Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 24

I’m ashamed to say I’ve not really followed the news too much this past week. A little baby and football on the TV will do that to a person. Thankfully I have to make sure I have a selection of cool pix ready for your enjoyment at the end of each week and it allowed me to catch up with some world events. Which is your favorite image?

1A woman prepares to swallow a live fish that has been dipped in homemade medicine during a camp in 

Hyderabad. KRISHNENDU HALDER/REUTERS

2Palestinian protesters run away as an Israeli military bulldozer clears a road block placed by the protesters 

during clashes near Nablus. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

3A mother eats with her family during a demonstration against the verdict for deposed leader Hosni Mubarak 

and against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik in Cairo's Tahrir Square. 

4A soldier from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, guards 

an LZ at night at COP Pirtle-King in Afghanistan. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

5A mourner reacts during the funeral for Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees at St. Mary's Chrurch in Thame, central 

England. STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS

6A farmer, wearing plastic sheets to cover himself from the rain, sits near coffee beans at a coffee farm in the 

jungle of Villa Rica. PILAR OLIVARES/REUTERS

7A farmer works at a pig farm on the outskirts of Shenyang. SHENG LI/REUTERS

8A child carries a suona as he walks past a receiving line for greeting visitors at Pianpo Village in Kai county,

 Guizhou province. JIANAN YU/REUTERS

9A stray dog stands on a rubbish dump at the seafront in Sidon. ALI HASHISHO/REUTERS

10The Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft wait to be transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch 

Center. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

11Britain's Prince Philip waves to members of the media as he leaves the King Edward VII Hospital in London. 

PAUL HACKETT/REUTERS

12A firefighter cuts steel to retrieve the trapped body of a construction worker from the rubble of a collapsed 

building in Mlolongo area. THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS

13Survivor Sfoundouris points at memorial on eve of anniversary of Nazi wartime Distomo massacre in village

 of Distomo. YANNIS BEHRAKIS/REUTERS

14The USS Iowa makes her way through the main channel of the Port of Los Angeles to her permanent home,

 Berth 87, in San Pedro. LORI SHEPLER/REUTERS

15Investigators secure the scene where a police helicopter crashed into a forest in the Kibiko area of Ngong 

township, on the outskirts of Nairobi. THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS

16A protester burns a China national flag during a protest to urge Chinese authorities to carry out a proper

 investigation into the death of Li Wangyang ,outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong. 

17A damaged L-410 plane is seen in a field near Borodyanka aerodrome. 

18Afghan boys look at a U.S. Army soldier of 5-20 Infantry Regiment attached to the 82nd Airborne Division,

 in Zharay district of Kandahar province. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

19A woman leaves her house through a decorated doorway during Corpus Christi day in Zahara de la Sierra.

 JON NAZCA/REUTERS

20Man dressed in a red and yellow costume representing the devil, known as El Colacho, jumps over babies 

placed on a mattress during traditional Corpus Christi celebrations in Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, 

 northern Spain. RICARDO ORDONEZ/REUTERS

21Souheil Duchene, 5, looks at his confiscated schoolbag next to his father Denis near the Circuit Gilles 

Villeneuve before the Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Montreal . CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/REUTERS

23Smoke fills the air over a small barn turning the sky orange as the High Park Fire burns near Laporte, 

Colorado. MARC PISCOTTY/REUTERS

24Host Neil Patrick Harris performs during the American Theatre Wing's 66th annual Tony Awards in New 

York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

25Shawn Davis and his five-year old son Emerson fly-fish for trout at Spring Creek near Bellefonte, 

Pennsylvania. GARY CAMERON/REUTERS

26Ethnic Rakhine people get water from a firefighter truck to extinguish fire set to their houses during fighting 

between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe. STAFF/REUTERS

27An ethnic Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he walks in front of houses that were burnt during

 fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe. STAFF/REUTERS

28The body of a victim of the helicopter crash is seen on a zip line during the recovery operation in the Hualla

 Hualla area of Quispicanchis. HANDOUT/REUTERS

29A man walks past a damaged passenger bus which was hit by a bomb attack in Mastung. 

30Coal miners blocked the Madrid-Gijon railway during a protest against government cuts in the mining sector

 in Cinera. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS

31Venezuela's President Chavez waves to supporters before the registration of his presidential bid in Caracas.

 Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS

32A rocket is launched from M-270A1 MLRS during a combined rocket live fire training exercise in 

Cheorwon. LEE JAE-WON/REUTERS

33Workers spread maize crop for drying at a wholesale grain market in Chandigarh. 

34Police officers arrest fan during clashes before Euro 2012 soccer match between Poland and Russia in 

Warsaw . STR/REUTERS

35People gather around a humpback whale that beached itself in White Rock. ANDY CLARK/REUTERS

36Incoming Lieutenants participate during a ceremony at a police school in Bogota. 

37Producer of sisal fibres works at his farm in Conceiao do Coite in the state of Bahia. 

38Fellow workers, a firefighter and doctors work together to cut steel bars which were pierced through a 

worker's body during an operation at a hospital in Hangzhou. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

39Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge laughs as Queen Elizabeth gestures while they watch part of a

 children's sports event during a visit to Vernon Park in Nottingham. PHIL NOBLE/REUTERS

40Protester screams at JPMorgan Chase and Company CEO Jamie Dimon as he testifies before U.S. Senate 

Committee in Washington. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

41A pair of sandals lies on bloodstained ground after shelling at the Talbisah area in Homs city. 

42Indigenous children from Paresi tribe talk at Kari-Oca village in Rio de Janeiro. 

43Children play in the water in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Benghazi. 

44People watch an exhibition at the Copacabana Fort in Rio de Janeiro. STRINGER/BRAZIL/REUTERS

45Models present creations from the Adriana Degreas collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week Summer 

2012/2013 in Sao Paulo. NACHO DOCE/REUTERS

46An usher waits in the doorway of a train, as a conductor watches remaining passengers board at the Beijing 

South railway station. DAVID GRAY/REUTERS

47Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi attends a news conference after addressing the 101st session 

of the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organisation at the United Nations 

European headquarters in Geneva. VALENTIN FLAURAUD/REUTERS

48Soldiers patrol through a neighbourhood that was burnt during recent violence in Sittwe. 

49Soldiers pay a silent tribute after completing the exhumation of the remains of South Korean soldiers at an

 excavation site on a mountain in Sokcho. YONHAP/REUTERS

50A fireman looks damaged Parmesan cheese inside a collapsed storage in Rolo. 

51U.S. Army soldiers react after their comrade was wounded at patrol by an IED in southern Afghanistan. 

SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

52Hungarian Istvan Puskas poses with his wooden chopper in Tiszaors. LASZLO BALOGH/REUTERS

53A man rummages through a garbage container in Barcelona. ALBERT GEA/REUTERS

54Italian PM Monti and French President Hollande review an honour guard as they arrive for a meeting at 

Chigi palace in Rome. MAX ROSSI/REUTERS

56Captain Brownlee during a ceremony to pay homage to the British soldiers who died in the war, in Stanley. 

ENRIQUE MARCARIAN/REUTERS

57Bom, Minzy and Dara of 2NE1 and a promoter pose during a red carpet event to promote new movie 

''The Amazing Spider-Man'' in Seoul. STRINGER/KOREA/REUTERS

58People attend the White Dinner event in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. GONZALO 

FUENTES/REUTERS

59File photo of Rohingya children from Myanmar playing in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar. ANDREW 

BIRAJ/REUTERS

60Coal miners fire a rocket during a clash with Spanish national riot police in the surroundings of the El Soton

 coal mine in El Entrego. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS