PHOTOS: 2013 Pictures of the Year from Agence France Presse
November 27, 2013
The Aurora Borealis light up the sky at twilight on March 17, 2013, between the towns of Are and Ostersund, Sweden. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020553 )
Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on November 18, 2013, over one week after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the area. The United Nations estimates that 13 million people were affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan with around 1.9 million losing their homes. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 524769585 )
Mushers compete on January 18 2013, in Megeve, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race. JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020467 )
A Palestinian sets fire to a tire during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison following a march marking the 65th Nakba day or "Day of Catastrophe" on May 15, 2013, in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP PHOTO/ ABBAS MOMANIABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020657 )
People walk amongst debris next to a ship washed ashore in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan at Anibong in Tacloban, eastern island of Leyte, on November 11, 2013. Hundreds of Philippine soldiers and police poured into a city devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan on November 11 to try to contain looting that threatens an emergency relief effort. NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images ( 524550313 )
An Indian parrot hatchling is fed by hand in Dimapur on July 24, 2013, after being caught in a forest by a local hunter and offered for sale in the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland. Despite a ban since 1990-91 on trade in all India bird species, hundreds of parrots are collected and traded annually in India. They are taken from the wild and smuggled within India and to other countries. STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020768 )
Vincent Autin (R) and Bruno Boileau kiss on a balcony in front of the crowd after their marriage, France's first official gay marriage, in the city hall in Montpellier on May 29, 2013. France is the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriage, an issue that has also divided opinion in many other nations. The definitive vote in the French parliament came on April 23 when the law was passed legalizing both homosexual marriages and adoptions by gay couples. GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images ( 520158176 )
An Iranian man who was fixing explosives wires runs away after setting ablaze 50 tons of drugs seized in recent months in eastern Tehran on June 26, 2013, to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images ( 520897087 )
Brazilian big wave surfer Carlos Burle rides a wave in Nazare, central Portugal, on October 28, 2013. FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images ( 524156800 )
An aerial view shows summer houses flooded by water from the River Danube near the Bavarian village Deggendorf, southern Germany, on June 6, 2013. Germany pushed on with frantic efforts to secure saturated river dykes with sandbags, bracing for a surge of the worst floods in over a decade. CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images ( 520344882 )
This picture taken on July 27, 2013 shows people trying to cool off at a water park in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province, as a heatwave hit several provinces in China. STR/AFP/Getty Images ( 521776237 )
Sadhus, or holy men, walk in a procession towards the confluence of the the Yamuna and Ganges rivers to bathe before sunrise during the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad on January 14, 2013. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will sees up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020461 )
This frame grab taken from AFPTV footage received on May 28, 2013, shows rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck inside in the city of Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, China. The newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in an apartment building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said, provoking online outrage. AFPTV/AFP/Getty Images ( 520122758 )
Czech Michal Navratil dives for a joke while weasring a as Superman cape following the men's high diving final competition at the FINA World Championships in Moll de la Fusta port in Barcelona on July 31, 2013. JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020780 )
Residents walk past buildings burning in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar, on March 21, 2013. Than WIN/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020571 )
Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, show their newborn baby boy to the world's media, while standing on the steps outside St Mary's Hospital in London on July 23, 2013. The baby was born on Monday afternoon weighing eight pounds six ounces (3.8 kilogrammes). The baby, titled His Royal Highness, Prince of Cambridge, is directly in line to inherit the throne after Charles, Queen Elizabeth II's eldest son and heir, and his eldest son William. LEON NEAL AFP/Getty Images ( 525020764 )
An frame grab taken from AFP TV shows two children and a woman taking cover behind a bar inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi on September 21, 2013. Masked attackers stormed the packed upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi, spraying gunfire and killing at least 59 people and wounding 175 before holing themselves up in the complex. Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images ( 523127235 )
