mali.

Feb. 3, 2013. U.S. singer Beyonce performs during the half time show of Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans, La.

Feb. 4, 2013. Sri Lankan Navy personnel fire a 21-gun salute on the capital's seafront Galle Face promenade to mark the island nation's 65th Independence Day in Colombo.

Feb. 5, 2013. A Palestinian child cries after his family house has been demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.

Feb. 6, 2013. A Malian man sits on a window sill to watch the Nigeria versus Mali Africa Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match taking place in South Africa, in Gao, northern Mali.

Feb. 7, 2013. Models pose at the Tome fall 2013 presentation during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Industria Superstudio in New York City.

Feb. 8, 2013. Horses are hoisted in the air by a crane as they're being transferred from a cargo ship onto a truck upon arrival at a port in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.

Feb. 9, 2013. Bratislav Stojanovic, a homeless man, holds candles as sits in a tomb where he lives in southern Serbian town of Nis.

Feb. 10, 2013. An Indian woman holds up the corners of two saris to dry on the banks of the Sangam or confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Saraswati rivers at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.

Feb. 11, 2013. A woman stands in the snow and prays towards the former city hall in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan.

Feb. 12, 2013. A boy dressed up as Momotxorro, a local mythical animal, walks in the snow during carnival celebrations in Alsasua, northern Spain.

Feb. 13, 2013. Astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords look out at the view from the Speaker's balcony while making the rounds to talk about the issue of gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Feb. 14, 2013. Participants of Kumbh Mela bathe in the Ganges river in Allahabad, India.

Feb. 15, 2013. Children walk on the Askia mausoleum, built in 1495 in Gao, northern Mali, one week after a suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed himself attempting to blow up an army checkpoint at the entrance of the town.

Feb. 16, 2013. A model of Knut the polar bear, that features Knut's original fur, stands on display to the public on its first day at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany.

Feb. 17, 2013. Libyans release lanterns into the air at Nasr Square during the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Benghazi, Libya.

Feb. 18, 2013. Spacesuits are left on chairs before cosmonauts' training session at the Russian cosmonaut training facility in Star City outside Moscow, Russia.

Feb. 19, 2013. A soldier from the Somali National Army (SNA) lies on a bed at an SNA infirmary in Belet Weyne, about 315 km (196 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, Somalia in this handout photo.

Feb. 20, 2013. Oscar Pistorius enters the court room during the second day of Oscar Pistorius bail application at Pretoria Magistrates Court, Pretoria, South Africa.

Feb. 21, 2013. A Buddhist devotee prays after offering alms to a Buddhist monk on a street corner near Mong Pan town in central Shan state, Myanmar.

Feb. 22, 2013. A man in his apartment in Hong Kong.

Feb. 23, 2013. A tamed golden eagle attacks a fox during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty in Kazakhstan.

Feb. 24, 2013. A Chinese blacksmith throws molten metal against a cold stone wall to create sparks during the Lantern Festival which traditionally marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations, in Nuanquan, Hebei province.

Feb. 25, 2013. A dancer performs in front of judges in one of the heats in the All Scotland Championships in Irish Dancing being held at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow.

Feb. 26, 2013. A dog looks at Pakistani Kushti wrestlers, right, reflected on a mirror, as they attend their daily training session in Lahore, Pakistan.

Feb. 27, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI waves from his Popemobile as he rides through a packed Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican during his last general audience.

Feb. 28. 2013. Egyptian Actvists and youth perform the Internet craze, the "Harlem Shake" in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

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March 1, 2013. Saudi citizens rest after presenting Saudi billionaire HRH Prince al Waleed bin Talal with petitions for his help, at a desert camp outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

March 2, 2013. Members of Crew 125 EuroMoonMars B mission venture out in their simulated spacesuits to collect geologic samples to be studied at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) outside Hanksville in the Utah desert.

March 3, 2013. Maggie, a victim of domestic abuse, and Kayden, four, share a moment in the apartment they now share with Maggie's husband, Zane.

March 4, 2013. Vestments for the new Pope to be elected are displayed in the window of Italian ecclesiastical tailor Gammarelli in Rome.

March 5, 2013. A sandstorm hits the town of Shandan Horse Ranch in Zhangye, northwest China's Gansu province.

March 6, 2013. A llama seeks shelter next to an abandoned school bus at Cox Farms in Centreville, Va.

March 7, 2013. An old American car, long a staple of Cuban roads, sits along Guanabo Beach, near Havana, Cuba.

March 9, 2013. A hot air balloon shaped like Darth Vader's head lands after a sunrise flight in Canberra, Australia.

March 8, 2013. A woman wrapped in cloths decorating a light post in the colors of Venezuela's flag sleeps outside the military academy where a funeral ceremony will take place for Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela.

March 10, 2013. People sunbathe by the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia.

March 11, 2013. Wrecked vehicles remain in a field of reeds in Namie, two years after the March 11, 2011 tsunami and earthquake, near the striken TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.

March 12, 2013. One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky in a photo made from a passing airplane in New York.

March 13, 2013. White smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican indicating that a new Pope has been elected.

March 14, 2013. A gust of wind blows a nun's veil as she stands in front of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican.

March 15, 2013. A portrait of U.S. Army Sgt. Alessandro L. Plutino rests at the base of a tree in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

March 16, 2013. Islamic religious students take mid-term exams at Jamia Binoria, the nation's largest Islamic seminary in Karachi, Pakistan.

