Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 09

abgsedapmalam · Post time 7-3-2012 09:28 PM

And that was February 2012 done and dusted. Week 9 keeps on going the way the previous 8 weeks have been going. Loads of protests across the globe against this that and the other. Oh and another Costa cruise liner in trouble. I would not like to be in that CEO’s shoes right now.

1Afghan protesters burn a U.S. flag during a protest in Jalalabad province. PARWIZ/REUTERS

2A track drives past a traffic sign emerging from deep snow near the town of Saryshagan. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

3Albanian soldiers carry the coffin of Albanian Captain Vogli at the Palace of Congress in Tirana. ARBEN CELI/REUTERS

4An Afghan boy who works at a bakery watches a protest outside his a window in Kabul. AHMAD MASOOD/REUTERS

5Swiss air force pilots fly their Pilatus PC-7 planes in a formation during an exercise over the Swiss mountain resort of Crans-Montana. ARND WIEGMANN/REUTERS

6Handout photo of a rare Shepherd's beaked whale at Bass Strait, off the town of Portland. HANDOUT/REUTERS

7Venezuela's President Chavez greets supporters on his way to the airport before his departure to Cuba, in Caracas. JORGE SILVA/REUTERS

8An Oscar statue waits to be unveiled in the red carpet arrival area during preparations for the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood. LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS

9A boy smiles from a train bound for Mandalay train at the Myitkyina station in Myanmar's northern Kachin State. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

10Anti-riot policemen walk towards protesters at a train station after the body of the 51st victim was found in the wreckage of a train accident two days ago, in Buenos Aires. ENRIQUE MARCARIAN/REUTERS

11Protesters demonstrate against against ACTA in Vienna. LISI NIESNER/REUTERS

12People hold a giant Libyan flag during a march to Martyrs Square in Tripoli. ANIS MILI/REUTERS

13A combination photograph shows the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, posing for a photograph with the first edition of The Sun in 1969 and with the first edition of The Sun on Sunday as it comes off the presses at Broxbourne. HANDOUT/REUTERS

14A woman dances during a Trimery celebration in the city of Strumica. OGNEN TEOFILOVSKI/REUTERS

15Policemen walk past while demolition work is carried out on the building where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces last May, in Abbottabad. STRINGER/REUTERS

16A man bathes his sheep on the banks of a canal in Faisalabad. FAYYAZ HUSSAIN/REUTERS

17A nomadic shepherd stands with a sheep while listening to music from his mobile phone along a road in Noida. PARIVARTAN SHARMA/REUTERS

18Opposition supporters take part in a protest rally called The White Ring by forming a human chain along the Garden Ring road in Moscow. DENIS SINYAKOV/REUTERS

19Serviceman of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special unit breaks flaming tiles with his head during Maslenitsa celebrations in Minsk. VLADIMIR NIKOLSKY/REUTERS

20An Iranian couple walks down a stairway decorated with a tile mural in northern Tehran. MORTEZA NIKOUBAZL/REUTERS

21An aerial view of a VIA passenger train that derailed in Burlington Ontario, is pictured in this screen grab from video, provided to Reuters by CTV. HANDOUT/REUTERS

22Best Actor winner Dujardin kisses Uggie the dog after The Artist won the for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood. GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS

23Afghan National Army soldiers inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Jalalabad province. PARWIZ/REUTERS

24Ukraine's former interior minister Yuri Lutsenko looks out from the defendant's cage during a court session in Kiev. GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS

25A former soldier of the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) prepares to fire a homemade mortar in San Benito town. OSWALDO RIVAS/REUTERS

26An Ohio State highway patrol helicopter prepares to leave the grounds of Chardon High School in Chardon. RON KUNTZ/REUTERS

27Riot police remove a protester from the Occupy encampment on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London. DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS

28The sun sets over the skyline in Phoenix. JOSHUA LOTT/REUTERS

29A protester is detained by riot police after being removed by bailiffs from the last remaining structure of the Occupy encampment outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS

30A handout photograph shows the cruise liner Costa Allegra drifting in the Indian Ocean after an engine room fire. HANDOUT/REUTERS

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31Members of Russian Emergency Situations Ministry work at the site of a partially collapsed nine-storey building in the southern city of Astrakhan. STRINGER/RUSSIA/REUTERS

32Li Jingchun, a farmer, sprays paints onto his self-made aircraft on top of his house in Xiahe village. SHENG LI/REUTERS

33Miners wait for suspended ANC Youth League President Julius Malema to address them outside the Impala platinum mine in Rustenburg. SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS

34People walk past a woman begging for change along a street in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

35Naval officer walks between coffins of Vieira Figueiredo and Lopes dos Santos during a funeral ceremony at a military base in Rio de Janeiro. RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS

36A firefighter raises flares as he protests in front of the parliament in Athens. JOHN KOLESIDIS/REUTERS

37People takes pictures during a video exhibition on the Duomo cathedral facade downtown in Milan. STEFANO RELLANDINI/REUTERS

38Alleged gunman Lane is escorted out of the Geauga County Courthouse Annex by Sheriff deputies for his court appearance after shooting and killing three students and wounding two others at Chardon High School in Chardon. AARON JOSEFCZYK/REUTERS

39Physically disabled Chen Liting and an instructor practise modern dance in Beijing. JASON LEE/REUTERS

40A supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Romney clenches his fist as Romney wins the Arizona Primary in Phoenix. JOSHUA LOTT/REUTERS

41U.S. singer Badu cries during a news conference in Kuala Lumpur February 29, 2012. STRINGER/MALAYSIA/REUTERS

42A farmer sows watermelon seeds in a field on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad. JITENDRA PRAKASH/REUTERS

43The Waterways, an empty and unsold housing development, is pictured in the village of Keshcarrigan. CATHAL MCNAUGHTON/REUTERS

44Polar bear Huggies licks her twin cubs while breastfeeding them during their first public appearance at the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen. MICHAEL KOOREN/REUTERS

45People hold national flags and torches during an event on the eve of the anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement in Cheonan. YONHAP/REUTERS

46Britain's Queen Elizabeth views the interior of the refurbished East Wing of Somerset House at King's College in London. POOL/REUTERS

47Police block demonstrators near venue of Mobile World Congress during protests against spending cuts in public education in Barcelona. ALBERT GEA/REUTERS

48A storm approaches the snow covered mountain range of Panachaiko. YANNIS BEHRAKIS/REUTERS

49Carissa Westfall helps salvage products from Nature's Sunshine Health Foods in Branson. SARAH CONARD/REUTERS

50A woman looks on outside her house next to the word Beautiful in an alley (viela), in the Brasilandia favela of Sao Paulo. NACHO DOCE/REUTERS

51A man performs on the slackline at a park in Lima. PILAR OLIVARES/REUTERS

52A passenger looks for his bags after alighting from the Costa Allegra cruise ship in Seychelles Island. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

53A man walks by the destroyed St. Joseph's Catholic Church which was damaged by a tornado in Ridgway, Illinois. JIM YOUNG/REUTERS

54A South Sudanese child waits inside a train to be transported to Wau in South Sudan, in Khartoum. MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH/REUTERS

55A satellite image of the Baba Amr district of Homs. HANDOUT/REUTERS

56A male stripper waits for customers in his booth during the Sex and Entertainment 2012 adult exhibition at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City. TOMAS BRAVO/REUTERS

57Stoever trains at Cirque School in Hollywood, Los Angeles. LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS

58Honour guards march in step during the changing of the guards ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in central Moscow. PAWEL KOPCZYNSKI/REUTERS

59A man shows tattoos on his body at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Pathom province. SUKREE SUKPLANG/REUTERS