Monday, December 19, 2011

Top 111 News Pictures Of 2011

You’ve had the Best Sports Pictures Of 2011 and these are our top 111 news pictures of 2011. 2011 Saw civil uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. We were also witness to conflict and hunger in Africa, Occupy Movements across the world, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, some great sporting events, the director of the IMF being charged with suspected rape, a crazy guy in Norway killing innocent people and nature showing us she’s still the boss of us. Nature gave us tornados, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and who can forget the tsunami which hit Japan in March.
Let’s hope 2012 brings a little less violence, death and destruction.
Top News Pix Of The 2011
1 Houses are swept by water following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan March
 11, 2011. A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan on Friday, causing many injuries, fires and a 
 ten-metre (33-ft) tsunami along parts of the country's coastline. There were several strong aftershocks and a 
warning of a 10-metre tsunami following the quake, which also caused buildings to shake violently in the capital
 Tokyo. A tsunami warning has been issued for the entire Pacific basin except for the mainland United States
 and Canada following a huge earthquake that hit Japan on Friday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
2 People stand at where a dam wall used to be, before it was destroyed by flood waters in Anuradhapura 
district, 206km (128 miles) north of Colombo, February 7, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
Top News Pix Of The 2011
3 Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts during a debate in the upper house of Parliament in Rome 
September 29, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
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4 A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011. Police
 and demonstrators fought running battles on the streets of Cairo on Friday in a fourth day of unprecedented 
protests by tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade
 rule. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
5 Roshan Bliss, who says he has a debt of $50,000 in school loans, attends an Occupy Denver demonstration 
in Denver, Colorado November 17, 2011 to celebrate the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
6 A Buddhist monk walks on a flooded street in central Bangkok October 24, 2011. Thailand is struggling with 
its worst flooding in 50 years, which has affected a third of its provinces and could swamp more of its densely 
populated capital, Bangkok, if water flowing from the north and heavy rain cause canals to burst their banks.
Top News Pix Of The 2011
7 Anti-Gaddafi fighters celebrate the fall of Sirte in the town October 20, 2011. Libyan interim government
 fighters captured Muammar Gaddafi's home town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant resistance by
 forces loyal to the deposed leader and ending a two-month siege. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
8 Containers on the stern deck of the 47,230 tonne Liberian-flagged Rena hang precariously, about 12 nautical
 miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island October 20, 2011. The recovery
 of fuel oil from a stricken container ship grounded off New Zealand resumed on Thursday as salvage teams 
worked to minimize the damage in the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
9 Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition
 forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Top News Pix Of The 2011
10 A view of a street after violent clashes between Libyan interim government forces and loyalists of Muammar
 Gaddafi in Sirte October 18, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori
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11 A student takes part in a march during a demonstration in Bogota October 12, 2011. Thousands of students
 marched in a nation wide protest against the education government's reform of public universities, student 
organizations reported. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
Top News Pix Of The 2011
12 Carnations are placed before a computer screen showing a portrait of Apple co-founder and former CEO 
Steve Jobs at an Apple store in St. Petersburg October 6, 2011. Jobs, counted among the greatest American 
 CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with
 cancer and other health issues. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
Top News Pix Of The 2011
13 U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Seattle, Washington, September 25, 2011.
Top News Pix Of The 2011
14 The Tribute in Lights is illuminated next to One World Trade Center during events marking the 10th anniversary
 of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2011. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
15 Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the
 9/11 Memorial during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, 
September 11, 2011. REUTERSJustin Lane/Pool
Top News Pix Of The 2011
16 Blood-stained shoes worn by Linda Lopez as she evacuated from the 97th Floor of Tower 2 on September
 11, 2001 are displayed before becoming a part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New
 York August 22, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Top News Pix Of The 2011
17 Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims from his popemobile as he arrives to lead a mass at the Cuatro 
Vientos aerodrome as part of World Youth Day festivities in Madrid August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Sergio 
Perez
Top News Pix Of The 2011
18 Looters run from a clothing store in Peckham, London August 8, 2011. Youths hurled missiles at police
 in northeast London on Monday as violence broke out in the British capital for a third night.
