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| Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on a gurney bed while leaving the courtroom at the police academy, where he is on trial, in Cairo 2 January, 2012. REUTERS
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| A girl walks her dog on a windy day along the bank of the river Swale near Helperby in northern England on 3 January, 2012. REUTERS
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| Internally displaced people are seen in Pibor on 12 January , 2012. The World Food Programme (WFP) started distributing food to 60,000 internally displaced people in South Sudan, according to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. REUTERS
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| A young surfer sails his board off a wave as large swells hit the California coastline at dusk in Cardiff, California, January 5, 2012. REUTERS
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| 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 on 13 January, 2012. REUTERS
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| The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running a ground the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy on 14 January 2012. AP
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| Mushers and their dogs compete after the mass start of the eighth stage of the La Grande Odyssee sled dogs race in Bessans on January 16, 2012. REUTERS
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| Muslim Brotherhood supporters celebrate outside Egypt’s parliament in Cairo on January 23, 2012. REUTERS
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| France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy reacts as he delivers a speech to present his New Year wishes to the world of culture in Marseille, 24 January, 2012. REUTERS
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| The ancient Colosseum is seen during an heavy snowfall late in the night in Rome 4 February, 2012. REUTERS
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| Singer Adele holds her six Grammy Awards at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California 12 February , 2012. REUTERS
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| Actor Angelina Jolie poses at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, 26 February 2012. REUTERS
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| Meryl Streep, Best Actress winner for "The Iron Lady," and French actor Jean Dujardin, Best Actor winner for "The Artist," pose backstage at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, 26 February, 2012. REUTERS
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| Britain’s Queen Elizabeth views the interior of the refurbished East Wing of Somerset House at King’s College in London 29 February, 2012. REUTERS
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| Students embrace after leaving the burial of Chardon High school student Daniel Parmertor in Chardon, Ohio 3 March , 2012. Three students were killed and two others wounded by suspect TJ Lane in Monday’s shooting rampage at Chardon High school. REUTERS
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| Women beat men with torn clothes during "Huranga" at the Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura 9 March , 2012. REUTERS
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| U.S. President Barack Obama bends down to wait for his dog, Bo, to come towards him outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington 15 March , 2012. REUTERS
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| Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge plays hockey with the Team GB hockey teams at the Riverside Arena in the Olympic Park in London 15 March , 2012. REUTERS
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| A child plays on the road near the bank of Yangon River 18 March, 2012. REUTERS
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| A woman reacts as she sees a part of her house being taken down by demolition workers at Yangji village in central Guangzhou city, Guangdong province 21 March , 2012. REUTERS
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| Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi returns after giving a speech to her supporters during the election campaign at Kawhmu Township 22 March , 2012. REUTERS
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| Tibetan exile Jamphel Yeshi screams as he runs engulfed in flames after setting himself on fire at a protest in New Delhi on 26 March 2012, against Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to India. Yeshi died 28 March, 2012. AP
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| A man, who identified himself as Mohawk Gaz, sports an image of black teenager Trayvon Martin on his hair during a rally to protest his killing in Miami, Florida 1 April , 2012. REUTERS
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| North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves during the Fourth Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang April 11, 2012. REUTERS
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| Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in the Malakand district, northwest of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, 13 April , 2012. REUTERS
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| Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives for his terrorism and murder trial in a courtroom in Oslo 16 April , 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. REUTERS
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| A full moon as seen from West Orange, New Jersey, rises over the skyline of Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center (L) in New York, 6 May , 2012. REUTERS
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| A boy tries to cross a damaged suspension bridge, after a flash flood caused by an avalanche in the Annapurna mountain range in Kaski district 6 May, 2012. REUTERS
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| Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain (centre L-R) , President Barack Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and others watch the overtime shootout of the Chelsea vs. Bayern Munich Champions League final in the Laurel Cabin conference room during the G8 Summit at Camp David, Maryland, 19 May, 2012. REUTERS
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| Paul Firminger holds an elver in his hand at South Shore Trading Co., an elver buying station, in Portland, Maine, 11 May , 2012. REUTERS
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| The moon passes between the sun and the earth behind a windmill near Albuquerque, New Mexico 20 May , 2012. REUTERS
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| Britain’s Prince Charles speaks with Camilla , Duchess of Cornwall during an event at the First Nations University in Regina, Saskatchewan 23 May , 2012. REUTERS
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| Buranovskiye Babushki of Russia perform their song "Party For Everybody" during a rehearsal for the Eurovison Song Contest final in Baku, 25 May, 2012. REUTERS
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| A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa 28 May 2012. REUTERS
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| A U.S. Army Private of 508 BSTB, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, takes cover during a controlled detonation to clear an area for setting up a check point in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan 31 May, 2012. REUTERS
