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Continuation of the compilation of the most impressive pictures of the outgoing year.

People are trying to save the 22-year-old girl who wanted to throw off the seventh floor, after she threw the young man, after 4 years of relations, when they began to plan the wedding. As a result of this incident, she did not receive any injuries.





A woman cries while sitting on the road in the ruined massive earthquake and tsunami in the north of the city of Natori Japan. The photo is embodied not just a mountain of a man, but woe to the inhabitants of the whole region.


Rebels in Libya at gunpoint interrogated the young man, whom they suspected of loyalty to Muammar Gaddafi.


Looters in the devastated store packed food bags during the riots in London. Noticing the photographer, they nearly took away his camera, but to help people arrived.


Frightened tourists try to reach the most of their hotel through clouds of tear gas in Athens.


44-year-old Walker looks Aesha broadcast the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in a bar in Los Angeles at 3am. The woman is quite out of his mind. The theme of the party was "pajamas and tiaras," so that people come in costume.


Flashes of lightning and a cloud of ash, which reaches 12 miles in altitude during the eruption of the volcano Puyehue in Chile. Volcanic ash has ruined a lot of livestock, caused water pollution, disease among the population and the termination of air service.


Danny Martinez, patient rehabilitation center for drug addicts helping the old man to move from wheelchair to bed after bathed him. The rehabilitation center for drug addicts and the homeless Nosotros Unidos is located in a poor neighborhood in one of the most life-threatening and chaotic cities in the world - Caracas, Venezuela. Center funded one of the churches and there live side by side to 250 people, from the youngest to the sick, helping each other and hoping for the best. For 15 years, the center has helped 20 thousand people.


Aircraft flying through beam of light memorial «Tribute in Light» in memory of the victims of the attacks of 11 sentbyarya 2001, the tenth anniversary of the tragedy.




The members of the banned Islamist organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa embrace each other after the funeral prayers for Osama bin Laden. The leader of the organization considered the death of Osama martyrdom and told his followers to be encouraged by a day.


Nine year old Dante Mitchell holds a teddy bear, which he brought to the funeral of his classmates, who died during the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the city of Tucson, Arizona. Forward opened indiscriminate firing which killed 6 people, 6 more were injured.


This photograph shows the clash of two realities - the developed countries with their modern technology and Third World countries, still struggling for the most basic things. Employee Organization to Fight AIDS, dressed in a suit, photographs decomposing skeleton of a cow on his aypad on the border of Kenya and Somalia.


Followers of religion Umbanda holding a glass of beer while in a trance, in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Umbanda - a religion that combines African beliefs with Catholicism and Brazilian traditional beliefs. It is believed that during the trance people connect with the spirits of slaves born in Africa and buried in Brazil - they behave defiantly, swaying, smoke, drink, beat his chest. Young drummers played incessantly for several hours during the ritual. In the religion of about a million followers.


Orih Florestal and Rosemond Altidon greeted the sunrise at the balcony of the ruins that were once their home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one year after the earthquake.


Wounded man sitting on the road after a double explosion arranged by suicide bombers in Pakistan. Behind him you can see the dead girl eighteen months. Terrorist act was organized to kill one of the representatives of the military command. He himself survived, but killed 29 innocent people.


Abandoned store in the central square of Pripyat day 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident.


Israeli boy looking in the hole shards rockets exploded near the house.


Gay transvestite shows Tiffany scar him after the attack. Tiffany lives in Honduras and earned (a) to life in prostitution once it is not hit by a car, threatened with death and stabbed in the back. Now she wants to open a beauty salon with the support of parents who take it for what it is. Tiffany says that in order to attack it does not have to be a prostitute. In homosexuals on the street regularly throw stones and bottles.


The soldier shouts, being between Protestants on the one hand and the police on the other, trying to calm those and others, during the anti-government speeches in Tunisia.


The photo was taken at Mount Bromo Indonesia. According to the ancient ritual of gratitude for their safety and well-being, people bring gifts to the gods by throwing into the crater of cattle, chicken and vegetables. At the same time, other more enterprising people are trying to catch and collect these "gifts».


Professional air stunt flying in the air after a failed stunt, during which he had to jump out of a plane sample 30s in a helicopter during an air show in the United States. Injuries to Todd Greene in the fall were incompatible with life. He died in hospital.


Swiss photographer handles the photos under the full moon during the dogsled races.


Israeli police undercover, disguised as a woman gets into the car after the arrest of Palestinian protesters.


The girl tries on wedding dresses at the famous annual sales in New York, during which the bride's pre-set up camp at the store, and as soon as it opens, will sweep away everything in its path in order to have time to buy a designer dress for ridiculous money.


Rescuers have the last honors the body, which they extracted from the rubble after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.


Kissing couple participating in the demonstrations in Spain.


Girl dressed as a soldier of the Chinese Red Army in the wings of the revolutionary song contest dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.


The police freed the girl, after her all day long held hostage by his own father, who said that a bomb attached to his body. According to several sources, the reason for this action was a conflict with his ex-wife for custody.


A man holds a stick, during the installation of the pump, bilge dirt gold mine in Thailand. Residents using primitive methods and tools on these small artisanal mines. Family working in a place that produces 1 gram of gold a day and sells it for $ 32.


Refugees from Bangladesh are 10 kilometers away with their belongings to get to camp.


Boy working in the collective farm in North Korea.


9-year-old Samaya looks at his uncle lying on a stretcher, while doctors treated his wounds received in a firefight in Pakistan.


The Spanish translation of the traditional look of speech, the opening celebration of Holy Week in Malaga. This year, it pronounced Antonio Banderas, who comes every year with his family in his hometown on the occasion of the holiday.


The representative of the opposition holding laptop, the screen that you can see the broadcast from Tahrir Square and the people celebrating the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.


Bloodied shoes Linda Lopez, who managed to escape from the building of the Twin Towers during the terrorist attacks September 11, 2001 will be included in the museum, which opened in 2012 on the site where the World Trade Center stood.


A Palestinian boy looks at Israeli soldiers, who stand at the checkpoint without giving the Palestinians to cross Jerusalem.


Woman Protestants providing water, locked shield against flying stones during clashes in Egypt.


People are trying to escape from the tidal wave river Tang Kuan, which reached a record over the last 10 years level.


The man who pulled a gun on the bus, trying to escape from the guards caught him. Thefts and attacks on public transport - a usual phenomenon in Guatemala. Over the last year in similar incidents bus killed 24 people, 110 were injured.


The monk prays for the dead man, whose body was found at the railway station in China.


The boat, which has appeared in 400 meters from the coast on the roof of a two-storey building at the time of the tsunami in Japan.

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