2. 2
A Free Syrian
Army fighter
fires his sniper
rifle from a
house in
Aleppo August
14, 2012
GORAN TOMASEVIC, Syria
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3. 3
Administrative segregation
prisoners take part in a group
therapy session at San Quentin
state prison in San Quentin,
California, June 8, 2012. San
Quentin prison is California's
oldest correctional facility and
LUCY NICHOLSON, houses the state's only gas
United States chamber.
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4. 4
A woman pushes
her Fiat 500 car as
her dog sits inside,
in a neighborhood
of Rome March 23,
2012
ALESSANDRO BIANCHI, Italy
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5. 5
A woman in
traditional
Korean
costume
watches as a
student
leaves a
swimming
pool of Kim Il-
BOBBY YIP, sung University
North Korea in Pyongyang
April 11, 2012.
6. 6
A bench
engraved
with the
name of the
grounded
Costa
Concordia
cruise ship
(seen at rear)
is seen
washed up
PAUL HANNA, on the shore
Italy of Giglio
island,
January 20,
2012.
7. Students hold on to the side
steel bars of a collapsed
bridge as they cross a river 7
to get to school at
Sanghiang Tanjung village in
Lebak regency, Indonesia's
Banten village January 19,
2012. Flooding from the
Ciberang river broke a pillar
supporting the suspension
bridge, which was built in
2001, according to Epi
Sopian the head of
Sanghiang Tanjung village.
BEAWIHARTA, Click to continue
Indonesia
8. 8
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 June 15,
2012. The area was
occupied by around 300
activists, indigenous
people, fishermen and
coastal community
members affected by the
project as they protested
against the construction of
the Belo Monte
LUNAE PARRACHO, Brazil Hydroelectric power plant,
according to the activists.
9. 9
A wrestler rubs his hands with
mud to prevent slipping due to
sweat, during a traditional mud
wrestling (Kushti) bout at the
Akhaara centre in Kolhapur,
about 400 kms (250 miles) south
of Mumbai, February 14, 2012.
Fewer people are taking up
Kushti, according to the sport's
coaches, as young athletes
turn instead to mat wrestling to
DANISH SIDDIQUI, gain access to top
India international sports
competitions.
10. 10
The children of the Amor Divino
family, (L-R) Dhones, Izabely and
Samille, sit on their couch after
their parents dressed them for a
weekly physical therapy session,
in the Brasilandia favela of Sao
Paulo, before sunrise March 23,
2012. All three children suffer
from a disease called Pelizaeus-
Merzbacher, a rare genetic
nervous disorder which affects
coordination and intellect. Brazil's
social security system INSS
granted the family monetary
assistance only for one of the
three children, leaving the others
NACHO DOCE, Brazil to depend on the income from
their father's job in a bakery.
11. 11
Seventeen-year-old prostitute Hashi,
embraces a Babu, her "husband", inside
her small room at Kandapara brothel in
Tangail, a northeastern city of Bangladesh,
March 4, 2012. Many young and
inexperienced prostitutes have "lovers" or
"husbands" who normally live outside the
brothel occasionally taking money and sex
from them in exchange for security in this
male dominated society. She earns about
800-1000 taka daily ($9.75 - $12.19)
servicing around 15-20 customers every
day. Hashi is one of hundreds of mostly
teenage sex workers living in a painful life
of exploitation in Kandapara slum's brothel
ANDREW BIRAJ,
who take Oradexon, a steroid used by
Bangladesh farmers to fatten their cattle, in order to
gain weight and appear "healthier" and
more attractive to clients.
12. 12
Devotees try to form
a human pyramid to
break a clay pot
containing curd
during the
celebrations to mark
the Hindu festival of
Janmashtami in
Mumbai August 10,
2012. Janmashtami,
which marks the
birthday of Hindu god
Krishna, is being
DANISH SIDDIQUI, India celebrated across the
country.
13. 13
Jamaica's Usain Bolt
runs to win the men's
200m final at the
London 2012 Olympic
Games at the
Olympic Stadium
August 9, 2012.
STEFANO RELLANDINI
, England
14. 14
Residents paddle
their makeshift boat
to safety as fire
engulfs houses at a
slum community in
Manila May 11,
2012. At least 1000
houses were razed
in the fire, leaving
5000 families
CHERYL RAVELO homeless, local
, Philippines media reported.