Two Polish nuns look at people bathing as hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims attending World Youth Day started gathering at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for a prayer vigil with Pope Francis, on July 27, 2013. In a speech to Brazil's political, religious and civil society leaders earlier, Pope Francis said a "constructive dialogue" was needed to confront the country's social turmoil, referring to the massive street protests that rocked Brazil to demand an end to corruption and better public services. YOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521695541 )
A Turkish riot police officer fires tear gas during clashes with protestors between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 3, 2013 during a demonstration against the demolition of the park. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images ( 520282447 )
A tornado moves through Nice on June 9, 2013. According to the national meteorological office this occurs on average once a year in Nice. VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images ( 520432800 )
Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates as he wins the 2013 French tennis Open final against Spain's David Ferrer at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on June 9, 2013. ALEXIS REAU/AFP/Getty Images ( 520436085 )
Egyptian toppled president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons Alaa, right, and Gamal stand behind bars during their trial at the Police Academy on September 14, 2013 in Cairo. Mubarak appeared in court for the second time since his release from Cairo's Tora prison and he faced an array of charges, including complicity in the deaths of some 850 people killed in the Arab Spring-inspired uprising against him, and corruption. AHMED EL-MALKY/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020866 )
A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows An injured man sits next to the body of a victim of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The train hurtled off the tracks, killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140 in the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. MONICA FERREIROS,XOAN A. SOLER/AFP/Getty Images ( 521623170 )
A Roma family of Turkish origin sits under an improvised shelter during heavy rain in Eforie Sud, Romania, on September 30, 2013 before an announcement by the Mayor on their case. Romanian authorities evicted around 100 Roma from a town near the Black Sea coast without providing them with alternative housing, prompting criticism from Amnesty International. The Roma families spent three days in a nearby field despite the cold weather until the mayor decided on September 30, 2013 to host them in an old school. MUGUR VARZARIU/AFP/Getty Images ( 523420307 )
An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad on August 6, 2013. The monsoon, which covers the subcontinent from June to September and usually brings flooding, accounts for about 80 percent of India's annual rainfall. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020784 )
Fatima Khatun 25, kisses the head of her 18-month -old daughter, Roona Begum, who is suffering from Hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain, at their hut in Jirania village on the outskirts of Agartala, on April 13, 2013. Her father, who lives in a mud hut with his family, told AFP he prays for "a miracle" that will save his only child. Doctors told him to go to a specialist hospital in a big city such as Kolkata in eastern India to get medical help but Rahman, who earns 150 rupees ($2.75) a day working in the brick plant, said he does not have the money to take her. ARINDAM DEY/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020624 )
Ash spews from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City, as seen from San Mateo Ozolco, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on July 4, 2013. Pablo Spencer/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020730 )
Lightning strikes during a thunder storm as tornado survivors search for salvagable stuff at their devastated home on May 23, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. Severe thunderstorms barreled through this Oklahoma City suburb, complicating clean-up efforts three days after a powerful tornado killed 24 people and destroyed 2,400 homes. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 520021517 )
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front L) and former NBA star Dennis Rodman (front R) speak to each other during a basketball game in Pyongyang. Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has become the most high-profile American to meet the new leader of North Korea, vowing eternal friendship with Kim Jong-Un. KCNA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020511 )
Rescue workers on a boat pass through the flooded old city of Passau, southern Germany, on June 3, 2013. Due to heavy and ongoing rainfalls, parts of the southern state of Bavaria were flooded. CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images ( 520262489 )
Former British energy minister Chris Huhne (R) comes into contact with a photographers lens as he arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London, on March 11, 2013. Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were due to be sentenced later Monday for perverting the course of justice over speeding points a decade ago. JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020520 )
Cranes operated by Bangladeshi Army personnel work at the scene of the April 24 collapse of an eight-story building in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 29, 2013. Bangladeshi textile bosses pleaded April 29 with Western clothing giants to keep doing business with them after nearly 400 people died in a factory collapse as hopes of finding more survivors faded. The factory caved in while some 3,000 textile workers were on shift. STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images ( 519339583 )
Relatives react after identifying the body of a loved one killed in a building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on May 3, 2013. The death toll passed 500 as the country's prime minister said Western retailers had to share some of the blame for the tragedy. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020643 )
