366: The Year in Photographs 2012

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The year 2012 was a cyclone of news. The civil war in Syria grew bloodier and more desperate even as the rest of the Middle East was grappling with life after the so-called Arab Spring. Egypt’s democratic evolution at times seemed to verge on revolution again. Libya produced a bloody controversy for the U.S. on an inauspicious date, Sept. 11, with the death of the American ambassador amid an attack on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi. And as the U.S. itself marched toward the scheduled climax of a presidential election, what should slam into the country but superstorm Sandy, wrecking much of the northeast coast. The election itself, while it had many people holding their breath, produced another term for Barack Obama and the country promptly started to worry about falling off the fiscal cliff. And then another unexpected event occurred: the madness of mass murder in a quiet town in Connecticut. The death of children and teachers left the country breathless and in tears. The only news fizzle of the year was the predicted end of the world. No one needs to be concerned about that, just about dealing with what ails it as it goes on and on and on.

—Howard Chua-Eoan, News Director, TIME





Dan Kitwood—Getty Images
Jan. 1, 2012. Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight in London. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames to ring in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display.






Xinhua Press/Corbis
Jan. 2, 2012. Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak (C) is wheeled on a hospital stretcher into court for the resumption of his trial in Cairo, Egypt.






Adnan Abidi—Reuters
Jan. 3, 2012. A child sits next to a fire to warm herself on a cold winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi.





Patrick Farrell—Miami Herald/MCT
Jan. 4, 2012. Young Geralda Cheristin views her reflection inside her family's home in Corail, Haiti.






Jorge Saenz—AP
Jan. 5, 2012. Librada Martinez, member of the Ava Guarani ethnic group, resists arrest by police as she and others are evicted from Uruguay square in Asuncion, Paraguay.





Logan Mock-Bunting—The New York Times/Redux
Jan. 6, 2012. A young attendee stands on her toes to get a better view during a campaign rally for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the Peanut Warehouse in Conway, S.C.






STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 7, 2012. A leopard attacks and wounds an Indian laborer in a residential neighborhood in Guwahati, India.






Andrew Biraj—Reuters
Jan. 8, 2012. Workers weld at a ship-building yard next to the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Matt Rourke—AP
Jan. 9, 2012. A resident reads over her ballots before the stroke of midnight when she can cast her vote in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, at The Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville, N.H.






Carl Court—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2012. Iraqi citizen and British resident Bisher al-Rawi, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Gambia, speaks during a press conference in central London to mark the 10-year anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at the US military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay.

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Matt Dunham—AP
Jan. 11, 2012. Slovenia's Sasa Golob is seen framed through the legs of another gymnast as she performs on the beam during the international gymnastics Olympics test and qualification event at the North Greenwich Arena in London.






Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 12, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seen through a door before giving a press conference with the Algerian Foreign Minister at the State Department in Washington, DC.






Manan Vatsyayana—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 13, 2012. A 14-year-old boy waits to get his calipers at the Delhi Council for Child Welfare (DCCW) Orthopaedics centre in New Delhi.






Eric Vandeville—ABACA USA
Jan. 14, 2012. The Italian cruise ship 'Costa Concordia', carrying more than 4,000 people, ran aground and keeled over off the Italian coast near the island of Giglio in Tuscany, Italy.






Roger Bulbring—Reuters
Jan. 15, 2012. Beach-goers and lifeguards attend to a man attacked by a shark at Port St Johns on South Africa's east coast.






David Guttenfelder—AP
Jan. 16, 2012. Light shines through a window onto a tank filled with goldfish inside an office at the Korean Central News Agency building in Pyongyang, North Korea.






Christopher Morris—VII for TIME
Jan. 17, 2012. President Obama unexpectedly runs into the First Lady on her birthday in the basement of the White House.






Jason O'Brien—Action Images/ZUMA
Jan. 18, 2012. Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki in action in the second round at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park, Australia.






Mikhail Metzel—AP
Jan. 19, 2012. People gather around a bath of ice cold water as they prepare to plunge into it at the Kolomenskoe park on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia.






Sarah Rice—Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2012. The amorphous black blob, a group of performers huddled underneath stretched black material, makes its way among the Occupy Wall Street West protests in the financial district in San Francisco, Calif.

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Peter van Agtmael—Magnum
Jan. 21, 2012. Candidate for Republican Nominee for the Presidential Race of 2012, Newt Gingrich and his wife Calista, leave a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Anderson, S.C. on Primary Day. Gingrich won the Primary.






