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text: News News in pictures The best news photography from around the world Tuesday 31 July 2012 23:00 BST Click to followThe Independent Online News in pictures 299 show all News in pictures 1/299 August 1, 2012: A man stands with his bicycle as waves from Manila Bay brought about by Typhoon Saola (locally known as Gener), splash on him on a flooded main street at Roxas Boulevard, in Metro Manila Reuters 2/299 July 31, 2012: Young spectators watch the men's -81kg and women's 63kg judo competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Reuters 3/299 July 30 2012: Micronesia's Manuel Minginfel drops weights on the men's 62Kg Group B weightlifting competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Reuters 4/299 July 29, 2012: Dana Vollmer of the U.S. reacts after winning the women's 100m butterfly final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre. Vollmer set a world record with a timing of 55.98 seconds. Reuters 5/299 July 26, 2012: A woman looks at a shop display, which pokes fun at the London 2012 Olympics licensing rules, in south London. The word "Olympic" and the rings logo are protected by strict copyright laws. Reuters 6/299 July 25, 2012: Swimmers attend a training session at the main pool of the Aquatics Centre before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games in London. Reuters 7/299 July 24, 2012: Chinese swimmers perform strength exercises at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park in Stratford in east London. Reuters 8/299 July 23, 2012: Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in Aurora, Colorado. 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 on Monday, sitting silently in a red jailhouse jump suit and with his hair dyed bright red. Reuters 9/299 July 22, 2012: Sky Procycling rider and leader's yellow jersey Bradley Wiggins of Britain takes a curve in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during the final 20th stage of the 99th Tour de France. Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France. Reuters 10/299 July 21, 2012: Ernest Hemingway look-alikes push fake bulls on Duval Street during the "Running of the Bulls" in Key West, Florida. The event is a spoof of its namesake challenge in Pamplona, Spain, and is a facet of the island's annual Hemingway Days festival. Reuters 11/299 July 20, 2012: Muslims attend a mass prayer session "Tarawih" marking the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in a mosque in Indonesia. Reuters 12/299 July 18, 2012: Former South African president Nelson Mandela looks on as he celebrates his birthday at his house in Qunu, Eastern Cape. South Africans celebrated Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday on Wednesday with giant cakes, mass renditions of "Happy Birthday" and 67 minutes of good deeds - one for each year of the anti-apartheid leader's struggle against white-minority rule. Reuters 13/299 July 17, 2012: Oscar Pistorius of South Africa trains before the men's 400 meters event at the 23rd International Athletics Meeting in Lignano Sabbiadoro. After striving to qualify for the 400 metres at the London Olympics for six years, Oscar Pistorius believes he will now be better placed to run at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. The South African, who wears carbon fibre blades, will become the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics. Reuters 14/299 July 16, 2012: A man walks through the infinity room at the Team GB Preparation Camp in Loughborough, central England. Reuters 15/299 July 15, 2012: Members of the Streb extreme dance group abseil down the face of City Hall, with Tower Bridge and the Olympic rings behind them in central London. The event is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, being held in the capital as it is about to host the London 2012 Olympic Games. Reuters 16/299 July 14, 2012: 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. Reuters 17/299 July 13, 2012: Women in traditional summer kimonos costumes look at paper lanterns during the annual Mitama festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. About 3,000 paper lanterns are lit to comfort the souls of dead during the annual festival at the shrine where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined. Reuters 18/299 July 12, 2012: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, tests out a bed during his visit to the 2012 Olympic Park and Olympic Village in London. Reuters 19/299 July 11, 2012: Blood flows down the face of an injured protester who was injured during clashes between supporters of Spanish coal miners and riot police as they ended a "Marcha Negra" (Black March) near the Industry Ministry in Madrid. Thousands of miners and supporters, chanting and throwing firecrackers, marched through the centre of Madrid on Wednesday in protest against government austerity measures, but Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced more pain in a new series of taxes and spending cuts. Joined by trade unionists in the capital, the miners rallied noisily at the climax of a 44-day protest against a 60 percent cut in coal subsidies which they say will force mines to close and put many out of work. Reuters 20/299 July 10, 2012: Young male gymnasts (bottom) stretch their legs as a female gymnast jumps on a stage at a local juvenile sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. Reuters 21/299 July 9, 2012: Revellers are showered with sparks from the "Fire Bull", a man carrying a metal structure loaded with fireworks on the fourth day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Visitors to the nine day festival, depicted in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises", take part in activities including The Running Of The Bulls, an early morning half mile dash from the corral to the bullring alongside six bulls destined to die in the afternoon's corrida. This is followed by processions of giant traditional figures, concerts, firebulls, fireworks, and large doses of eating, drinking, dancing and late nights. Reuters 22/299 July 8, 2012: Andy Murray of Britain reacts during his men's singles final tennis match against Roger Federer of Switzerland at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. Reuters 23/299 July 7, 2012: A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the "Rapa Das Bestas" traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. Reuters 24/299 July 6, 2012: A Tibetan girl dressed in traditional attire is pictured during the 77th birthday celebration of the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Kathmandu. Nepal ceased issuing refugee papers to Tibetans in 1989 and recognizes Tibet to be a part of China. Reuters 25/299 July 4, 2012: Firefighter Alex Abols monitors fire on the north flank of the Fontenelle Fire outside Big Piney, Wyoming. Over 800 firefighters are working 15 hour shifts battling the fire that has exceeded 56,000 acres, according to fire information services. Record fire danger and long stretches of the red flag warning days have made it challenging to control. The crews are working and sleeping in close proximity to the fire in an effort to contain it. The blaze, burning in dead and thick stands of timber, started on June 24 and is currently 15 percent contained. Recently firefighting crews from as far away as Alaska have arrived to fight it. Reuters 26/299 July 4, 2012: Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge sit on Centre Court for the men's quarter-final tennis match between Andy Murray of Britain and David Ferrer of Spain at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London. Reuters 27/299 July 3, 2012: Members of the police commando take part in an exercise session at police lines in Lahore. Pakistan is cracking down on portly policemen after only a quarter of the 19,000 officers in the Punjab province passed a fitness test. The plump police, responsible for safeguarding the most populous province, were warned in letters to trim their waist-lines to the regulation 38 inches by the end of the month, local newspapers said on Friday. Reuters 28/299 July 2, 2012: Britain's Prince Charles smells a pork pie, a piece of which he later took home with him, during a visit to Heartlands Community Regeneration Project in Truro, England. The Prince of Wales is celebrating 60 years as the Duke of Cornwall. Reuters 29/299 June 30, 2012: Revellers wait on the top of a bus to take part in the Gay Pride parade in Lima. Reuters 30/299 June 30, 2012: Competitors practice during a men's synchronized swimming competition at the EuroGames 2012 in Budapest. More than 3,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender athletes will compete in the EuroGames 2012. Reuters 31/299 June 29, 2012: Luis Felipe Meliz of Spain competes during the men's long jump qualifying event at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. Reuters 32/299 June 28, 2012: A supporter of U.S. President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington. A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the centerpiece of Obama's signature healthcare overhaul law that requires that most Americans get insurance by 2014 or pay a financial penalty. Reuters 33/299 June 26, 2012: Eric Shanteau (L) gets a kiss from his wife Jeri Moss after finishing second in the men's 100m breaststroke final during the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Reuters 34/299 June 26, 2012: A worker shows newly-hatched baby crocodiles during a hatching inside a crocodile farm in Pasay city, metro Manila. At least 10 baby crocodile eggs were hatched on the farm on Tuesday, according to farm officials. Reuters 35/299 June 25, 2012: A veterinarian checks on Anyin, a sick orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), as it waits to be transported to a hospital, in Pontianak, west Kalimantan province June 23, 2012. The orangutan was stricken with malaria, typhoid, and ulcers when it was taken from its owner, a villager in Kartiasa in Sambas. Anyin will be admitted to the orangutan rehabilitation centre run by the International Animal Rescue (IAR) in Ketapang. Reuters 36/299 June 24, 2012: Marchers prepare to participate in the Gay Pride Parade in New York. Reuters 37/299 June 23, 2012: Naked volunteers, numbering around 1700 people, pose for U.S. artist Spencer Tunick in downtown Munich. Reuters 38/299 June 22, 2012: A demonstrator wearing a mask depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses as she simulates playing a soccer match to protest against the euro zone debt crisis, in front of the Chigi palace in Rome. The message on the goal post reads: "Tax on the financial transactions". Reuters 39/299 A Greenpeace activist dressed in a polar bear suit looks at a Russian policeman during an action on Red Square in Moscow, June 21, 2012. Greenpeace campaigners today launched a bid for a global sanctuary in the Arctic in a worldwide series of events, organisers said. Reuters 40/299 June 20, 2012: Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi poses for a photograph after receiving her honorary degree at Oxford University, in Oxford southern England. Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday continued an emotional visit to Britain, where she left her family 24 years ago and took up her famous struggle against the military dictatorship in her homeland. Reuters 41/299 June 19, 2012: A man carrying a case of beer passes a life-sized model of a tank covered with bread on display at Morro Santa Marta, the first 'pacified' favela, ahead of the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro. The installation by the World Future Council organization symbolizes the use of military expenses to fund social needs and calls for the governments taking part in the Rio+20 conference to work towards disarmament for sustainable development. The Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will be held from June 20 to June 22. Reuters 42/299 June 18, 2012: A Kashmiri Muslim man prays as balls thrown by children are seen near him during Meeraj-un-Nabi celebrations at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Monday thronged to the Hazratbal shrine which houses what is believed to be a relic from the beard of Prophet Mohammed. The festival marks the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven. Reuters 43/299 June 17, 2012: Palestinian women, relatives of Naim Najar, mourn during his funeral in the West Bank village of Idna, near Hebron. An Israeli tow truck driver shot and killed two Palestinians, one of them Najar, in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and told Israeli police he opened fire after they attacked him and tried to steal his vehicle. Reuters 44/299 June 16, 2012: David Therrien gets stabbed by the Devil in the men's 5000 metre devil's run at the Donovan Bailey Invitational track and field meet in Edmonton, Alberta. During the devil's run, the man in the last place on each lap can be caught by the devil, and if he is stabbed, he is out of the race. Reuters 45/299 June 15, 2012: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a dinner in her honour at Akershus Castle in Oslo. Suu Kyi, on her first visit to Europe in nearly a quarter of a century, warned that her country's political transformation was not irreversible and the military had to give up its excessive powers. Reuters 46/299 June 14, 2012: Lifelike toy fish named "Robo Fish" swim inside an aquarium at a booth of Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy A.R.T.S at the International Toy show in Tokyo. The four-day event will open to public on Saturday, showcasing a total of about 35,000 products by 144 toy manufacturers. Reuters 47/299 June 13, 2012: A man rests at a Buddhist monastery used as a collective shelter for people displaced by recent violence in Sittwe. Soldiers and riot police patrolled the streets of the Myanmar town of Sittwe on Wednesday to enforce a state of emergency after days of sectarian violence in which at least 21 people have been killed. Reuters 48/299 June 11, 2012: A child cries while children practise the "Whirling Dervish" dance during a class at a performing arts theatre in Cairo. The theatre, which has been training children in the traditional Egyptian dance for almost 20 years, closed temporarily for some three months from late January of 2011, when anti-government protests which triggered the mass uprising began across Egypt. Reuters 49/299 An armed police officer stands guard over a pile of firearms burnt during a ceremony to destroy illegal weapons in Yuxi city in south-western China's Yunnan province. According to China's Ministry of Public Security website, more than 100,000 illegally possessed firearms and over 250 tons of explosives were destroyed across 150 Chinese cities during part a national crackdown. AP 50/299 June 10, 2012: A 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 on Monday after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds. Reuters 51/299 June 10, 2012: A woman leaves her house through a decorated doorway during Corpus Christi day in Zahara de la Sierra, southern Spain. The village of Zahara de la Sierra celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi (or Body of Christ in Latin) by covering the streets and facades of houses with the branches of trees and grass. Reuters 52/299 June 9, 2012: Robby Mandel, 16, makes his way through a parking lot in the Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida, . A storm moving across the U.S. Gulf Coast battered parts of Alabama and Florida with up to 18 inches (46 cm) of rain on Saturday with authorities in Pensacola, Florida, declaring a state of emergency and sending out boats to rescue residents of flooded homes. Reuters 53/299 June 8, 2012: An Indian Myna holds a grasshopper in its beak to feed chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. Reuters 54/299 June 7, 2012: France's national soccer team midfielder Franck Ribery is seen in a sauna at the team's training center in Kircha, on the eve of the Euro 2012 football championships opening match on. Reuters 55/299 June 6, 2012: The planet Venus makes its transit across the Sun as seen from Kathmandu. The planet Venus made a slow transit across the face of the sun on Tuesday, the last such passing that will be visible from Earth for 105 years. Reuters 56/299 June 5, 2012: Hay bales are dressed as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on a farm near Leatherhead. Four days of nationwide celebrations during which millions of people have turned out to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concluded on Tuesday with a church service and carriage procession through central London. Reuters 57/299 June 4, 2012: Britain's Prince Charles kisses the hand of his mother Queen Elizabeth at the end of her Diamond Jubilee concert in front of Buckingham Palace in London. Robbie Williams kicked off a concert outside the Queen's sumptuous London residence on Monday before huge crowds gathered to celebrate the monarch's 60 years on the throne, but the event was overshadowed by news her husband had been hospitalised. Reuters 58/299 June 3, 2012: Gloriana, the Royal rowbarge, leads other rowing boats towards batterasea Bridge as they take part in Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee pageant on the River Thames in London. Britain's Queen Elizabeth joined a spectacular armada of 1,000 vessels on Sunday for the most dazzling display of British pageantry seen on London's River Thames for 350 years, watched by cheering crowds celebrating her 60th year on the throne. Reuters 59/299 June 3, 2012: Gloriana, the Royal rowbarge, leads other rowing boats towards batterasea Bridge as they take part in Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee pageant on the River Thames in London. Britain's Queen Elizabeth joined a spectacular armada of 1,000 vessels on Sunday for the most dazzling display of British pageantry seen on London's River Thames for 350 years, watched by cheering crowds celebrating her 60th year on the throne. Reuters 60/299 June 2, 2012: Leon White (C) joins music group "The True Men" during a performance at a street party in celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee at Primrose Hill in London. Queen Elizabeth gets four days of celebrations to mark her 60 years on the British throne under way on Saturday with one of her favourite pastimes, a trip to the horse races, as tributes to the long-serving monarch pour in. Reuters 61/299 1 June 2012: Japan's disabled sprinter Maya Nakanishi poses in this handout picture featured in her calendar in Tokyo. Nakanishi, who is planning to compete in the 2012 London Paralympic Games, published a calendar featuring her posing semi-nude with her prosthetic leg to help fund her training and trip to London Paralympic Games. Nakanishi lost her right leg below the knee in a workplace accident when she was 21, then became a sprinter with her prosthetic limb. She is the Asian record holder in the T44 (one leg amputated below the knee) 200 meter and long jump and she was the first Japanese woman to be at the start line in a 100 metre final race in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Olympics. But with little financial assistance, she made up her mind to pose herself partially nude in her calendar to fund her trip to compete in London. The calendar of 7,000 copies is priced at 1,200 yen ($15) in Japan. Reuters 62/299 May 31, 2012: A Ukrainian police officer detains an activist from women's rights group Femen dressed in a costume of a penis enacting a performance in a front of the EURO 2012 flower mascot Slavko in central Kiev. The activist was protesting against prostitution during the upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 soccer tournament. Kiev is set to host the final match of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament. Reuters 63/299 May 30, 2012: A woman holds an umbrella as she crosses a flooded street by stepping on wooden tables amid heavy rainfalls in Wuhan, Hubei province. Reuters 64/299 May 29, 2012: A man stands by a doorway in the building of the Ministry of Health in Brasilia. Brazilian native Indians from the Kaingang, Guarani, Charrua do Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana groups occupied the building on Tuesday, seeking a meeting with the minister of health. According to the leader of the group, they wanted the government to better serve the indigenous population by taking better care of their health. Reuters 65/299 Protesters gather at Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, during a protest against presidential candidates Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo May 28, 2012. A group of Egyptian protesters set fire to the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo on Monday, the state news agency reported, after the ex-prime minister made it into the second round of the vote. Reuters 66/299 May 27, 2012: Team Ukraine is seen underwater during the Free Combination finals of the European Diving and Synchronised Swimming Championships in Eindhoven. Reuters 67/299 May 27, 2012: Loreen of Sweden performs her song "Euphoria" after winning the Eurovision song contest in Baku. Reuters 68/299 May 25, 2012: An abseiler secures a giant canvas along the River Thames of a photograph showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Royal Family during the 1977 Silver Jubilee, London. Queen Elizabeth will mark her Diamond Jubilee by travelling in a 1,000-boat regatta on the river on June 3. Reuters 69/299 May 24, 2012: A Muslim woman holds a poster during a protest objecting to U.S. singer Lady Gaga's Indonesian concert, at Jakarta's business district. Pop star Lady Gaga has been refused a permit to perform in the Indonesian capital on June 3 over security concerns, police said last week. Three Islamic groups have expressed their opposition to the concert, demanding it be stopped, national police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution said by telephone. Reuters 70/299 May 23, 2012: Britain's Prince Charles (R) speaks with Camilla (2nd R), Duchess of Cornwall during an event at the First Nations University in Regina, Saskatchewan. Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are on a three-day royal tour of Canada as part of events that mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Reuters 71/299 May 22, 2012: A man spreads rose petals, which will be used to make incense sticks, on the floor to dry in a compound in Lahore. Reuters 72/299 May 21, 2012: Bus tour guides look at an annular eclipse at a rooftop of the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo. The sun and moon will align over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that will dim the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire. Reuters 73/299 May 19, 2012: 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. Reuters 74/299 May 19, 2012: British Olympic sailor Ben Ainslee carries the Olympic torch on the first leg of its Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland tour at Lands End in Cornwall, southwest England. Reuters 75/299 May 19, 2012: A participant of the Life Ball poses for photographers upon her arrival ahead of the 20th Life Ball at Vienna's international airport May 18, 2012. The Life Ball is Europe's largest annual AIDS charity event and takes place in Vienna's city hall. Reuters 76/299 May 17, 2012: A gay rights activist (R) clashes with an Orthodox Christian activist in Tbilisi. Dozens of gay rights activists marching on the streets to mark The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) were stopped by Orthodox Christian activists. Reuters 77/299 16, 2012: British actor Sacha Baron Cohen sits on a camel during a photocall on the Croisette for his latest movie "The Dictator" in Cannes May 16, 2012. "The Dictator" is Cohen's fourth comedy film featuring the story of Admiral General Aladeen, a dictator from the fictional North African country of the Republic of Wadiya. Reuters 78/299 May 14, 2012: German colonists Robert Matthusen and Helga Bohnau (L) pose as visitors for the opening ceremony of the Villa Baviera hotel, run by German colonists, the former Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Community), which used to be the location of a secretive German sect set up in central Chile in 1961, near Parral town, some 340 km (211 miles) south of Santiago. The sect was set up by Paul Schaefer, a German World War Two medic turned evangelical preacher who preached against "sins of the flesh" and also segregated men and women, according to former members of the sect, subjecting all but a few to enforced celibacy, who brutally punished disobedience. Today Colonia Dignidad, rebranded as "Villa Baviera" in the late 1980s, wants to put its macabre history, of torture and sexual abuse children, behind it and promote itself as a tourist destination after Schaefer's death. Reuters 79/299 May 13, 2012: Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany lifts the English Premier League trophy following their soccer match against Queens Park Rangers at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, northern England. Reuters 80/299 May 12, 2012: People fill the Olympic stadium during the German DFB Cup (DFB Pokal) final soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich in Berlin. Dortmund won the DFB Cup match 5-2. Reuters 81/299 May 11, 2012: This handout image shows a crossword puzzled published in Venezuelan newspaper Ultimas Noticias in Caracas. A veteran Venezuelan crossword-writer has been accused of hiding on May 11, 2012 a coded message to assassinate President Hugo Chavez's brother in the latest surreal twist to election year politics in the South American nation. Neptali Segovia was interviewed by intelligence agents, his newspaper said on Friday, after a state TV pundit said he had disguised a message to gun down Chavez's brother, Adan, in the answers to various clues in a crossword this week. Answers to clues included "Adan", "asesinen" (meaning "kill") and "rafaga" (which can mean either a burst of gunfire, or a gust of wind). Reuters 82/299 May 10 2012: Students stretch during a training session at a gymnastic course at Shenyang Sports School in Shenyang, Liaoning province. Some 60 students, between the ages of 6 to 15, undergo a nine-year gymnastic programme which includes foundation courses and gymnastic training courses at Shenyang Sports School, and those who are outstanding may be selected to join the national team, according to local media. Reuters 83/299 May 9, 2012: Students perform morning exercises before attending a lecture on the impact of terrorism in Sanaa. Yemen this week launched an awareness campaign in schools against terrorism. Reuters 84/299 May 8, 2012: Dugan, 31, hugs her children, Bailey Overton, 13, (L) and Ariann Rice, 11, whom she hasn't seen for a year, at California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, California. An annual Mother's Day event, Get On The Bus, held on May 5 2012 brings children in California to visit their mothers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles (161 kilometers) from their children. Reuters 85/299 May 7, 2012: Members of the Rotary International Convention 2012 gather to form the world's biggest smiley during in Bangkok. The number of participants is a reflection of the convention year, and the year Rotary reached its US$200 million (6.1 billion baht) fundraising challenge for polio eradication. Rotary International Convention's concept of "The Land of Thousand Smiles" in order to convey in friendliness of the Thais and being the land of smile as well as to express Thailand's hospitality in welcoming participants from the four corners of the world. Reuters 86/299 May 6, 2012: Nicolas Sarkozy, France's incumbent president, reacts after his defeat for re-election in the second round vote of the 2012 French presidential elections as he appears on stage before UMP party supporters at the Mutualite meeting hall in Paris. Reuters 87/299 May 5, 2012: The full moon rises behind a mosque as birds fly in Amman. Saturday will see the rise of a full moon called the "Super Moon" when it arrives at its closest point to the Earth in 2012. 88/299 May 4, 2012: Children swim in front of their home flooded by the rising Rio Solimoes, one of the two main branches of the Amazon River, in Anama 160 km (100 miles) west of Manaus. While a swath of the Brazilian Amazon is under a state of emergency as rivers overflow in one of the worst floods on record, the country's northeastern region faces its worst drought in the last 30 years, affecting well over 500 towns and cities, according to data from different government monitoring agencies. Reuters 89/299 3 May 2012: Researchers dressed in panda costumes carry a cage as they transfer giant panda Tao Tao to a new living environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province. Tao Tao, 21-months-old, and its mother Cao Cao are being transferred to a bigger living environment with a higher altitude and a more complicated terrain, which marks the beginning of the third phase of its training to be reintroduced to the wild. Researchers wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence, according to local media. Reuters 90/299 2 May 2012: Smoke is seen after United Arab Emirates F-16 fighter jets fired missiles during joint military manoeuvres with the French army in the desert of Abu Dhabi. Reuters 91/299 1 May 2012 1 May 2012: France's President and UMP party candidate for his re-election in the 2012 French presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy waves to supporters as he arrives on stage at Trocadero square in Paris Reuters 92/299 April 30 2012 April 30 2012: The mother of Monica Alejandrina Ramirez, who was kidnapped in 1994, is comforted by a friend during a protest to mark Children's Day at the Angel of Independence in Mexico City April 30, 2012. Parents and relatives who have lost their children to robbery or kidnapping displayed pictures of them in hopes that someone might recognise their children, local media reported. Reuters 93/299 April 29, 2012: Competitors run in the rain along the banks of a the Blackwater River at low tide during the Maldon Mud Race in Maldon, Essex. April is shaping up to be one of the wettest of the last century, but that's not enough to make up for an exceptionally dry winter that has left the water table and reservoirs depleted, says the Environment Agency. Reuters 94/299 April 28, 2012: A protester throws back a tear gas canister at riot police during clashes in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of protesters who converged on Kuala Lumpur's centre to demand electoral reforms, raising the risk of a backlash against the government in national elections expected within months. Thousands of protesters who had been confronting police outside the city's historic Merdeka Square were scattered after riot police fired water cannon and then at least 10 rounds of tear gas into the crowd. The police said they had been forced to react after protesters tried to force their way through barriers and enter the square. Reuters 95/299 April 27, 2012: A participant has tanning lotion applied on his body during a regional bodybuilding and fitness competition in Minsk. Reuters 96/299 April 26, 2012: News Corporation Chief Executive and Chairman, Rupert Murdoch, gestures as he leaves with his wife Wendi and son Lachlan after giving evidence for the second day at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London. Reuters 97/299 April 25, 2012: A man dressed as 'Superpublica', an invented superhero who defends public education, gestures as students protest against spending cuts in public education in Oviedo, northern Spain. Reuters 98/299 April 24, 2012: A female supporter of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh wears pins with his pictures as she demonstrates outside the Cabinet building to demand an investigation into the assassination attempt on Saleh last year, in Sanaa. Reuters 99/299 April 23, 2012: Anti-riot policemen used their batons to hit a squatter after a violent attempt to demolish shanties in Sucat, Paranaque city, metro Manila. At least one resident was killed and 40 were injured as a housing demolition on Monday turned violent with police using tear gas on residents who in turn hurled rocks and other objects at them, a local media reported. Reuters 100/299 April 22, 2012: Buddhist monks pray while promoting world peace at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok. Reuters 101/299 April 21, 2012: An orphaned elephant feeds from a bottle at the Daphne Sheldrick Wildlife Trust for Orphans within the Nairobi National Park, near Kenya's capital Nairobi. The orphanage is operated by Daphne Sheldrick, wife of late famous naturalist David William Sheldrick. The orphaned elephants raised by the Trust are returned back to join the undomesticated elephant population in Tsavo National Park, where David was the founder Warden from 1948 to 1976, when they mature usually between eight to ten years old. Reuters 102/299 April 20, 2012: People smoke marijuana joints at 4:20 p.m. as thousands of marijuana advocates gathered at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The event was held on April 20, a date corresponding with a numerical 4/20 code widely known within the cannabis subculture as a symbol for all things marijuana. Reuters 103/299 April 19, 2012: Self portraits by 200,000 children are projected onto Buckingham Palace to form portraits of Queen Elizabeth in central London. The portraits were collected by the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts to celebrate the nation's children in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Reuters 104/299 April 18, 2012: Giulia Lapi and Mariangela Perrupato of Italy perform in the Duets Technical Routine during a synchronised swimming qualification event at the Aquatic Centre at Olympic Park in Stratford in east London. Reuters 105/299 April 17, 2012: A cupcake made of insects is seen at the University of Wageningen. Research by scientists at the university showed that insects could provide the best source of protein to meet the needs of a rising population. Currently, 70 percent of agricultural land is used for livestock production. Reuters 106/299 April 16, 2012: Defendant Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives for his terrorism and murder trial in a courtroom in Oslo. Breivik who massacred 77 people last summer arrived under heavy armed guard at an Oslo courthouse on Monday, lifting his arm in what he has called a rightist salute as his trial began. Breivik, 33, has admitted setting off a car bomb that killed eight people at government headquarters in Oslo last July, then massacring 69 in a shooting spree at an island summer camp for Labour Party youths. Reuters 107/299 April 15, 2012: Dancers participate in the Persian Day Parade in New York. The parade is held in in commemoration of Newroz, the Persian New Year. Reuters 108/299 April 14, 2012: A newly-born child, who has six legs, rests on his grandmother's lap at his family home in Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province. Reuters 109/299 April 13, 2012: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (L) listens to Nobel laureate and newly elected parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi at her residence in Yangon. Reuters 110/299 April 12, 2012: Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa relax at their home in Summit, New Jersey April 7, 2012. Cocoa is a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with Cyrus in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin has raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. He says that Cocoa can't sleep at night unless she has him in her sight. "Cocoa doesn't even know she is a goat and you see that in her, but she loves hanging out with people," Fakroddin said. Reuters 111/299 April 11, 2012: A man who claims that he was being persecuted by the Egyptian government, ties himself up in protest on a street lamp in Tahrir square, in Cairo. Reuters 112/299 April 10, 2012: The carcass of a well-preserved baby mammoth, named Lyuba, is seen during a media preview in Hong Kong. Lyuba, whose carcass is 40,000 years old, was found by a reindeer herder in Yamal Peninsula in Russia in 2007. She will be exhibited at IFC Mall in Hong Kong on April 12. Reuters 113/299 April 9, 2012: Artist and amateur taxidermist Charlie Tuesday Gates poses with a lambskin, after removing it from the carcass in London. She will use the skin to create an Easter inspired artwork, referencing spring and the renewal of life She has exhibited her work, DIY Taxidermy, at the Menier and Elevator Gallery, among others and performs live taxidermy shows. Reuters 114/299 April 8, 2012: Titanic Memorial Cruise leaves port in Southampton, England. The cruise retraces the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic liner, which hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago on April 15, 1912. Reuters 115/299 April 7, 2012: People fight with pillows during International Pillow Fight Day in Budapest. Reuters 116/299 April 6, 2012: A man depicting Jesus holds a cross as he walks towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City. Christian worshippers retraced the route Jesus took along Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Reuters 117/299 April 4, 2012: Children sit in front of a tombstone waiting for their relatives at a public cemetery during the Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, in Jinjiang, Fujian province April 4, 2012. The festival, which falls on April 4 this year, is a day for the Chinese to remember and honour one's ancestors. Chinese experts have called for legislative efforts to standardize funeral services, in an attempt to regulate the country's unscrupulous funeral service providers who siphon huge profits from the relatives of the dead, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken. Reuters 118/299 April 4, 2012: Olga Dawidczyk, a folk artist, decorates a traditional Easter egg at Kuznia Kurpiowska, a museum in the ethnic region of Kurpie in Pniewo, near Pultusk, 70 km (45 miles) north from Warsaw. In Kurpie, traditional Easter eggs are decorated with white bulrush pith and coloured wool, which are glued to the egg shell. Reuters 119/299 April 3, 2012: Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Dmitry Klokov lifts weights during training at his father's house in the village of Sinkovo outside Moscow. Klokov is planning to take part in the men's 105kg weightlifting competition at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Reuters 120/299 April 2, 2012: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes her way through the crowd as she arrives to the office of her National League for Democracy (NLD) in Yangon. Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament on Sunday, her party said, after an historic by-election that is testing the country's nascent reform credentials and could persuade the West to end sanctions. Reuters 121/299 April 1, 2012: Chilean volunteers hold up candles during Earth Hour in Valparaiso city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago. Lights started going off around the world on Saturday in a show of support for renewable energy. Reuters 122/299 March 31, 2012: LeTasha Brown stands with her arms around Anthony Dixon Jr. during an NAACP march and rally to the front of the Sanford Police Department for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Sanford is the Florida town where Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot dead on February 26 after George Zimmerman, 28, a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain, believed the young man walking through the gated community in a hooded sweatshirt looked suspicious. Reuters 123/299 March 30, 2012:Respect Party candidate George Galloway gestures from an open top bus outside his campaign office in Bradford, northern England. Galloway, an anti-war campaigner in the small, left-wing Respect party, beat Labour's Imran Hussain in a result announced on Friday with more than 18,341 votes from a by-election on Thursday for the seat of Bradford West. Reuters 124/299 March 29, 2012: A boy demonstrates martial arts during the election campaign for the Union Solidarity and Development (USDP) party in Yangon. Myanmar's parliamentary election is scheduled for Sunday. Reuters 125/299 28 March 2012: Beyonce, a Dachshund mix female puppy, is pictured on an iPhone. Beyonce, who weighed just 1 ounce and could fit into a teaspoon when found, could be the world's smallest dog, according to animal rescuers in Northern California who found her abandoned in San Bernardino. The rescuers have submitted an application to Guinness World Records for Beyonce to be considered the world's smallest dog. Reuters 126/299 March 27, 2012: An exterior view shows The Titanic Belfast building in Belfast, Northern Ireland March 27, 2012. The six-floor building which opens in April, will tell the story of the Titanic from the ship's construction in Belfast to her sinking in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage one hundred years ago. Reuters 127/299 March 26, 2012: A supporter of Senegalese opposition presidential candidate Macky Sall celebrates in the capital Dakar. Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade admitted defeat in Sunday's election, state television reported, ending his bid for a third term that had sparked deadly clashes in the normally peaceful country. The octogenarian leader phoned rival Macky Sall to congratulate him, state broadcaster RPS reported late on Sunday, an announcement greeted by celebrations across the capital Dakar. Reuters 128/299 March 25, 2012: Anti-nuclear protesters wearing radiation protection suits hold dead salmon fishes during a rally opposing the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. Leaders from more than 50 countries, including U.S. President Barack Obama, will gather in Seoul, for a March 26-27 nuclear security summit focusing on measures to protect nuclear materials and facilities and to prevent illicit trafficking. Reuters 129/299 March 24, 2012: Belarussian women play on a swing as they take part in a Slavic "Spring welcome" festival in the village of Viazynka, about 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Minsk. Reuters 130/299 March 23, 2012 (Nyepi day): Balinese children carry an Ogoh-ogoh effigy, symbolizing the evil spirit, during a ritual ahead of Nyepi day in Ubud Gianyar, Bali March 21, 2012. Nyepi is a day of silence to celebrate the Balinese new year, reserved for self-reflection, where people are not allowed to use lights, light fires, work, travel nor enjoy entertainment. During Nyepi, the airport in Bali also remains closed. The only people who are allowed on the streets are the Pecalang, traditional security officials who patrol the streets to ensure that the prohibitions are being followed. Reuters 131/299 March 22, 2012: Eleaonor Simmonds (L-R), triple jumper Phillips Idowu, gymnast Louis Smith and heptathlete Jessica Ennis pose wearing the new Team GB kits designed by British designer Stella McCartney (C) for the London 2012 Olympic Games, at a media viewing in London. Reuters 132/299 March 21, 2012: An Ethiopian migrant gets a haircut from a fellow migrant near a transit center where they are waiting for repatriation in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia. Some 12,000 migrants, mostly from the Horn of Africa, are stranded in Haradh, which they are using as a stepping stone to reach Saudi Arabia, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Reuters 133/299 March 20, 2012: An animal rights activist protests against meat consumption through a performance to promote vegetarianism during "Day Without Meat" in central Barcelona. Reuters 134/299 March 19, 2012: Relatives leave the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012 after a man on a scooter opened fire outside the school killing two children and one adult, a police source said. Five people were injured in the attack, which occurred as students were arriving for morning classes at the Ozar Hatorah school, a city official said. Reuters 135/299 March 18, 2012: A mourner reacts next to the body of Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, displayed for public viewing, inside the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo. Christians gathered on Sunday to pay final respects to Pope Shenouda III, who sought to soothe sectarian tension in his four decades atop Egypt's Orthodox Church but saw increasing flareups in the majority Muslim nation in the last months of his life. Reuters 136/299 March 17, 2012: Swiss nationals Olivier David Och (R) and Daniela Widmer wave to the media after landing at Zurich airport. The Swiss couple kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban last July say they escaped, a Pakistani army spokesman said, after the two showed up at a military checkpoint on a main road in the northwest of the country on Thursday. Reuters 137/299 March 16 2012: Candida Hunter, Hualapai Tribe councilwoman, poses for a photograph near new buildings on the Hualapai Indian Reservation in Peach Springs, Arizona. The tiny Hualapai nation, in a bold move that could serve as a test of the limits of the sovereign power of Native American tribes over non-members, exercised its right of eminent domain last month to take over the management of the site and kick out the non-Indian developer. The dispute over the potentially lucrative Skywalk -- which all agree could draw up to 3,000 visitors a day -- pits the tribe's sovereign rights over a site it sees as its economic lifeblood against a developer's contractual right to manage the attraction for 25 years and share the profits. 138/299 March 15, 2012: Zaher Al Hariri, speaks to the media in Amman, describing how his right hand was cut off by Syrian security forces after he went to a state hospital in Syria's Deraa city to receive treatment after a bullet penetrated his fingers when security forces fired shots at a pro-democracy rally he participated in. He is now getting psychological treatment for trauma from the French aid organization Medicins Sans Frontieres. Reuters 139/299 March 14, 2012: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys watch the funeral procession of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv. Hager, who was the head of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, died on Wednesday at the age of 96. Reuters 140/299 March 13, 2012: Women mourn for their relatives after a ferry was struck by a barge and capsized in Munshiganj district, some 50 km (31 miles) south of Dhaka. A ferry carrying more than 250 passengers sank in a south Bangladesh river on Tuesday after colliding with a barge, and at least 150 people are still missing, police and witnesses said. Reuters 141/299 March 12, 2012: A doctor at a makeshift hospital displays a bullet removed from the hand of a young girl wounded during what protesters said was an attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, at the Khalidiya neighbourhood in Homs. Reuters 142/299 March 11, 2012: Mourners place flowers to offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a seaside which was damaged by the disaster in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Reuters 143/299 March 10, 2012: Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, some 25 km (15 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a day before the disaster's one-year anniversary. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11 last year unleashed a tsunami that killed about 16,000 and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. About 326,000 people are still homeless and nearly 3,300 remain unaccounted for. Reuters 144/299 March 8, 2012: An Andean woman shouts slogans during a march to mark International Women's Day in downtown Lima. Reuters 145/299 March 8, 2012: Manchester United's Chris Smalling walks off injured during their Europa League soccer match against Athletic Bilbao in Manchester, northern England. Reuters 146/299 March 7, 2012: Lotto team rider Gianni Meersman of Belgium (C) celebrates winning the fourth stage of the 70th Paris-Nice cycling race between Brive-La-Gaillarde and Rodez. 147/299 March 5, 2012: People apply coloured powder to a woman's face as they celebrate Holi, also known as the festival of colours, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Reuters 148/299 March 4, 2012: A woman carries balloons as she walks to attend a rally in support of Russia's current Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in central Moscow. Vladimir Putin sought a convincing victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday to strengthen his hand in dealing with the biggest protests of his 12-year rule, but faced allegations of widespread fraud. Reuters 149/299 March 3, 2012: Prince Harry watches dancers during his visit to the Xunantunich Mayan temple near Benque Viejo. The Prince is on a week-long tour through Central America and the Caribbean acting as an ambassador for Britain's Queen Elizabeth as part of her Diamond Jubilee. Reuters 150/299 March 2, 2012: A man shields himself from a woman playfully beating him with a bamboo stick during "Lathmar Holi" at Barsana in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In a Holi tradition unique to Barsana, men sing provocative songs to gain the attention of women, who then "beat" them with bamboo sticks called "lathis". Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. Reuters 151/299 March 1, 2012: South Sudanese children wait at a train station in Khartoum, to be transported to Wau in South Sudan. The United Nations and Sudanese government, as part of an agreement, have been organizing trips to transport South Sudanese nationals to South Sudan. Reuters 152/299 February 29, 2012: Marthe Odile Charton (C) blows candles on her birthday cake for the 25th time to celebrate her 100th anniversary, helped by her niece Marie-Therese (L) and nephew Jean-Louis, in her retirement home in Ingersheim near Colmar, Eastern France. Born on the 29th February in 1912 in Ingersheim, Marthe Odile is a leaper who only celebrated officially her Leap Day birthday 25th time in her life. Reuters 153/299 February 28, 2012: Yuko Sugimoto looks at her son Raito as he talks about his friend who had passed away, during their visit to the Ishinomaki Mizuho No.2 kindergarten in Ishinomaki, northern Japan. Sugimoto was pictured last year, wrapped in a blanket in front of a pile of debris as she looked for her son Raito who was missing. Her picture became an iconic image of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Japan almost a year ago. Reuters 154/299 February 27, 2012: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a document containing leaked information at a news conference in London. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. Reuters 155/299 February 25, 2012: Nora Subschinski (bottom) and Katja Dieckow of Germany dive in the Women's Synchronised 3m Platform preliminary at the FINA Diving World Cup at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London. Reuters 156/299 February 24, 2012: Activists from Ukrainian women's rights movement Femen, demonstrate in front of the Versace show during Milan Fashion Week in Milan. Reuters 157/299 February 26, 2012: Angela Stanford (R) of the U.S. is sprayed with beer by compatriots Katie Futcher (L) and Kristy McPherson (2nd R), and Australia's Katherine Hull after Stanford won the sudden death playoff during the final round of the HSBC Women's Champions golf tournament at Tanah Merah Country Club in Singapore. Reuters 158/299 February 23, 2012: A riot policeman arrests a protester during a rally in support for the people of Aysen region, some 1682 km (1045 miles) south of Santiago. People from the Aysen region have been protesting against the government, demanding increases in their minimum salaries, fuel subsidies, health, infrastructure, education, pensions and fishing rights, according to local media. Reuters 159/299 February 20, 2012: A worker from Myanmar's Mon state wears a shirt with a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi as she walks back across the border after working in Sangkhlaburi on the Thailand side. Myanmar's new government signed a ceasefire deal with New Mon State Party and its military wing, the Mon National Liberation Army, on February 1 after decades of conflict and has outlined a three-stage plan for permanent peace with all 16 of the country's ethnic rebel groups, with the promise of higher wages for the hundreds of thousands of people from Myanmar working across the border in Thailand. Reuters 160/299 February 21, 2012: Tom Daley of Britain practices during the FINA Diving World Cup at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London. Reuters 161/299 February 20, 2012: A Hindu holy man, or sadhu, with tika on his forehead is seen at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple during the Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu. Hindu holy men from Nepal and India come to this temple to take part in the Shivaratri festival which is one of the biggest Hindu festivals dedicated to Lord Shiva and celebrated by devotees all over the world, with holy men smoking marijuana and some smearing their bodies with ashes and praying. Reuters 162/299 February 19, 2012: Revellers wearing masks participate in the traditional Buso Carnival in Mohacs, 200 km (124 miles) south of Budapest. At the Buso Carnival, which lasts for six days, locals celebrate the end of winter and party before the start of Lent. According to legend, the masks helped locals scare away the Turks in the 16th century. Reuters 163/299 February 17, 2012: Team Britain cyclist Jess Varnish celebrates winning the Gold Medal in the Women's Team Sprint Final with Victoria Pendelton at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at the Olympic Velodrome in London Team. Reuters 164/299 February 18, 2012: Signatures are seen on a picture of Whitney Houston near her funeral at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Houston,48, died in a Beverly Hills hotel room on February 11, the eve of the industry's Grammy Awards. Reuters 165/299 February 16, 2012: People dressed for carnival pose for photographers at the start of the Luzern-Carnival in Lucerne in the early morning hours. The history of Lucerne's carnival can be traced back over more than 600 years and is best known for its individually hand-crafted masks and costumes paraded in the town's streets and squares by thousands of revellers during the three-day carnival festival. Reuters 166/299 February 15, 2012: Queen Elizabeth is shown the Ampulla and Coronation Spoon used at her coronation in 1953, by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (L), as Prince Philip (3rd L) and other guests watch during a multi-faith reception to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at Lambeth Palace in London. Reuters 167/299 February 14, 2012: An elderly couple attends a fashion show to celebrate San Valentine's day at the Canevaro old people's home in Lima. The home, which is a public institution, hosts about 400 elderly people during Valentine's Day with a fashion show and party. Reuters 168/299 February 13, 2012: Candles are seen in front of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the World War II bombing of the city. The destruction of Dresden, in which 25,000 people were killed, sparked a debate on whether breaking public morale through the raids was justifiable since the defeat of Hitler's Nazis was imminent by then. Reuters 169/299 February 12, 2012: Journalists take pictures of the economy class cabin of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as it is lit with rainbow colored LED lighting during an media tour of the aircraft in Singapore. Reuters 170/299 February 11, 2012: A demonstrator with a mask and an umbrella waits to start a protest in Lisbon. CGTP union protested against austerity measure taken by Portuguese government. Reuters 171/299 February 10, 2012: Models present creations from the the Curvy Fall/Winter 2012 collection show during New York Fashion Week. Reuters 172/299 February 9, 2012: A man bathes in an ice-hole in the Lisi Lake with the air temperature at about minus 6 degrees Celsius (21.2 degrees Fahrenheit), in Tbilisi. Temperatures have dropped as low as minus 32.5 C in Europe, from the Siberian cold snap. Areas of the Black Sea, near the Romanian coastline have frozen . Reauters 173/299 February 8, 2012: Lori Campbell (L) and Maja Roble, who are engaged, kiss at a celebration rally for Tuesday's ruling on Proposition 8 in West Hollywood, California. A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban (Proposition 8) unconstitutional in a case that may lead to a showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn 174/299 February 7, 2012: People celebrate with confetti following the New York Giants ticker tape Super Bowl victory parade through the Canyon of Heroes along Broadway in New York. Reuters 175/299 February 6, 2012: A member of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery holds a puppy as he prepares to leave St John's Wood Barracks in London . The Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery left their St John's Wood Barracks for the last time on Monday, before taking up residence in a new purpose built equestrian training facility and accommodation centre in Woolwich Garrison. Reuters 176/299 A horse rolls in the snow at a livery in Henton, southern England February 5, 2012. Heavy snow fell in some areas of Britain overnight, causing road closures and flight cancellations, and the Met Office warned of icy conditions. Reuters 177/299 Reuters 178/299 Devotees of the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea Lemanja pay tribute on Lemanja's Day at Ramirez beach in Montevideo February 2, 2012. On this day every year, worshippers light candles at a shrine and throw sweets, alcoholic drinks, fruits and cheap jewellery into the sea as offerings to ask for good health and luck in love and work. Reuters 179/299 An employee writes a note on the message board at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park, California. Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever Internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billion, but made it clear CEO Mark Zuckerberg will exercise almost complete control over the company, leaving investors with little say. Reuters 180/299 A stray dog runs on a snow-covered field, while a crow flies above, near Bucharest. Record-low temperatures in parts of Eastern Europe pushed the death toll from Arctic conditions to at least 89 people on Wednesday, and have forced Russian gas provider Gazprom to warn over supplies to Europe. Europe had enjoyed a relatively mild winter up until last weekend, but a Siberian system swinging in from the east brought that to an abrupt halt. Fourteen people in Romania and eight people in neighbouring Bulgaria have now died in the cold snap. Reuters 181/299 Members of the Mashco-Piro tribe observe an expedition of the Spanish Geographical Society from across the Alto Madre de Dios river in the Amazon basin of southeastern Peru, as photographed through a telescope by Spanish explorer Diego Cortijo on November 16, 2011, and distributed by Survival International on January 31, 2012. Survival International has the Mashco-Piro tribe listed as one of around 100 uncontacted indigenous tribes in the world. REUTERS/Diego Cortijo-Spanish Geographic Society via Survival International 182/299 A young man stands weeping near a wall damaged by shrapnel from a bomb attack in Peshawar. Residents standing nearby said the young man had lost his father in the bombing. Three people were killed and eight others wounded in a suspected suicide bombing at a house in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police officials said. The house belonged to the leader of a pro-government tribal militia fighting against militants in the nearby Khyber tribal region. Reuters 183/299 Revellers rest in a park after attending a Chinese New Year parade at Chinatown in New York January 29, 2012. The Lunar New Year began on January 23 and marked the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. Reuters 184/299 A woman holds her Persian cat during an international cat exhibition held in Fleurus, southern Belgium. Reuters 185/299 Demonstrators pray in Tahrir square in Cairo during a protest demanding the army hand over power to the civilians. Reuters 186/299 A member of the Cryophil amateur winter bathing club leaves the Yenisei River with an air temperature some minus 26 degrees Celcius in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Reuters 187/299 James Wallace wears a kilt as he stands outside the entrance to Edinburgh castle. Scotland's nationalist leader Alex Salmond marked Burns Night on Wednesday, when Scots toast their national poet, by unveiling his plans for an independence referendum in defiance of British government proposals. Reuters 188/299 Artist Frank Buckley sits on the toilet of the house he has built out of 1.4 billion decommissioned euro notes from the Central Bank's mint. Bricks of money make up the walls and shredded bills carpet the ground on the first floor of the empty office building for let on Coke Lane in Smithfield where Buckley has set up camp. He has been building for 12 hours every day, and living on-site since December. Reuters 189/299 Two scuba divers from the Italian Navy inspect inside the Costa Concordia cruise ship. Divers on Monday found two more bodies on deck number four of the Costa Concordia, the capsized cruise liner resting half-submerged near the port of Italy's Giglio island, said Franco Gabrielli, head of the civil protection agency. Reuters 190/299 People rush to place joss sticks at the Guan Yin temple in Singapore. Worshippers gather annually at the temple on the eve of the Lunar New Year with hopes to be the first person to offer joss sticks when the clock strikes midnight, believed to bring prosperity and luck. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on January 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. Reuters 191/299 Melinda Star Guido, one of the smallest surviving babies born according to the Global Birth Registry, is pictured as she is discharged from the LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. Guido was born on August 30, 2011 at 24 weeks and weighed 9.5 ounces at birth. Reuters 192/299 Verdi Fire Chief Jon Sieben and other firefighters mop up hot spots just south of Reno Nevada. A wind-driven fire that raged through parched brush near Reno, Nevada, engulfing at least 20 homes and forcing residents and livestock to flee by the thousands, was 50 percent contained on Friday morning, officials said. Reuters 193/299 Sculptures by British artist Antony Gormley stand silhouetted against the sky in Woolwich, south east London. Reuters 194/299 Israeli youths with their faces painted hold signs during a demonstration in protest of the discrimination against Israelis of Ethiopian descent, in Jerusalem. Reuters 195/299 Employees of Lejaby lingerie company demonstrate to save jobs on the stairway in the Cour des Voraces in Lyon. Reuters 196/299 An oil removal ship is seen next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship as it ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island. Reuters 197/299 Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles after receiving France's highest award The Legion of Honor from France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe at the French embassy in Yangon. The award is seen around her neck. Reuters 198/299 A cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island. At least five people were killed and rescuers were looking for other victims on Saturday after Costa Concordia, a large Italian cruise ship, carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground overnight, took on water and tipped over. Reuters 199/299 Leonhard Stock carries the Olympic flame as he skis down the ski jump during the opening ceremony of the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck. Reuters 200/299 Stern section of the stricken container ship Rena is almost totally submerged, about 14 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. Reuters 201/299 A girl sits in the Algerian town of Laghouat January 11, 2012, where she has been living in for a week since her home was bulldozed as part of a government re-housing scheme. Most of her neighbours were re-housed in new apartments, but several families were not on the list for re-housing. Reuters 202/299 Cygnus X, one of the most active regions of star birth in the Milky Way galaxy, is pictured in this NASA handout image. The composite infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the cloud of dust and gas 4,500 light years away from earth in the constellation Cygnus. Most stars are thought to form in huge star-forming regions like Cygnus X. Reuters / NASA 203/299 A girl walks hand-in-hand with a woman on their way to church in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, January 9, 2011. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250,000 people and wrecked much of the capital Port-au-Prince on Jan 12, 2010. Reuters 204/299 Students hold earthen pitchers filled with water as they take a holy bath ahead of the Magh Mela festival during a ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The ceremony was organised to resemble the annual month-long religious festival held during the Hindu month of Magh, when thousands of Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the waters of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, in Allahabad. Reuters 205/299 Eric Wong, managing director of a capsule bed manufacturer, poses in a modified capsule bed inside a showroom in Hong Kong. The beds, which are modified for the Hong Kong market, have adjustable ceilings, a large air conditioner and a TV. They are aimed at university students and budget mainland Chinese travellers visiting the territory and will cost $450 a month or $30 a night, according to the manufacturer. Reuters 206/299 Yogini Bidve, the mother of murdered Indian student Anuj Bidve reacts as she visits the spot where he was killed in Salford, northern England. Bidve, who was studying at Lancaster University, was shot in the head at close range on December 26, 2011. Reuters 207/299 Visitors view buildings made from blocks of ice for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the Heilongjiang province of northeastern China, which opened today. The exhibition, thought to be the size of 70 football pitches, was made of 180,000 cubic metres of ice and features horse-drawn rides for children. AP 208/299 Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa on the day of the Iowa caucus. Reuters 209/299 Several tons of dead herring washed up on a beach in Nordreisa, northern Norway, at the weekend, puzzling locals and marine scientists. EPA 210/299 Marco Fois of Italy dives into the Tiber River from the Cavour bridge, as part of traditional New Year celebrations in Rome January 1, 2012. Five men jumped into the muddy waters of the Tiber, continuing an annual tradition which dates back to 1946. Reuters 211/299 The number 2012 is written with sparklers during a long exposure in front of St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) during New Year's Eve celebrations in Vienna. Reuters 212/299 Homeless Typhoon Washi survivors pray during a holy mass at a school building turned into an evacuation centre in the southern Philippines city of Cagayan de Oro on Mindanao island. The death toll has risen to 1,249 with about 1,100 missing, disaster officials said this week. Reuters 213/299 Locals gather around bodies of people who were killed in air strikes in Ortasu village near the southeastern Turkish town of Sirnak. REUTERS/Emin Bal/IHA 214/299 A Catholic priest walks inside a church made of snow in the Bavarian village of Mitterfirmiansreut, near the German-Czech border. The snow church is likely to become a tourist attraction till the beginning of spring. Reuters 215/299 North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un cries as his father, North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-il, lies in state in this still image taken from video Reuters 216/299 Girls plant paper flowers with messages written by the Indonesian and Japanese society during a ceremony to commemorate the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Lhoknga, Aceh province Reuters 217/299 Members of Berlin's ice swimming club "Berliner Seehunde" (Berlin Seals) take a dip in the Orankesee lake in Berlin as part of their traditional Christmas ice swimming session Reuters 218/299 Balloons hold aloft a placard shaped like the bear logo of the United Russia political party, during a protest against recent parliamentary election results in the southern Russian city of Stavropol December 24, 2011. The word on the bear logo reads, "Farewell!" Reuters 219/299 Employees carry babies as they expose the babies in the sun to prevent jaundice at the CareBay maternity care centre in Shanghai. CareBay provides services for "Zuo Yue Zi," or confinement period in Mandarin, a Chinese practice for mothers who have just given birth to stay indoors, undergo a restrictive diet and set of activities for a month. Reuters 220/299 Britain's Prince William dances with Vanessa Boateng as his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge looks on during a reception at Centrepoint's Camberwell Foyer in London Reuters 221/299 North Korean traffic control women react as they make a condolence call for deceased leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang Reuters / Kyodo 222/299 People gathered to mourn as the coffin of late former Czech President Vaclav Havel is transported on a gun carriage to Prague Castle for the funeral ceremony in Prague December 21, 2011. Havel, the playwright-turned-president whose "Velvet Revolution" toppled Communist rule, died on Sunday at his country home in Hradecek, northeast of Prague, after a long respiratory illness. Reuters 223/299 The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lies in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency Reuters 224/299 A tearful announcer dressed in black announces the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on North Korean State Television in this still image from video. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died on a train trip, state television reported on Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear programme. The announcer dressed in black said the 69-year old had died on Saturday of physical and mental over-work on his way to give "field guidance". 225/299 People light candles and hold the national flag in tribute to late former Czech President Vaclav Havel at Wenceslas Square in Prague. Havel, a dissident playwright who was jailed by Communists and then went on to lead the bloodless "Velvet Revolution" and become Czech president, died at 75 on Sunday. 226/299 People gather during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution in Sidi Bouzid. Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia's democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular revolt that has transformed the Arab world. 227/299 A protester flashes a victory sign with his bloodied hand as other protesters throw stones at army soldiers at the cabinet near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with troops wielding truncheons and electric prods in central Cairo on Friday, witnesses said, in the worst violence since the start of Egypt's first free election in six decades. 228/299 Girls hold up the flags of Qatar (R), Tunisia (2nd R), Egypt and Libya (L) during Libya's first festival of the Amazigh songs in Benghazi. 229/299 First lady Michelle Obama and U.S. President Barack Obama applaud troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The visit is seen as marking the end of the Iraq war with a tribute to the troops who fought and died in a conflict Obama opposed from the start. 230/299 Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi have rescued 54 students from the basement of an Islamic seminary, or madrassa, where they said they were kept in chains by clerics, beaten and barely fed. Police raided the Zakariya madrassa late on Monday on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub. They were now investigating whether it had any links to violent militant groups, which often recruit from hardline religious schools. Reuters 231/299 Yang Guang, a male giant panda, eats bamboo as he sits in his new enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo during a press view in Edinburgh. A pair of giant pandas have been loaned to the zoo by China, moving British officials to say that the loan strengthened ties between the two countries. Reuters 232/299 Palestinian boys throw oranges towards Israeli police during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat. The clashes broke out during a protest against the construction of a new Israeli checkpoint nearby. Reuters 233/299 Todd Engle (centre) and Mary Rose Engle (right) hold weapons as they pose for a photograph with a man dressed as Santa Claus at the Scottsdale Gun Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Reuters 234/299 LA Nathan Attis of Plymouth is embraced after disembarking from the Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Ocean at Devonport naval base in Plymouth, southwest England. The ship returned in time for Christmas after a seven and a half month deployment. Reuters 235/299 Female prisoners say goodbye to policewomen as they are released from Bang Kwang Central Prison in Bangkok. Over 2,700 prisoners were released from the prison today after being given royal pardons on the occasion of the 84th birthday of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. According to local media, a total of 26,000 inmates will be released within three months under the annual royal pardon decree. Reuters 236/299 A woman watches television in her flooded house in Cali. At least 96 people have died as a result of heavy rain, authorities said. Colombia's weather office expects La Nina-related downpours to continue at least until the end of the first quarter of next year. Reuters 237/299 Shi'ite Muslims bleed after flagellating themselves during an Ashura procession in Mumbai. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala. Reuters 238/299 Ugandans Kenneth Sebagal (R) and Malou Geofrey from Third Country Nationals, that provide base security for Camp Kalsu, walk through the base near Hillla, as they leave the base after serving at the camp en route for home to Uganda. 239/299 Anarchists burn flares, shout and hold a banner during a protest after voting closed in Russia's parliamentary election in central Moscow. Vladimir Putin's ruling party suffered a big drop in support in a parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, as voters signalled their growing unease with his domination of Russian politics before a planned return to the presidency next year. Banner reads "We were cheated". Reuters 240/299 A nun casts her vote at a polling booth in Sarajevo. Croatian nationals living in Bosnia will go to the polls on December 3 and 4. Reuters 241/299 Recruits of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in a training session at a military base in Jinan, Shandong Province, December 2, 2011. Reuters 242/299 Fanelwa Glwasshu, 39, poses for a portrait while wearing a t-shirt indicating that she is HIV-positive, in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, February 22, 2010. Some 5.5 million people live with HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- more than in any other country -- while 33 million people live with the disease worldwide. Brightly coloured T-shirts with the HIV-positive logo are distributed by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and are intended to reduce the stigma attached to the disease. Reuters 243/299 30NovKathmandu.JPG People gather around lit candles to mark the upcoming World AIDS Day in Kathmandu November 30, 2011. World AIDS Day, which falls on December 1, 2011, aims to raise awareness to tackle the prejudice towards HIV-infected people and help stop its spread. Reuters 244/299 A worker loads palm fruits into a truck at a palm plantation in the Serdang Bedagai district of Indonesia's North Sumatra province. Major palm oil buyers and suppliers will assess the impact of erratic weather, a looming global recession and resilient demand on prices at an annual Indonesian industry meeting this week. 245/299 A man leans against the wall of City Hall at the Occupy LA encampment after the 12.01am eviction deadline in Los Angeles on November 28, 2011. The nearly two-month-old encampment is among the oldest and largest on the West Coast aligned with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations protesting economic inequality in the country and the excesses of the U.S. financial system. Reuters 246/299 Rescue teams search for victims at the site of the collapsed Mahakam II Bridge, also known as Kutai Kartanegara Bridge, in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan November 27, 2011. At least four people died and more than a dozen others were reported injured and 24 missing when the 705-metre-long (2,313-feet) suspension bridge connecting Tenggarong and Tenggarong Seberang districts in Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan collapsed on Saturday, according to local media. The bridge was the longest bridge in Kalimantan. Reuters 247/299 Nepalese monks with lit candles attend the "Together for World Peace" event organized by the International Dhammadayada Association, Nepal (IDNA) in Kathmandu. Reuters 248/299 Palestinian children stand to form Pablo Picasso's Dove of Peace as part of a project by British aerial artist John Quigley and the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), at the foot of the Mount of Temptation in the West Bank city of Jericho. It took some 1000 children from United Nations schools to create the project produced as part of the "Peace on Earth" project, which will be broadcast globally from Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas day, a U.N. press release said. Reuters 249/299 The Kermit the Frog balloon floats down Central Park West during the 85th Macy's Thanksgiving day parade in New York. Reuters 250/299 Anti-government protesters react as they celebrate the signing by Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh of a deal to step down in Sanaa November 23, 2011. Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday under which he stepped down from 33 years in power and 10 months of protests against his rule that have brought the country to the edge of civil war. Reuters 251/299 A Russian police officer moves to detain an activist from the opposition group "Another Russia" during a protest against forthcoming elections in central Moscow November 22, 2011. Russia will vote in parliamentary elections on December 4. Reuters 252/299 A protester has his eyes washed with milk to protect against tear gas, during clashes with police in Cairo. Reuters 253/299 A wounded protester is rushed to a field hospital near Tahrir Square during clashes with Egyptian riot police in Cairo November 20, 2011. Police backed by the army used batons and teargas on Sunday to charge protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square demanding Eygpt's ruling generals swiftly hand power to civilians, in some of the worst violence since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. Reuters 254/299 Eveline Constance Heijkamp, a 22-year-old Occupy Amsterdam demonstrator, prepares for her wedding to Gijs Peskens (not pictured) in a tent on the Beursplein in Amsterdam November 19, 2011. Occupy Amsterdam demonstrators have set up tents on the Beursplein since October 15, 2011. Reuters 255/299 Soldiers of a special forces unit walk after a military exercise in Tibi, near Alicante. Reuters 256/299 17NovBenin.JPG A girl washes the lid of a cooking pot amid the ruins of a market destroyed by city officials in Benin's main city of Cotonou November 17, 2011. Vendors and local residents said police used bulldozers and razed the local market in an effort to tidy the city ahead of a three-day visit by Pope Benedict XVI. Reuters 257/299 A man strolls in front of the Benetton store in downtown Rome November 16, 2011. Benetton withdrew an advertisement using an image of Pope Benedict kissing an imam on the mouth after the Vatican protested on Wednesday at the Italian clothing firm's latest shock campaign. REUTERS 258/299 An Iranian student holds up an anti-U.S. poster as he attends a demonstration to show his support for Iran's nuclear program, before a ceremony to form a human chain around the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), in Isfahan Reuters 259/299 An Occupy Oakland camper reads a book by candle light at the Occupy Oakland campsite in Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California November 14, 2011. Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland rejected a call by the California city's police union on Friday for them to leave their encampment, creating the potential for a showdown. 