March 17, 2013. Pope Francis leads his first Angelus Prayer and blessing from the studio of his private apartment at the Vatican.

March 18, 2013. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures while entering to meet Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale palace in Rome, Italy.

March 19, 2013. Searching for survivors among the rubble of a residential building targeted by a regime airstrike in the rebel-held Al-Sukri district in Aleppo, Syria.

March 20, 2013. US President Barack Obama delivers a speech upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel.

March 21, 2013. An Afghan refugee boy watches chickens feeding in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.

March 22, 2013. Indian villagers from Nandgaon wait for the arrival of villagers from Barsana to play Lathmar Holi at the Nandagram temple famous for Lord Krishna and his brother Balram, in Nandgaon, 120 kilometers ( 75 miles) from New Delhi, India.

March 23, 2013. Body bags cover charred bodies of victims of a fire at the burnt Ban Mae Surin refugee camp near Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

March 24, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jews collect water to make matza during the Maim Shelanoo Ceremony at a mountain spring in Jerusalem.

March 25, 2013. Penitents from "San Gonzalo" brotherhood take part in a procession in Seville, Spain.

March 26, 2013. Boys spray coloured foam during Holi celebrations at a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

March 27, 2013. Three years after the earthquake, a scene in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

March 28, 2013. Men are dragged on the ground to cover them in red colored water during "Huranga" at Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura.

March 29, 2013. Central African Seleka rebels speak to an injured Seleka rebel at a community hospital in Bangui

March 30, 2013. The bullet-riddled poster of Syria's current president in the newly liberated neighborhood of Sheikh Maksoud in Aleppo, Syria.

March 31, 2013. An Afghan police man offers evening prayers on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan.

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April 1, 2013. A man throws water on a woman as part of traditional Easter celebrations in Holloko, 100 km (62 miles) east of Budapest.

April 2, 2013. A devotee lies on hot sand as a form of penance on the first day of the Danda festival at Kulagarh, in Ganjam district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Bhubaneswar, India.

April 3, 2013. A Palestinian demonstrator looks on during clashes with the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Hebron.

April 4, 2013. Texas Gov. Rick Perry looks on as a flag is folded to present to the family of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia after a memorial services in Mesquite, Tx.

April 5, 2013. Young ballet dancers climb a staircase to take part in auditions for six-year-olds at the School of American Ballet (SAB) at Lincoln Center in New York.

April. 6, 2013. Spain's bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla's hand is stained with blood from a bull during a bullfight at La Muralla bullring in Brihuega, Spain.

April 7, 2013. Muslim children come out of school at the Zahra Academy, which is a former christian church, Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

April 8, 2013. A ''Pura Raza Espanola'' or Pure Spanish Breed mare belonging to breeder Francisco Jose Rodriguez runs next to the stable at "La Yeguada de Cuatro Vientos" ranch in Almonte, in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.

April 9, 2013. The wind blows a red flag onto the face of an honour guard before a welcome ceremony for Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.

April 10, 2013. U.S. Border Patrol agent Sal De Leon stands near a section of the U.S.- Mexico border fence while stopping on patrol in La Joya, Texas.

April 11, 2013. An Afghan woman waits in a changing room to try out a new Burqa, in a shop at in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan.

April 12, 2013. Indian slum residents weep as they stand near their burnt shanty in Bawana on the outskirts of New Delhi. A fire broke out in a slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, a local report said, with one person reported dead and another five injured.

April 13, 2013. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (not pictured) ignites fireworks at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

April 14, 2013. Runners rest inside Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.

April 15, 2013. A man comforts a victim on the sidewalk at the scene of the first explosion near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon.

April 16, 2013. Carlee Soto, sister of Victoria Soto, a teacher killed at the Sandy Hook Elemenatry School, is overcome during a vigil outside of the U.S. Capitol.

April 17, 2013. Guests take their seats during the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral in London, England.

April 18, 2013. A teacher instructs during a drawing class at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea

April 19, 2013. Accused "Boston Bomber" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown before his arrest with a sniper's laser sight trained on his head as he surrenders to authorities after a massive manhunt.

April 20, 2013. Rescuers carry an injured girl to safety zone in Baosheng Township in the quake-hit Lushan County, Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province.

April 21, 2013. A mother holds the hands of her son as they attend an interfaith worship service at a memorial on Boylston Street for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts.

April 22, 2013. U.S. Marine soldiers from 3rd Marine Expeditionary force landing team deployed from Okinawa, Japan, rest during the CJLOTS (Combined Joint Logistics Over The Shore) exercise in Pohang, South Korea.

April 23, 2013. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two suspects in the Boston bombing, walks surrounded by reporters near her home in Makhachkala, Russia.

April 24, 2013. A North Korean man checks his bicycle next to a painted exclamation point on a propaganda billboard in Kaesong, North Korea, north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas.

April 25, 2013. Two victims amid the rubble of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

April 26, 2013. Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova looks on from behind bars as a petition for her early release is heard.

April 27, 2013. A swarm of the Red Locusts north of the town of Sakaraha, south west Madagascar.

April 28, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women pray on Mount Meron during the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer near the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron.

April 29, 2013. Workers leave for their lunch break in a building that houses garment factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

April 30, 2013. Palestinians help a wounded man during clashes with Jewish settlers near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus.

May 20132013 The Year in 365 Pictures

May 1, 2013. Afghan school girls receive treatment at a hospital in Kabul.

