Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Day's Best Images

Pakistan's Umar Gul, left, and wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal, right, celebrate the dismissal of Bangladesh's Shahriar Nafees, unseen, during the first day of the second cricket test match in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

Referees watch the ski jumpers during the Nordic Combined World Cup competition in Seefeld, Austria, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

A decorated elephant reaches out for cinnamon leaves on a tractor during a cinnamon festival in Seenigama, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Sri Lankan farmers and traders involved in cinnamon trading participated in a parade carrying cinnamon quills, seedlings and leaves from their harvest to offer at the Seenigama temple, dedicated to local deity Devol, as an offering of thanksgiving for a good harvest.

A child walks in the background past a lamppost covered in hoar frost on top of the Feldberg mountain near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

A wave brakes on the stranded TK Bremen cargo ship on a beach at Erdeven, near Lorient, France, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. High winds beached a cargo ship off France's Atlantic coast Thursday, as some 220 tons of fuel in its hold threatened to leak onto the local beach

Residents are rescued by volunteers following a flash flood that inundated Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. A tropical storm triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines, killing scores and missing more. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of nearby Iligan said the coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off his coastal city for survivors or bodies that may have been swept to the sea by a swollen river.

A resident rummages through debris following a flash flood that inundated Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. A tropical storm triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines, killing scores of people and missing more. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of nearby Iligan said the coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off his coastal city for survivors or bodies that may have been swept to the sea by a swollen river.

Egyptian protesters run as they are chased by army soldiers over the Asr el-Nile bridge leading out of Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers swept into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday, chasing protesters and beating them to the ground with sticks and tossing journalists' TV cameras off of balconies in the second day of a violent crackdown on anti-military protesters that has left eight dead and hundreds injured.

An unidentified woman mourns at a bus stop where a grenade-lobbing gunman killed five people and injured 123, during a memorial march in the city center of Liege, Belgium, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

A French civil guard clears sand contaminated with fuel on the Kerminihy beach after the TK Bremen cargo ship was stranded by high winds, at Erdeven, near Lorient, France, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. High winds beached a cargo ship off France's Atlantic coast Thursday, as some 220 tons of fuel in its hold threatened to leak onto the local beach. Graffiti on the side of the ship reads in French, ""For Christmas, I wanted some snow, not fuel oil"

Mannequins with veils are seen on display at an exhibition hall for the Muslim World Fair in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

South Africa's bowler Imran Tahir celebrates the wicket of Sri Lanka's batsman Kaushal Silva, unseen, during the third day of their test cricket match at the Centurion Park in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

Actresses dressed as ancient Greek priestesses enter Panathinaiko Stadium to perform a torch lighting ceremony for the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics which will be held from Jan. 13 to Jan. 22, 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria, in Athens, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. The Olympic flame for the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics was successfully lit Saturday by the sun's rays at the birthplace of the modern Olympics.

Manoubia Bouazizi, mother of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old who set himself alight on Dec. 17, 2010 after a police officer confiscated the fruit and vegetables he sold to support his family, delivers a speech during the celebration for the first anniversary of the revolution, in Sidi Bouzid, central Tunisia, Saturday, Dec 17, 2011. It was in this hardscrabble town in Tunisia's arid interior that the death knell sounded exactly one year ago for the decades-old system of dictatorships in the Arab world.

Anti-government protesters help a woman overcome by tear gas fired by riot police Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, near Abu Saiba village west of the capital of Manama, Bahrain. It was the third straight day of clashes along a main highway where protesters have been trying to stage sit-ins against the government.

Anti-government protesters react to tear gas fired by riot police during clashes Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Abu Saiba village west of the capital of Manama, Bahrain. It was the third straight day of clashes along a main highway where protesters have been trying to stage sit-ins against the government.

Residents walk past a burnt UzenMunaiGas office in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Violent clashes broke out Friday between police and demonstrators in an oil town in western Kazakhstan. Authorities in Kazakhstan said Saturday that they have restored order to an oil town rocked by fatal clashes between police and demonstrators.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Libyan Prime Minister Abd al-Rheem Al-Keeb greet one another during their joint news conference in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, center right, with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Crets, center left, and Gen. Carter Ham, Commander U.S. Africa Command, third from left, places a wreath at the grave site of 13 U.S. Navy sailors during a ceremony at the Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011. Panetta visited the grave site of the sailors, who where killed on the USS Intrepid in 1804.

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, for a military hearing that will determine if he should face court-martial for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks classified leaks case. Manning is suspected of being the source in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history.

In this Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 photo, a boy jumps into the water at the Malecon in Havana.Just about anywhere else in the world, it would be a playground for the wealthy, diners in four-star restaurants and tourists willing to spend hundreds of dollars a night for a million-dollar view. But along the seafront boulevard, many buildings are dank, labyrinthine tenements bursting four or five times beyond capacity, plagued by mold and reeking of backed-up sewer drains.

Female dog Tapa catches a snowball after the first snowfall near Deuselbach, central Germany, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

Sweden's Jesper Stalheim (032) and competitors start the Laser men's gold fleet race 10 at the Sailing Championships in Perth, Australia, on Saturday Dec. 17. 2011. Croatia's Milan Vujasinovic was the winner of the race.
South Korean champion Choi Hyun-mi, a former North Korean defector, right, lands a right to challenger Sainamdoy Pitaklongen of Thailand during the WBA women's featherweight title boxing bout in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Choi defeated Sainamdoy with a TKO in the 5th round.

South Korean champion Choi Hyun-mi, a former North Korean defector, celebrates her victory over challenger Sainamdoy Pitaklongen of Thailand after the WBA women's featherweight title boxing bout in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Choi defeated Pitaklongen with a TKO in the 5th round.

In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, Indian laborers unload cotton from a truck at a cotton mill in Dhrangadhra, about 110 kilometers from Ahmadabad, India.

Horseback riders make their way through the snow covered landscape in Igis, eastern Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

Yoyo, a black bear at the Orange County Zoo at Irvine Regional Park in Irvine, Calif., opens up a Christmas present on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 . The zoo wraps treats in gift boxes for the animals and places Christmas trees inside the exhibit for the holidays. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Ana Venegas) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT MBO

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