Visar Kryeziu—AP
Jan. 22, 2012. Supporters of a Kosovo nationalist opposition party gather around camp fires during a protest in the northern Kosovo town of Podujevo.






Rebecca Blackwell—AP
Jan. 23, 2012. Water from a leaky fire hose rains down on neighborhood residents as they attempt to put out a fire that had already burned dozens of homes, in the New Building slum neighborhood in central Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.






Vadim Ghirda—AP
Jan. 24, 2012. A child looks at a line of riot police from a passing car during an anti-government protest in Bucharest, Romania.





Lucy Nicholson—Reuters
Jan. 25, 2012. Lilly Earp, age 8, changes the diaper of her five-week-old sister Emily in their apartment at Hope Gardens Family Center, a shelter for homeless women and children, run by Union Rescue Mission, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Calif.






Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 26, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama walks to his car as he arrives in Romules, M.I.






Paul Sancya—AP
Jan. 27, 2012. Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum sits for an interview after appearing at the Latin Builders Association luncheon in Miami.






Tomas Munita—The New York Times/Redux
Jan. 28, 2012. A wounded fighter with the FSA is helped by fellow comrades after he was shot by a government sniper in the town of Rankous, a restive city near the Lebanese border in Syria.






Andreas Pessenlehner—EPA
Jan. 29, 2012. Clergymen stand in front of a picture of Hildegard Burjan during the beatification ceremony for Hildegard Burjan at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria.






Brian Snyder—Reuters
Jan. 30, 2012. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney carries a surprise birthday cake for Los Angeles Times reporter Maeve Reston on his campaign plane in Jacksonville, Fla.






Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters
Jan. 31, 2012. Supporters shake hands with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she arrives in Bagan on her way to Pakokku in Bagan Township, Myanmar.

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Feb. 1, 2012. The return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran is reenacted in Tehran's Mehrabad airport. Khomeini, who was in exile, had refused to return to Iran until the Shah left.






Vadim Ghirda—AP
Feb. 2, 2012. A woman looks out of a window covered in frost on a bus in Bucharest, Romania.






Dar al Mussawir—Newspictures/ABACA USA
Feb. 3, 2012. Egyptian civilians clash near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo.






Dar Yasin—AP
Feb. 4, 2012. A Kashmiri village woman stands near the site of a gun battle in Woodder village, south of Srinagar, India.






Jon Nazca—Reuters
Feb. 5, 2012. Firefighters climb a mountain to extinguish a wildfire in Jubrique, near Malaga, southern Spain.






Prakash Singh —AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 6, 2012. Indian women cover their faces from clouds of dust kicked up by the arriving helicopter transporting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for a rally in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh state.






Todd Heisler—The New York Times/Redux
Feb. 7, 2012. Spectators gather on a balcony to watch the New York Giants victory parade in New York City.






Felipe Dana—AP
Feb. 8, 2012. Morgue workers remove the body of a man killed during a shooting in Salvador, Brazil.






Andrew Kelly—Reuters
Feb. 9, 2012. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton waits backstage before addressing the crowd at the Invest In Ireland forum at New York University, in New York. The Forum, hosted by Clinton, was also attended by Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Ireland's Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and Ireland's Minister for Enterprise, Jobs, and Innovation Richard Bruton.






Damir Sagolj—Reuters
Feb. 10, 2012. A transvestite performer cools herself with an electric fan before going on stage at the Tiffany's Show in Pattaya, Thailand. The first Tiffany's Show was performed as a one-man show for friends on New Year's Eve in 1974. It has since become a world famous transvestite cabaret, with dozens of artists performing every night.

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Adam Fenster—Reuters
Feb. 11, 2012. Syracuse University photographer Michael Okoniewski takes a picture through the roof of the Carrier Dome before the start of a NCAA men's basketball game between Syracuse Orange and Connecticut Huskies in Syracuse, N.Y.






Kacper Pempel—Reuters
Feb. 12, 2012. A horse falls down as it pulls a skier during the "Kumoterki" race in Bukowina Tatrzanska, southern Poland. The race, which marks the end of the annual Highlanders' Festival, is a competition involving riders, two on every sledge, pulled by horses. Every year in mid-February, hundreds of highlanders arrive at Bukowina to take part in the traditional event, which has become one of the main tourist attractions of the area.






