Reuter's Year in Pictures

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China ... three-year-old Yang Yang kisses a beluga whale during a publicity photo call at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World, June 2, 2007 / Reuters photo


Slovenia ... soldiers practice riot control techniques at a base in the western Kosovo town of Pec on March 25, 2007 / Reuters photo


Kenya ... a riot police dog goes for a suspected Mungiki gang member at Nairobi's Mathare slums, June 7, 2007 / Reuters photo


Netherlands ... naked volunteers pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on an "invisible" bridge constructed for the photoshoot in Amsterdam, June 3, 2007 / Reuters photo


Colombia ... Daisy and Julian Rodriguez with their daughters, who are joined together at their heads, in Bogota, January 15, 2007 / Reuters photo


Thailand ... villagers boil rats to make ends meet in Suphan Buri province, 120 km north of Bangkok, November 1, 2007 / Reuters photo


Palestinian territories ... Hamas fighters inside the personal meeting hall of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after they captured his headquarters in Gaza June 15, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... a labourer in the dust at the construction site of the National Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing May 17, 2007 / Reuters photo


United Arab Emirates ... a guest has a drink in the Chill Out ice lounge in Dubai, the first to open in the Middle East, August 13, 2007 / Reuters photo


Democratic Republic of Congo ... officials look at four mountain gorillas that were illegally killed in the Virunga National Park, July 26, 2007 / Reuters photo


Austria ... women dressed as clowns in front of a work by British artist Damien Hirst titled "Iodomethane - 13C" at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, February 17, 2007 / Reuters photo


Israel ... a Jewish man wearing a ring featuring the Star of David prays after placing a prayer note in a crack in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem's old city, August 22, 2007 / Reuters photo


Australia ... Jimiyu, an 18-month-old male giraffe looks out the back of a transport truck on his way to his new home at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, August 22, 2007 / Reuters photo


South Africa ... surfers in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the highest number of riders on a single wave at Muizenberg in Cape Town September 2, 2007 / Reuters photo


Afghanistan ... Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a helicopter flight to the German ISAF headquarters in Masar-i-Sharif, November 3, 2007 / Reuters photo


Philippines ... students wearing rubber boots use chairs as a make-shift bridge to get to a classroom in Taytay, north of Manila, July 18, 2007 / Reuters photo




Palestinian territories ... BBC journalist Alan Johnston is released in Gaza after being held hostage for four months, July 4, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... the tiny feet of Amilia Sonja Taylor, the world's most premature living baby, after her birth at Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida / Reuters photo


Poland ... a banner of prime minister and leader of PiS (Law and Justice) Jaroslaw Kaczynski is taken down from a building in the centre of Warsaw, October 30, 2007 / Reuters photo


Japan ... workers butcher a 10-tonne Baird's Beaked Whale at Wada Port in Japan, June 21, 2007 / Reuters photo


Israel ... Israeli soldiers move into position during clashes with Palestinian protesters on the edge of the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 16, 2007 / Reuters photo


Indonesia ... all that can be seen of a passenger on board a train at a station in Jakarta, October 9, 2007 / Reuters photo


United Arab Emirates ... US first lady Laura Bush with Emirati breast cancer survivors at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, October 22, 2007 / Reuters photo


France ... an official takes the rifle of a Republican guard soldier after she fainted during Bastille Day parade in Paris, July 14, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... Britain's David Beckham holds his new team jersey during a LA Galaxy news conference in Carson, California, July 13, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... the space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, October 23, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... contestants compete in the WE television network's "Bridezilla-Ultimate Cake Eating Contest" in New York's Times Square June 12, 2007 / Reuters photo


Norway ... climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell sunbathe on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, April 25, 2007 / Reuters photo


United Arab Emirates ... riders pass a chemical plant during the sixth stage of the Tour of Qatar race from Sealine Beach Resort to Doha February 2, 2007 / Reuters photo


Belgium ... a young member of the folkloric brotherhood of Blancs Moussis adjusts his mask during a carnival celebrating its 60th anniversary in Stavelot, August 12, 2007 / Reuters photo


Poland ... a combination of pictures shows two planes from the Zelazny aerobatics team crashing at the Radom Air Show, September 1, 2007 / Reuters photo


Colombia ... revellers perform during a parade at the Carnaval de Barranquilla in Barranquilla, February 18, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... a murder suspect is shot by a water cannon at a hospital in Shenyang, April 3, 2007 / Reuters photo


Poland ... kayakers in the Rospuda nature reserve near Augustow, July 26, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... a worker cleans the windows of an apartment block in Beijing's central buisiness district, April 4, 2007 / Reuters photo


Egypt ... 12-year-old Nashwa Ahmed Khalil, whose face was disfigured when someone threw battery acid over her, shows her identity card, September 12, 2007 / Reuters photo


South Korea ... members of the South Korean Marine Corps scrub their bodies with snow during an annual winter season drill in Pyongchang / Reuters photo