Women sunbathe as Ferrari's Brazilian driver Felipe Massa drives past during the third practice session at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo on May 25, 2013 ahead of the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix. ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/Getty Images ( 520052599 )
Protestors clash with riot police in Istanbul, on June 1, 2013, during a demonstration against the demolition of the park. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the site as police lifted the barricades around the park and began withdrawing from the square. GURCAN OZTURK/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020688 )
"Pope emeritus" Benedict XVI (R) greets Pope Francis upon his arrival at the heliport in Castel Gandolfo on March 23, 2013. Pope Francis prepared to go face to face with his predecessor Benedict XVI in a historic meeting between two men with very different styles but important core similarities. OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020586 )
Cardinals attend a mass at the St Peter's basilica before the start of the conclave on March 12, 2013, at the Vatican. Cardinals moved into the Vatican as the suspense mounted ahead of a secret papal election with no clear frontrunner to steer the Catholic world through troubled waters after Benedict XVI's historic resignation. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020522 )
Flashes of lightning strike above the "Baie des Anges", on October 4, 2013, in Nice, southeastern France. VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images ( 523531322 )
US President Barack Obama plays a learning game while visiting children at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center February 14, 2013 in Decatur, Georgia. Obama was in Georgia to promote economic and educational initiatives he spoke about in this week's State of the Union. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020490 )
Riders reach the crest of a dune during the opening lap of the main race of the 2013 RHL Weston beach race in Weston-Super-Mare, southwest England, on October 13, 2013. Beach racing is an offshoot of enduro and motocross racing. Riders on solo motorcycles and quad bikes compete on a course marked out on a beach, with man-made jumps and sand dunes being constructed to make the course tougher during the three-hour endurance race. ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020916 )
Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates winning a game on the way to winning the first set against Spain's Rafael Nadal during the singles final on the eighth day of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London on November 11, 2013. GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020963 )
Two veiled Egyptian women, supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, sit in front police standing behind barbed wire fencing that blocks the access to the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo on July 8, 2013. Forty-two loyalists of Egypt's ousted president were killed while demonstrating against last week's military coup, triggering an Islamist uprising call and dashing the army's hopes for an interim civilian administration. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 521213843 )
This combination made on September 17, 2013 shows four photos of the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio taken on January 14, 2012 (top left), beginning to emerge during the salvage operation on September 16, 2013 (top right) and (lower left) and after it was turned upright (lower right) on September 17, 2013. ANDREAS SOLARO,VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images ( 522963084 )
An Indian instructor (2R) shows a self defense technique to a school girl during classes at a school in Mumbai on January 4, 2013. After nearly three weeks of lurid reporting on a horrifying gang-rape in New Delhi, women in the Indian capital said they were more anxious than ever, leading to a surge in interest in self-defense classes. PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020455 )
Emirates Team New Zealand (L) competes against Oracle Team USA during the 34th America's Cup on September 14, 2013 in San Francisco. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images ( 522906329 )
Leader of the ultra-right wing Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, is escorted by masked police officers to the prosecutor from the police headquarters in Athens on September 28, 2013. Greek police swooped on the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, hunting for dozens of members across the country in a crackdown sparked by the murder of a leftist musician. ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020897 )
An Indian forestry worker walks past the body of a tusker elephant after it was struck and killed by a train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, some 12 kms from Alipurduar on March 5, 2013. STR/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020515 )
Pakistani people walk through a storm near the Ravi river in Lahore on September 15, 2013. Heavy rains and hailstorms lashed the capital, throwing traffic out of gear in many parts of the city as a result of water logging. Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 522913295 )
A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo international airport in northern Syria on March 4, 2013. Syria is locked in a nearly two-year-old conflict in which the United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed. STEPHEN J. BOITANO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020512 )