May 2, 2013. At a group burial service at Arlington National Cemetery, a U.S. Navy honor guard team carries the remains of four sailors, Lieutenant Dennis Peterson, Ensign Donald Frye, Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician William Jackson, and Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician Donald McGranein, all missing since the Vietnam War, in Arlington, Virginia.

May 3, 2013. Veils used as cover from sniper fire are seen at Sheikh Maksoud front line, a majority-Kurdish neighborhood in Syria.

May 4, 2013. Horses run around a muddy track during the ninth race before the 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Ky.

May 5, 2013. An activist tries to take another severely injured activist to the hospital, as no one else offers to help, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

May 6, 2013. An Israeli soldier (L) prays inside a net tent pitched close to Merkava tanks deployed in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria.

May 7, 2013. The home of Beth Serrano, the sister of Amanda Berry, one of three women who disappeared about a decade ago who were found alive in the home of Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio.

May 8, 2013. Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives for the State Opening of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster in London.

May 9, 2013. A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, Pakistan.

May 10, 2013. Iron workers lean out as they watch a crane lift the final piece of the spire to the top of the One World Trade Center in New York.

May 11, 2013. Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz, watch news on a television screen at the party's election headquarters after polling stations closed in Lahore.

May 12, 2013. A grave above the sleepy village of Utamysh, Russia.

May 13, 2013. An underground bunker used by rebel fighters is pictured as Syrian troops take control of the village of Western Dumayna, north of the rebel-held city of Qusayr, Syria.

May 14, 2013. Youth train in one of the boxing and wrestling schools in the regional capital of Makhachkala, Russia.

May 15, 2013. Workers are silhouetted on the roof as they play with a helmet during the visit of the FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

May 16, 2013. A restraining chair and force-feeding apparatus on display in an empty room of the detainee hospital at Guantanamo Bay.

May 17, 2013. A Tibetan woman (bottom) prostrates near Labrang monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province, a flashpoint for many Tibetan protests against Chinese authorities.

May 18, 2013. A man carries a gun while walking through a field in Zambia.

May 19, 2013. Graduates listen under heavy rain to President Barack Obama as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony address in Atlanta.

May 20, 2013. Four-year-old Sophia Phillips carries an American flag presented to her during a burial service for her father, Staff Sergeant Francis G. Phillips, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington Va.

May 21, 2013. Dead horses waiting to be buried after being killed by an F5 tornado in Moore, Okla.

May 22, 2013. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama reacts with school children from Willow Springs Elementary School in Fairfax, Va, as they participate in a play about the emancipation of slaves during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, at historic Decatur House in Washington.

May 23, 2013. Indian people stand on a government tanker as others struggle with hoses to collect drinking water from the tanker because of short supply in running water taps at a slum in New Delhi, India.

May 24, 2013. A wounded Afghan policeman is carried away from the site of an explosion in Kabul.

May 25, 2013. Fans dressed as characters of the Tolkien classicThe Hobbittake part in the reenactment of a battle in a forest near the village of Doksy, northern Czech Republic.

May 26, 2013. Memorial day fireworks explode over a house damaged by the May 20 afternoon tornado in Moore, Okla.

May 27, 2013. Contestants in the men's race chase a replica Double Gloucester Cheese down the steep gradient of Cooper's Hill during the annual Bank Holiday tradition of cheese-rolling in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England.

May 28, 2013. A Bahraini girl is carried by her mother during the funeral of Sayed Omran Sayed Hameed, in the village of Karzakkan, south of Manama.

May 29, 2013. A Palestinian girl plays with her brothers inside their family's home on a hot day in Bait Lahiya town, northern Gaza Strip.

May 30, 2013. People carry candles and rosary beads during a procession to celebrate Corpus Christi along a street in Brasilia, Brazil.

May 31, 2013. A cat sits behind a rainy window and looks out in Berlin, Germany.

June 2013 2013 The Year in 365 Pictures

June 1, 2013. A demonstrator reacts to teargas fired by Turkish police during a protest in the neighborhood Besiktas in Istanbul, Turkey.

June 2, 2013. Pope Francis Leads Worldwide Eucharistic adoration in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

June 3, 2013. Victims' relatives are seen at the scene after a fire that killed 119 and injured 54 people at a locked poultry slaughterhouse in Dehui, northeast China's Jilin province.

June 4, 2013. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrives for a service of celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London.

June 5, 2013. A Palestinian refugee girl plays inside her family home in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

June 6, 2013. LeBron James (R) of the Miami Heat tries to navigate before the trio of Danny Green (3rd-L), Tony Parker (2nd-L) Tim Duncan (L) of the San Antonio Spurs in the first half during Game 1 of the NBA Finals at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Fla.

June 7, 2013. Israelis participate in the annual Gay Pride parade on the beach of Tel Aviv, Israel.

June 8, 2013. A dead deer hangs on a fence along the flooded A3 motorway near Deggendorf, Germany.

June 9, 2013. Syrian children sleeping inside their family's tent in the Al-Jarrah tent settlement in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.

June 10, 2013. Yasaman Karimi, 23, a young supporter of Dr. Aref who is one of two reformists out of the eight candidates in the Iranian election, gathers near Hejab stadium in the center of Tehran.

June 11, 2013. A protestor is hit by pressurized water sprayed from a riot police water cannon during clashes Taksim Square Istanbul, Turkey.

