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Best Photosof the Year 2011

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Relatives of one of the victims of a shooting at Tasso da Silveira school carry a family member who hadfainted while attending the funeral at Realengo cemetery in Rio de Janeiro April 8, 2011.

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A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during ademonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011.


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Passengers on Cathay Pacific flight CX715 prepare to disembark from the aeroplane after it landed safely atChangi Airport in Singapore May 16, 2011. The A330 flight, which was enroute to Jakarta, experienced enginetrouble shortly after takeoff and had to return to Singapore. Its starboard engine was burnt, according to pilotBradley Chic.


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A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi

Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011, after a massive earthquake and tsunami.


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wo women talk in the Alfama neighborhood in Lisbon April 11, 2011


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Rebels hold a young man at gunpoint, who they accuse of being a loyalist to Libyan leader

Muammar Gaddafi, between the towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf, March 3, 2011.


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Looters rampage through a convenience store in Hackney, east London August 8, 2011


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Tourists run from teargas in central Athens during anti-austerity protests, June 15, 2011.


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A woman prepares a red carpet for the departure ceremony of Mangyongbyong cruise ship in the NorthKorean Special Economic Zone of Rason City, northeast of Pyongyang August 30, 2011.


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Ayesha Walker, 44, watches the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton on television at a"pajamas and tiaras" live viewing party at 3 a.m. in Los Angeles, California April 29, 2011.


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Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the

Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near EntrelagosJune 5, 2011.


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Danny Martinez, 36, a patient in drug rehabilitation, helps to move an old man from a wheelchair to his bed, after bathinghim at the Nosotros Unidos rehabilitation centre for drug and alcohol addicts in the low-income neighborhood of Coche inCaracas August 27, 2011. This rehabilitation center for drug abusers and the homeless, is funded by a Christian evangelicalchurch, and has been a model for state institutions with the same goals. It is located in the turbulent slum of Coche inCaracas, one of the most violent and chaotic cities in the world. Within its humble surroundings, some 250 men find hopeeach day living side by side, from the city's youth to the elderly and the infirm. The center has helped more than 20,000people over the last 15 years.


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One of the best views of Port-au-Prince is from a hilltop neighborhood called Fort National-- a steep five-minute ride from downtown. Eighty percent of the buildings in this densely packed area were leveled in the2010 earthquake, providing an unobstructed 360-degree visual city tour from the crushed cathedral to the

rockslide-scarred hills across the harbor.


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A plane flies through the "Tribute in Lights" in lower Manhattan in New York

September 10, 2011


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Supporters of the banned Islamic organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa embrace each other after taking partin a funeral prayer for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Karachi May 3, 2011. The founder of one ofPakistan's most violent Islamist militant groups has told Muslims to be heartened by the death of

Osama bin Laden, as his "martyrdom" would not be in vain, a spokesman for the group said.


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Nine-year-old Dante Mitchell, classmate of nine-year-old Christina Green, holds a stuffed bear hebrought to her funeral in Tucson, Arizona January 13, 2011. Green was killed in the January 8

shooting that left six dead and wounded U.S.


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Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living environment atthe Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan provinceFebruary 20, 2011. The 6-month-old cub is being transferred to a bigger living environment with a higher altitude and a morecomplicated terrain, which marks the beginning of the second phase of its training to reintroduce it to the wild. Researchers

wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence. China


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An aid worker using an iPad films the rotting carcass of a cow in Wajir near the

Kenya-Somalia border, July 23, 2011.


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An Umbanda worshiper holds a glass of beer as she enters in a trance during a ritual in the Vila Flaviafavela in Sao Paulo, August 26, 2011. Umbanda, an Afro-Brazilian religion that combines Africanreligions with Catholicism and local indigenous beliefs, uses rituals to induce trances in worshipperswho "incorporate" the spirits of slaves born in Africa and buried in Brazil. During the ritual trances, thefollowers will smoke tobacco and drink alcohol, stagger like old slaves, beat their chests and prance

around as prostitutes or drunks.


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Policemen take pictures of the unfolding of a giant thangka, religious silk embroidery or paintingunique to Tibet, during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet

Autonomous Region August 29, 2011.


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Mohammad Azam, 56, sits injured in front of a dead child, at the site of a double suicide bombing in

Quetta September 7, 2011.


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An undercover Israeli policeman dressed as a Palestinian woman opens a car door after detaining aPalestinian protester during clashes in Shuafat refugee camp, in the West Bank near Jerusalem May

15, 2011.


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An interior view of a building in the abandoned city of Prypiat

near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is viewedFebruary 24, 2011.


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An Israeli boy looks for shrapnel after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza exploded next to

a house in Moshav Sde Avraham just outside the southern Gaza Strip March 26, 2011.


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Transvestite Tiffany, 19, shows a scar of a knife attack in Tegucigalpa March 10, 2011


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A Tunisian soldier screams as he tries to calm down rioters during clashes with the police in

downtown of the capital Tunis January 14, 2011.


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A 22-year-old woman in a wedding gown is grabbed by Guo Zhongfan, a local community officer, asshe attempts to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-storey residential building in Changchun, Jilinprovince May 17, 2011. According to local media, the woman tried to commit suicide after her boyfriendof four years broke up with her, just as they were making plans to get married. The woman did not

sustain any injuries during the incident.


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Villagers attempt to catch a chicken thrown by worshipers into a volcanic crater during the annualKasada festival at Mount Bromo in Indonesia's East Java province August 15, 2011. Villagers andworshipers throw offerings such livestock and other crops into the volcanic crater of Mount Bromo to

give thanks to the Hindu gods for ensuring their safety and prosperity.


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Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by

coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20, 2011.


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Wingwalker Todd Green falls from John Mohr's Stearman aircraft to his death, after losing his gripwhile trying to perform a transfer to the helicopter during Selfridge Air Show, less than 30 miles from

Detroit, August 21, 2011.


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Switzerland's photographer Denis Balibouse files his pictures under a full moon sky from Mont-CenisPass Road in Lanslebourg during the Grande Odyssee sled dogs race January 19, 2011. This picture

was taken with a long exposure.


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A forensic doctor stands next to a dead man at a crime scene in the Eterna Primavera (EternalSpring) neighborhood in Temixco in Morelos state May 18, 2011. The man was stoned to deathbut it is not known why, according to local media.


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Wrangler Dale Wetz rests by the campfire after thegroup had gathered approximately 350 horses duringMontana Horses' spring drive outside Three Forks,Montana April 22, 2011.


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