15. 15
Fans of France kiss
before their Group
D Euro 2012 soccer
match against
MICHAEL BUHOLZER, Ukraine at Donbass
Ukraine Arena in Donetsk
June 15, 2012.
16. 16
A woman eats clam
chowder as media
and supporters
surround Republican
presidential
candidate Rick
Santorum at a
campaign event at
ERIC THAYER a restaurant in
, United States Florence, South
Carolina, January 15,
2012.
17. 17
Women, wearing
nylon masks, rest on
the shore during their
visit to a beach in
Qingdao, Shandong
province July 6, 2012.
The mask, which was
invented by a woman
about seven years
ago, is used to block
the sun's rays. The
mask is under mass
ALY SONG, China production and is on
sale at local swimwear
stores.
18. 18
Syrians jump over
barbed wire as
they flee from the
Syrian town of Ras
al-Ain to the Turkish
border town of
STRINGER
Ceylanpinar,
, Turkey/Syria border
Sanliurfa province,
November 9, 2012.
19. 19
Palestinian gunmen ride
motorcycles as they
drag the body of a
man, who was
suspected of working
for Israel, in Gaza City
November 20, 2012.
Palestinian gunmen
shot dead six alleged
collaborators in the
Gaza Strip who "were
caught red-handed",
according to a security
MOHAMMED SALEM, Gaza source quoted by the
Hamas Aqsa radio.
20. 20
U.S. soldier Nicholas Dickhut
from 5-20 infantry Regiment
attached to 82nd Airborne
points his rifle at a doorway
after coming under fire by
the Taliban while on patrol
in Zharay district in
Kandahar province,
southern Afghanistan April
BAZ RATNER, Afghanistan 26, 2012.
21. 21
Lightning is seen during a storm
under the Memorial Center in
Potocari the night before a mass
burial, near Srebrenica July 10,
2012. The bodies of 520 recently
identified victims of the
Srebrenica massacre were
buried on July 11, the anniversary
of the massacre when Bosnian
Serb forces commanded by
Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000
Muslim men and boys and buried
DADO RUVIC, Bosnia them in mass graves, in Europe's
worst massacre since World War
Two.
22. KEVIN LAMARQUE, United
States
22
The sun reflects off the
club as Tiger Woods
hits off on the seventh
tee during the final
round of the AT&T
National golf
tournament at
Congressional Country
Club in Bethesda,
Maryland July 1, 2012.
23. 23
An 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 June 10, 2012.
Northwest Myanmar was tense after
sectarian violence engulfed its
largest city, with Reuters witnessing
rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists
STAFF, Myanmar torching houses and police firing
into the air to disperse crowds
24. 24
Local residents meet
during sunset, with the
Metallurgical Plant seen
in the background, in
SERGEI KARPUKHIN, Russia the Southern Urals city
of Magnitogorsk, July
13, 2012.
25. 25
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, about 165 km (100
miles) northwest of Pakistan's
MIAN KHURSHEED, Pakistan capital Islamabad, April 13,
2012.
26. 26
The remnants of a roller
coaster sit in the surf three
days after Hurricane
Sandy came ashore in
Seaside Heights, New
Jersey November 1, 2012.
STEVE NESIUS, United States
27. 27
Wakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot
where her house, which was washed
away by the March 11, 2011
tsunami, used to stand in
Higashimatsushima, Miyagi
prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark
the first anniversary of an
earthquake and tsunami that killed
thousands and set off a nuclear
crisis. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki
called his wife Yoshiko just after the
March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell
her to take the children to Omagari
elementary school which was
TORU HANAI, Japan serving as a shelter. He was found
near the shelter four days after the
tsunami, Yoshiko said.
28. 28
Khilnath Phuyal (R), husband of
deceased Tara Sharma Phuyal, is
comforted by a family member at
Maternity Hospital in Kathmandu,
August 21, 2012. Phuyal, 28, died
after giving birth to a baby girl,
according to family members and
supporters of Phuyal who protested
outside the hospital. Nepal in 2010
had a maternal mortality rate of 170
in 100,000 live births, according to
data from the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals
NAVESH CHITRAKAR, Nepal project.
