2011 Best Photos of the Year, Part 1 of 3
Posted Dec 13, 2011
The best photos of 2011 from around the globe.
Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content. Some images contain dead bodies, graphic content and tragic events. We consider these images an important part of human history.
A libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from an upstairs room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata, Libya on April 20, 2011. Rebel forces assaulted the downtown positions of troops loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi April 20, briefly forcing them back over a key bridge and trapping several in a building that fought back instead of surrendering, firing on the rebels in the building and seriously wounding two of them during the standoff. Fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels ensconced there. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Tunisia officers attempt to break up a protest camp in Kasbah Square in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 28, 2011. (Joao Pina/The New York Times)
Rally Factory's Juan Pedrero Garcia rides is motorcycle during the sixth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Iquique and Arica in Chile, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A Guastavino Company spiral staircase at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York, on Jan. 25, 2011. The Guastavino Company was founded by the Catalonian architect Rafael Guastavino y Moreno, who arrived in New York 130 years ago. The domes and arches built by the Guastavino Company are everywhere in New York, but you have to look for them. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
Mewelde Moore #21 of the Pittsburgh Steelers catches a pass over Antonio Cromartie #31 of the New York Jets in the third quarter of the 2011 AFC Championship game at Heinz Field on January 23, 2011 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers defeated the Jets 24 to 19. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
A competitor dressed as a Storm Trooper pushes him- or herself to the limit as he/she competes in the 2011 Tough Guy Challenge on January 30, 2011 in Perton, near Wolverhampton, England. Thousands of competitors from around the world come to compete in The Tough Guy Challenge, an eight mile endurance course of mud, freezing water and fire, held on farmland in the village of Perton. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Visitors ride the Staten Island ferry with the Statue of Liberty in the background January 5, 2011 in New York City. In 2010, New York City drew a record 48.7 million visitors, making the city the number one U.S. tourist destination for the second year in a row. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Chicken sit in coop on a organic accredited poultry farm on January 7, 2011 in Elstorf, Germany. Organic farmers across Germany were likely to benefit from the dioxin scandal that was forcing at least 4,000 non-organic poultry, hog and other farms nationwide to suspend deliveries for the time being. Authorities suspect the north German firm Harles and Jentsch of supplying up to 3,000 tons of dioxin-tainted fatty proteins to 25 animal feeds producers. (Photo by Joern Pollex/Getty Images)
Andy Murray of Great Britain serves in his semifinal match against David Ferrer of Spain during day twelve of the 2011 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 28, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
Mitsubishi's driver Guilherme Spinelli and co-driver Youssef Haddad, both from Brazil, compete during the fourth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Jujuy, Argentina, and Calama, Chile, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
An anti-government protester reacts before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was to make a statement February 10, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a statement in which he refused to step down, defying expectations that he was preparing to resign. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Cars drive through Tahrir Square in Cairo, Feb. 13, 2011. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)
Egyptians celebrated the announcement that President Hosni Mubarak was stepping down in Cairo, on Feb. 11, 2011. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)
An injured anti-government protestor rests in a house in Tahrir Square after clashes with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak on February 3, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The Army positioned tanks between protesters who had been battling with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak for the second day in and around Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
A wounded anti-government protester is carried off after being struck by a rock during clashes with pro-government supporters near a highway overpass on the edge of Tahrir Square the afternoon of February 3, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Clashes between anti- and pro-government factions in Egypt's central square continued February 3, with anti-government forces gaining more territory outside of Tahrir Square from Egyptians loyal to the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Ball kids dry the court with towels after rain stopped play during the match between Samantha Stosur of Australia and Flavia Pennetta of Italy during day one of the Federation Cup tie between Australia and Italy at Domain Tennis Centre on February 5, 2011 in Hobart, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at court for an arraignment hearing in connection with the alleged theft of a $2,500 necklace on February 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Lohan has been charged with a felony count of grand theft for allegedly walking out of a Venice, California store with the necklace in January. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Window cleaners Lee Mason (left) and Paul Wright (right) pause for a break in their cleaning gondola outside the 50th floor of the One Canada Square skyscraper on February 8, 2011 in London, England. Currently the tallest building in Britain, it lies at the heart of Canary Wharf, the business and shopping district on the River Thames. To clean all the windows of the building takes a month, with the cleaners suspended up to 190m from the ground. (Photo by Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images)