Top News Pix Of The 2011
19 Flowers and tributes are seen outside the home of Amy Winehouse in London July 24, 2011. Winehouse,
 one of the most talented singers of her generation whose hit song Rehab summed up her struggles with addiction,
 died in London on July 23 at the age of 27. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
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20 Pro-Mubarak supporters are detained by anti-government demonstators at an underground metro station
 after being rounded up during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 3, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah
 Dalsh
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21 A would-be immigrant wrapped in a blanket rests on a rescue ship after arriving at the southern Spanish 
port of Motril late July 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
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22 A demonstrator is detained by riot police during anti-austerity protests in Athens, June 29, 2011. 
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23 U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece, at 
Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
24 A wave caused by a tsunami flows into the city of Miyako from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture 
after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the area March 11, 2011. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
25 Two kitchen chairs are all that is left in a destroyed house as its foundation is prepared to be bulldozed 
following the May 22 tornado in Joplin on June 1, 2011. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
26 Police detain protesters during clashes in Tbilisi May 26, 2011. Georgian riot police used tear gas, rubber
 bullets and water cannon on Thursday to disperse several hundred opposition protesters demanding the 
 resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, a Reuters reporter said. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze
Top News Pix Of The 2011
27 Britain's Prince William helps his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, to leave the 1902 State Landau
 carriage as they arrive at Buckingham Palace after their wedding in Westminster Abbey in central London 
April 29, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
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28 A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran
 naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi May 22, 2011. Militants attacked a Pakistani 
naval aviation base on Sunday, killing at least four people, officials said, the latest attack on a heavily guarded 
military installation in Pakistan. REUTERS/Athar Hussain
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29 A boat navigates through a flooded farm in the municipality of Cajica near Bogota. May 21, 2011. 
Downpours due to La Nina have rocked the Andean nation since last year, displacing 3.8 million people 
and killing almost 450, authorities said. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
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30 A home is protected from encroaching floodwaters by a levee near Yazoo City, Mississippi May 18, 2011. 
Floodwater released from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou on Tuesday,
 and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
31 Demonstrators gather and shout slogans in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, against politicians, bankers and 
authorities' handling of the economic crisis May 18, 2011. REUTERS/Juan Medina
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32 A U.S. Army soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp 
of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training 
over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 in this U.S. military handout image from 
March 1, 2011. The New York Times and other United States media have reported that a military canine 
accompanied Navy SEAL Team Six commandos into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid that killed
 al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. REUTERS/Manuel J. Martinez/U.S. Air Force/Handout
Top News Pix Of The 2011
33 U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) and Vice President Joe Biden (L), along with members of the national
 security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White 
 House, May 1, 2011. Also pictured are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd R) and Defense Secretary 
Robert Gates (R). EDITORS NOTE: A classified document seen in this photograph has been digitally obscured
 at source. REUTERS/White House/Pete Souza/Handout
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34 A decomposing body lies on a road in Abidjan April 14, 2011. Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo was 
overthrown by Ivorians, not by foreign powers, the United Nations said on Thursday amid rising criticism 
of its role in the removal of the former leader. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
Top News Pix Of The 2011
35 A supporter of Uganda's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Kizza Besigye falls as he is attacked
 by a military policeman during riots in the Kasangati suburb of the capital Kampala, April 14, 2011. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
36 A demonstrator shows his bottom to riot police during a protest by European workers and trade union 
representatives to demand better job protection in the European Union countries in Brussels March 24, 2011.
Top News Pix Of The 2011
37 Snow falls as rescue workers walk through a devastated factory area hit by an earthquake and tsunami in 
Sendai, March 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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38 A house lies damaged in a river going through Kesennuma, March 15, 2011, days after the area was 
devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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39 A resident sits on the bed of his pick-up truck as he looks at a burning tanker truck in the municipality of 
Juarez, on the outskirts of Monterrey March 8, 2011. A tanker exploded late Tuesday on a dirt road, according
 to local media. The cause of the explosion remains unknown and no injuries were reported. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
40 A woman pretends to be gagged while taking part in a protest during International Women's Day in Mexico
 City March 8, 2011. The writing on the woman's chest reads, neither a whore, nor crazy, nor a saint, just a
 woman. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Top News Pix Of The 2011
41 Oscar winners for best supporting actor Christian Bale, best actress Natalie Portman, best supporting actress
 Melissa Leo, and best actor Colin Firth pose backstage at the 83rd Academy Awards in Hollywood, California,
 February 27, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Top News Pix Of The 2011
42 A man holds a pole as he installs a pump to extract mud at a primitive gold mine in Panompa near Phichin
 February 17, 2011. A group of Thais use primitive tools and methods to extract gold from self-run mines near
 the country's biggest and most modern Chatree gold mine. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Top News Pix Of The 2011