United Kingdom ... Lemon Marilyn by artist Andy Warhol is displayed at Christie's auction house in London, March 19, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... paramilitary recruits practice goose-stepping in Nanjing, January 19, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... a bloodied and mud covered woman is led away from the scene of an explosion near Grand Central Station in New York July 18, 2007 / Reuters photo


India ... a Tibetan exile is led out by guards from inside the Chinese Embassy compound in New Delhi, October 10, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... students hold their candles aloft during a vigil after a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, April 17, 2007 / Reuters photo


Indonesia ... children play on a railway track in a slum area in Jakarta, January 30, 2007 / Reuters photo


United Kingdom ... a reveller slides in the mud during the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, June 22, 2007 / Reuters photo


Guatemala ... a giant sinkhole that swallowed several homes in Guatemala City, February 23, 2007 / Reuters photo


Israel ... ultra-Orthodox Jews dance around a bonfire during Lag Ba-Omer festivities in Jerusalem, May 5 , 2007 / Reuters photo


Bolivia ... President Evo Morales controls the ball at the 6000m high snow-covered Sajama peak, the highest in Bolivia / Reuters photo


Iraq ... US soldiers push the car of an Iraqi man to start the engine at a checkpoint in north Baghdad, June 13, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... boots representing Corporal Timothy D. Ross sit among more than 3400 pairs of combat boots, one pair for every US soldier killed in the Iraq War / Reuters photo


China ... a burial master smashes a body to feed vultures during a celestial burial ceremony at the Chalang Temple in northwest China's Qinghai province, November 17, 2007 / Reuters photo

[KinKyJ]

Re: Reuter's Year in Pictures

I just love their year in pics collections. Thanks for the share!

[Funky Dredd]

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Same here! Thanks!

[paketxx]

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Some of them are great. Thanks a lot for sharing

[AntonyM]

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Glad to see other appreciate their photos
always try to check out the daily photo slideshow.
Great Thread

[Dzone]

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Nice photos...thnx 4 sharing

[|Thrax|]

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WOW!

thanks.

[floridaorange]

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excellent share thank you I thought there was such an interesting contrast in wealth and poverty between the Thailand & Dubai photos.

[DancingQueen]

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Democratic Republic of Congo ... officials look at four mountain gorillas that were illegally killed in the Virunga National Park, July 26, 2007 / Reuters photo

[feather]

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The rest of them.


Autonomous province of Kosovo ... a Kosovo Albanian protester flees after UN police fired tear gas during clashes in Pristina, February 10, 2007 / Reuters photo


Scotland ... France's Gregory Havret is drenched in champagne after winning the Barclay's Scottish Open golf tournament, July 15, 2007 / Reuters photo


Colombia ... charcoal seller Carlos Vasquez rests in the Caribbean city of Cartagena, August 20, 2007 / Reuters photo


Thailand ... activists wearing masks of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 years under house arrest, outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok, October 24, 2007 / Reuters photo


Italy ... Japan's Kazuhiro Koshi crosses the finish line during the men's skeleton world cup tour in Cesana Pariol, northern Italy, February 9, 2007 / Reuters photo


Canada ... Trent Johnston, the son of fallen firefighter Mark Johnston, salutes during the Canadian Fallen Firefighters memorial service in Ottawa, September 9, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama bows to the crowd outside the Capitol building after receiving the US Congressional Gold Medal, October 17, 2007 / Reuters photo


South Africa ... artist Tim Patch, who calls himself 'Pricasso', paints a portrait of Olga Braude using his penis at the Sexpo in Johannesburg, September 28, 2007 / Reuters photo


Sri Lanka ... an elephant destroys a minibus after throwing its rider and going on a rampage during Sri Lanka's sixth annual elephant polo tournament, February 15, 2007 / Reuters photo


Autonomous province of Kosovo ... a Kosovo Serb priest walks through a demolished church at a graveyard in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, February 10, 2007 / Reuters photo


India ... a boy plays in the waves of the Arabian sea at a beach in Mumbai, July 17, 2007 / Reuters photo


Taiwan ... a crocodile at a zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung holds the forearm of a zoo veterinarian in its teeth, April 11, 2007 / Reuters photo


Australia ... the moon is visible during a total lunar eclipse above one of the sails of the Sydney Opera House, August 28, 2007 / Reuters photo


Philippines ... more than 1500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre perform Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance as part of their morning exercise, August 1, 2007 / Reuters photo


Netherlands ... children play near a 2.5m Lego man that was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort, August 7, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... a man walks on the handrail of a staircase at a flooded street in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, July 17, 2007 / Reuters photo


Austria ... Germany's Tino Edelmann soars through the air during the Nordic combined World Cup event in Seefeld, January 21, 2007 / Reuters photo


Japan ... a boy in Japan's imperial military uniform at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours wartime leaders convicted by an Allied tribunal as war criminals, along with millions of war dead / Reuters photo