June 12, 2013. Bobby Henline, 41, a veteran of four tours to Iraq and sole survivor of an IED blast that killed the other four soldiers in his humvee in Iraq in 2007, swims at a Motel 6 in Humble, Tx. after visiting the father of Rodney McCandless. Rodney was killed in the IED explosion that injured Bobby.

June 13, 2013. The Milky Way is seen between the Biferstock, the Piz Urlaun and the Toedi mountain above Linthal, Switzerland.

June 14, 2013. Pakistani youths enjoy a ride at a makeshift entertainment park set up outside a shrine in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

June 15, 2013. Smuggled bear paws are recovered by Chinese customs officers at the China-Russia border in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

June 16, 2013. A large banner of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seen in a pro-government rally in Istanbul, Turkey.

June 17, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

June 18, 2013. A member of the Free Syrian Army sits with his weapon inside a house in Aleppo's al-Sayyid Ali neighborhood.

June 19, 2013. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens secure a sedated elephant on the back of a truck during a relocation exercise, aimed at relocating to a national park 10 elephants that were encroaching on community land, on the margins of the Ol Pejeta conservancy in central Kenya.

June 20, 2013. Revelers gather to celebrate the Summer Solstice within the circle of standing stones at Stonehenge, near Salisbury, U.K.

June 21, 2013. Colombian tango dancers Valentina Valencia and Cristian Montoya perform during the Third World Tango Championships as part of the "VII International Tango Festival" in Medelln, Antioquia department, Colombia.

June 22, 2013. Musicians perform on the beach at the 2013 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

June 23, 2013. A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens.

June 24, 2013. A picture taken in Moscow Sheremetyevo airport aboard a plane of Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Havana shows the empty window seat 17A, which fugitive U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was scheduled to occupy according to Aeroflot's flight records.

June 25, 2013. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, stands on a near empty senate floor as she filibusters in an effort to kill an abortion bill in Austin, Tx.

June 26, 2013. Palestinian children play outside their family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

June 27, 2013. First Lady Michelle Obama looks out a window at local children during her visit to a cultural center on Gore Island, Senegal.

June 28, 2013. Russian same-sex couple Yury Gavrikov and Maxim Lysak arrive at a registry office to apply for marriage licences in St. Petersburg.

June 29, 2013. People with LED lights take part in forming a giant pink dot at the Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park in Singapore.

June 30, 2013. Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers approach a captured would-be suicide attacker after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province.

July 20132013 The Year in 365 Pictures

July 1, 2013. Firefighters tackle a large blaze at a recycling center in Smethwick, near Birmingham, central England in a handout picture provided by the West Midlands Fire Service.

July 2, 2013. Supporters of the Contrada of Wolf attend a horse-blessing ceremony in the church of Saint Rocco prior the Palio horse race in Siena, Italy.

July 3, 2013. A hearse is pictured at Mvezo resort after being accompanied by a police convoy to collect the remains of former South African President Nelson Mandela's children.

July 4, 2013. People visit the Statue of Liberty during the reopening ceremony in New York. Under steamy summer skies, tourists in New York flocked to ferries headed for the Statue of Liberty, re-opening with an Independence Day ceremony after closing in October as Superstorm Sandy approached.

July 5, 2013. Backers of ousted President Mohamed Morsi helped an injured man near Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo.

July 6, 2013. The wreckage of a train is pictured after an explosion in Lac Megantic, Quebec.

July 7, 2013. Andy Murray (R) of Great Britain climbs down after celebrating in his player's box with friends, family and members of his coaching team following his victory in the Gentlemen's Singles Final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia on day thirteen of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.

July 8, 2013. Egyptian supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi attend a rally in support of the former Islamist leader outside Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.

July 9, 2013. Zack Miller buries himself in the mud pit during the 26th annual Mud Day at Nankin Mills recreation complex in Westland, Mich.

July 10, 2013. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara uses a foam dummy to describe the altercation between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin to defense witness and law enforcement expert Dennis Root (R) during Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla.

July 11, 2013. A Palestinian child rests as others pray and read the Quran in a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City.

July 12, 2013. Runners make their way through the street with "El Pilar" fighting bulls watched by people from their balconies during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain.

July 13, 2013. Family members pray over the bodies of two Syrian children, Safia Baour, 14, and her three-year-old brother Khaled, who were killed after a shell landed on their family home as they gathered to break their fast with the iftar meal in Maaret Al-Numan in southern Idlib province, Syria.

July 14, 2013. A member of the Zr. Ms. Johan de Witt Dutch navy warship says goodbye on to a loved one on the quayside in Den Helder, Netherlands.

July 15, 2013. Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) is seen through the glass of C-Explorer 5 submersible after a dive to see the remains of the naval frigate "Oleg." which sank in the 19th century, in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.

July 16, 2013. Dylan Strother, 13, of Jersey City, watches the crowd from a tree at the Hub Shopping Center where supporters of Trayvon Martin staged a rally in memory of Martin in Jersey City, N.J.

July 17, 2013. Congolese army soldiers react to shelling in Kanyarucinya, around 10km from Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

July 19, 2013. Students at the University of Delaware's Ocean Exploration, Remote Sensing, Biography (ORB) Lab make an amazing find as they try to recapture sharks tagged for scientific research: they reeled in the large female sand tiger shark and discovered a 3ft long dogfish inside its mouth.

July 18, 2013. An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian city of Mafraq.

July 20, 2013. A chalk outline, a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea are seen during a "Justice for Trayvon" vigil outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington.