Overall leader's yellow jersey Britain's Christopher Froome competes riding past spectators along the road during the 33 km individual time-trial and eleventh stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 10, 2013, between Avranches and Mont-Saint-Michel, northwestern France. JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images ( 521261099 )
Chelsea's Spanish striker Fernando Torres (L) tussles with Tottenham Hotspur's Belgian defender Jan Vertonghen (R) after a tackle during the English Premier League football match at White Hart Lane in London on September 28, 2013. IAN KINGTON/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020887 )
Norway's Anders Bardal jumps during the official training session of the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund, Norway on January 25, 2013, while a full moon rises over the mountain. DANIEL SANNUM LAUTEN/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020480 )
Residents walk past bodies and destroyed houses along a road in Tacloban, on the eastern island of Leyte on November 10, 2013 after Super Typhoon Haiyan swept over the Philippines. TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020950 )
Mexico's Ivan Garcia and German Sanchez enter the water as they compete in the men's 10-metre synchro platform preliminary diving event in the FINA World Championships at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuic in Barcelona on July 21, 2013. FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT/AFP/Getty Images ( 521519271 )
Pakistani men carry an injured blast victim at the site of a bomb explosion in the busy Kissa Khwani market in Peshawar on September 29, 2013. The bomb explosion killed at least 31 people. HASHAM AHMED/AFP/Getty Images ( 523375890 )
An Indian street child plays in a dry river bed after flood waters receded in Allahabad on October 25, 2013. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images ( 524081162 )
Soccer superstar David Beckham falls down after illustrating how to take a free kick during a visit to the Zall Football Club in Wuhan, central China's Wuhan province on March 23, 2013. Beckham raised the prospect of one last stop on his global football journey on March 20, refusing to rule out playing in China after his contract with Paris Saint-Germain ends. STR/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020583 )
Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on May 10, 2013, 17 days after the eight-story building collapsed. STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020647 )
U.S. surfers Garrett McNamara (L) and Mark Healey (R) compete during a free session of surf tow in, in the southern Pacific ocean island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, on June 1, 2013 in Teahupoo. GREGORY BOISSY/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020692 )
Sasha (L) and Malia Obama, daughters of U.S. President Barack Obama, take a photo of themselves during the Presidential Inaugural Parade on January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020477 )
Red Bull driver Sebatian Vettel of Germany celebrates winning the Formula One Indian Grand Prix 2013 at the Buddh International circuit in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on October 27. PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020926 )
Bayern Munich's defender Jerome Boateng (R) pours beer on Bayern Munich's French midfielder Franck Ribery while celebrating their champion title, after winning 3:0 the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Bayern Munich and FC Augsburg in Munich, southern Germany, on May 11, 2013. CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020651 )
A masked protestor flashes a V-sign during the clashes near Taksim in Istanbul on June 3, 2013, during a demonstration against the demolition of the park. OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images ( 520282467 )
An army officer tries to control the crowd as he escorts an Islamist man out of Cairo's Al-Fath mosque where Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi held up on August 17, 2013. The standoff at al-Fath mosque in central Ramses Square began on August 16, with security forces surrounding the building where Islamists were sheltering and trying to convince them to leave. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020790 )
Veterinarians operate on an endangered Galapagos green turtle to extract a fish hook from its esophagus in San Salvador, El Salvador on October 18, 2013. Surgery to remove the hook was performed by Dr. Abel Ciudad Real, a volunteer of the Zoological Foundation of El Salvador, who also operated another Galapagos green turtle with a head injury. Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images ( 523904672 )
An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth during clashes that broke out as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi in a huge protest camp near Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo on August 14, 2013. MOHAMMED ABDEL MONEIM/AFP/Getty Images ( 522082468 )
Jamaica's Usain Bolt (L) wins the100 metre final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on August 11, 2013 while a lightning strikes in the sky. Bolt timed a season's best 9.77 seconds, with American Justin Gatlin claiming silver in 9.85sec and Nesta Carter, also of Jamaica, taking bronze in 9.95sec. OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020786 )
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrives with his wife Queen Maxima for his inauguration ceremony on April 30, 2013 at Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam. PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020637 )
People run during aftershocks to avoid falling rocks on their way to the city of Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan province. Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China that left at least 188 dead. STR/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020629 )
