Photos: Associated Press best news pictures 2013
December 5, 2013
A Bangladeshi woman survivor is lifted out of the rubble by rescuers at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka that killed 1,129 people. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) ( YE Bangladesh Building Collapse )
A Bahraini anti-government protester is engulfed in flames when a shot fired by riot police hit the petrol bomb in his hand that he was preparing to throw during clashes in Sanabis, Bahrain, Thursday, March 14, 2013. Protests and clashes erupted in opposition areas nationwide with government opponents observing a "Dignity Strike" blocking roads, closing shops, protesting and staying home from work and school called by the more radical February 14 youth group. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) ( YE Mideast Bahrain )
LaTisha Garcia carries her 8-year-old daughter, Jazmin Rodriguez, near Plaza Towers Elementary School after a massive tornado carved its way through Moore, Okla., May 20, 2013, leaving little of the school and neighborhood. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki, File) ( ADDITION YE Severe Weather )
The family of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, comfort each other during their funeral services at the First Baptist Church of Wortham Friday, April 5, 2013, in Wortham, Texas. The couple was found shot to death in their house near Forney, about 20 miles east of Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ( YE District Attorney Dead Texas )
Amish boys watch a game of baseball outside the school house in Bergholz, Ohio, on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Many Amish families gathered following the final day of school for a celebration and farewell picnic. (AP Photo/Scott R. Galvin, File) ( YE Amish Attacks )
In this Jan. 4, 2013, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes, second from left, and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, four-year-old Esther Walker, third from left, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, second from right, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, right, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley. (AP Photo/Holmes Family, Tim Holmes) ( YE Australia Wildfires )
U.S. President Barack Obama stands facing out to sea, at the 'Door of No Return,' at the slave house on Goree Island, in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, June 27, 2013. Obama called his visit to a Senegalese island from which Africans were said to have been shipped across the Atlantic Ocean into slavery, a 'very powerful moment.' President Obama was in Dakar as part of a weeklong trip to Africa, a three-country visit aimed at overcoming disappointment on the continent over the first black U.S. president's lack of personal engagement during his first term. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) ( YE Obama US Senegal )
Typhoon Haiyan survivors ride motorbikes through the ruins of the destroyed town of Guiuan, Philippines on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard, destroying tens of thousands of buildings and displacing at least a half-million people. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) ( YE Philippines Typhoon )
Egyptian protesters drag a wounded Muslim Brotherhood supporter during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood near the Islamist groupĂs headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 22, 2013. Egyptian protesters clashed with the president's Muslim Brotherhood backers and ransacked three offices nationwide as anger over allegations of beatings and power-grabbing boiled over into the largest and most violent demonstrations yet on the doorstep of the powerful group. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
A riot police officer, left, kicks a protester as another, center, tries to protect him before his arrest during protests in Ubate, north of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in support of farmers who have being blockading Colombian highways for a week for an assortment of demands that include reduced gasoline prices, increased subsidies and the cancellation of free trade agreements. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) ( YE Colombia Unrest )
George Zimmerman, right, is greeted by defense counsel Don West at the start of his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool) ( YE Neighborhood Watch )
Tony Appleton, a town crier, announces the birth of the royal baby, outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( YE Britain Royal Baby )
This aerial view on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, shows people walking down a street where homes once stood that were destroyed by a tornado that hit the western Illinois town of Washington. It was one of the worst-hit areas after intense storms and tornadoes swept through Illinois. The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Washington had a preliminary rating of EF-4, meaning wind speeds of 170 mph to 190 mph. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ( YE Severe Weather )
An anti-government protester gives a rose to a Thai soldier at the Defense Ministry during a rally in Bangkok Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013. Thailand's embattled prime minister begged protesters who have staged the most sustained street rallies in Bangkok in years to call off their demonstrations and negotiate an end to the nation's latest crisis. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) ( YE Thailand Politics )
President Barack Obama looks to see if it is still raining as a Marine holds an umbrella for him during his joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not pictured, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ( YE Obama US Turkey )
Herring worth billions in exports are seen floating dead Tuesday Feb. 5 2013 in Kolgrafafjordur, a small fjord on the northern part of Snaefellsnes peninsula, west Iceland, for the second time in two months. Between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of herring died in December 2012 and more now, due to lack of oxygen in the fjord thought to have been caused by a landfill and bridge constructed across the fjord in December 2004. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti) ( YE Iceland Fish Deaths )
A Bangladeshi man holds on to a woman, both victims of a building collapse, in the debris of Rana Plaza garment factory in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 25, 2013. The collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka that killed 1,129 people. (AP Photo/Suman Paul) ( YE Bangladesh US Trade )
Cameramen film as the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File) ( YE Kazakhstan Russia Space Olympics )
FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - Workers comb through debris Tuesday, July 9, 2013, after a train derailed Saturday causing explosions of railway cars carrying crude oil in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson, File) ( YE Canada-Oil Train Derailment )
President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral meeting. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) ( YE Obama Britain Northern Ireland G-8 Summit )