Eric Thayer—Getty Images
Feb. 13, 2012. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a Get Out the Vote Rally in Mesa, Arizona. Romney spoke to a crowd of more than 2,000 people.






Alessio Romenzi for TIME
Feb. 14, 2012. A child mourns her father, who was kidnapped and tortured by the Syrian government's shabiha (the militia of the regime) during three days with other two men.






Oded Balilty—AP
Feb. 15, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride Nechama Paarel Horowitz enters the men's section in a wedding hall during her traditional Jewish wedding with Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the great-grandson of the Rabbi of the Wiznitz Hasidic followers, in the Israeli town of Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv.






David Guttenfelder—AP
Feb. 16, 2012. Fireworks explode over the heads of North Korean soldiers lined up in formation at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang during a parade of thousands of soldiers commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong Il.






Soe Than Win—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 17, 2012. Supporters listen and wave flags as Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech in Pyar Pon, Irrawaddy delta region in the Irrawaddy division.






Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2012. Reflected in the window of a hearse, the casket of Bronx teenager Ramarley Graham, who was shot to death by police officers, is carried by family and friends following his funeral in the Bronx borough of New York City.






AGF / Rex USA
Feb. 19, 2012. Cardinals and Bishops during the ceremony of Concistory at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.






Musadeq Sadeq—AP
Feb. 20, 2012. A child stands with his father as they wait to receive blankets and winter jackets from Welthungerhilfe, a German NGO, during snowfall at a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul.

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Joe Penney—Reuters
Feb. 21, 2012. An anti-government protestor carries another injured protestor during clashes with police in Senegal's capital, Dakar.






William Daniels—Panos for TIME
Feb. 22, 2012. A member of the Free Syrian Army rides in the back of a truck in Bab Amr.






James Nachtwey for TIME
Feb. 23, 2012. Mountains of clothes and household textiles that cannot be recycled in Rikuzentakata, Japan, following the massive tsunami a year before.






Jason Reed—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 24, 2012. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Tunis to attend the "Friends of Syria" conference, at which representatives from over 60 countries discussed the crisis in Syria.






Lucy Nicholson—Reuters
Feb. 25, 2012. An Oscar statue remains covered in plastic before it is unveiled at the red carpet arrivals area during preparations for the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif.






Altaf Qadri—AP
Feb. 26, 2012. Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is silhouetted against the setting sun as she arrives to deliver her speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village, Myanmar.






KCNA—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 27, 2012. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects units under the command of the Korean Peoples' Army 4th Corps, stationed in the southwestern sector of the front at an undisclosed location in North Korea.






Ahmad Halabisaz—Xinhua/Corbis
Feb. 28, 2012. Iranians walk past electoral posters for the upcoming parliamentary election on a street in Tehran.






Eddie Mulholland—Reuters
Feb. 29, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth views the interior of the refurbished East Wing of Somerset House at King's College in London.

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Bob Edme—AP
March 1, 2012. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, waves as he enters his car surrounded by security staff in Bayonne, France.






Bernat Armangue—AP
March 2, 2012. Ultra-orthodox Jewish children finish a snowman in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. Israelis and Palestinians woke up to a rare sight in the usually temperate Holy Land: a thin blanket of snow.






Kevin Frayer—AP
March 3, 2012. An Indian Hindu worshipper throws a bucket of colored water on others during Lathmar Holi at Nandagram Temple, in Nandgaon, India. According to tradition, which has its roots in Hindu mythology, men from Barsana arrive at the temple, where they are soaked in colored water by men from Nandgaon, believed to be Lord Krishna's village, and then beaten by the women of the village with wooden sticks as they depart the town.






Natalia Kolesnikova—AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2012. Russian soldiers hold their IDs at a polling station in Moscow during the presidential elections.






Nam Y. Huh—AP
March 5, 2012. Snow covers a demolished house in Marysville, Ind., after a tornado ripped through the town.






Lauren Fleishman for TIME
March 6, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a baseball field after voting in the Massachusetts primary in Belmont, Mass.






Charles Dharapak—AP
March 7, 2012. Visitors brace against the rotor wash of the Marine One helicopter as President Barack Obama takes off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.





Rodrigo Abd—AP
March 8, 2012. Ahmed, center, mourns his father Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian Army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, north Syria.






Loulou d'Aki—News Pictures/ABACA USA
March 9, 2012. A girl dressed as a bride on Purim walks through the streets of Jerusalem.