29. 29
Dressed as a princess,
Jennifer Knoepfel
stands in the pits
waiting for the next
race during the
Saturday night stock
car races at Agassiz
Speedway in Agassiz,
British Columbia July 7,
2012. Jennifer wore the
long gown and tiara as
part of her duties
presenting the trophies
to the winners of the
ANDY CLARK, Canada
night's competition.
30. CHINA DAILY,
China 30
Fellow 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, Zhejiang province,
June 12, 2012. The worker was
pierced by seven steel bars during
his duty at a bridge construction
site, local media reported.
31. 31
Fencer Alexander
Massialas poses for
a portrait during the
2012 U.S. Olympic
Team Media
Summit in Dallas,
LUCAS JACKSON, Texas May 13, 2012.
United States
32. 32
A Yawalapiti boy dips his head
into the Xingu River in the
Xingu National Park, Mato
Grosso State, May 9, 2012. In
August the Yawalapiti tribe
held the Quarup, which is a
ritual held over several days to
honor in death a person of
great importance to them. This
year the Quarup honored two
people - a Yawalapiti Indian
who they consider a great
leader, and Darcy Ribeiro, a
well-known author,
anthropologist and politician
known for focusing on the
relationship between native
UESLEI MARCELINO, Brazil
peoples and education in
Brazil.
33. 33
The full moon rises
through the
Olympic Rings
hanging beneath
Tower Bridge during
the London 2012
LUKE MACGREGOR, England Olympic Games
August 3, 2012.
34. 34
Manolis Ouranos, a 30 year-old
cook, poses for a picture in the
Mavros Gatos (Black Cat)
tavern in Psiri neighborhood in
central Athens May 23, 2012.
Manolis studied at Athens
Technology University (TEI) for
four years where he received a
degree in civil engineering. He
hoped to find a permanent job
in public sector infrastructure
but has been working as a cook
YANNIS BEHRAKIS, for four months instead. He now
Greece takes cooking lessons which he
funds with his salary as a cook.
35. 35
Israeli border police officers
use pepper spray as they
detain an injured Palestinian
protester during clashes on
Land Day after Friday prayers
outside Damascus Gate in
Jerusalem's Old City March
30, 2012. Israeli security forces
fired rubber bullets, tear gas
and stun grenades to break
up groups of Palestinian
AMMAR AWAD, Jerusalem stone-throwers as annual
Land Day rallies turned
violent.
36. 36
A woman weeps after
learning that a neighbor
presumed missing is okay
while cleaning out her
home in a neighborhood
heavily damaged by
Hurricane Sandy in the
New Dorp Beach
neighborhood of the
Staten Island borough of
LUCAS JACKSON, United New York, November 1,
States 2012.
37. 37
The skyline of lower
Manhattan, as seen from
Exchange Place, is mostly
in darkness except for the
Goldman Sachs building
after a preventive power
outage caused by giant
storm Sandy, in New York
EDUARDO MUNOZ, United States October 30, 2012.
38. 38
A woman holds her
malnourished child at a
therapeutic feeding
center at al-Sabyeen
hospital in Sanaa May
MOHAMED AL- 28, 2012.
SAYAGHI, Yemen
39. 39
A Sudanese migrant
sleeps under a slide as an
Israeli girl slides down it at
Levinsky park in South Tel
Aviv June 16, 2012. About
60,000 Africans have
crossed into Israel across
its porous border with
Egypt in recent years.
Israel says the vast
majority are job seekers,
disputing arguments by
humanitarian agencies
BAZ RATNER, Israel that they should be
considered for asylum.
40. 40
A temple stands
amid the waters of
the flooded river
Tawi after heavy
rains in Jammu
August 19, 2012.
MUKESH GUPTA, Indian-administered Kashmir
41. 41
A Free Syrian Army
fighter screams in
pain after he was
injured in a leg by
shrapnel from a shell
fired from a Syrian
Army tank in the
Salaheddine
neighbourhood of
central Aleppo
GORAN TOMASEVIC, Syria August 7, 2012.
42. 42
An indigenous man
stands in a subway train
as he makes his way to
the People's Summit at
Rio+20 for Social and
Environmental Justice in
Rio de Janeiro June 20,
RICARDO MORAES, Brazil 2012.
43. 43
Staff members reflected
off the window of the
room where Republican
presidential nominee
Mitt Romney works
before a campaign rally
in North Canton, Ohio
October 26, 2012.