In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Pope Francis had traveled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church. The Vatican said the two popes embraced on the helipad. In the chapel where they prayed together, Benedict offered Francis the traditional kneeler used by the pope. Francis refused to take it alone, saying "We're brothers," and the two prayed together on the same one. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, File) ( YE Vatican Pope )
Firefighters battle a blaze in a building on the Seaside Park boardwalk on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in Seaside Park, N.J. The fire began in a frozen custard stand on the Seaside Park section of the boardwalk and quickly spread north into neighboring Seaside Heights. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) ( YE NJ Boardwalk Fire )
A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October bridge by protesters close to the largest sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk Newspaper) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations not bad management at HHS. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ( YE Health Overhaul Sebelius )
A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan, killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) ( YE Pakistan )
This aerial view on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, shows the path of a tornado that hit the western Illinois town of Washington. It was one of the worst-hit areas after intense storms and tornadoes swept through Illinois. The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Washington had a preliminary rating of EF-4, meaning wind speeds of 170 mph to 190 mph. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ( YE Severe Weather )
A French soldier checks passengers of a transport truck arriving in Gao, northern Mali, Thursday Feb. 14, 2013. Malian forces have stepped up security around the port an the main market, in an effort to stop the infiltration of rebel fighters in the town. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) ( YE Mali Fighting )
Injured people and debris lie on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) ( YE Boston Marathon-Explosions )
Masked Palestinians use a back car seat as a shield during a protest to support Palestinian prisoners, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers at a rally in support of four imprisoned Palestinians on hunger strike, as hundreds of inmates said they were refusing food for the day in solidarity with the fasting inmates. One of the four hunger-striking Palestinians is 35-year-old Samer Issawi whose health has severely deteriorated after he has refused food, on-and-off, for more than 200 days. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) ( YE Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Mt. Etna, Europe's most active volcano, spews lava as smoke billows during an eruption as seen from Acireale, near the Sicilian town of Catania, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) ( YE Italy Etna Volcano Eruption )
Riot policemen protect themselves during a demonstration against layoffs by Goodyear employees, at the Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison, west of Paris, Thursday March 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) ( YE France Unemployement )
A woman carries a girl from their home as a SWAT team searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings enters the building in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ( YE Police Converge Mass )
Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge hold the Prince of Cambridge, Tuesday July 23, 2013, as they pose for photographers outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London where the Duchess gave birth. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( YE Britain Royal Baby )
A Palestinian stone-thrower lays on the ground during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) ( YE Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( YE Pakistan )
A demonstrator with his face covered jumps over a burning barricade at the Cinelandia square during a march in support of teachers on strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) ( YE Brazil Teachers Protest )
Former President George H.W. Bush shakes hands with his son, former President George W. Bush during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) ( YE Bush Library )
Egyptians wave national flags as fireworks light the sky over Tahrir Square, where hundreds thousands opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures "a full coup." The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi reacts while praying during a protest against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
A cyclist rides past an over bridge as a camp and festival ground is enveloped in a morning fog at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, ahead of the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims were expected to take part in the large religious congregation of a period of over a month on the banks of Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival in January 2013, which falls every 12th year. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) ( YE India Maha Kumbh )
In this Friday, April 19, 2013 Massachusetts State Police photo, 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev leans over in a boat at the time of his capture by law enforcement authorities in Watertown, Mass. (AP Photo/Massachusetts State Police, Sean Murphy) ( YE Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects Injuries )
A Palestinian child cries after his family house has been demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The municipality says the building was constructed without proper permits and that its structure was not sound. The 33-member family says it was waiting to receive permits. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) ( YE Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Michael Kiefer, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., checks out a display of rifles at the Rock River Arms booth during the 35th annual SHOT Show, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) ( YE Gun Debate Tradeshow )
A field of parked cars and trucks sits partially submerged near Greeley, Colo., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, as debris-filled rivers flooded into towns and farms miles from the Rockies. Hundreds of roads, farms and businesses in the area were damaged or destroyed by the floodwaters. (AP Photo/John Wark, File) ( YE Colorado Flooding )
Muslim Brotherhood supporters beat a protester in Tahrir Square, as supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president battle in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa, File) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
Somali men carry a seriously wounded man after a car bomb blast close to the Somali government's headquarters in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, March 18, 2013. An explosives-laden car that apparently was targeting a truck full of Somali government officials instead hit a civilian car and exploded, setting a nearby mini-bus on fire and killing at least seven people. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) ( YE Somalia Blast )