Rodrigo Abd—AP
March 10, 2012. Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib, northern Syria. Aida's husband and two children were killed in the shelling.

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Yuriko Nakao—Reuters
March 11, 2012. Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan.






Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
March 12, 2012. Israeli soldiers watch as a missile is launched from the Iron Dome defense system in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva.






David Goldman—AP
March 13, 2012. The tour bus of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich waits for his return outside a campaign event in Vestavia Hills, Ala.






Oded Balilty—AP
March 14, 2012. Ultra Orthodox Jews gather around the body of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, leader of the Hassidic Vizhnitz sect in Israel, at the Vizhnitz Synagogue during his funeral procession in Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv.






Jacopo Raule—Getty Images
March 15, 2012. Relatives of the 22 school children and 6 adults who died in a bus crash visit the morgue in Sion, Switzerland.






Giogos Moutafis—AFP/Getty Images
March 16, 2012. A portrait of a Free Syrian Army rebel mounted on horseback in Al-Shatouria village, near to the Turkish border in northwestern Syria.






Jose Luis Magana—AP
March 17, 2012. The transfer case containing the remains of Army Spc. Daquane D. Rivers of Marianna, Fla., sits at the end of the loader ramp during a foggy night, upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del.






Laurence Underhill—Eyevine/ZUMA
March 18, 2012. Large crowds gathered around the Christian Coptic cathedral of St. Marks in Cairo to mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III.






Tomas Munita for TIME
March 19, 2012. A woman who practices "santeria" prays at the cathedral of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.






Francois Mori—AP
March 20, 2012. Suspended by wires, Chinese artist Li Wei performs in the sky at La Villette in Paris.

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Oded Balilty—AP
March 21, 2012. Members of ZAKA rescue and recovery open the coffins of Toulouse shooting victims as they prepare the bodies for burial after they arrived to Israel at a morgue in Jerusalem.






James Nachtwey for TIME
March 22, 2012. During a campaign speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, children in the audience cheer her words, as a young Buddhist monk stands by in Kawhmu, Myanmar.






Stephanie Sinclair—VII
March 23, 2012. A shattered family mourns 15-year-old Nadaa Showqi Abduallah Hussein, her body swathed in cloth. She was killed by a sniper in the southern port city of Aden during a March clash between gunmen and government forces. “What happened to her makes all people cry,” says her father, Showqi Abduallah Hussein (at right, in head scarf). “She had no enemies.”






Dar Yashin—AP
March 24, 2012. A tuberculosis patient Abdul Rasheed lies on a bed in an isolated ward at the Chest Disease Hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Srinagar, India.






Ramon Espinosa—AP
March 25, 2012. A girl wearing a ballet dress plays on the street in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.






Stephanie Sinclair—VII
March 26, 2012. Saleem al Harazi, who lost both eyes to a sniper, is cradled by his mother in Sana, Yemen. The 12-year-old was shot when he joined antigovernment protesters in Sana in March 2011.






Joe Amon—The Denver Post / Polaris
March 27, 2012. An aerial view of the Lower North Fork Wildfire near Denver Colo.






Lucy Nicholson—Reuters
March 28, 2012. U.S. platform diver Haley Ishimatsu trains for the London 2012 Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif.






Ariel Marinkovic—EPA
March 29, 2012. Two protesters are sprayed with water from an anti-riot vehicle at the University of Santiago de Chile. A group of young people clashed with police in the vicinity of the university following the Young Fighters' Day, which commemorates the death of two young brothers during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.






Mohammed Salem—Reuters
March 30, 2012. Palestinians gather around the body of 20-year-old Mahmoud Zakot during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip.






Tara Todras-Whitehill—Polaris
March 31, 2012. Children play on a gym set in a village in southern Turkey near the border with Syria.

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April 1, 2012. A supporter kisses Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), as she visits polling stations in her constituency as Burmese vote in the parliamentary elections in Kaw Hmu, Myanmar.






Emilio Morenatti—AP
April 2, 2012. Penitents from the "San Gonzalo" brotherhood take part in a procession before a storm in Seville, Southern Spain.






Oded Balilty—AP
April 3, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls wait for free potatoes to be distributed to large families in preparations for the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem.






April 4, 2012. Relatives assist an unidentified woman injured in an explosion at the national theater in Mogadishu, Somalia.






April 6, 2012. The full moon rises over the Colosseum before the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession in downtown Rome.