July 21, 2013. Mexico's Ivan Garcia and German Sanchez enter the water as they compete in the men's 10-meter synchro platform preliminary diving event in the FINA World Championships at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuic in Barcelona, Spain.

July 22, 2013. Performers participate in the Arirang mass games in Pyongyang, North Korea.

July 23, 2013. Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, holds the Prince of Cambridge as she poses for photographers outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London where the Duchess gave birth on Monday, July 22.

July 24, 2013. Air Force One's shadow is seen while flying over Knob Noster to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

July 25, 2013. A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network allegedly shows the Khaled bin Walid mosque whose mausoleum has been partially destroyed in the al-Khalidiyah neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs.

July 26, 2013. Pope Francis is projected on screens at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.

July 27, 2013. Morsi supporters carry a man shot in the head outside the makeshift hospital in Rabaa Square.

July 28, 2013. A young man is detained in the back of a police car in Rochester, N.Y.

July 29, 2013. A woman carrying her baby and wrapped with a shawl walks through a sandstorm in Timbuktu, Mali.

July 30, 2013. Female supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi are sprayed with water to cool themselves down as they continue their sit-in in Cairo while fasting.

July 31, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children play in a fountain at a park outside Jerusalem's old city, Israel.

August 20132013 The Year in 365 Pictures

Aug. 1, 2013. Protesters confront Israeli's riots police during a demonstration against Israeli government's plans to resettle Bedouins in the Negev desert in the Arab Israeli city of Ar'Ara, north of Israel.

Aug. 2, 2013. People at a quarry in Epworth, a suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Aug. 3, 2013. Lightning flashes across the sky as a freight train known as "la bestia," prepares to depart in Arriaga, Mexico.

Aug. 4, 2013. Female Palestinian worshippers pray in front of the Dome of the Rock, in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, during Lailat-Al-Qadr, or Night of Power, in which the Muslim Holy book of Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammad by Allah.

Aug. 5, 2013. New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez has a news conference before the Yankees play the Chicago White Sox in a baseball game at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

Aug. 6, 2013. A horse and rider perform during a "sneak peek" performance of Cavalia's show "Odysseo" in Somerville, Mass.

August 7, 2013. Wind-blown embers fly from an ancient oak tree that burned in the Silver Fire near Banning, Calif.

Aug. 8, 2013. People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at Parang Kusumo beach, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Aug. 9, 2013. Men, dressed in folk costumes, ride on horses during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Benghazi, Libya.

Aug. 10, 2013. Charlotte Wyzykowski, 9, and her sister, Stella, 7, of Dunwoody, Georgia, sit poolside at Hogan's Beach in Tampa as their cousin, Jake Talbert, 10, practices holding his breath underwater.

Aug. 11, 2013. Thousands of hikers wait for the sun to rise on the summit of Mount Fuji before dawn.

Aug. 12, 2013. A Perseid streaks across the sky over the Mojave Desert in Landers, Calif.

Aug. 13, 2013. An Indian policewoman helps her comrade who fainted during the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

Aug. 14, 2013. An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth during clashes that broke out as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi in a huge protest camp near Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo.

Aug. 15, 2013. A Bahraini protestor sits next to a tree to rest during the clashes with riot police following an anti-regime protest in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama.1

Aug. 16, 2013. Fellow demonstrators carry the lifeless body of a man fatally wounded during clashes between pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators and Egyptian security forces in the Ramses district of Cairo.

Aug. 17, 2013. Adan Sheikh Abdi Sheikh, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of journalist Hassan Yusuf Absuge, stands tied to a pole before he is executed by shooting at close range at the Iskola Bulisiya square in the capital Mogadishu.

Aug. 18, 2013. Juventus players celebrate with the trophy after winning their Italian Super Cup match against Lazio at the Olympic stadium in Rome.

Aug. 19, 2013. Women wait for services at the Ahmed Shah Baba Hospital in Kabul.

Aug. 20, 2013. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., before a hearing in his court martial.

Aug. 21, 2013. Bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region are seen in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.

Aug. 22, 2013. A supporter of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plays the trumpet at the gates of the Maadi Military Hospital where Mr. Mubarak was admited after being released from Tora Prison on the outskirts of Cairo.

Aug. 23, 2013. Dozens of residents were evacuated when two adjoining apartment buildings caught fire in the Madrid neighborhood of Tetuan.

Aug. 24, 2013. Visitors run away as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou Zhejiang province, China.

Aug. 25, 2013. A man runs up the "gostra," a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta.

Aug. 26, 2013. A captured wild male black rhino named Sero at Lewa Wildlife looks out from its crate at Lewa conservancy in Kenya.

Aug. 27, 2013. A Palestinian girl play outside her family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Aug. 28, 2013. Spanish bullfighter David Mora, left, and Juan Jose Padilla wait to do the paseillo or ritual entrance to the arena before a bullfight, in Toro, Spain.

Aug. 29, 2013. A newly married couple walks up a hill with a view of the city of Antakya, Turkey.

Aug. 30, 2013. Lightning strikes the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Aug. 31, 2013. A young Syrian man is executed by anti-regime rebels in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo.

September 2013 2013 The Year in 365 Pictures

Sept. 1, 2013. Storks fly over the border between Turkey and Syria, as they prepare to migrate in Hatay, Turkey.

Sept. 2, 2013. Smoke from the fires below Pilot Peak intermingles with clouds from an arriving weather front as firefighters begin to get the Rim Fire under control.