Edward Snowden, who had been working at the National Security Agency for the past four years, speaking during an interview with The Guardian newspaper at an undisclosed location in Hong Kong. The 29-year-old government contractor revealed himself as the source behind bombshell leaks of US monitoring of Internet users and phone records, as US intelligence pressed for a criminal probe. The Guardian/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020705 )
Philippine soldiers aim their rifles at enemy positions during a fire fight with Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City in southern island of Mindanao on September 12, 2013. TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020835 )
Supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cry in front of the Military Hospital --where he had been hospitalized-- a day after his death in March 6, 2013, in Caracas. Venezuela was plunged into uncertainty after the death of President Chavez, who dominated the oil-rich country for 14 years and came to embody a resurgent Latin American left. LEO RAMIREZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020517 )
A full moon sets behind the Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 25, 2013. Pope Francis was slated to visit to Rio de Janeiro during the World Youth Day event on July 23 to 28. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images ( 520057326 )
Women throws bras at the esplanade des droits de l'homme, in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, during a happening called by "Pink Bra Bazzar, a French organization fighting against and sensitizing on breast cancer on March 25, 2013 . PIERRE VERDY/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020589 )
A rebel fighter throws a homemade grenade through a window toward Syrian government forces at a flat in the Salaheddine neighborhood of Aleppo on February 16, 2013. More than 300 people were abducted by armed groups in northwestern Syria over two days in an unprecedented string of sectarian kidnappings, a watchdog and residents said. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020492 )
A rebel fighter and a child cross a damaged bridge in Syria's eastern town of Deir Ezzor, on September 2, 2013. US President Barack Obama launched an intense lobbying effort on September 1 to sway skeptical lawmakers weighing whether to support a military strike against Syria. ABO SHUJA/AFP/Getty Images ( 522485529 )
A demonstrator's clothes are set on fire during clashes with riot police in Taksim square on June 11, 2013. Riot police stormed Istanbul's protest square on june 11, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet with protest leaders. OREN ZIV/AFP/Getty Images ( 520484167 )
Cypriots show their palms reading "No" during a protest against an EU bailout deal outside the parliament in Nicosia on March 18, 2013. PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020565 )
Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd L), Vuk Jeremic (R), President of the UN General Assembly, and Gordon Brown (L, back to camera), United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education July 12, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York during the UN Youth Assembly. Yousafzai became a public figure when she was shot by the Taliban while travelling to school last year in Pakistan -- targeted because of her committed campaigning for the right of all girls to an education. The UN had declared July 12 "Malala Day", which is also Yousafzai's birthday. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020741 )
People run away as Turkish riot policemen fire tear gas on Taksim square on June 11, 2013. Turkish police fired massive volleys of tear gas and jets of water to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul's Taksim Square on June 11, after earlier apparently retreating. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images ( 520508264 )
This video grab broadcast by Bulgarian television channel BTV shows a man (R) pointing a pistol at leader of the Turkish minority Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party Ahmed Dogan during his speech at a national party conference in Sofia on January 19, 2013. Dogan was addressing the delegates at the conference when the man rushed up to the podium and put a pistol to his head. The attacker however failed to produce a shot and was quickly disarmed by the delegates, witnesses told state BNR radio. AFP/Getty Images ( 525020469 )
A Bahraini girl is carried by her mother during the funeral of Sayed Omran Sayed Hameed, on May 28, 2013, in the village of Karzakkan, south of Manama. Hameed, 26, died at hospital after developing respiratory complications and his relatives claim that his death was due to the inhalation of poisonous tear gas that riot police used during a protest in May. MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020682 )
U.S. golfer Tiger Woods hits a ball as he poses during an event to promote the upcoming Turkish Airlines Open golf tournament, on the Bosphorus Bridge that links the city's European and Asian sides, in Istanbul, on November 5, 2013. Woods was in Turkey to attend the tournament, which took place between November 7 to 10. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images ( 524365354 )
A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, about 65 kilometers south of Athens, on June 23, 2013. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images ( 520839747 )
Opposition fighters open fire while taking cover from behind a car during fighting in the Salaheddin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on October 9, 2013. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fierce fighting in Damascus province between rebels and troops backed by pro-regime militias and fighters from Lebanon's Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah. KARAM AL-MASRI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523669340 )