Peter Fill of Italy skis in the Men's Downhill during the Alpine FIS Ski World Championships on the Kandahar course on February 12, 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
An Afghan family lives in makeshift tents in an extremely cold climate, on February 13, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. These families have run from their cities because of the internal wars and the Taliban, and have taken refuge in a camp, living in tents as temperatures plummet. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
A man carries a bunch of balloons as he walks down Union Street on Valentine's Day on February 14, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Valentine's Day is actually a Catholic church sanctioned holiday, as Pope Gelasius deemed February 14, St. Valentine's Day, near 498 A.D. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Elaine Vardamis (R) of Nederland, Colorado is embraced by her husband Dan Vardamis as the couple renews their vows at Loveland Ski Area in Colorado at the 20th Annual Marry Me & Ski Free Mountaintop Matrimony on Valentine's Day, February 14th in Loveland, Colorado. The mass wedding ceremony was held at noon at 12,050 feet outside of the Ptarmigan Roost Cabin at Loveland. More than 75 couples were pre-registered to get married or renew their vows high on The Continental Divide in this yearly Loveland tradition. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
Protesters run from a cloud of teargas during a clash with Bahraini security forces near the Pearl roundabout on February 18, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Protesters said that the army fired on them with live rounds, followed by teargas which drove the demonstrators back. There are unconfirmed reports that there are four dead in the clashes. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
The helicopter that will serve as Marine One blows up snow as it lands on the South Lawn of the White House prior to the departure of President Barack Obama February 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. Obama was attending the Winning the Future Forum on Small Business at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Murray and Kelly James look at their destroyed house in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. A magnitude-6.3 temblor collapsed buildings, caused extensive other damage and killed dozens of people in the city. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago on Feb. 2, 2011. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hundreds of drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city's showcase lakeshore thoroughfare and giving many city schoolchildren their first ever snow day. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Ahmed Farhan, 30, who was killed by security forces, is washed before his burial in the village of Sitra, Bahrain, March 18, 2011. The family of Farhan had been trying to bring him home to Sitra, an activist Shiite village, and bury him there, but permission had been withheld until the last minute. (Andrea Bruce/The New York Times)
A pot holds indelible ink where voters were to dip their finger after casting their ballot at a polling center in Mansoura, Egypt, March 19, 2011. Overjoyed that for the first time in their lives every ballot mattered, Egyptians flocked to the polls in record numbers to vote in a referendum over a package of constitutional amendments that will shape the country's political future after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)
Kofi Sylvester Dwemoh, 4, dances during a memorial party for Hanah Yaa Appiah who died a month earlier, in the Bronx borough of New York, March 25, 2011. In New York, these funeral parties anchor the social calendar of the fast-growing community of immigrants from Ghana, where funerals are world-renowned for their size and extravagance. (Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times)
Soldiers from the 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, board a transport helicopter to leave Forward Operating Base Kunduz in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, March 6, 2011. It took a month to get the battalion's nearly 800 soldiers home, moving them 6,500 miles from Kunduz through Mazar-i-Sharif and Kyrgyzstan to Watertown, N.Y. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Libyan rebels take cover from government fire as a natural gas facility burns on the frontline on March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels pushed back government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
In this handout image provided by NASA, an orbital sunrise brightens this view of space shuttle Discovery's vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods, docking mechanism, remote manipulator system/orbiter boom sensor system (RMS/OBSS) and payload bay during flight day 12 activities March 7, 2011 in Space. Discovery, on its 39th and final flight, was carrying the Italian-built Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM), Express Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4) and Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space to the International Space Station. Discovery was in service for 27 years and will be decommissioned and sent to a museum. Two remaining shuttle missions are planned before the program ends. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
Neena Sasaki, 5, carries some of the family belongings from her home that was destroyed after the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 15, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province, Japan. Thousands were killed after the 8.9 earthquake struck the northeast coast of Japan 4 days ago. The country is struggled to contain a potential nuclear meltdown after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was seriously damaged from the earthquake. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
A rescue worker stands on top of a burned vehicle looking for more bodies hidden amongst the rubble of a village destroyed by the devastating earthquake, fires and tsunami March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province, Japan. The 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck offshore on March 11 at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to ten meters which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Toyoki Sugawara looks out from his destroyed liquor shop where he is collecting the items he can salvage on March 18, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. Residents have started returning to their homes to began the massive cleanup operation caused by a 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake that struck on March 11 off the coast of north-eastern Japan. The quake triggered a tsunami wave of up to 10 meters which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