BRIAN SNYDER, United
States
44. 44
A man walks down
Shore Front Parkway
surrounded by debris
pushed onto the
streets by hurricane
Sandy in the Queens
borough region of the
Rockaways in New
LUCAS JACKSON, York, November 6,
United States 2012.
45. 45
SHAMIL ZHUMATOV,
Afghanistan
U.S. Army soldiers react
after their comrade
was wounded at
patrol by an
improvised explosive
device (IED) in
southern Afghanistan
June 12, 2012.
46. A wounded Syrian man lies on a boat as he
is transferred to Turkey over the Orontes
River on the Turkish-Syrian border near the
46
village of Hacipasa in Hatay province
October 10, 2012. Scores of Syrian civilians,
many of them women with screaming
children clinging to their necks, crossed
Orontes, a narrow river marking the border
with Turkey as they fled the fighting in
Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents
from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, nestled
among olive groves, helped pull them
across in small metal boats.
OSMAN ORSAL, Turkey
47. SUHAIB SALEM, Gaza A Palestinian man
checks his damaged 47
house after Israeli air
strikes in Gaza City
November 15, 2012.
48. A puppy stands by
remains of a dog local
residents said was its
48
mother, days after it
was killed in an area
burnt in violence at
East Pikesake ward in
Kyaukphyu November
6, 2012.
MINZAYAR, Myanmar
49. 49
Israelis react and run
for cover as a siren
sounds warning of
incoming rockets in
the southern town of
NIR ELIAS, Israel Kiryat Malachi
November 15, 2012.
50. 50
People travel on an
outdoor public
escalator at Commune
13 in Medellin January
12, 2012. A huge 384
meters (1,260 ft) long
outdoor escalator,
divided into six sections,
has been erected in
one of the poorest
districts of Colombia's
FREDY BUILES, Colombia second largest city to
help the 12,000 residents
there get around.
51. 51
A woman hits a man
with a stick after he is
accused of theft along
with three other men at
Tactic, in the Alta
Verapaz region, about
189 km (117 miles) from
Guatemala City,
September 13, 2012. The
local community tied up
and beat four men who
were accused of theft in
the aftermath of a
school killing. The man,
who had entered a
classroom and killed two
children, ages 8 and 13,
JORGE DAN LOPEZ with a machete, was
lynched and burnt alive
by a mob, local media
reported.
52. 52
A naked protester runs
past the parliament in
JOHN KOLESIDIS, Syntagma Square in
Greece Athens during a violent
protest against the visit of
Germany's Chancellor
Angela Merkel October
9, 2012.
53. 53
A car stops beside a house in the middle
of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang
province, November 22, 2012. An elderly
couple refused to sign an agreement to
allow their house to be demolished. They
say that compensation offered is not
enough to cover rebuilding costs,
CHINA DAILY, according to local media. Their house is
China the only building left standing on a road
which is paved through their village.
54. 54
An army tank fires
during a firefight
against militants linked
to al Qaeda near the
YEMEN’S DEFENCE MINISTRY, southern Yemeni city
Yemen of Zinjibar May 30,
2012.
55. 55
A child looks on as she
observes the Bisket
festival at the ancient
city of Bhaktapur near
Kathmandu April 13,
2012. The nine-day
festival takes place over
the Nepalese New Year,
during which the
devotees try to pull the
chariot to their
respective locations
and the winners are
NAVESH CHITRAKAR, believed to be blessed
Nepal for the coming year with
good fortune
56. 56
A teleprompter obscures
U.S. President Barack
Obama as he speaks
during a campaign event
KEVIN LAMARQUE, at Capital University in
United States Columbus, Ohio August
21, 2012.
57. 57
A man takes a
photo as Space
Shuttle Endeavour
travels to the
California Science
Center in
RICK LOOMIS, Inglewood, Los
United States Angeles October 13,
2012.
58. 58
A policeman (R) fires at protesting
miners outside a South African
mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62
miles) northwest of Johannesburg,
August 16, 2012. South African
police opened fire against
thousands of striking miners armed
with machetes and sticks at
SIPHIWE SIBEKO, Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine,
South Africa leaving several bloodied corpses
lying on the ground.