Sept. 3, 2013. Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City.

Sept. 4, 2013. Lawrence Payne practices backflips on his front lawn in the Six Mile Gratiot neighborhood of Detroit, Mich.

Sept. 5, 2013. Nick Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker who was born without limbs, swims with sharks at the Marine Life Park in Singapore.

Sept. 6, 2013. A reflection of the rubber duck designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman on the water at Beijing Garden Expo Park in Beijing.

Sept. 7, 2013. Former basketball star Dennis Rodman displays a photograph he took with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as he arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport.

Sept. 8, 2013. Serena Williams of the United States celebrates winning her women's singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on Day Fourteen of the 2013 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City.

Sept. 9, 2013. A Palestinian child removes a migrant quail from a net after catching it on the beach of Gaza City.

Sept. 10, 2013. The Tribute in Light rises above buildings in lower Manhattan during a test in New York.

Sept. 11, 2013. A Navy honor guard prepares a wreath before the arrival of United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell at the Flight 93 National Memorial during ceremonies commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on in Shanksville, Pa.

Sept. 12, 2013. A pair of water spouts form on Lake Michigan southeast of Kenosha, Wis.

Sept. 13, 2013. South Korean army soldiers take a rest before they reenact the Battle of the Naktong Bulge near the Waegwan railway bridge in Waegwan, South Korea.

Sept. 14, 2013. A large section of Colorado U.S. 34 completely washed out from recent flooding of the Big Thompson River in the Big Thompson Canyon in Larimer County Colorado.

Sept. 15, 2013. Numerous tents are seen during the 2013 International I Camping Festival in Mount Wugongshan of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, China.

Sept. 16, 2013. Supporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hold umbrellas in front of a giant portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in front of the party's headquarter in Berlin, Germany.

Sept. 17, 2013. A view of the wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship after emerging from water near the harbour of Giglio Porto, Italy.

Sept. 18, 2013. A Kurdish Free Syrian Army fighter holds out a doll while his fellow fighter takes shooting position in Ashrafieh, Aleppo, Syria.

Sept. 19, 2013. A worker tightens a rope to raise a four-metre-high (13 ft) statue of horses at a new housing complex at Parung village in Bogor, Indonesia's West Java province.

Sept. 20, 2013. Chinese employees cheer a customer after he bought new iPhone at an Apple store in Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing.

Sept. 21, 2013. A woman and children hide inside Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya after a group of armed men attacked the upscale shopping center, killing at least 59 people and wounding at least 175.

Sept. 22, 2013. A Syrian man with more than half his body burnt from an air strike leaves a field hospital to go back home at a village turned into a battlefield with government forces in Idlib province, northern Syria.

Sept. 23, 2013. The brother of Staff-Sgt. Gabriel Kobi is comforted by another family member during his funeral in Haifa, northern Israel.

Sept. 24, 2013. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leaves after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Committee luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Sept. 25, 2013. Police remove the door and push away a refrigerator as they break into Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero's apartment to evict her and her family in Madrid, Spain.

Sept. 26, 2013. Mariano Rivera #42 of the New York Yankees waves to the crowd after leaving the game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth inning during their game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City.

Sept. 27, 2013. Kaden Bowden, son of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Bowden, looks at the casket for his father during burial services for Staff Sgt. Bowden at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

Sept. 28, 2013. Lou Hamrani, 6, walks in the street after attending the Mini Miss model beauty contest in Paris, France.

Sept. 29, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter rests along a street in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.

Sept. 30, 2013. Bodies of migrants who drowned lie on the beach in the Sicilian village of Sampieri in Italy.

October 20132013 The Year in 365 Pictures

Oct. 1, 2013. A U.S. Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Oct. 2, 2013. A raptor with a snare attached to its leg is used by Egyptian raptor hunters in Egypt's Western Desert.

Oct. 3, 2013. People enjoy riding on the Teufelsrad (Devils wheel) merry-go-round at Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany.

Oct. 4, 2013. A tourist poses for a picture on a bridge at the Ebrington Square area of Derry City.

Oct. 5, 2013. Rubber ducks, all adapted into wearing swimming caps and Special Olympic gold medals, drifting down Huangpu River in a charity event in Shanghai, China.

Oct. 6, 2013. A man kisses a poster of late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as supporters of army shout slogans against ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood at Sadat's tomb, during the 40th anniversary of Egypt's attack on Israeli forces during the 1973 war, at Cairo's Nasr City district.

Oct. 7, 2013. Reporters and photographers question Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Oct. 8, 2013. Afghan National Army officers take part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul.

Oct. 9, 2013. Pakistani schoolboys look out the window of their classroom at other classmates chanting prayers to commemorate the anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Oct. 10, 2013. A portrait looking down on Saturn and its rings created from images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft made by amateur image processor and Cassini fan Gordan Ugarkovic.

Oct. 11, 2013. Palestinian protesters hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers during clashes in Betunia, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Oct. 12, 2013. The brother of Yussef al-Nashmi, who died in hospital the day before as he was detained by Bahraini authorities since August 17, mourns over his body during his funeral in the western Manama suburb of Jidd Hafs.

Oct. 13, 2013. A White Standard Poodle is prepared during the World Team Dog Grooming Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

Oct. 14, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sing with their teacher before starting their classes, at their makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Oct. 15, 2013. Pigeons rest on a metallic structure at Kotzia square, in front of Athens' city hall.