A dead woman lies under a blanket near the stairs of her destroyed home in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Hindu devotees play with colored powders during Holi celebrations at the Bankey Bihari Temple on March 21, 2011 in Vrindavan, India. Holi, the spring festival of colors, is celebrated by Hindus around the world in an explosion of color to mark the end of the winter. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
Paint splattered police officers look on during clashes outside Top Shop on Oxford Street during marches in protest at government cuts on March 26, 2011 in London, England. Thousands are taking part in the Trades Union Congress (TUC) organized march to Hyde Park where a rally will take place. Police say they are deploying 4500 officers. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Glasgow based artist Frank To, dressed in a medieval Plague Doctor costume, sits beside 72-year-old Willie Kennedy from Glasgow on March 31, 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland. The artist was promoting his first major exhibition in two years, ''The Human Condition'', which opened at the Leith Gallery in Edinburgh. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
A thoroughbred horse is hoisted onto an equine operating table ahead of its operation at Newmarket Equine Hospital on March 2, 2011 in Newmarket, England. The Equine Centre at Newmarket is the largest and the most state of the art equine hospitals in Europe. It is also the world's leading center for arthroscopy and fracture repair on horses. The clinic focuses on personalized high quality veterinary care and emergency care not only for Newmarket-based horses but for horses from all over the world. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
On the road between between Ajdabiya and Brega, an opposition fighter navigates a truck armed with an anti-aircraft gun on the front line near Brega, Libya, April 1, 2011. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
A Libyan doctor reacts as other medical staff members attempt to save the life of Jinan Hussein Jweil, 5, who suffered a severe head wound, at a rebel-held hospital in Misrata, Libya, April 17, 2011. She later died of her wounds. The battle for the rebel-held city had intensified in recent days, raising the human toll as wounded flood several treatment centers scattered around the city. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
Ali Salem el-Faizani, 10, stands at a street corner while working as a traffic cop April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Schools have been closed throughout eastern Libya for nearly two months due to the ongoing civil conflict; some children like Ali are working to pass the time, in his case finding a job via a Boy Scout-like youth troop that's affiliated with the Benghazi traffic police. "I like directing the cars around," Ali says. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Irish Guardsman Bortnill St'Ange is fitted with his ceremonial uniform by Master Tailor Lance Sergeant Matthew Else in the store room at Victoria Barracks on April 21, 2011 in Windsor, England. The Irish Guards returned from active duty in Afghanistan at the beginning of April, and are now preparing for ceremonial duties. Prince William is the Colonel of the Regiment and the Irish Guards will be on duty at the Royal Wedding on April 29, 2011. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Nicky Perry, owner of Tea & Sympathy, awaits the first kiss by the royal couple while at a royal wedding viewing party in New York on April 29, 2011. It is estimated that over 2 billion people tuned in around the world to watch the wedding between now their Royal Highnesses Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)
Their Royal Highnesses Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011 in London, England. The marriage of the second in line to the British throne was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and was attended by 1900 guests, including foreign Royal family members and heads of state. Thousands of well-wishers from around the world have also flocked to London to witness the spectacle and pageantry of the Royal Wedding. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
President Barack Obama speaks with an emotional high school senior before delivering the commencement address at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tenn. on May 16, 2011. The school was selected for the address after winning Obama's 2011 Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah April 14 as the conflict engulfing Libya continued. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Foreign workers from Nigeria, Ghana, and other African countries pile in the back of a truck with their belongings trying to leave the besieged city of Misrata April 18, 2011 as the sun sets on the port in Misrata, Libya. Thousands of foreign workers and Libyans alike are trying to leave war-torn Misrata, as fighting continued between Libyan government forces and anti-government rebels. The Libyan government has come under international criticism for using heavy weapons and artillery in its assault on Misrata, which can cause civilian casualties. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Rebel fighters carefully move into a building where they had trapped government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata April 20, 2011 in Misurata, Libya. Rebel forces assaulted the downtown positions of troops loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi April 20, briefly forcing them back over a key bridge and trapping several in a building that rebel troops surrounded, firing on the rebels from upper-floor positions instead of surrendering. Fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels ensconced there. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros stands in front of a burning building while on assignment on April 18, 2011, in Misrata, Libya. Hondros, who was on assignment in Misrata, Libya, was killed on April 20, 2011 by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). (Photo by Katie Orlinsky via Getty Images)