59. 59
A young man dressed as a punk
with pictures of Myanmar pro-
democracy leader Aung San
Suu Kyi on his shirt, attends a
punk show during the water
SOE ZEYA TUN, festival at a music bar in Yangon
Myanmar April 11, 2012. Myanmar
celebrates the New Year Water
Festival of Thingyan during the
month of Tagu, which usually
falls around mid-April.
60. 60
Yuri Kudryavtsev, 18, student of the
Krasnoyarsk choreographic college, does
leg-splits while reading a book in the
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, October 4,
2012. Kudryavtsev, accompanied by his
fellow student, Marina Volkova, 16,
prepared before taking part in a
professional one-week-long ballet
contest, dedicated to the 85th
anniversary of a well-known Russian
choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, along
with actors from opera and ballet theatres
ILYA NAYMUSHIN, and graduates of choreographic colleges
Russia from different Russian cities. Kudryavtsev
and Volkova are winners of the 2011
Grand Prix of the St.-Petersburg's
Mikhailovsky Theatre all-Russian ballet
schools competition.
61. A Hindu devotee with his neck
pierced with a knife attends
the "Chadak" ritual at
61
Krishanadevpur village, north
of Kolkata April 13, 2012.
Hundreds of Hindu devotees
attend the ritual, held to
worship the Hindu deity of
destruction Lord Shiva, on the
last day of the Bengali
calendar year. The
photographer was unable to
check the veracity of the
action of this devotee.
RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI,
India
62. 62
Reuters photographer Joseba
Etxaburu is knocked down by a
wild cow during festivities in the
bullring following the sixth running
of the bulls of the San Fermin
festival in Pamplona July 12, 2012.
Etxaburu suffered some scratches
SUSANA VERA, Spain on his right elbow but was able to
continue shooting afterwards.
63. A firefighting helicopter fills a bucket
of water in heavy smoke as the
North Merna wildfire burns in the 63
Bridger National Forest west of the
town of Pinedale in Sublette County,
Wyoming September 16, 2012.
JIM URQUHART,
United States
64. A protester reacts
as the U.S.
Consulate in 64
Benghazi is seen in
flames September
11, 2012.
ESAM AL-FETORI,
Libya
65. Audience members watch
a model during the J.
Mendel Spring/Summer 65
2013 show at New York
Fashion Week, September
12, 2012.
ANDREW BURTON,
United States
66. 66
Artist Pyotr Pavlensky,
a supporter of jailed
members of female
punk band "Pussy
Riot", looks on with his
mouth sewed up as
MAXIM ZMEYEV for the Trend Photo he protests outside
Agency, Russia the Kazan Cathedral
in St. Petersburg, July
23, 2012.
67. ANATOLII STEPANOV,
Ukraine 67
Unidentified people beat
Svyatoslav Sheremet (L,
bottom), head of Gay-Forum
of Ukraine public
organization, in Kiev, May 20,
2012. Sheremet was
attacked after meeting with
members of the media to
inform them that a
scheduled gay parade was
cancelled. The attackers ran
off when they realized
members of the media were
documenting the attack
68. 68
A Jewish boy lifts
his hand to
prevent a
Palestinian from
taking his picture
near a police
barrier cordoning
off a building the
day after Israeli
police evicted
Jewish settlers
who occupied it
in the West Bank
AMMAR AWAD, West Bank city of Hebron
April 5, 2012.
69. 69
Actor Tom Cruise
carries his
daughter Suri past
a group of
photographers as
they make their
way from a hotel
KEITH BEDFORD, in New York, July
United States 17, 2012
70. 70
Bavarian farmers
transport their cows on a
boat over the
picturesque Lake
Koenigssee at dusk
October 3, 2012. Before
the winter season
approaches the farmers
have to drive their cattle
down from their Alpine
meadows to a narrow
MICHAEL DALDER, valley that can only be
Germany reached by boat.
71. 71
An Afghan man
takes a shortcut
DANISH SIDDIQUI, by climbing a
Afghanistan wall, at a hilltop
in Kabul May 11,
2012
72. 72
Marietta Perkins
prays during a vigil
for victims behind
the theater where a
SHANNON STAPLETON, gunman opened
United States fire on moviegoers
in Aurora, Colorado
July 20, 2012.