43 A government backer hurls rocks at anti-government protesters during clashes in Sanaa February 17, 2011.
 Hundreds of Yemen government loyalists wielding batons and daggers chased off a small group of protesters
 trying to kick off a seventh day of rallies on Thursday to demand their president end his 32-year rule. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
44 A street performer reacts after getting injured during riots in Oaxaca February 15, 2011. Hundreds of 
members of the teacher's union, teachers and students took to the streets to protest after they were denied 
 access to Mexico's President Felipe Calderon who was in town. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata
Top News Pix Of The 2011
45 A car, damaged by Tuesday's earthquake, remains under a collapsed rock wall in Christchurch February
 25, 2011. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
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46 Members of Congo's presidential guard walk through heavy rain ahead of incumbent Joseph Kabila (not seen)
 as he leaves a polling station after voting in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, November 28, 
 2011. Voting began slowly on Monday in Congo's second-post war election, held despite fears logistical 
problems and irregularities would undermine the result. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
Top News Pix Of The 2011
47 Anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square listen as President Hosni Mubarak speaks to the nation
 February 10, 2011. Mubarak provoked rage on Egypt's streets on Thursday when he said he would hand 
powers to his deputy but disappointed protesters who had been expecting him to step down altogether after two
 weeks of unrest. Leave! Leave! chanted thousands who had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation
 that a televised speech would be the moment their demands for an end to Mubarak's 30 years of authoritarian, 
one-man rule were met. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Top News Pix Of The 2011
48 Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is seen in this still image taken from video footage October 20, 
2011. Gaddafi was killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his
 long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori
Top News Pix Of The 2011
49 A man looks out over an area swept by a tsunami following an earthquake in Sendai City, northeastern Japan
 March 12, 2011. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and
 parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people.
Top News Pix Of The 2011
50 A man who fled the unrest in Tunisia leaves the immigration centre to protest against being sent back to his
 country, on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa April 11, 2011. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stepped
 up calls on Saturday for Europe to help deal with the
Top News Pix Of The 2011
51 Medical staff use a Geiger counter to screen a woman for possible radiation exposure at a public welfare 
centre in Hitachi City, Ibaraki, March 16, 2011, after she was evacuated from an area within 20km (12.4 
 miles) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The woman was tested negative for radiation exposure. 
Radiation has been released into the atmosphere at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant run by Tokyo Electric
 Power Co. on the country's northeast coast, which was badly damaged after a massive earthquake and 
tsunami on March 11. REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun
Top News Pix Of The 2011
52 A sea of flowers and lit candles are placed in memory of those killed in Friday's bomb and shooting attack
 in front of Oslo Cathedral July 25, 2011. At least 100,000 people, many carrying white or red roses, rallied 
in Oslo on Monday to show support for victims of attacks that killed 76 people, police said. Picture taken 
with a fish-eye lens. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
Top News Pix Of The 2011
53 Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend their wedding at Westminster Abbey
 in London April 29, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Top News Pix Of The 2011
54 Family photo albums are seen in ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit Otsuchi March 15,
 2011. In the fishermen town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, 12,000 out of a population of 15,000 have 
 disappeared following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Top News Pix Of The 2011
55 An injured taxi driver, who later died of his injuries, lies behind his vehicle at a crime scene in Acapulco 
February 18, 2011. Heavily armed groups shot at least a dozen people, six taxi drivers among them, burned
 about 18 vehicles, a house and a business and carried out shooutout in different parts of the Pacific resort 
city of Acapulco early Friday, according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer
Top News Pix Of The 2011
56 Fashion designer John Galliano (C) and his lawyer Stephane Zerbib (L) arrive for a hearing at a police 
station in Paris February 28, 2011. The Christian Dior fashion house suspended its star designer John Galliano
 on Friday pending an inquiry into accusations he hurled racist remarks at a couple in a Paris bar. About a 
week before Galliano was due to present Dior's collection in Paris, police were called to a bar in the city's 
trendy Marais district on Thursday evening where they found the designer doling out a drunken torrent of 
abuse to a couple of customers, a police source told Reuters. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
Top News Pix Of The 2011
57 Rebels hold a young man at gunpoint, who they accuse of being a loyalist to Libyan leader Muammar 
Gaddafi, between the towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf, March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Top News Pix Of The 2011
58 People watch from a nearby building as a fire burns in a slum in Mumbai March 4, 2011. A fire gutted a 
large shanty town, home to hundreds of residents, next to Bandra station in Mumbai's suburbs. 