Robert Guerrero, right, punches Michael Katsidis, of Australia, during a lightweight boxing match Saturday, April 9, 2011, in Las Vegas. Guerrero won by unanimous decision. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
22 year old Shyam Rai from Nepal makes his way through a rat hole tunnels inside of a coal mine 300 ft beneath the surface on April 13, 2011 near the village of Latyrke near Lad Rymbai, in the district of Jaintia Hills, India. The Jaintia hills, located in India's far North East state of Meghalaya, miners descend to great depths on slippery, rickety wooden ladders. Children and adults squeeze into rat hole like tunnels in thousands of privately owned and unregulated mines, extracting coal with their hands or primitive tools and no safety equipment. Workers can earn as much as 150 USD per week or 30,000 Rupees per month, significantly higher than the national average of 15 USD per day. After traversing treacherous mountain roads, the coal is delivered to neighboring Bangladesh and to Assam from where it is distributed all over India, to be used primarily for power generation and as a source of fuel in cement plants. Many workers leave homes in neighboring states, and countries, like Bangladesh and Nepal, hoping to escape poverty and improve their quality of life. Some send money back to loved ones at home, whilst many others squander their earnings on alcohol, drugs and prostitution in the dusty, coal mining towns like Lad Rymbai. Some of the labor is forced, and an Indian NGO group, Impulse, estimates that 5,000 privately-owned coal mines in Jaintia Hills employed some 70,000 child miners. The government of Meghalaya refuted this figure, claiming that the mines had only 222 minor workers. Despite the ever present dangers and hardships, children, migrants and locals flock to the mines hoping to strike it rich in India's wild east. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
A man sits on a ledge high up on the Al Faisaliyah Center tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 23, 2011. Saudi Arabia is flexed its financial and diplomatic might across the Middle East in 2011, in a wide-ranging bid to contain the tide of change, shield fellow monarchs from popular discontent and avert the overthrow of any more leaders struggling to calm turbulent republics. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)
President Barack Obama leaves the East Room of the White House after announcing that the United States had killed Osama bin Laden in a military operation, in Washington, May 1, 2011. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Firefighters react in Times Square after President Barack Obama announced that the United States has the body of Osama bin Laden, in New York, May 1, 2011. (Michael Appleton/The New York Times)
Lighting strikes in the distance beyond the compound where Osama bin Laden was reportedly killed in Abottabad, Pakistan, May 4, 2011. (Warrick Page/The New York Times)
2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3
2011 was a year of global tumult, marked by widespread social and political uprisings, economic crises, and a great deal more. We saw the fall of multiple dictators, welcomed a new country (South Sudan), witnessed our planet's population grow to 7 billion, and watched in horror as Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster. From the Arab Spring to Los Indignados to Occupy Wall Street, citizens around the world took to the streets in massive numbers, protesting against governments and financial institutions, risking arrest, injury, and in some cases their lives. Collected here is Part 1 of a three-part photo summary of the last year, covering 2011's first several months. Be sure to also see Part 2, and Part 3 of the series - totaling 120 images in all.
A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the area March 11, 2011. The earthquake, the most powerful ever known to have hit Japan, combined with the massive tsunami, claimed more than 15,800 lives, devastated many eastern coastline communities, and triggered a nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station.(Reuters/Mainichi Shimbun)
A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt, on January 28, 2011. Police and demonstrators fought running battles on the streets of Cairo during four days of unprecedented protests by tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
KTM MRW Rally Factory's Juan Pedrero Garcia rides his motorcycle during the sixth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between the Chilean cities of Iquique and Arica in Chile, on January 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (left) visits Mohamed Bouazizi at the Ben Arous Burn and Trauma Center in Tunis. Bouazizi had set himself on fire in an act out of desperation after police confiscated fruits and vegetables he sold without a permit in the central town of Sidi Bouzid. He died shortly after this photo was taken. This photo was released on December 28, 2010, and Bouazizi's story touched millions across the Arab world, tapping into decades-old anger, and triggered a series of uprisings leading to the fall of several dictators and widespread civil unrest that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Tunisian Presidency, File)
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-133 crew takes a break from a simulated launch countdown to ham it up on the 195-foot level of Launch Pad 39A. From the left: Pilot Eric Boe, Mission Specialist Michael Barratt, Commander Steve Lindsey, and Mission Specialists Tim Kopra, Nicole Stott, and Alvin Drew. (NASA/Kim Shiflett)
Orich Florestal (left), 24, and Rosemond Altidon, 22, stand on the edge of their partially destroyed apartment of Port-au-Prince January 9, 2011, close to the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250,000 people and wrecked much of the capital Port-au-Prince in 2010. (Reuters/Allison Shelley)
A gunman identified as Michael Gonzales aims his pistol at local village politician Reynaldo Dagsa shortly before Gonzales pulled the trigger, assassinating Dagsa in Manila, Philippines, on January 5, 2011. Reynaldo Dagsa took this picture of his family on New Year's eve, moments before he was killed by Gonzales, who was captured on his camera together with an accomplice (man on the right). Police said they arrested both men charged in the assassination. (Reuters/Dagsa Family)
