Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Eye-catching photos of the year


Pablo Cesar Cano, right, lands a punch against Ashley Theophane in the eighth round during a welterweight fight on Sept. 14 in Las Vegas. (Mark J. Terrill / AP)
Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett, left, plays table tennis with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Omaha on May 5. (Rick Wilking / Reuters)
Mushers compete on Jan. 18 in Megeve, France, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race. (Jeff Pachoud / AFP/Getty Images)
An Austrian athlete is reflected in a puddle of rain while competing in the men's training race at the Sliding Center Sanki during the Luge World Cup 2013 at Krasnaya Polyana resort, 37 miles east of Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 22. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP)
In this Feb. 15 frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, a meteorite contrail is seen on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. (Nasha Gazeta via AP)
Fire-eaters participate in a march in Bogota, Colombia, on Aug. 29 in support of a strike by agricultural workers. According to reports, Colombian police dispersed thousands of protesters with water and tear gas. (Mauricio Duenas Castaneda / European Pressphoto Agency)
Windblown embers fly from an oak tree that burned in a wildfire near Banning, Calif. The Silver Fire broke out in a rural area 90 miles east of Los Angeles on Aug. 7. (David McNew / Reuters)
LaTisha Garcia carries her 8-year-old daughter, Jazmin Rodriguez, near Plaza Towers Elementary School after a massive tornado carved its way through Moore, Okla., May 20. (Sue Ogrocki / AP)
This aerial view on Nov. 18 shows the path of a tornado that hit the western Illinois town of Washington. It was one of the worst-hit areas after intense storms and tornadoes swept through Illinois. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)
Egyptian protesters drag a wounded Muslim Brotherhood supporter during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood near the Islamist group’s headquarters in Cairo on March 22. (Khalil Hamra / AP)
Protesters flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes after protesters removed a concrete barrier at Qasr al-Aini Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Jan. 24. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters)
Free Syrian Army fighters rush to help a fellow fighter after he was shot by a sniper loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighborhood Oct. 9. (Reuters)
A Syrian man with more than half his body burnt from an air strike leaves a field hospital to return home to a village turned into a battlefield with government forces in Idlib province, northern Syria, Sept. 22. (AP)
An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp on July 18 near the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq. The camp is home to 115,000 Syrians. (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)
This aerial photo shows the wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 airplane after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)
South Africa's Riaan Van Niekerk rides his KTM during the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally 2013 from Arequipa in Peru to Arica in Chile, Jan. 9. (Jacky Naegelen / Reuters)
Riot police are covered with foam sprayed by Belgian firefighters during an Oct. 7 protest in central Brussels for better work conditions. (Yves Herman / Reuters)
A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on Jan. 23 in Chicago. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
The shadow of a helicopter is projected over KTM rider Cyril Despres of France while he competes in the 12th stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally from Fiambala, Argentina, to Copiapo, Chile, Jan. 17. (Victor R. Caivano / AP)
Security guards for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team tackle a fan who went onto the field during the fifth inning and tried to run off with second base at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Sept. 16. (Al Messerschmidt / Getty Images)
A runner gets gored by a bull on Estafeta Street during the sixth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 12. The runner, a 31-year-old man from Castellon, Spain, identified by local media as Diego Miralles, was gored three times. (Susana Vera / Reuters)
Women throw bras on March 25 at the Esplanade des Droits de l'Homme, in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, during an event organized by Pink Bra Bazaar, a French organization that raises awareness about breast cancer. (Pierre Verdy / AFP/Getty Images)
Visitors take pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on Sept. 22. (Chance Chan / Reuters)
Indians participate in celebrations to mark International Day of Older Persons on Oct. 1 at an assisted-living home in Ahmadabad, India. (Ajit Solanki / AP)
Britain's Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, right, sings with Taylor Swift, left, and Jon Bon Jovi at the Centrepoint Gala Dinner at Kensington Palace in London on Nov. 26. Centrepoint is a charity supporting homeless young people. (Dominic Lipinski / AP)
President Obama plays a learning game while visiting children at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Ga., on Feb. 14. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
New York mayor-elect Bill de Blasio (D) hugs his daughter, Chiara, and son, Dante, during his victory party at the Park Slope Armory in New York on Nov. 5. READ: New York’s incoming first family says it all with their hair (Carlo Allegri / Reuters)
A man hits Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev, center, during a gay rights rally in central Moscow on May 25. (Andrey Svitailo / AFP/Getty Images)
George Zimmerman, right, is greeted by defense counsel Don West at the start of his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., July 8. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel via AP)
Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, right, walks with Batman before saving a damsel in distress in San Francisco, Nov. 15. City officials helped fulfill Miles's wish to be Batkid. Miles, a leukemia patient from Tulelake in far Northern California, was called into service by San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr to help fight crime, according to the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Jeff Chiu / AP)
Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke perform "Blurred Lines" during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Aug. 25. (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)
Miss New York Nina Davuluri, left, reacts with 2013 Miss America Mallory Hagan after being chosen winner of the 2014 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City on Sept. 15. (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)
Britain's Prince William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, appear with their baby son, Prince George, outside the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital in central London on July 23. Kate gave birth to the couple's first child, who is third in line to the British throne. (Cathal McNaughton / Reuters)
A model displays a spring/summer design by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada during Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid on Sept. 15. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP)
Norway's Anders Bardal jumps during the official training session of the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund, Norway, on Jan. 25, while a full moon rises over the mountain. (Daniel Sannum Lauten / AFP/Getty Images)
Saturn eclipses the sun in this natural color mosaic image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on July 19 and provided by NASA. (AP / NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI via AP)
The northern lights glow on Highway 232 north of Havre, Mont., on Oct. 1.  (Lindsay Brown / Havre Daily News via AP)
Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai, second from right, is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, second from left, Vuk Jeremic, right, president of the U.N. General Assembly, and Gordon Brown, left, back to camera, United Nations special envoy for global education on July 12 at U.N. headquarters in New York. Yousafzai became a public figure after she was shot by the Taliban while travelling to school last year in Pakistan — targeted because of her committed campaigning for the right of all girls to an education. (Stan Honda / AFP/Getty Images)
Grief-stricken family members react over the bodies of their children, who died after consuming a free midday meal at a school at Gandaman in Saran District, India's Bihar state, on July 17. Twenty-two children died after eating a free lunch feared to contain poisonous chemicals at an Indian primary school, officials said, as the tragedy sparked angry street protests. (AFP/Getty Images)

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