A man carries an injured victim of a fire at the Kiss club in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, early Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Agencia RBS) ( YE Brazil Nightclub Fire )
Kris Perry, foreground left, kisses Sandy Stier as they are married at City Hall in San Francisco, Friday, June 28, 2013. Stier and Perry were married after a federal appeals court cleared the way for the state of California to immediately resume issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a 4 1/2-year freeze. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ( YE Supreme Court Gay Marriage )
A smashed car sits in front of an apartment complex destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, as firefighters conduct a search and rescue Thursday, April 18, 2013. A massive explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Co. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ( YE Plant Explosion Texas )
A pair of water spouts form on Lake Michigan southeast of Kenosha, Wis. on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The National Weather Service in Sullivan said the water spouts occurred about four miles southeast from Kenosha. (AP Photo/The Kenosha News, Kevin Poirier) ( YE Water Spout Lake Michigan )
Burnt trees and destroyed homes are left in the wake of a wildfire in the densely wooded Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday, June 13, 2013. More than 350 homes were lost in what is now the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, surpassing last year's Waldo Canyon fire, which burned 347 homes, killed two people and led to $353 million in insurance claims. (AP Photo/John Wark) ( YE Colorado Wildfires )
A woman who had been hiding during the gun battle runs for cover after armed police enter the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, after gunmen threw grenades and opened fire Sept. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Jonathan Kalan, File) ( YE Kenya Mall )
Workers try to release two bodies trapped in the rubble of collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory building in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 30, 2013. The collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka that killed 1,129 people. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) ( YE Bangladesh Two Factories )
Rev. Bobby Turner or Columbus, Ohio, places his hand on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) ( YE King Memorial )
A model presents a creation by designer Patrick Mohr at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for autumn winter 2013 in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ( YE Germany Berlin Fashion Week )
Riot police (OMON) guard gay rights activists who have been beaten by anti-gay protesters during an authorized gay rights rally in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Police detained several gay activists, who were outnumbered by the protesters. Dozens of gay activists had to be protected by police as they gathered for the parade, which proceeded with official approval despite recently passed legislation targeting gays. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) ( YE Russia Gay Rights )
Security officers walk away as a man mourns next to the bodies of his wife and daughter, who were gunned down outside their house as they attempted to escape when suspected Orma raiders attacked their village of Kibusu in Kenya Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. The raiders set more than twenty houses on fire and killed at least ten people as the Tana River County ethnic clashes erupted yet again. (AP Photo) ( YE Kenya Tana Clashes )
An Indian man weeps as he holds his wife who was killed in a stampede on a railway platform at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) ( YE India Maha Kumbh Stampede )
An emergency responder and volunteers, including Carlos Arredondo in the cowboy hat, push Jeff Bauman in a wheel chair after he was injured in an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ( YE Boston Marathon Explosion )
Kaden Bowden, son of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Bowden, looks at the casket for his father during burial services for Staff Sgt. Bowden at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Bowden was from Villa Rica, Ga., and died on Aug. 31, 2013, from injuries sustained while serving in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ( YE Arlington Funeral Afghanistan )
This photo released by the Kenya Presidency shows the collapsed upper car park of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Kenya Presidency) ( YE Kenya Mall Attack )
Military police fire tear gas at protestors near Maracana stadium where Brazil and Spain are playing the final Confederations Cup soccer match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 30, 2013. Anti-government protesters marched near the Maracana football stadium during the major international match, venting their anger about the billions of dollars the Brazilian government is spending on major sporting events rather than public services. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) ( YE Brazil Confed Cup Protests )
Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, July 6, 2013. A large swath of Lac Megantic was destroyed Saturday after a train carrying crude oil derailed, sparking several explosions and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 people. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson) ( YE Canada Oil Train Derailment )
A Philippine Air Force crew looks out from his helicopter as Typhoon Haiyan-ravaged city of Tacloban is seen in the background, during a flight to deliver relief goods in Leyte province, Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by Typhoon Haiyan, which tore across several islands in the eastern Philippines on Nov. 8. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) ( YE Philippines Typhoon )
Authorities carry out the court-ordered amputation of the fingers of a convicted thief in a public square in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The 29-year-old man was convicted for being part of a 10-member gang that carried out burglaries in the city and on charges of having illegal relations, according to the Mehr news agency. He was sentenced to the amputation of three fingers, the confiscation of his property and three years in prison. Iran's legal system, based on Shariah, provides for amputation of limbs for theft. Mehr did not identify the man. (AP Photo/Mohsen Tavarro, File) ( YE Mideast Iran )
David Lee Estep sits atop a pile of rubble that was the home he shared with his parents Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Estep was waiting for his parents, who survived the storm with Estep to arrive three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ( YE Oklahoma Tornado )
A nun reacts as the tide comes in fast on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis was to preside over an evening vigil service on Copacabana beach that was expected to draw more than 1 million young people. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) ( YE Brazil Pope )