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59 A man walks as crude oil spills from a pipeline in Dadabili, Niger state April 2, 2011. Nigeria postponed 
parliamentary elections nationwide until Monday after voting materials failed to arrive in many areas, a major 
blow to hopes of a break with a history of chaotic polls in Africa's most populous nation. Voting materials also
 failed to arrive in large parts of the southern oil-producing Niger Delta. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Top News Pix Of The 2011
60 A man wades in neck-deep water filled with debris while searching for valuable items after a fire razed 
some 500 houses along a coastal village in Malabon city, north of Manila April 7, 2011. The fire, believed 
to be caused by an exploding liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank, started before dawn on Thursday. No 
casualties were reported but at least 3,000 residents lost their homes. Fire fighters had a difficult time getting
 to the scene and putting out the blaze because the houses were close to each other and made of light materials,
 local media reported. REUTERS/Erik de Castro
Top News Pix Of The 2011
61 Staff Sgt. Keith Fidler kisses his wife Cynthia, as their son Kolin looks on, during a homecoming ceremony
 in New York, April 8, 2011 for the New York Army National Guard's 442nd Military Police Company's 
 return from Iraq. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Top News Pix Of The 2011
62 An undated photo released on April 15, 2011 by Rio de Janeiro state's Public Safety Department (SESEG)
 shows Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 24, posing with a gun. The gunman, Oliveira, killed 12 children at a 
Rio de Janeiro school and then himself, police said on April 7, shocking the South American nation that has 
never seen such an incident before. REUTERS/SESEG/Handout
Top News Pix Of The 2011
63 Kwykyti, 63, from Kayapo tribe receives medical attention during the second day of a medical expedition 
of the Expedicionarios da Saude (Brazilian Health Expeditions) in Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern 
Brazil April 22, 2011. The Expedicionarios da Saude (Brazilian Health Expeditions) organization is currently 
on a medical expedition to the area with volunteer doctors that twice a year build a mobile hospital to provide
 clinical and surgical treatment for indigenous tribes and residents from different parts of the Amazonian Rainforest. 
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64 Students of Shankar Dev Campus, which is affiliated to the Nepal Student Union (NSU), gather stones to 
throw at the police during a clash with them while staging a protest demanding the release of their fellow student
 Binendra Giri of Trichandra Campus in Kathmandu May 10, 2011. Giri has been held in police custody after 
an alleged intimidation in a tender bid. He has also inflicted injuries on Birendra Rawal, an All Nepal National 
Free Students Union (ANNFSU) leader, on December 19, 2010 after a dispute over the admission of new 
students, according to local media. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Top News Pix Of The 2011
65 Osama bin Laden is shown watching himself on television in this video frame grab released by the U.S. 
Pentagon May 7, 2011. Five videos were found in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan after U.S. 
Navy Seals stormed the compound and killed bin Laden. The compound in Pakistan where U.S. forces killed 
bin Laden was an active command and control center where the al Qaeda leader remained in strategic and 
 operational control of the organization, a senior U.S. intelligence official said on May 7. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
66 Police charge at a man they suspect of creating trouble during celebrations of the Red Machindranath chariot
 festival in Lalitpur May 15, 2011. The festival is one of the main festivals observed by both the Buddhist and
 Hindu communities of Kathmandu valley. It honours the deity Lord Machindranath, who is credited with saving
 Nepal from a prolonged drought in ancient times. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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67 Passengers on Cathay Pacific flight CX715 prepare to disembark from the aeroplane after it landed safely
 at Changi Airport in Singapore May 16, 2011. The A330 flight, which was enroute to Jakarta, experienced 
engine trouble shortly after takeoff and had to return to Singapore. Its starboard engine was burnt, according to 
pilot Bradley Chic. REUTERS/Beawiharta
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68 Oprah Winfrey wipes a tear from her eye as she stands with actor Tom Hanks during the taping of Oprah's 
Surprise Spectacular in Chicago May 17, 2011. Winfrey kicked off one of her last-ever national talk shows on 
 Tuesday with hugs from Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Madonna in a packed Chicago arena. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
69 The Space Shuttle Challenger moves through the fog on its way down the crawler way en route to Launch
 Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in this NASA handout photo dated November 30, 1982. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
70 Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for
 the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, June 3, 2011. Mladic appeared on Friday before the Yugoslav
 war crimes court to hear charges of genocide over the 1992-95 Bosnian war. 