Oct. 16, 2013. A Christian pilgrim immerses himself in the waters of the Jordan River at Yardenit Baptismal Site near Tiberias in northern Israel.

Oct. 17, 2013. Plumes of smoke were visible from Bondi Beach after strong north westerly winds and high temperatures resulted in dozens of bush fires across great Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands in Australia.

Oct. 18, 2013. An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of an attack in Kabul.

Oct. 19, 2013. Participants fight during fire war ceremony at Dalem Temple in Tuban, Kuta, Indonesia.

Oct. 20, 2013. Royal Marine Cadets prepare ahead of National Trafalgar Day in London.

Oct. 21, 2013. A pier damaged by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012 sits in Long Branch, N.J.

Oct. 22, 2013. A boy stands on a whale shark towed by fishermen along the coast of Surabaya in eastern Java island to be sold to prospective buyers after getting entangled in a fishing net.

Oct. 23, 2013. The official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in The Morning Room at Clarence House in London.

Oct. 24, 2013. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) arrives for a meeting of the European People's Party (EPP) ahead of a European Union summit at Meise, outside Brussels, Belgium.

Oct. 25, 2013. An Indian street child plays in a dry river bed after flood waters receded in Allahabad, India.

Oct. 26, 2013. Lava flows during an eruption of Mount Etna volcano as seen from the village of Viagrande, near the Sicilian town of Catania, Italy.

Oct. 27, 2013. A member of staff demonstrates a massage using pythons at Bali Heritage Reflexology and Spa in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Oct. 28, 2013. Workers use backhoes to dig through the rubble as the demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary School continues, in Newtown, Conn.

Oct. 29, 2013. Residents plant beach grass on protective sand dunes in the Breezy Point neighborhood on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy in the Queens borough of New York City.

Oct. 30, 2013. Jonny Gomes #5 of the Boston Red Sox slides safely into home plate as Yadier Molina #4 of the St. Louis Cardinals tries to make the play during Game Six of the 2013 World Series at Fenway Park in Boston, Mass.

Oct. 31, 2013. Protesters wearing Batman costumes stand over the Carioca Aqueduct, also know as Arcos da Lapa, during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

November 20132013 The Year in 365 Pictures

Nov. 1, 2013. Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, drops from a helicopter to fly near Mount Fuji in this handout photograph released by Breitling SA.

Nov. 2, 2013. David Ferrer (L) of Spain and his compatriot Rafael Nadal (R) during a break in their semi final match at the BNP Paribas 2013 Masters tennis tournament in Paris.

Nov. 3, 2013. A Kosovo Albanian man leaves a polling station in Pristina.

Nov. 4, 2013. Indian Hindu devotees gather to collect scattered rice to celebrate the Annakut ritual on the second day of Diwali in Calcutta, India.

Nov. 5, 2013. A US Marine braces himself against the wind as Marine One carrying the U.S. President arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Nov. 6, 2013. A fake dead horse is seen on set for a television show being filmed in the Lower East Side neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City.

Nov. 7, 2013. Antonio Acuna, 7, plays dress up with a wig and high heel shoes at the factory where he lives with his family after the postponement of the demolition of their homes in Madrid.

Nov. 8, 2013. Students walks between chilli trees covered by ash from Sinabung Mount as they return home at Kuta Rakyat village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province.

Nov. 9, 2013. An activist for the independence of Western Sahara places a sticker on a dog during an annual protest organized by the state coordinator of associations of solidarity in Madrid.

Nov. 10, 2013. Indian camel herders sit near their camels during the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India.

Nov. 11, 2013. Sarah Stanczyk lays covered up at the gravesite of her husband, SFC David Metzger, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, at Section 60 in Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day.

Nov. 12, 2013. Iranian Muslim Shiite boys impersonating the role of genies, the spiritual creatures mentioned in the Quran, take part in the annual religious performance of "Taazieh," in the Iranian town of Noosh Abad near the central city of Kashan, Iran.

Nov. 13, 2013. A woman rests on a roadside with her family's belongings near the Typhoon Haiyan ravaged town of Tacloban, central Philippines.

Nov. 14, 2013. Palestinians look at Hamas militants as they rappel down a building during a military parade marking the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel, in Gaza City.

Nov. 15, 2013. Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, right, runs with Batman after saving a damsel in distress in San Francisco.

Nov. 16, 2013. People play by a fire in a neighborhood destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines.

Nov. 17, 2013. People demonstrate violently in the street in Bangui, Central African Republic, demanding that President Djotodia steps down following the murder of a magistrate shot dead the night before.

Nov. 18, 2013. An aerial image shows the devastation caused by a tornado which struck the town of Washington, Ill.

Nov. 19, 2013. A man fans flames of a fire in Leyte, Philippines a week after Typhoon Haiyan.

Nov. 20, 2013. People play football and basketball in Manaus, Brazil.

Nov. 21, 2013. An Indian woman cries while her baby is missing after a fire in Ambedkar Nagar slum in Mumbai, India.

Nov. 22, 2013. The news media arrived early Friday morning to cover the 50th-anniversary commemoration of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Tx.

Nov. 23, 2013. Tribesmen lead their camels through the sand dunes of the Liwa desert, 220 kms west of Abu Dhabi.

Nov. 24, 2013. An aerial view at night of the downtown Chicago skyline.