A soldier of the French foreign legion wearing a skeleton mask stands next to an armored vehicule in a street in Niono, on January 20, 2013. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the goal of France's military action in Mali was to retake control of the entire country from Islamist militants who have seized the north. "The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets" of resistance, Le Drian said on French television. ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020471 )
Syrians walk down a destroyed street in the centre of Syria's northeastern city of Deir Ezzor on June 27, 2013. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's uprising, a watchdog said, as a proposed Geneva peace conference looked set to be delayed, dimming hopes for an end to the bloodshed. AHMAD ABOUD/AFP/Getty Images ( 520929955 )
A captured wild male black rhino named Sero looks out from its crate at Lewa conservancy on August 26, 2013. Eleven of Lewa's total 73 endangered black rhinos are being relocated to neighboring Borana conservancy to afford them more space. Borana currently has no rhino population and is hoping to help increase their numbers. The horn of each relocated rhino is cut and a tracking device is fitted to monitor its movements and to help combat poaching. Lewa has suffered severe poaching in the past. Illegally poached rhino horn is sold for large sums as an ingredient in some traditional Chinese medicine. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020804 )
An unknown anti-gay activist hits Russia's gay and LGBT rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev (C) during unauthorized gay rights activists rally in central Moscow on May 25, 2013. Moscow city authorities on May 15 turned down demands for a gay rights rally, but Alexeyev said he would fight a ban in court. ANDREY SVITAILO/AFP/Getty Images ( 520052626 )
Rebels of the Seleka coalition arrest a man suspected of looting a house, and claiming to also belong to the Seleka movement, in Bangui on March 26, 2013. The African Union suspended the Central African Republic and ordered sanctions against the rebel leaders who captured the capital Bangui. SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020609 )
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani waves to supporters as his motorcade leaves Tehran's Mehrabad Airport upon his arrival from New York, on September 28, 2013. Hardline Islamists chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" but they were outnumbered by 200 to 300 supporters of the president who shouted: "Thank you Rouhani." ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020878 )
An aerial view shows the flooded Gave de Pau river one day after unseasonal storms caused havoc across huge swaths of the country on June 19. LAURENT DARD/AFP/Getty Images ( 520730560 )
The silhouette of an armed fighter of the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG) is seen as he runs to take position along the front line on October 16, 2013 in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, close to the Turkish border. At least 41 fighters have been killed in violent clashes pitting Kurds against jihadists and Islamist rebels in northeastern Syria. FABIO BUCCIARELLI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523876621 )
A Somali woman reacts on March 18, 2013 near the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu. At least eight people were killed by the car bomb in one of the bloodiest attacks in the war-ravaged capital in recent months, police said. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020559 )
Oprah Winfreys hosts an exclusive interview with American cyclist Lance Armstrong. Armstrong addressed the alleged doping scandal, following years of accusations of cheating and charges of lying about the use of performance-enhancing drugs throughout his storied cycling career. Armstrong was given a lifetime ban on competing professionally. GEORGE BURNS/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020464 )
Egyptian people wave the national flag as army helicopters fly above Egypt's landmark Tahrir square on July 4, 2013. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, from which ousted president Mohamed Morsi hails, denounced a new "police state" after the arrest of Islamist leaders and the closure of satellite channels. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020727 )
Amina, a Syrian woman who fled the fighting in Aleppo, is photographed inside an abandoned building with her five-month-old sick daughter, Asma, on the outskirts of Saraqib on September 9, 2013. US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the idea of placing Syrian chemical weapons under international control at the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg, Putin's spokesman said on September 10, 2013. GIOVANNI DIFFIDENTI/AFP/Getty Images ( 522751549 )
Displaced Congolese flee the area of Kanyarucinya through Munigi on the outskirts of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 15, 2013. At least 130 people were killed, including 10 soldiers, in the deadliest clashes in months between troops and rebels in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said on July 15. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020747 )
Ariel Castro is arraigned at Cleveland Municipal Court for the kidnapping of three women May 9, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Castro, 52, appeared in court to faces charges that he kidnapped and raped three young women and held them in his home for a decade. He later hanged himself while in prison. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020645 )
A tornado approaches Moore, Oklahoma on May 20. Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb after the monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Nine children were among the dead and entire neighborhoods vanished, with often the foundations being the only thing left of what used to be houses and cars tossed like toys and heaped in big piles. VINCENT DELIGNY/AFP/Getty Images ( 525020664 )
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