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71 A dog barks at a formation of riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens, June 15, 2011. Tens of 
thousands of grassroot activists and unionists converged on Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square 
 Wednesday as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of 
tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and 
International Monetary Fund and avoid default. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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72 A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier stands in line during a rehearsal of the Independence 
Day ceremony in Juba July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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73 Casey Anthony (C) reacts with her defense team following her acquittal on first degree murder charges 
of her daughter Caylee at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida July 5, 2011. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
74 News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch is seen leaving his flat with Rebekah Brooks, chief executive 
of News International, in central London in this July 10, 2011 file photograph. Rebekah Brooks, Rupert
 Murdoch's most senior newspaper executive in Britain, has resigned as chief executive of News International,
 the British subsidiary of News Corp, Sky News reported on July 15, 2011. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/Files
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75 A woman carries her baby as she queues for food in a camp established by the Somali Transitional Federal
 Government (TFG) for the internally displaced people in Mogadishu July 20, 2011. The United Nations said 
on Wednesday two regions of southern Somalia had been hit by the worst famine in the area for 20 years and 
that 3.7 million people in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation risked starvation. REUTERS/African Union-United
 Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout
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76 An injured man is attended to at the site of a powerful explosion that rocked central Oslo July 22, 2011. 
A huge explosion damaged government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Prime Minister Jens 
 Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters witness said. The blast blew out most windows on the
 17-storey building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which 
was on fire. REUTERS/Per Thrana
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77 An internally displaced Afghan man talks from a small window at a refugee camp in Kabul July 28, 2011.
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78 An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans 
Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 28,
 2011. Aid groups, which have been clamoring for money to help famine-stricken Somalia, are struggling to 
reach millions in the affected areas. Some 3.7 million Somalis risk starvation in two regions of south Somalia 
 controlled by Islamist al Shabaab militants. Yet more than 2 million of them have not received any help. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
79 Police spray demonstrators from the India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with water canons
 as the demonstrators try to climb past barricades during an anti-government protest in New Delhi August 9, 
 2011. Thousands of opposition activists marched on the Indian parliament on Tuesday demanding the resignation
 of a prominent ruling Congress politician over corruption, the latest move to pressure the beleaguered government
 to act. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma
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80 Hundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham are seen posted on a looted storefront
 in southeast London August 10, 2011. British cities began on Wednesday to clean up shopping streets littered 
 with debris from a night of looting by gangs of hooded youths copying the tactics of young Londoners who 
had rampaged through districts of the capital for three nights.REUTERS/Chris Helgren
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81 Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik (L), the man accused of a killing spree and bomb attack in Norway, 
sits in the rear of a vehicle as he is transported in a police convoy as he is leaving the courthouse in Oslo July 
25, 2011. A judge ordered eight weeks detention on Monday for Breivik who has admitted a bombing and 
shooting massacre that killed about 90 people and who claimed in court to have two more groups of collaborators.
 Custody, in line with prosecutors' request, will allow them to investigate the case against Breivik, 32, an anti-Islamic
 zealot who has previously claimed sole responsibility for Friday's attacks. The custody can be extended. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
82 A man climbs a pole at the center of a pond while people try to grab a goat from the water as part of the 
Deopokhari festival in Khokana August 15, 2011. During the annual festival, a live goat is thrown into a pond 
 and the team of devotees that retrieve the animal first wins. REUTERS/Sanjog Manandhar
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83 A girl holds a peacock feather during the Krishna Janmashtami festival in Lalitpur near Kathmandu August 
21, 2011. Krishna Janmashtami marks the birth of Hindu god Krishna. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Top News Pix Of The 2011
84 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez takes part in an ecumenic ceremony to pray for his health and cancer 
treatment at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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85 Somali government forces shoot at close range to execute two former soldiers Abdi Sankus Abdi (R) and 
Abdullahi Jinow Guure (L) at the Iskola Bulisiya square in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, August 22, 2011. 
