Protesters
chant slogans as they march through Ikorodu road during a protest
against a fuel subsidy removal in Lagos, Jan. 9, 2012. Thousands of
Nigerians took to the streets across Africa's top oil producing nation,
launching an indefinite nationwide strike to protest against the axing
of fuel subsidies. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)#
An
instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co,
smashes a bottle over a female recruit's head during a training session
for China's first female bodyguards in Beijing, Jan. 13, 2012.
According to the company, the training session consists of 20 women,
mostly college graduates, who will undergo 8-10 months of training to
develop sufficient skills to become security guards. The company will
then offer the best trainee a chance to attend the International
Security Academy in Israel. (David Gray/Reuters)#
A
demonstrator wears a Guy Fawkes mask during an "Occupy Congress" rally
at the West Front Lawn of the Capitol, Jan. 17, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Hundreds of members of the "Occupy" movement from across the country
participated in the Occupy Congress rally on Capitol Hill. (Alex
Wong/Getty Images)#
The
luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia run aground off the coast of Giglio
in this Jan. 17, 2012 DigitalGlobe satellite photograph. Eleven people
are confirmed dead and at least 23 are still missing from more than
4,200 passengers and crew after the Concordia ran aground two hours into
a week-long cruise of the western Mediterranean.
(DigitalGlobe/Reuters/Handout)#
A
Palestinian man reacts upon the arrival of the body of a man, killed by
an Israeli strike, at a hospital in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza
Strip, Jan. 18, 2012. An Israeli aircraft and tank strike killed at
least one Palestinian close to the border fence in the Hamas-controlled
Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)#
Two
Russian Orthodox priests lift a child from the ice-cold water to mark
celebrations of the Epiphany Orthodox holiday, outside St. Petersburg,
Russia, Jan. 19, 2012. People believe that dipping into blessed waters
during the holiday of Epiphany strengthens their spirit and body.
(Anatoly Maltxev/EPA)#
Demonstrators
throw fire bombs toward riot police during violent protests in central
Athens, Feb. 12, 2012. Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police as
the Greek parliament prepared to vote on a new and deeply unpopular
EU/IMF austerity deal, to secure a 130 billion euro bailout, aimed at
saving Greece from bankruptcy and what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos
warned would be "uncontrollable economic chaos". (Milos Bicanski/Getty
Images)#
A
picture combo shows a sightseeing boat on the roof of a guesthouse in
Otsuchi, northern Japan, May 7, 2011, and a view of the same guesthouse,
Feb. 15 2012. March 11, 2012 marked the first anniversary of the
9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated
northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. (Kimimasa Mayama/EPA)#
A
physically disabled woman clashes with riot police in the centre of La
Paz, Feb. 23, 2012. Hundreds of physically disabled people arrived in La
Paz after completing a protest march of some 1600 km (994 miles) over a
hundred days to demand that Bolivia's government offer support in the
form of 3000 bolivianos ($434) payment to each physically disabled
Bolivian. (David Mercado/Reuters)#
A
pro-reform protester performs prayers using the Bahraini flag on a
blocked highway during clashes with police following a march along
Budaiya Highway, north of the Bahraini capital Manama, March9, 2012.
Thousands of opposition supporters marched on the outskirts of Manama,
demanding democratic reforms, in one of the largest rallies to be
witnessed by the Gulf island since last year's pro-reform protests.
(Mazen Mahdi/EPA)#
Buddhist
monks offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and
tsunami at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, some 25
km (15 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant March 10, 2012, a day before the disaster's one-year anniversary.
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, last year, unleashed a tsunami
that killed about 16,000 and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis
since Chernobyl. About 326,000 people are still homeless and nearly
3,300 remain unaccounted for. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)#
U.S.
President Barack Obama accidentially steps on First lady Michelle
Obama's dress as they walk onto the North Portico before the arrival of
British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron at
the White House, March 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. Cameron is on a
three-day visit to the U.S. and he was expected to have talks with Obama
on the situations in Afghanistan, Syria and Iran. (Alex Wong/Getty
Images)#
Thousands
of ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty stand on ladders
as they follow the funeral procession of their rabbi Moshe Yhoshua
Hager's body wrapped in a prayer Shawl before his funeral, March 14,
2012 in Bnei Brak, Israel. Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, who was the head
of Israel's second largest Hasidic community, died aged 95 and was
buried beside his father's grave in the Tel Aviv suburb of Brei .
(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)#
An
Afghan police helicopter flies over Hazrat Ali (Kart-i-Sakhi) shrine
where Afghans celebrate the Afghan New Year (Nawroz) in Kabul, March 20,
2012. Afghanistan uses the Persian calendar which runs from the vernal
equinox. The calendar takes as its start date the time when the Prophet
Mohammad moved from Mecca to Medina in 621 AD. The current Persian year
is 1391. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)#
A
beer bottle is thrown at Italian Police as Alcoa aluminium company
workers protest against dismissals from employment in front of the
Ministry of Employment building in Rome, March 27, 2012. Alcoa is the
world's leading integrated aluminium company, providing jobs to 61,000
employees across 31 countries. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)#
Pope
Benedict XVI and Cuban President Raul Castro wave to the media after a
meeting at the Consejos de Estado on the second day of his three day
visit, March 27, 2012 in Havana, Cuba. Fourteen years after Pope John
Paul II visited Cuba, Pope Benedict is making his first trip to the
communist country. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)#
Afghan
security forces escort Taliban militants clad in Afghan women dresses
at the Afghan intelligence department in Mehterlam, Laghman province,
east of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 28, 2012. Afghan Intelligence forces
arrested seven Taliban militants in Qarghayi district of Laghman
province. (Rahmat Gul/Associated Press#
A
Yemeni man learns to walk with a prosthetic limb at a prosthetics
center in Sana'a, Yemen, April 3, 2012. According to official
statistics, landmines and explosive remnants of war remain a significant
problem in Yemen due to the fact that it does not have accurate mapping
of the landmine-affected areas. In 2009 only 37,111 landmines and
explosives were discovered. (Yahya Arhab/EPA)#
A
soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade take part in Exercise Joint Warrior
at West Freugh Airfield, April 16, 2012 in Starnraer, Scotland. The
exercise will involve more than 1600 troops, and be supported by Apache,
Chinook, and Royal Navy Sea King Helicopters from the Joint Helicopter
Force. RAF Fast Jets and support aircraft, as well as several US and
French aircraft will also support the exercise. This year the ABTF will
be joined by a number of French personnel from 11 Parachute Brigade.
(Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)#
Norwegian
mass killer Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives for his
terrorism and murder trial in a courtroom in Oslo, April 16, 2012.
Breivik, who massacred 77 people last summer, arrived under heavy armed
guard at an Oslo courthouse, lifting his arm in what he has called a
rightist salute as his trial began. Breivik, 33, has admitted setting
off a car bomb that killed eight people at government headquarters in
Oslo last July, then massacring 69 in a shooting spree at an island
summer camp for Labour Party youths. (Heiko Junge/Reuters)#
A
pedestrian walks past a traditional colonial-era Board House dating
back about a century on Pademba Road in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown,
April 27, 2012. Scattered across Sierra Leone's capital Freetown stand
aging wooden houses, some of which look more like they belong on the
east coast of 18th century America than in a steamy west African city.
Others look like they may have been built hundreds of years ago in the
islands of the Caribbean, another reflection of Sierra Leone's history
as a colony established for freed slaves. (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)#
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