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| Supporters of deposed president Hosni Mubarak react after a court sentenced him to life in prison, outside the police academy where the court is located in Cairo June 2, 2012. REUTERS
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| The manpowered section of the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant makes its way along the River Thames in central London 3 June, 2012. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth joined an armada of 1,000 boats in a gilded royal barge, in a pageant down the River Thames in a spectacular highlight of four days of nationwide celebrations to mark her Diamond Jubilee. REUTERS
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| The Orvillecopter by Dutch artist Bart Jansen (R) flies in central Amsterdam as part of the KunstRAI art festival 3 June , 2012. Jansen said the Orvillecopter is part of a visual art project which pays tribute to his cat Orville, by making it fly after it was killed by a car. He built the Orvillecopter together with radio control helicopter flyer Arjen Beltman . REUTERS
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| A woman prepares to swallow a live fish that has been dipped in homemade medicine during a camp in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad 8 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Spain’s Sergio Ramos, Alvaro Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso, Sergio Busquets and Xavi Hernandez (L-R) form a defensive wall as Italy’s Andrea Pirlo takes a free kick during their Group C Euro 2012 soccer match at the city stadium in Gdansk, 10 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls a time-out during a multiple question from an Indian journalist, as India’s Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna smiles during their news conference at the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue in Washington 13 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Indigenous people point their bows and arrows at a police helicopter flying over the occupied barrier of the Belo Monte Dam’s construction site in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in northern Brazil 15 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, 15 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring a goal against Netherlands during their Group B Euro 2012 soccer match at the Metalist stadium in Kharkiv 17 June , 2012. REUTERS
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| Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave after praying at the altar of late Prince Tomohito, a cousin of the Emperor, in Tokyo 19 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Egypt’s Islamist President-elect Mohamed Morsi waves to his supporters while surrounded by his members of the presidential guard in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, 29 June, 2012. Morsi took an informal oath of office before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. REUTERS
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| A crane removes the carcass of a 40-year-old elephant called Chanchal after it was hit by a truck and killed at the Noida expressway on the outskirts of New Delhi 29 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates after defeating Zheng Jie of China in their women’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London 30 June, 2012. REUTERS
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| Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of female punk band, "Pussy Riot", stands behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow July 4, 2012. REUTERS
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| Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of female punk band, "Pussy Riot", stands behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow July 4, 2012. REUTERS
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| Roger Federer of Switzelds the winners trophy after defeating Andy Murray of Britain in their men’s singles final tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London 8 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| A trainer puts sand inside the mouth of a Palestinian child during training in a summer camp organized by Hamas movement at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City 9 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies for some mid-mission fixes dropped by parachute from a C-130 in the Arctic Ocean in this 12 July, 2011. REUTERS
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| A double rainbow appears after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight, Nevada, 13 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| The pack of riders cycles past a woman on a horse during the 13th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and Cap d’Agde, 14 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| U.S. President Barack Obama wipes water off his face during a rain shower at a campaign rally in Glen Allen, Virginia, 14 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla kneels down in front of a bull during the last bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona 14 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are shown kissing on the "Kiss Cam" screen during a timeout in the Olympic basketball exhibition game between the U.S. and Brazil national men’s teams in Washington, 16 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| Actor Tom Cruise carries his daughter Suri past a group of photographers as they make their way from a hotel in New York, 17 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| A topless man smashes the windshield of a taxi in the middle of a street in Hefei, Anhui province 17 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in Aurora, Colorado, 23 July, 2012. Holmes, the man accused of shooting dead 12 people in a Colorado movie theater during the midnight screening of the new Batman movie early Friday, made his first appearance in court, sitting silently in a red jailhouse jump suit and with his hair dyed bright red. REUTERS
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| A performer playing the role of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth parachutes from a helicopter during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium 27 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| A girl inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books titled "aMAZEme" by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo at the Royal Festival Hall in central London 31 July, 2012. REUTERS
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| Samantha Arevalo Salinas of Ecuador starts in a women’s 800-meter freestyle swimming heat at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics on 2 August 2012 in London. AP
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| Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica poses with his running spikes and official team uniform for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony during a photo shoot. REUTERS
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| The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games 3 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| Michael Phelps of the U.S. holds up his award recognising him as the most decorated Olympian, during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre 4 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during clashes with Syrian Army in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of central Aleppo on 7 August 2012. REUTERS