 The military court of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) executed Abdi, 31, and Guure, 29, after they
 were found guilty of killing another soldier and a civilian on the basis of witness testimony, the Chairman of the
 Military Court Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab said. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
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86 Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair walk to catch a cab in New York 
August 25, 2011. A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against Strauss-Kahn on 
Tuesday after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his accuser. REUTERS/Allison Joyce
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87 Policemen take pictures of the unfolding of a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting unique to
 Tibet, during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region
 August 29, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky Chen
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88 Policemen and residents run as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River
 in Haining, Zhejiang province August 31, 2011. As Typhoon Nanmadol approaches eastern China, the tides 
 and waves in Qiantang River recorded its highest level in 10 years, local media reported. 
Top News Pix Of The 2011
89 German police remove a left-wing demonstrator from a road blockade during a counter-demonstration 
against a neo-Nazi rally in Dortmund September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Alex Domanski
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90 A wild cow chases runners at the bullring following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in 
Pamplona July 7, 2011. Four people suffered minor injuries in the run that lasted two and a half minutes, 
according to local news sources. REUTERS/Vincent West
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91 Members of a white supremacy group give the fascist salute during a gathering in West Allis, Wisconsin, 
September 3, 2011. Neo-Nazi demonstrators gathered for a rally in defense of white America in response to 
an incident that Milwaukee Police Chief described as racially charged violence outside the Wisconsin state fair
 on August 4, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Hauck
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92 A tear runs down the face of one-year-old boy Asho as he takes refuge with his family in a camp for flood 
victims in the Badin district of Pakistan's Sindh province September 20, 2011. The latest floods, triggered by 
monsoon rains, have killed more than 300 people, destroyed or damaged 1.4 million houses and flooded 4.5 
million acres (1.8 million hectares) since late last month, officials and Western aid groups say. More than 300,000
 people have been moved to shelters. Some 800,000 families hit by last year's floods are still homeless. Aid 
groups have warned of a growing risk of fatal diseases. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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93 A Tunisian woman, seen through a broken glass window, walks next to the swimming pool at the empty 
and ransacked home of Kaif Ben Ali, nephew of former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, in the Mediterranean
 resort of Hammamet, about 60 km from the capital January 16, 2011. Showing their contempt for Zine al-
Abidine Ben Ali's family, several hundred people filed through the home of Kaif Ben Ali, taking photographs, 
 picking up plants as souvenirs and stripping out plumbing fixtures, two days after the president was ousted.
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94 Police officers wearing riot gear walk past a burning building in Tottenham, north London August 7, 2011. 
Crowds attacked riot police and set two squad cars alight in north London on Saturday following a protest at 
the fatal shooting of a man by armed officers earlier in the week. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
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95 Demonstrators carrying signs march as they are reflected in a mirror in Port-au-Prince September 23, 2011
, as Haitian President Michel Martelly is scheduled to speak to the United Nations General Assembly in New 
 York. Demonstrators accuse the United Nations Stabilisation Mission In Haiti (UNSTAMIH), also known as 
MINUSTAH, for bringing cholera into their country, for the rape and murder of their people and demand for
 their immediate withdrawal. REUTERS/Swoan Parker
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96 Ukrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko (2nd R) addresses the media, with Interior Ministry officers
 surrounding her, during a session at the Pecherskiy district court in Kiev October 11, 2011. The European 
 Commission said on Tuesday it was deeply disappointed by the sentencing of Ukraine's former prime minister
 Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison and said it could have profound implications for relations with the 
bloc. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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97 A view of the drain where Muammar Gaddafi was hiding before he was captured in Sirte October 21, 2011
. The United Nations human rights office called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader
 Muammar Gaddafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed. Images filmed on mobile phones 
before and after Gaddafi's death showed him wounded and bloodied but clearly alive after his capture in his 
hometown of Sirte on Thursday, and then dead amidst a jostling crowd of anti-Gaddafi fighters. 