Debris crushed a car outside the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral after an earthquake rocked Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake hit at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Wethey)
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover, stands in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The rover was shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2011. The mission launched successfully on November 26, and Curiosity will land on Mars this coming August. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A motorcycle policeman is engulfed in flames as his colleague tries to help him after protesters threw a petrol bomb in Athens, Greece, on February 23, 2011. Scores of youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at riot police after clashes broke out during a mass rally taking place as part of a general strike. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
A supporter of President Hosni Mubarak, on camel, fights with anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo, Egypt, on February 2, 2011. Several thousand supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, including some riding horses and camels and wielding whips, clashed with anti-government protesters Wednesday as Egypt's upheaval took a dangerous new turn. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abou Zaid)
Anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square watch a broadcast of President Hosni Mubarak speaking to the nation on February 10, 2011. Protesters chanted, "down, down with Hosni Mubarak," and "leave, leave," in rage at the speech in which the president took half measures, not stepping down but handing over powers to his vice president. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
After an abrupt change of position, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned from power on February 11, 2011. A furious wave of protest had finally swept Mubarak from power after 30 years of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond. Here, demonstrators celebrate in Tahrir Square upon hearing the news of the resignation in Cairo, Egypt. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Uprisings in Libya descended into civil war, with battles raging across desert roads and cities. NATO forces controlled the skies and offered cover to the rebels. Here, vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah on March 20, 2011. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
A Japanese home drifts in the Pacific Ocean in this photograph taken on March 13, 2011. Ships and aircraft from the U.S. Navy's Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group were searching for survivors in the coastal waters near Sendai, Japan, in the wake of 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. (Reuters/U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord)
Ryo Taira (right) and an unidentified man lift a young porpoise out of a flooded rice field after it was swept there by the earlier tsunami in Sendai, Japan, on March 22, 2011. Taira found the porpoise struggling in the shallow water on Tuesday and after failing to net it, waded in to the field, which had yet to be sown with rice, to cradle the animal in his arms. (Reuters/Asahi Shimbun)
In this Friday, April 1, 2011, photo released by the Japan Coast Guard, members of the Japan Coast Guard rescue a dog after it was found drifting on the roof of a tsunami-wrecked house floating off Kesennuma, northeastern Japan. The dog wore a collar, but there was no address on it. (AP Photo/Japan Coast Guard)
Anti-government protesters display their arms and hands during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 4, 2011. Yemeni troops opened fire on crowds of protesters, killing at least six and wounding more than 30 others, according to various witnesses and medical officials. Arabic reads from right, "Our blood for our country", "Victory, Leave, Or we die, Murderer". (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Britain's Prince William and his new wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, watched by bridemaids Grace van Cutsem (left) and Margarita Armstrong-Jones and pageboy Tom Pettifer, after their wedding in Westminster Abbey, in central London, on April 29, 2011. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
Andy Page cries as he sits with his cat, Ellie, placed in a pet carrier, in his demolished apartment in Trenton, Georgia, on Thursday, April 28, 2011, after overnight storms hit the North Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee, area. Page has several cats and Ellie was the last one he was looking for. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Angela Lewis)
U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd left) and Vice President Joe Biden (left), along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. A team of United States Navy SEALs was at that moment descending on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raiding the suspected residence of bin Laden. Also pictured are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd right) and Defense Secretary Robert Gates (right).(Reuters/White House/Pete Souza/Handout)
A photo taken by a local resident shows the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where according to officials, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011. The aircraft was a secretly developed stealth helicopter, which crashed during the operation. Pakistan later delivered the remaining pieces to U.S. authorities. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (left) hits a six to win against Sri Lanka as teammate Yuvraj Singh reacts during the Cricket World Cup 2011 final at The Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 2, 2011. India went on to win the World Cup, beating Sri Lanka by six wickets. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
The Texas Forest Service undertook controlled burns on Sunday, April 17, 2011 to get rid of fuel on the mountains around McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, which were experiencing widespread forest fires. Here, Black Mountain is burning. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome is at right. (Frank Cianciolo/McDonald Observatory)
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