A survivor lights candles on a makeshift grave site of his father and uncle, left, on a field in Palo town, Leyte province, central Philippines on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. Residents decided to bury bodies of relatives and unknown people killed during Typhoon Haiyan on the field because they have started to decay and may pose a health risk. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) ( YE Philippines Typhoon )
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, pauses while meeting with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, to answer questions about the impending automatic spending cuts that take effect March 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ( YE Budget Battle )
The sun rises in Seaside Heights, N.J., Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, behind the Jet Star Roller Coaster which has been sitting in the ocean after part of the Funtown Pier was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. The private owners of the amusement pier that collapsed in Seaside Heights were working with insurers to devise a plan to dismantle the ride and get it out of the ocean. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) ( YE Superstorm Roller Coaster )
The flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy, where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File) ( YE Venezuela Chavez )
Lazaro Martinez, covered in mud, pauses while searching for his wife and two children, in the town of La Pintada, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. La Pintada residents demanded that the government continue the recovery of bodies buried in the massive landslide triggered by Tropical Storm Manuel, engulfing half the remote coffee-growing village. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez) ( YE Mexico Mudslide )
The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning, Sept. 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright after a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a "perfect" end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) ( YE Italy Ship Aground )
Egyptian security forces help the lifeless body of Giza Police Gen. Nabil Farrag, center, who was killed after unidentified militants opened fire on security forces deployed early morning in the town of Kerdasa, near Giza Pyramids, Egypt, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan, File) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
Carson Dennis stands in the middle of the destruction caused by a flash flood that poured down Canon Avenue, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 in Manitou, Colo. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Michael Ciaglo) ( YE Colorado Flooding )
Steven Tyler, lead singer of American rock band Aerosmith performs on Saturday, May 25, 2013, in Singapore during the inaugural Social Star Awards concert. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) ( YE Singapore Social Star Awards Aerosmith )
Isreali border policemen arrest a Palestinian man during a protest to support Palestinian prisoners, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) ( YE Mideast Israel Palestinians )
The flags surrounding the Washington Monument fly at half-staff as ordered by President Barack Obama following the deadly shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, Tuesday morning, Sept. 17, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ( YE Navy Yard Shooting )
An Egyptian soccer fan of Al-Ahly club displays scales to fans celebrating a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in last years soccer violence, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Egyptian security officials say military was to deploy in Port Said after at least 8 people died in the Mediterranean city after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan, File) ( YE Mideast Egypt )
An overhead view of guests attending the ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Wednesday April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski, Pool) ( YE Britain Thatcher Funeral )
An air tanker drops fire retardant on a hot spot as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, near Banning, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( YE Southern California Wildfire )
A procession of 19 hearses for the 19 fallen Arizona firefighters drives through the desert, Sunday, July 7, 2013, near Wickenburg, Ariz, The elite crew of firefighters were overtaken by the out-of-control blaze as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields last Sunday. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ( YE Firefighters Killed )
Quebec rower Mylene Paquette celebrates as she arrives in Lorient, western France, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, after a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Paquette is the first North American woman to row solo across the North Atlantic. She left Halifax just over four months ago in a specially designed 7.3-metre boat propelled only by Paquette and the currents. (AP Photo/David Vincent) ( YE France Canada Transatlantic Rowing )
A military police pepper sprays a protester during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protesters massed in at least seven Brazilian cities for another round of demonstrations voicing disgruntlement about life in the country, raising questions about security during big events like the current Confederations Cup and the following month's Papal visit. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) ( YE Brazil Confed Cup Protests )
An Iranian officer lashes a man, convicted of rape, at the northeastern city of Sabzevar, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Rape, like murder and treason, can be punished by the death sentence in Iran, but sometimes judges imposed a sentence of lashes before execution or imprisonment. (AP Photo/Hossein Esmaeli) ( YE Mideast Iran Judiciary )
This aerial photo shows the wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 airplane after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Saturday, July 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) ( YE San Francisco Airliner Crash )
Thania Sayne of Effingham, Ill., leans on the headstone at the grave of her husband, Army Sgt. Timothy D. Sayne, during the playing of taps at a nearby burial service at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, a day before what would have been their third wedding anniversary. Sayne, was 4 months pregnant with their second son, Douglas, when her husband was killed on Sept. 18, 2011, in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) ( YE Arlington Afghanistan Section 60 )
Inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 after a burnout operation as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( YE Western Wildfire )
In this photo taken on July 24 2013, wounded people and dead bodies are seen at the site of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/La Voz de Galicia/Xoan A. Soler) ( YE Spain Train Derailment )
A Pakistani internally displaced girl Amina Bibi attends class at a school rebuilt by the Pakistani army, in Tank, the bordering town of South Waziristan, the Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, March 28, 2013. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) ( YE Pakistan South Waziristan )
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