April 6, 2012. The full moon rises over the Colosseum before the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession in downtown Rome.






April 7, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle during the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday at St Peter's basilica at The Vatican.






April 8, 2012. Pablo Leal Requejo plays the role of an angel during the 'Bajada del Angel' Eastern Holy Week celebration in Penafiel, Spain.






April 9, 2012. A North Korean woman cleans a portrait of the late North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il, right, and Kim Il Sung at an office in Pyongyang.






April 10, 2012. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl prays at the Tel Aviv port during the Jewish Passover.

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April 11, 2012. Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton listens during a news conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.






April 12, 2012. Students wait for the arrival of Mexico's President Felipe Calderon before the inauguration of the Small Brothers school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.






April 13, 2012. A giant American flag is unfurled on the field during ceremonies for the New York Yankees home opener against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y.






April 14, 2012. A Pakistani girl enters her home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Some of Pakistan's poorest women are eligible for something many have never experienced: a little bit of help from the government. It comes in the form of a debit card that is topped up with the equivalent of 30 dollars every three months.






April 15, 2012. A handout photo provided by Gerry Hofstetter Marketing shows a projection of the 'Titanic' on a 500-meter-long iceberg in the Northern Polar sea of Greenland. Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter projected pictures of the Titanic on a giant iceberg to mark the 100th anniversary of its maiden voyage.






April 16, 2012. The feet from dead Taliban insurgents are seen after they were killed inside a building in Kabul. Heavy street fighting between militants and security forces in the center of the Afghan capital after 18 hours of intense gunfire, rocket attacks and explosions.






April 17, 2012. Pakistani boys, who make a living by collecting recyclable materials and selling them to a recycling factory, shower in a pool of water created by a broken water pipe following their daily work, on a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.






April 18, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, M.I.






April 19, 2012. Olympic Gymnast Gabby Douglas eats breakfast while stretching on the stairs of her host family's home in Des Moines, Iowa.






April 20, 2012. George Zimmerman comes down off the witness stand during a bond hearing in front of a judge at the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fl.

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April 21, 2012. Spanish matador Jose P. Prados "El Fundi" performs a pass to a bull during the last bullfight of his career at the Maestranza bullring in Seville.






April 22, 2012. An Indian boy takes a dip in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India. April 22 is observed as Earth Day every year as a tool to raise awareness of the environment.






April 23, 2012. The burnt body of a boy killed during an air strike by the Sudanese air force is covered with sheets in a market in Rubkona near Bentiu, South Sudan.






April 24, 2012. North Korea's new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un, is displayed on a giant screen during a concert on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army in Pyongyang, North Korea.






April 25, 2012. People mourn the death of a bomb blast victim in Lahore, Pakistan. A bomb went off at a railway station, killing and wounding a number of victims.






April 26, 2012. A victim watches the trial of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor (on screen) taking place in the Hague, inside the Special Court in Freetown. Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor was convicted of arming rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war in return for blood diamonds, in an historic verdict for international justice.






April 27, 2012. First lady Michelle Obama reacts to remarks made by her husband, U.S. President Barack Obama, as he addresses a group of soldiers from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division in Fort Stewart, Ga.






April 28, 2012. Young performers wearing costumes and make up participate in the Bun Festival parade in Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Island.






April 29, 2012. France's opposition Socialist Party (PS) candidate for the 2012 French Presidential election, Francois Hollande, arrives on stage prior to a speech during a campaign meeting at the Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy (POPB) in Paris.






April 30, 2012. Spanish teacher Yolanda Zamora leads sixth graders at Washington Waldorf School in Bethesda, Md. through a game of Simon Says conducted entirely in Spanish.

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May 1, 2012. Children play cricket on the demolished site of a compound of Osama bin Laden's in Abbottabad, Pakistan.






May 2, 2012. Honor guards stands beside a wreath laid by British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond at the memorial to honor German soldiers killed in action prior to talks with his German counterpart Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere at the defense ministry in Berlin.






May 3, 2012. This handout photograph released by the Ministry of Defence shows a view from the gunner's cockpit of an Indian Air Force Mi-35 attack helicopter during the Shoor Veer military exercise near Hanumangarh, located near the India-Pakistan border.






May 4, 2012. Two men on a scooter ride near soldiers on military vehicles at Abbasiya square near Egypt's Defence Ministry in Cairo.