260/299 Japan's PM Noda arrives for a news conference after the conclusion of the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii Reuters 261/299 Officials from TEPCO and Japanese journalists look at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from a bus in Fukushima Reuters 262/299 Artist Ted Harrison poses for photographs with his art installation at St Paul's Cathedral, in London Reuters 263/299 Crosses commemorating the British military casualties in Afghanistan are seen in the Field of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey in central London Reuters 264/299 A man and his dog make their way through a flooded area in Ayutthaya in Thailand. Thailand's worst floods in half a century have killed more than 500 people, damaged millions of tonnes of rice, forced a series of industrial estates to close and threaten to inundate the capital, Bangkok. REUTERS 265/299 A Liberian election official waits for voters at an empty polling station during presidential elections, in the capital Monrovia. Reuters 266/299 Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra speaks to officials on a truck during her visit to a flooded area in Bangkok REUTERS 267/299 British singer Jessie J performs at the MTV Europe Music Awards show in Belfast November 6, 2011. REUTERS 268/299 Muslim pilgrims pray on Mount Mercy on the plains of Arafat during the annual haj pilgrimage, outside the holy city of Mecca. REUTERS 269/299 An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator sits covered in a blanket in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 270/299 People gather around a dead whale after it beached on the Maule beach at the gulf of Arauco, some 550 km southwest of Santiago, near Concepcion city on November 4, 2011. The 16-meter long whale was found dead at an area which is apparently used to raise their young. The cause of its death is still unknown, local media said. 271/299 A fireman holding flares sits on a traffic light during a demonstration against reforms to notably change the methods of firefighter recruitment on November 3, 2011 in Paris. Getty Images 272/299 tues - tibet Nepalese police arrest a Tibetan woman during a protest in Kathmandu. About 20,000 Tibetans live in Nepal with valid refugee papers, while many are believed to be residing illegally. With China's influence over Nepal increasing, the Nepalese government's stands strong against Tibetans exiles whose protests in support of their homeland has increased in recent years. Nepal ceased issuing refugee papers to Tibetans in 1989 and recognizes Tibet to be a part of China. 273/299 mon - china A modified model of the Long March CZ-2F rocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gansu Province. China launched the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft early on Tuesday, paving the way for a docking exercise with another craft. The docking, if successful, will pave the way for China to operate a permanent space station around 2020, and make the nation the world's third to do so. 274/299 sun - Koytashskoye A servicewoman representing the Koytashskoye infantry unit holds a child as she casts her ballot during the presidential election at a polling station in the village of Koytash outside the capital Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan began voting on Sunday to elect a new president capable of bridging divisions that threaten stability in the former Soviet republic, a vital step to completing bold reforms to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy. 275/299 sat-bangkok Police officers wait to assist residents passing through flood waters in Bangkok's Chinatown. Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said on Saturday, but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city's flood defences. 276/299 fri-morocco A relative of one of the nine men accused of orchestrating the April 28 bombing of an outdoor cafe, gestures as he attends the final hearing in court in Sale.. A Moroccan judge sentenced Adel Othmani to death on Friday for plotting and carrying out the bomb attack on the cafe in Marrakesh that killed 17 people, including eight French nationals. The blasts were the deadliest in Morocco since coordinated suicide bombings carried out by Islamist militants in the commercial capital, Casablanca, in 2003. 277/299 thurs - eurozone France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, seen in this video grab from TF1 French television in a prime time interview from the Elysee Palace in Paris, speaks to the nation about the eurozone economy the day after a summit in Brussels. 278/299 Colombian students mock riot police during a demonstration in Bogota October 26, 2011. Thousands of students marched in a nationwide protest against the government's reform of public universities, student organizations said. Reuters 279/299 Rescue workers carry a baby from a collapsed building in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van. A 14-day-old baby was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Tuesday, 46 hours after an earthquake struck southeast Turkey, a Reuters Television journalist said. Reuters 280/299 A NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldier from Germany is reflected on a window of a bus, as a Kosovo Serb man sitting inside the bus looks out at erected barricades, in the village of Jagnjenica, near the town of Zubin Potok. Serbian President Boris Tadic urged an end to a tense stand-off between Serbs and NATO troops in Kosovo but was rebuffed by hardline Kosovo Serb leaders after five hours of talks late on Sunday. Reuters 281/299 Rescue workers rescue people trapped under debris after an earthquake in a village near the eastern Turkish city of Van. Turkey's Kandilli Observatory estimates that some 500 to 1,000 people were killed in a powerful earthquake in southeast Turkey's Van province on Sunday, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. Separately, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay told reporters some 10 buildings had collapsed in Van city and around 25-30 buildings collapsed in the nearby district of Ercis. Reuters 282/299 Protesters and members of Occupy Wall Street wait for the start of the march, during an annual demonstration calling for a stop to police brutality in New York. Reuters 283/299 Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. Reuters 284/299 Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, covered in blood, is pulled from a truck by NTC fighters in Sirte in this still image taken from video footage. Gaddafi was killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over. Reuters 285/299 A youth throws a petrol bomb at police during riots with police in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square. Greek unions begin a 48-hour general strike on Wednesday, the biggest protest in years, as parliament prepares to vote on sweeping new austerity measures designed to stave off a default that could trigger a crisis in the wider euro zone. Reuters 286/299 Newly released Palestinian prisoner Fotnah Abu Aleish (R) is hugged by her brother upon arrival to the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner exchange brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict. Reuters 287/299 The tanker Awanuia and a tug boat carry out operations to pump oil from the stricken container ship Rena, about 14 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, 13 days after it struck the Astrolabe Reef. Rough weather on Tuesday forced salvage teams to halt pumping oil from the stricken container ship in what has turned into the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. Reuters 288/299 Libyan government fighters shoot from the roof of a building at pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte. Libyan government fighters battled on Sunday to subdue pockets of resistance by pro-Gaddafi fighters, whose refusal to abandon the ousted leader's hometown of Sirte is delaying Libya's move to democracy. Reuters 289/299 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves a protest outside St Paul's Cathedral, next to the London Stock Exchange, in central London. Demonstrators worldwide shouted their rage on Saturday against bankers and politicians they accuse of ruining economies and condemning millions to hardship through greed and bad government. Reuters 290/299 Thai soldiers help residents crossing a strong stream of floodwaters in Pathum Thani province. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra tried to reassure residents of Bangkok on Friday that the capital should largely escape the flooding that has covered a third of the country since July and caused damage of at least $3 billion. Reuters 291/299 Benjamin Fodor, aka Seattle superhero 'Phoenix Jones', speaks to the media after making a court appearance in Seattle, Washington. Prosecutors have so far declined to charge Fodor, a onetime mixed-martial arts competitor who was arrested on Sunday after he pepper-sprayed a group of nightclub patrons he believed were involved in a street brawl downtown. Reuters 292/299 The Berlin cathedral is seen as it is illuminated during the Festival of Lights in Berlin. Several landmarks of the German capital, including boulevards, squares, towers, historical and modern buildings, will be illuminated during the festival. Reuters 293/299 Policemen detain an activist from women's rights organisation Femen who took part in a rally near the Pecherskiy district court in Kiev. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich hinted at possible imminent changes to the law which may benefit former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, convicted on Tuesday of abuse-of-office and sentenced to seven years in jail. Activists gathered to protest against the conflict between Yanukovich and Tymoshenko, which is evident in participants' opinion, and to prevent the bloodshed between the two sides, according to local media. Reuters 294/299 People make their way through a flooded area in Ayutthaya province. Thai rescue workers scrambled on Monday to prevent a humanitarian disaster as the worst flooding in half a century swamped large sections of the country, shut factories and stranded thousands of people. Reuters 295/299 Egyptian Christians clash with soldiers and riot police during a protest against an attack on a church in southern Egypt, in Cairo. Nineteen people were killed in Cairo on Sunday when Christians, some carrying crosses and pictures of Jesus, clashed with military police, medical and security sources said, in the latest sectarian flare-up in a country in political turmoil. Reuters 296/299 Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh delivers his speech on state television in this still image taken from video. Saleh said on Saturday he would leave power in the coming days, the closest the veteran leader has come to announcing he plans to step down after nine months of mass protests against his 33 year rule. Reuters 297/299 The newly inaugurated skyscraper tower of Huaxi village is seen in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province. Huaxi, also known as China's richest village, celebrates its 50th anniversary with the inauguration of a massive 328-meters (1,076 feet) high skyscraper that screams for attention from its lowly skyline. A solid gold bull weighing a tonne also greets visitors at a viewing area on the 60th-floor of the tower, a testament to the wealth of the village. In Huaxi, those from the original 2,000 residents have at least a house, a car, and $250,000 in the bank and enjoy universal health care and free education. Officials from elsewhere in China tour Huaxi to find out how this once sleepy village, with just 576 residents in the 1950s, is now so rich and why non-local businessmen would donate million-dollar factories to buy the privilege of a local residence permit. Reuters 298/299 Prisoners wade through a flooded jail as they evacuate to another jail at Ayutthaya prison in Ayutthaya province, nearly 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok. At least 224 people have died in flooding in Thailand since mid-July and water has inundated the 400-year-old Chai Wattanaram temple in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage Site, officials said on Tuesday. Reuters 299/299 A tribute message to the late Steve Jobs written in lipstick is seen on the window of the Apple Store in Santa Monica, California. Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. Reuters August 1, 2012: A man stands with his bicycle as waves from Manila Bay brought about by Typhoon Saola (locally known as Gener), splash on him on a flooded main street at Roxas Boulevard, in Metro Manila Our gallery of the best news photographyClick here to see recent news in pictures Reuse content Comments

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