Malaysia ... toothless kangal, or "doctor" fish, nibble the dead skin of a customer's feet at Malaysia's first fish spa in Kuala Lumpur, November 13, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... a child gets a haircut on a street in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, March 20, 2007 / Reuters photo


Russia ... a soft toy lies amid flowers in the burned-out school gym in Beslan, on the anniversary of the 2004 hostage crisis, September 1, 2007 / Reuters photo


Netherlands ... Anak, a 31-year-old Orang Utan, holds her five-day-old baby Apie in her arms in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, July 31, 2007 / Reuters photo


United Kingdom ... workers clean the clock face of Big Ben above the Houses of Parliament in London, August 11, 2007 / Reuters photo


Malaysia ... Diana Hadi, a staff member at the Tiara Beach Resort, in a swimming pool with 20,000 apples in an attempt to set the national record for the most number of apples used in spa therapy / Reuters photo


Japan ... the charred remains of a China Airlines plane on the tarmac on the island of Okinawa, August 20, 2007 / Reuters photo


Japan ... a boy watches the beetle sumo competition of the IWBC (Insect World Battle Championships) in a miniature ring in Tokyo, August 26, 2007 / Reuters photo


Indonesia ... the Anak Krakatau volcano spews smoke and lava in the Sunda strait, November 11, 2007 / Reuters photo


Palestinian territories ... a Hamas fighter inside a scanning machine in the customs hall of the Rafah crossing border, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, after they captured it, June 15, 2007 / Reuters photo


Iraq ... male and female pilgrims are separated by a barrier at the Imam Hussein shrine in the holy city of Kerbala, March 8, 2007 / Reuters photo


Pakistan ... a lawyer stands on the roof of a car in which suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary is being driven, March 13, 2007 / Reuters photo


Kyrgyzstan ... a Kyrgyz Taigan dog chases a wolf during a hunting festival near the village of Bokonbayevo, 300 km east of Bishkek, August 24, 2007 / Reuters photo


United Kingdom ... steam rises from a power station behind the Royd Moor Wind Farm in Penistone in northern England, October 19, 2007 / Reuters photo


Germany ... polar bear cub Knut plays during his first outing in the Berlin Zoo on March 23, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... a winter swimmer dives into a river in Heihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang province January 24, 2007 / Reuters photo


Russia ... police stop liberal opposition supporters during a demonstration St Petersburg, March 3, 2007 / Reuters photo


Australia ... a man takes a photo of the 40,000 tonne coal ship Pasha Bulker as it sits about 100m from the shore after running aground near Newcastle, June 8, 2007 / Reuters photo


Israel ... former Ukrainian Prime Minister and current opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem January 14, 2007 / Reuters photo


USA ... a dog tag ID is wedged between panels of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, May 27, 2007 / Reuters photo


Turkey ... a man rests on the entrance of a modern day version of the legendary Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, May 22, 2007 / Reuters photo


Kenya ... a Maasai man eats raw bone marrow during preparations to celebrate the International Day of World's Indigenous People in Oloonong'ot, August 8, 2007 / Reuters photo


India ... a volunteer runs with a blanket to help a performer during a dare-devil act called "The Great Fire Escape" in the city of Hyderabad, March 25, 2007 / Reuters photo


Japan ... Austria's Gunther Weidlinger falls during the heats of the men's 3000m steeplechase at the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championship in Osaka, August 26, 2007 / Reuters photo


Greece ... a firefighter watches a firefighting airplane unload water during a forest fire raging out of control near the village of Karytena, September 1, 2007 / Reuters photo


China ... the world's tallest living man, Bao Xishun, a 2.36m (7 feet, 9 inches) tall herdsman meets He Pingping, who measures just a 0.73m (2 feet, 5 inches) / Reuters photo


United Kingdom ... a protestor stands beside a police officer at the Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport, August 18, 2007 / Reuters photo


East Timor ... a voter shows his ink-stained finger after casting the ballot in Dili June 30, 2007 / Reuters photo


Baluchistan province ... villagers surrounded by flood water near Shahdad Kot, July 3, 2007 / Reuters photo


Pakistan ... Abid, a labourer covered in salt powder, poses for a photograph while cutting rock salt for decoration pieces in Khewra, August 4, 2007 / Reuters photo


Greece ... a dead bird lies on the dry lake Koronia, 550km north of Athens, September 20, 2007 / Reuters photo


Brazil ... carnival revellers of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school parade during the second night of competition between the schools in Rio de Janeiro, February 19, 2007 / Reuters

[nick007]

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Brilliant pics

[poults]

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Some excellent photos in there.

[p_oneill]

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amazing collection there
thnkx

[minimal]

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awesome photos, thx for share. It's a shame, those gorrillas... in my opinion they are more human than some of us crazy mother f***** humans.

[feather]

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At least it's not all doom and gloom like the news is reporting all year!