May 5, 2012. First lady Michelle Obama exits the stage as President Barack Obama begins to speak at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio.






May 6, 2012. Socialist Party (PS) supporters celebrate after French TV announced the victory of the PS candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, Francois Hollande (not pictured), at Bastille Square, in Paris.






May 7, 2012. President-elect Vladimir Putin heads for St. Andrew's Hall at the Kremlin for his inauguration as the President of Russia.






May 8, 2012. A boy cries as he holds his sister in his lap after a confrontation with squatters and police personnel, who arrived to demolish houses that were built illegally in Kathmandu.






May 9, 2012. A priestess holding a lit cauldron performs in the final dress rehearsal for the lighting of the flame held in Ancient Olympia, Greece.






May 10, 2012. A lone tree grows by the site of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Joplin, Mo. On May 22 last year, a devastating tornado virtually wiped out the sleepy Midwestern town.

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May 11, 2012. Boxer Fabian Marimon of Colombia leaves the locker room to fight against Marcelino Lopez of Argentina for the international lightweight title in the so-called "Night of Champions" at Orfeo Superdome stadium in Cordoba, Argentina.






May 12, 2012. The family and loved ones of Ahmad Mussa Shamseddin gather in their family home to mourn over his body after his brutal and sudden death. Ahmad Mussa Shamseddin was killed by a Syrian sniper while walking in the streets of Al Qusayr.






May 13, 2012. Supporters of German soccer champions Borussia Dortmund celebrate their team during a parade through the streets of Dortmund, western Germany.






May 14, 2012. Photographs of people murdered during the 1994 genocide are displayed at Kigali Memorial Center in Kigali, Rwanda.






May 15, 2012. Paralympic swimmer Xavi Torres, 37, of Spain stretches before a training session on the Balearic island of Palma de Mallorca.






May 16, 2012. Students study religious law on the grounds of Kabul University.






May 17, 2012. Mejra Dzogaz touches the graves of her two sons before the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in Potocari, near Srebrenica. Mejra's husband, three sons and a grandson were killed during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 by a Serbian army unit commanded by Mladic.






May 18, 2012. Afghan National Army soldiers pray at their base in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan.






May 19, 2012. Israeli soldiers try to disperse Palestinian protestors from the village of Asira al-Qibiliya as clashes broke out with Israeli settlers from the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. The Israeli army fired tear gas to dispel the clashes, in which two Palestinians were wounded by stones, a Palestinian witness said.






May 20, 2012. A damaged old tower is seen after an earthquake in Finale Emilia, Italy. A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy, killing at least three people and causing serious damage to the area's cultural heritage.

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May 21, 2012. Internally displaced Congolese carry their belongings as they flee to safety, fearing renewed clashes between the Congolese government forces and rebels in Kabindi, DRC.






May 22, 2012. A girl passes by a graffiti depicting former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and several presidential candidates, at Tahrir Square in Cairo.






May 23, 2012. A woman carries baked bricks to be stacked at a brick making facility in a village near Jaipur, India. Brick making is an unorganized industry and one of the largest employers in India. The laborers usually work eight to nine hours a day, earning between $50 to $100USD a month.






May 24, 2012. The lower bow section of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford is lowered into position at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va.






May 25, 2012. FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi from Argentina celebrates with his teammates after the final Copa del Rey soccer match against Athletic Bilbao at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid.






May 26, 2012. Mentor Carolyn Horton speaks with grieving child Caden Lawton at the TAPS "Good Grief Camp" in Arlington, Va. Caden's father, U.S. Marine Cpt. Garrell Lawton, was killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2008. Five hundred military children, most of whom lost a parent or sibling in the Afghan and Iraq wars, attended the four-day event.






May 27, 2012. A member of a dance group wearing a colored contact lens takes part in the "Karneval der Kulturen" (carnival of cultures) street parade through Berlin's Kreuzberg district. The annual festival is organized to celebrate the German capital's ethnic and cultural diversity.






May 28, 2012. A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen.






May 29, 2012. Xiang Xiang's masks are seen at home in Fenyang, Shanxi Province of China. Xiang, 6, was disfigured by a fire in October 2010 that left his right eye blind and hands stiff.






May 30, 2012. A Syrian woman cries as she carries her injured son, who was shot in his hand by the Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon.






May 31, 2012. Boys play soccer with balloons after attending a dance recital about water shortage in the town of Kaedi, Mauritania.