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98 Two Copts fight with man (C), who onlookers say was a Muslim, prior to clashes between Coptic youths 
and riot police, who later opened fire with rubber bullets and tear gas, along the streets outside a Coptic 
 Orthodox church in Alexandria, 230 km (140 miles) north of Cairo, January 1, 2011. A bomb killed at least 
17 people outside the church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on New Year's Day and the Interior 
 Ministry said a foreign-backed suicide bomber may have been responsible. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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99 A gunman identified as Arnel Buenaflor aims his pistol at local village politician Reynaldo Dagsa shortly 
before Dagsa was assassinated in this handout photo released by Dagsa's family in Manila on January 5, 2011.
 Reynaldo Dagsa took this picture of his family on New Year's eve moments before he was killed by Gonzales
 who was captured on his camera together with an accomplice (man on the right). Police said, they arrested 
Gonzales and his accomplice in the assassination. REUTERS/Dagsa Family/Handout
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100 Incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R) becomes emotional and cries as outgoing House Speaker 
Nancy Pelosi (L) introduces him to take over the gavel and the podium after Boehner was elected speaker 
on the opening day of the 112th United States Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 5, 2011. 
Republicans are taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives since winning a majority in the November
 U.S. Congressional mid-term elections. REUTERS/Jim Young
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101 A fisherman arranges a fishing net as his wife paddles their boat in the waters of the Periyar river on the 
outskirts of the southern Indian city of Kochi January 5, 2011. REUTERS/Sivaram V
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102 A policeman fires a teargas shell towards protesters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out 
of the southern Andhra Pradesh state during a demonstration in Hyderabad January 7, 2011. Supporters of 
 Telangana statehood say the interior region has been neglected in favour of Andhra Pradesh's dominant 
coastal districts. Opponents fear the loss of Hyderabad to the new state will cut off a major revenue stream for
 Andhra Pradesh, which has invested heavily in a city that is home to companies such as Microsoft, Google
 and Mahindra Satyam. REUTERS/Stringer
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103 A Palestinian woman throws a stone towards Israeli soldiers during a weekly protest against the controversial 
Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, January 7, 2011, after a Palestinian woman,
 Jawaher Abu Rahme, died following a protest in Bilin last week. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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104 France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy wipes the brow of her husband, France's President Nicolas 
Sarkozy, as they visit a market in Fort-de-France on the Martinique island January 8, 2011. Sarkozy and his
 wife travel to Martinique and Guadeloupe to deliver New Year's address to French overseas territories 
before a meeting with the U.S. President in Washington on Monday. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
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105 U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband, NASA shuttle commander 
Mark Kelly (C) and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napliano hold hands at the Together We Thrive: 
Tucson and America event held to support and remember the victims of the mass shooting, at the University 
of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, January 12, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young
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106 A trainee leopard crawls along a 50 metre-long path of jagged coral and rocks as part of the Taiwan Marine
 Corps frogmen Road to Heaven test in Zuoying, Kaohsiung January 19, 2011. The test is the final stage of a 
 nine-week intensive Amphibious Training Program. REUTERS/Nicky Loh
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107 A Lebanese soldier runs past burning tires lit by Lebanese Sunni Muslim supporters of Lebanon's caretaker
 Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri during what they called a day of anger, at the main road connecting Beirut to 
 southern Lebanon, in Sidon, southern Lebanon January 25, 2011. Hundreds of supporters of Hariri protested
 in north Lebanon on Tuesday against the expected nomination of Hezbollah-backed Najib Mikati to form the
 next government. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho
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108 Riot police keep watch as they hold shields during clashes with protesters in Cairo January 26, 2011. 
Thousands of Egyptians defied a ban on protests by returning to Egypt's streets on Wednesday and calling for
 President Hosni Mubarak to leave office, and some scuffled with police. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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109 Immigrants and asylum seekers, with their mouths taped, protest to demand for asylum in central Athens 
February 1, 2011. An estimated half a million illegal immigrants and asylum seekers live in the Mediterranean 
 state of about 11 million inhabitants, many of them in Athens, and an increasing share of those trying to reach
 the EU come in through Greece. REUTERS/John Kolesidis (
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110 Anti-Gaddafi fighters return fire during clashes with Gaddafi forces in Sirte October 15, 2011. 
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111 Egyptian celebrates after the announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Cairo 
February 11, 2011. A furious wave of protest finally swept Mubarak from power on Friday after 30 years 
of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world 
and beyond. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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