73. 73
A woman runs along a
road during an air
strike by the Sudanese
air force in Rubkona
near Bentiu April 23,
2012. Sudanese
warplanes carried out
air strikes on South
Sudan, killing three
people near the
southern oil town of
Bentiu, residents and
military officials said,
GORAN TOMASEVIC,
three days after South
South Sudan
Sudan pulled out of a
disputed oil field.
74. 74
A music group
performs on a
path amid fields
to greet the
farmers at
Hwanggumpyon
g Island, near the
JACKY CHEN, North Korean
North Korea/China border town of Sinuiju
and the Chinese
border city of
Dandong June 6,
2012.
75. 75
Delegates sit at
the stage
before the
opening
ceremony of
18th National
Congress of
the Communist
Party of China
at the Great
Hall of the
People in
Beijing,
November 8,
JASON LEE, China
2012.
76. 76
Gabrielle Douglas of
the U.S. competes in
the balance beam
during the women's
individual all-around
gymnastics final in
DYLAN MARTINEZ, the North Greenwich
England Arena during the
London 2012
Olympic Games
August 2, 2012.
77. 77
A physically disabled woman on
her wheelchair clashes with riot
police in the centre of La Paz,
February 23, 2012. Hundreds of
physically disabled people arrived
in La Paz after completing a protest
march of some 1600 km (994 miles)
DAVID MERCADO, over a hundred days to demand
Bolivia that Bolivia's government offer
support in the form of 3000
bolivianos ($434) payment to each
physically disabled Bolivian,
according to local media.
78. 78
Members of "Field
Marshal Hussein
Tantawi," a group
consisting of official
and police guards, try
to ride a military police
vehicle after a funeral
for soldiers who were
killed during an attack
at a checkpoint along
the Sinai border with
Israel by unknown
gunmen, at the tomb
of the late President
Anwar al-Sadat and
the Unknown Soldier
AMR DALSH, Egypt monument in Cairo
August 7, 2012.
79. 79
Residents push lawn mowers on a
street in Nanjie village of Luohe city
in China's central Henan province
September 24, 2012. Nanjie village,
with more than 3,100 residents, is
touted to be one of the remaining
models of communist China, where
the principles of morality and
collectivism of the late Chairman
Mao still strictly guide the people's
daily lives. Aside from free housing,
healthcare, food rations and
education, locals working in the
village's factories receive an
average salary of 2500 yuan, about
400 dollars. The village's return to
communism came at the same time
as the rest of the country opened up
to the capitalist market in the mid
1980s. Mao is still highly revered in
Nanjie, enjoying a god-like status.
JASON LEE, China
80. 80
Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa take a
taxi ride in New York, April 7, 2012. Cocoa is a 3-
year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with
its owner Fakroddin in Summit, New Jersey. They
frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the
city. Fakroddin raised Cocoa since she was 2
months old and treats her like a human. "She
doesn't like goats, she doesn't like farms, she likes
the people and the city." Fakroddin said.
ALLISON JOYCE,
United States
81. 81
Parker Roos, who suffers from
Fragile X, rolls around on the floor
after getting into an argument
with his sister as his mother Holly
looks on at their home in Canton,
Illinois, April 4, 2012. Fragile X is the
most common known genetic
cause of autism. Both of Holly Roos'
children have Fragile X. Parker has
the most severe symptoms,
compared to his sister Allison but
they play together like normal
brothers and sisters, enjoy the
same cartoons on television, and
even play the drums and video
games together. Both are enrolled
in a clinical trial of a drug to help
treat Fragile X.
JIM YOUNG,
United States
82. 82
A woman uses a shaft of
sunlight to see her ballot
as she votes in a polling
site built to service
residents of the Queens
borough neighborhoods
of Breezy Point and the
Rockaways, whose
original site was
LUCAS JACKSON, damaged during
Hurricane Sandy, during
United States the U.S. presidential
election in New York,
November 6, 2012.
83. 83
Chen Guangcheng,
the blind Chinese
dissident and legal
advocate who
recently sought asylum
in the United States, is
SHANNON STAPLETON, lit by a studio light
United States during an interview in
New York May 24,
2012.
84. 84
Paratroopers from
Chosen Company of
the 3rd Battalion
(Airborne), 509th
Infantry board a waiting
CH-47 Chinook
helicopter as they
begin a helicopter
assault mission at
LUCAS JACKSON, Combat Outpost
Afghanistan Herrera in Afghanistan's
Paktiya Province July
15, 2012.
