An
image provided by NASA, the SDO satellite captures a ultra-high
definition image of the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun at
on June 5 from space. The last transit was in 2004 and the next pair of
events will not happen again until the year 2117 and 2125. (NASA) #
An
Indian barber holding a candle, gives a haircut for a customer on July
31 at his shop in Kolkata, India. India's energy crisis cascaded over
half the country when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620
million people without government-supplied electricity for several
hours in, by far, the world's biggest blackout. (Bikas Das/Associated
Press) #
Russia's
President Vladimir Putin (center) enters Andreyevsky (St.Andrew's )
Hall at the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow’s Kremlin, on May 7 during
his inauguration ceremony. Putin took his oath of office today to become
Russia's president for a historic third mandate at a glittering
ceremony inside the Kremlin. (Alex Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images) #
Egyptians
celebrate the election of their new president Mohamad Morsi in Tahrir
Square on June 24 in Cairo, Egypt. Official election results today
confirmed that Mohamed Morsi is to be the next president of Egypt. Morsi
received over 13 million or 51.7% of the votes, while his main rival,
former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, received 48.27 percent. (Daniel
Berehulak/Getty Images) #
A
police lieutenant swings his baton at Occupy Wall Street activists in
New York on May 1. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes
spread out over New York City on International Workers Day, or May Day,
with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial
institutions. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press) #
Wrangler
Nate Cummins takes the opportunity to ride by moonlight, the night
before the "Super Moon" during Montana Horses' annual horse drive
outside Three Forks, Montana, on May 4. The Mantle family, who own
Montana Horses, held their last horse drive where they rounded up
approximately 300 horses and drove the herd 35 miles from their winter
range to the Mantle ranch. The horses will be picked up by leasers to be
used as pack and trail horses at dude ranches and national parks. (Jim
Urquhart/Reuters) #
Hikers
watch an annular eclipse from Papago Park in Phoenix on May 20. The
annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving
only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across
China, Japan and elsewhere in the region before moving across the
Pacific to be seen in parts of the western United States. (Michael
Chow/The Arizona Republic via Associated Press) #
The
old tower is seen collapsed after an earthquake in Finale Emilia on May
20. A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early
on Sunday, killing at least three people and causing serious damage to
the area's cultural heritage. The epicentre of the 6.0 magnitude quake,
the strongest to hit Italy in three years, was in the plains near Modena
in the Emilia-Romagna region of the Po River Valley. (Giorgio
Benvenuti/Reuters) #
Tom
Sullivan, center, embraces family members outside Gateway High School
on July 20 where he had been searching franticly for his son Alex
Sullivan who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see "The Dark
Knight Rises," movie where a gunman opened fire in Aurora, Colo. (Barry
Gutierrez/Associated Press) #
A
policeman chases a supporter of a jailed female punk band while
climbing on a fence enclosing the Turkish embassy near a court building
in Moscow on Aug. 17. Three women from the Russian punk band were
sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for their protest against
President Vladimir Putin in a church, an outcome supporters described as
the Kremlin leader's "personal revenge". (Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters)
#
A
protester, with blood on his face after a strike to the head with a
police baton, screams during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago on
May 20. Baton-swinging police officers clashed with anti-war protesters
at the start of the NATO summit on Sunday, beating some and dragging
others away. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) #
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Govermor
Mitt Romney, right, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speak to an overflow
crowd during a campaign rally at Randolph Macon College on Aug. 11 in
Ashland, Va. Mitt Romney kicked off a four day bus tour with an
announcement of his running mate. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) #
Commuters
disembark from crowded suburban trains during the morning rush hour at
Churchgate railway station on World Population Day in Mumbai on July 11.
According to a 2011 census conducted by the government of India, Mumbai
has a population of more than 12 million with an estimated population
density of about 20,482 persons per square kilometer. (Vivek
Prakash/Reuters) #
Workers
wear panda costumes as they carry a box to transport Giant Pandas back
to the wild, at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wolong, southwest
China's Sichaun province on May 3. The bears will be left to fend for
themselves to learn crucial survival skills, and scientists plan to
gradually reduce human interactions until they can live in the wild
without any assistance, and while there have already been 10 attempts at
setting pandas free over the past 30 years, and only two are thought to
have been successful as the bears find it very hard to survive on their
own. (AFP/Getty Images) #
Wrestlers
perform during the Lucha Va Voom's Cinco de Mayan show at the Mayan
Theater in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on May 4. Lucha Va Voom is the
mixture of elements of Lucha libre, or masked Mexican professional
wrestling, with comedy and striptease. Since 2002, the company has
toured the United States for the annual Cinco De Mayo show, they have
added some more “traditional” Mexican elements like Folklorico dancers,
mariachis, Aztec dancers, tequila, and something called “tamales from
outer space.” (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images) #
Ginger
Buchanan,left, wears her wedding dress as she and her husband Doug
participate in the Mud pit Bellyflop, the marquis event during the
Summer Redneck Games at Buckeye Park in East Dublin, Ga., on May 26. The
Summer Redneck Games were first held in 1996 as a spoof on the 1996
Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. (Erik S. Lesser/European Pressphoto
Agency) #
A
girl rubs her eyes as smoke rises from a burning effigy of the demon
Ghantakarna, symbolizing the destruction of evil, during the Ghantakarna
festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal, on July 17. According
to legend, the demon is believed to "steal" children and women from
their homes and localities. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters) #
A
Syrian boy who was injured when a shell, released by regime forces, hit
his house on Aug. 24 waits to be treated at a hospital in Syria's
northern city of Aleppo. Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the
Aleppo , activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws
on embattled President Bashar al-Assad. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
#
Cori
Walters hugs her daughter Hannah, 6, at the California Institute for
Women state prison in Chino, Calif., on May 5. An annual Mother's Day
event, Get On The Bus, brings children in California to visit their
mothers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being
held over 100 miles from their children. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) #
Competitors
work to pull a woman up an obstacle where competitors must jump to the
top of a half pipe during the Tough Mudder at Mt. Snow in West Dover,
Vt., on July 15. The Tough Mudder is a nine mile endurance event which
runs competitors through a military style obstacle course complete with
mud, water and fire. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) #
A
Pakistani worker pulls on a wire he will connect to a thick chain that
will in turn be used to peel away a slab of the outer structure of a
beached vessel in one of the 127 ship-breaking plots in Geddani, some
40Kms west of Karachi on July 10. Geddani's ship-breaking yards employ
some 10,000 workers including welders, cleaners, crane operators and
worker supervisors. The yards are one of the largest ship-breaking
operations in the world rivaling in size those located in India and
Bangladesh. It takes 50 workers about three months to break down a
midsize average transport sea vessel of about 40,000 tons. The
multimillion-dollar ship-breaking industry contributes significantly to
the national supply of steel to Pakistani industries. (Roberto
Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images) #
Police
try to help remove a car surrounded by water on Aug. 28 after its owner
parked it on the bank to watch waves brought on by Typhoon Bolaven in
Qingdao, in northeast China's Shandong province. Typhoon Bolaven, the
strongest storm to hit South Korea for almost a decade, left a trail of
death and damage in southwestern and south-central regions of the Korean
peninsula on Aug. 28, and crossed into China early on Aug. 29.
(AFP/Getty Images) #
A
baby sleeps in a sheet made into a hammock on Aug. 12 in Manila,
Philippines after relentless rains submerged at least a third to one
half of the sprawling capital triggering a landslide that killed nine
people and sent emergency crews scrambling to rescue tens of thousands
of residents. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #
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