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| Performers pose after the end of closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic stadium 12 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| Rescuers and relatives stop a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a building in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province 14 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| A view of the Yawalapiti village before the start of this year’s ’quarup,’ a ritual held over several days to honour in death a person of great importance to them, in the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State, 12 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo 14 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| A policeman chases a supporter of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" jailed members while climbing on a fence enclosing the Turkish embassy near a court building in Moscow, 17 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the Ecuador embassy in west London 19 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde checks some pyramid stones next to security guards while listening to a guide’s explanation as she tours the pyramids in Giza, at the end of her visit to Egypt, 22 August, 2012. REUTERS
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| SkyB Chairman James Murdoch, who is also head of News Corp in Europe and Asia, walks off stage after a rehearsal for his James MacTaggert Memorial lecture as part of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 28, 2009. REUTERS
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| Lotus Formula One driver Romain Grosjean (R) of France crashes with Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso (L) of Spain at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa Francorchamps 2 September, 2012. REUTERS
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| Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon on the night of 3 September, 2012 in this NASA handout image. REUTERS
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| Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip 12 September, 2012. REUTERS
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| Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, take off their shoes before visiting the As-Syakirin Mosque at KLCC in Kuala Lumpur 14 September, 2012. REUTERS
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| Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (C) is escorted out of his home by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officers in Cerritos, California 15 September, 2012. Nakoula had madean anti-Islam video that has triggered violent protests in the Muslim world. The obscure 13-minute English-language video, which was filmed in California and circulated on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims," portrays Prophet Mohammad engaged in crude and offensive behavior. REUTERS
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| Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he has drawn on the graphic of a bomb as he addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, 27 September, 2012. REUTERS
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| Riot policemen arrest a student protester during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago, 27 September, 2012. REUTERS
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| A photographer jumps over a smoke canister during a demonstration by firefighters, security and military personnel against cuts in their salaries imposed by Spanish Government, in the Andalusian capital of Seville 29 September, 2012. REUTERS
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| A child jumps on the waste products that are used to make poultry feed as she plays in a tannery at Hazaribagh in Dhaka 9 October, 2012. REUTERS
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| Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier 14 October 2012 while making the highest jump ever. A tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. AP
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| Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama spar during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York 16 October, 2012. AP
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| Pigeons fly over the Grand Mosqueduring the annual haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca 19 October, 2012. REUTERS
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| Lightning strikes over a pier during a storm in Atlit, near the northern Israeli city of Haifa 25 October, 2012. REUTERS
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| Malala Yousufzai is seen with her father Ziauddin and her two younger brothers Khushal Khan and Atal Khan (R), as she recuperates at the . Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education. Her father said on 25 October 2012 that his daughter was strong and would "rise again" to pursue her dreams after receiving treatment in a British hospital. REUTERS
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| Cast member Daniel Craig takes a photograph of himself with fans as he arrives for the German premiere for the film ’Skyfall’ in Berlin 30 October, 2012. REUTERS
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| Boats are seen in a yard, where they washed onto shore during Hurricane Sandy, near Monmouth Beach, New Jersey 31 October, 2012. REUTERS
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| Yamaha MotoGP world champion rider Jorge Lorenzo falls during the Valencia Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Ricardo Tormo racetrack in Cheste, near Valencia 11 November , 2012. Lorenzo was denied a victorious season finale on home soil when he crashed out while leading an incident-packed Valencia Grand Prix to hand victory to fellow-Spaniard Dani Pedrosa. REUTERS
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| A home that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, is seen in Union Beach, New Jersey 12 November, 2012. At least 121 people perished in the storm, which caused an estimated $50 billion in property damage and economic losses and ranks as one of the most destructive natural disasters to hit the U.S. Northeast. REUTERS
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| China’s new Politburo Standing Committee members (from L to R) Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan, line up as they meet with the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, 15 November, 2012. REUTERS
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| Jihad al-Masharawi, a Palestinian employee of BBC Arabic in Gaza, carries the body of his 11-month-old son Omar, who according to hospital officials was killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City 15 November 2012. REUTERS
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| U.S. President Barack Obama hugs Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of their remarks to the media at her residence in Yangon, 19 November, 2012. REUTERS
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| Labourers pull an iron rope before separating a portion of a ship into scrap metal at Gaddani ship breaking yard, about 60 km from Karachi 25 November 2011. REUTERS
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| An explosion and smoke are seen after Israeli strikes in Gaza City 17 November, 2012. Israeli aircraft pounded Hamas government buildings in Gaza including the building housing the prime minister’s office, after Israel’s Cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing the ground for a possible invasion into Gaza. REUTERS
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| Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. after a shooting at the school on 14 December 2012. AP
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