Nov. 25, 2013. Pope Francis receives in audience the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a private audience in the private library of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

Nov. 26, 2013. Afghan Army soldiers exercise under a picture of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at a training facility in the outskirts of Kabul.

Nov. 27, 2013. The chains around the ankle of eleven-year-old He Zili are seen in the boy's home in Zhejiang province, China.

Nov. 28, 2013. The Elf on the Shelf balloon floats down Sixth Avenue during the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

Nov. 29, 2013. An Egyptian man walks amid tear gas during clashes between Egyptian security forces and the Muslim Brotherhood following a demonstration in Cairo.

Nov. 30, 2013. Stand-up paddle boarders row past before the lighting ceremony for Rio de Janeiro's famed floating Christmas tree in Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

December 20132013 The Year in 365 Pictures

Dec. 1, 2013. A Metro-North passenger train derailed in the Bronx borough of New York.

Dec. 2, 2013. Surfers paddle on boards in the Mediterranean Sea off the shore of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dec. 3, 2013. Members of the Civil Police's Core Coordination of Special Assets unit train in a mock favela at the Police City, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dec. 4, 2013. A general view of the welcoming ceremony presided over by French Interior Minister, of the new promotion of new police officers at the Prefecture de police in Paris, France.

Dec. 5, 2013. Wounded Christians and Muslims at the community hospital in Bangui. Aid workers and medical staff treated roughly 100 victims, and around 50 bodies were brought to the hospital.

Dec. 6, 2013. Flowers are placed at the foot of a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the South African embassy in Washington. The iconic anti-apartheid leader died on December 5 at the age of 95.

Dec. 7, 2013. Palestinians look out a window of a building damaged by an Israeli air strikes in the past during a rally marking the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in Gaza City.

Dec. 8, 2013. Parishioners attend church services at Regina Mundo Catholic Church as South Africans observe a national day of prayer for Nelson Mandela in Soweto, South Africa.

Dec. 9, 2013 Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during a protest against their military conscription outside a military prison on in Atlit, Israel.

Dec. 10, 2013. Attendees look down into a stadium entrance at the state memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in the Soweto township of Johannesburg.

Dec. 11, 2013. An aquarium staff member dressed in a Santa Claus costume embraces a Zebra shark as he swims with fish inside the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan.

Dec. 12, 2013. Ukrainian and European Union flags fly over the newly-erected barricades at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Dec. 13, 2013. North Korean subway commuters gather around a public newspaper stand on the train platform in Pyongyang, North Korea to read the headlines about Jang Song Thaek, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle who was executed as a traitor.

Dec 14, 2013. A Christmas decoration lies on display near the former site of Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. One year ago Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 first graders and six adults at the school. Newtown decided not to hold a public memorial on the anniversary out of respect for victims' survivors, and the town appealed for privacy.

Dec. 15, 2013. A local boy, Anda, looks out from his hut's window at the burial ground of late former South African President Nelson Mandela ahead of his funeral in Qunu, South Africa.

Dec. 16, 2013. Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen, Christian Social Union (CSU) Bundestag faction leader Gerda Hasselfeld, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Chancellor Angel Merkel, Thomas Oppermann of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), CDU parliamentary faction leader Volker Kauder, CDU secretary general Hermann Groehe, Federal Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla, SPD Chairman Sigmar Gabriel and SPD parliamentary faction leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier (clockwise from top) talk informally after the coalition government agreement signing ceremony in Berlin.

Dec. 17, 2013. A Newari woman, with her lips and face painted to depict a deity, sits inside a house before she takes part in a parade to celebrate the Yamari Puni festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dec. 18, 2013. A woman stands in a corridor of a building in the Christian camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.

Dec. 19, 2013. A view looking up from the Rotunda of the US Capitol before a tour of the dome in Washington, DC.

Dec. 20, 2013. A jockey and his horse fall as they compete in a purebred Arabian horse race on the sidelines of the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the desert, 150 kilometres west of the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi.

Dec. 21, 2013. Smoke rises after an attack on gas pipelines that feed electricity generating stations near Damascus, Syria.

Dec. 22, 2013. A layer of ice coats the leaves of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm in Toronto, Canada.

Dec. 23, 2013. Family members displaced by recent fighting in South Sudan sit around a sick child in a makeshift shelter inside the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) facility in Jabel, on the outskirts of the capital Juba.

Dec. 24, 2013. Pope Francis kisses a statue of baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Italy.

Dec. 25, 2013. Filipino relatives visit graves of their loved ones on Christmas Day outside a Catholic church turned into a mass grave in the typhoon devastated village of San Joaquin, near the town of Palo, Leyte Province, Philippines.

Dec. 26, 2013. Indians offer milk during a prayer ceremony to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami, on Marina beach, in Chennai, India.

Dec. 27, 2013. Friends and relatives of Yanguere Richard, 21, carry his remains to the burial grounds in Bangui. Richard was killed in the inter-religious fighting in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Dec. 28, 2013. A reveller takes part in the battle of 'Enfarinats', a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain.

Dec. 29, 2013. Bangladesh Natinonalist Party (BNP) supported lawyers are hit by a police water cannon in front of the main gate of the Supreme Court during the March For Democracy protest rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Dec. 30, 2013. United States Marines support a 100 yard American flag during pre-game ceremonies at the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game in San Diego.

Dec. 31, 2013. Light and laser illuminate the Great Wall of China to celebrate the new year before a new year countdown event at the Badaling section of the Great Wall, in Beijing, China.

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