85. JOHN KOLESIDIS,
Greece 85
A police officer pretends to
hang himself in front of the
parliament during a rally in
Athens September 6, 2012.
About 4,000 Greek police,
coastguards and firemen
protested in Athens on
Thursday, staging faked
suicides on gallows they
placed outside the finance
ministry and parliament to
symbolise the pain of budget
cuts.
86. 86
Huang Sufang reacts as
she sees a part of her
house being taken down
by demolition workers at
Yangji village in central
Guangzhou city,
Guangdong province
March 21, 2012. Huang,
who is a resident of Yangji
village, clashes with
demolition workers as they
mistakenly take down a
part of her home, which is
not included in the
demolition project, local
media reported.
CALVIN FENG, China
87. 87
Protesters destroy an
American flag pulled down
from the U.S. embassy in
Cairo September 11, 2012.
Egyptian protesters scaled
the walls of the U.S.
embassy, tore down the
American flag and burned
it during a protest over what
they said was a film being
produced in the United
States that insulted Prophet
Mohammad.
MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY,
Egypt
88. 88
Poland's Lukasz
Mamczarz starts his run
up during the men's high
jump F42 final at the
London 2012 Paralympic
Games at the Olympic
ANDREW WINNING, Stadium in London
England September 3, 2012.
89. 89
Festival goers are
pictured during the
Hackney Weekend
festival at Hackney
Marshes in east
London June 24,
OLIVIA HARRIS, Britain 2012.
90. 90
Greek
parliament
employees raise
a mast after
they replaced
torn-off Greek
flag with a new
one atop the
parliament in
Athens
Syntagma
(Constitution)
YANNIS BEHRAKIS, square April 18,
Greece 2012.
91. 91
A Free Syrian
Army fighter
takes cover
during clashes
with Syrian Army
in the
Salaheddine
neighborhood
of central
Aleppo August
GORAN TOMASEVIC, 7, 2012.
Syria
92. 92
Deontae Mobley looks in the mirror
after having his hair cut by his father,
"Haircut" Joe Mobley, in the
neighborhood of Goldsboro, once an
incorporated all-black city during the
segregation era that has been
absorbed by the town of Sanford,
Florida April 3, 2012. Sanford is the
Florida town where George
Zimmerman, 28, a neighborhood
watch volunteer, fatally shot Trayvon
Martin, 17, on the night of February 26,
saying he had acted in self defense.
LUCAS JACKSON,
United States
93. 93
A crow sits on a human corpse
in the river Ganges in the
eastern Indian city of Patna, in
Bihar state, January 22, 2012.
When India launched reforms to
open up its state-stifled
economy 20 years ago, many
states surged ahead, leaving
behind the 3.5 percent "Hindu
rate of growth" that had
plagued the decades after the
country's independence from
Britain in 1947, and with it Bihar.
ADNAN ABIDI, India
94. 94
Confetti
obscures the
stage as U.S.
President Barack
Obama
celebrates after
winning the U.S.
presidential
election in
Chicago, Illinois,
November 7,
2012.
PHILIP SCOTT-ANDREWS,
United States
95. 95
Juan Carlos Castano, 43, turns on the TV in his emptied-
out bedroom as he waits for the judicial commission to
carry out his eviction in Madrid September 28, 2012.
Castano, a Spanish national who came from his native
Colombia to Spain in 2000, stopped making mortgage
payments after becoming unemployed in late 2009.
Spain announced a detailed timetable for economic
reforms and a tough 2013 budget based primarily on
spending cuts in what many see as an effort to pre-
empt the likely terms of any international bailout. A
quarter of all Spanish workers are unemployed and tens
SUSANA VERA, Spain of thousands have been evicted from their homes since
a housing bubble burst in 2008 and plummeting
consumer and business sentiment tipped the country
into a four-year economic slump.
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A view of the Yawalapiti village is seen before
the start of this year's 'quarup,' a ritual held
over several days to honor in death a person
of great importance to them, in the Xingu
National Park, Mato Grosso State, August 12,
2012. This year the Yawalapiti tribe honored
two people - a Yawalapiti Indian who they
consider a great leader, and Darcy Ribeiro, a
well-known author, anthropologist and
politician known for focusing on the
relationship between native peoples and
education in Brazil.
UESLEI MARCELINO,
Brazil