2011 Best Photos

1 Houses are swept by water following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan March 11, 2011. A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan on Friday, causing many injuries, fires and a ten-metre (33-ft) tsunami along parts of the country's coastline. There were several strong aftershocks and a warning of a 10-metre tsunami following the quake, which also caused buildings to shake violently in the capital Tokyo. A tsunami warning has been issued for the entire Pacific basin except for the mainland United States and Canada following a huge earthquake that hit Japan on Friday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. REUTERS/KYODO

2 People stand at where a dam wall used to be, before it was destroyed by flood waters in Anuradhapura district, 206km (128 miles) north of Colombo, February 7, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

3 Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts during a debate in the upper house of Parliament in Rome September 29, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

4 A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011. Police and demonstrators fought running battles on the streets of Cairo on Friday in a fourth day of unprecedented protests by tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

5 Roshan Bliss, who says he has a debt of $50,000 in school loans, attends an Occupy Denver demonstration in Denver, Colorado November 17, 2011 to celebrate the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. REUTERS/Nathan W. Armes

6 A Buddhist monk walks on a flooded street in central Bangkok October 24, 2011. Thailand is struggling with its worst flooding in 50 years, which has affected a third of its provinces and could swamp more of its densely populated capital, Bangkok, if water flowing from the north and heavy rain cause canals to burst their banks. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

7 Anti-Gaddafi fighters celebrate the fall of Sirte in the town October 20, 2011. Libyan interim government fighters captured Muammar Gaddafi's home town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader and ending a two-month siege. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

8 Containers on the stern deck of the 47,230 tonne Liberian-flagged Rena hang precariously, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island October 20, 2011. The recovery of fuel oil from a stricken container ship grounded off New Zealand resumed on Thursday as salvage teams worked to minimize the damage in the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. REUTERS/New Zealand Defence Force/Handout

9 Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

10 A view of a street after violent clashes between Libyan interim government forces and loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte October 18, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

11 A student takes part in a march during a demonstration in Bogota October 12, 2011. Thousands of students marched in a nation wide protest against the education government's reform of public universities, student organizations reported. REUTERS/John Vizcaino

12 Carnations are placed before a computer screen showing a portrait of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs at an Apple store in St. Petersburg October 6, 2011. Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

13 U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Seattle, Washington, September 25, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed

14 The Tribute in Lights is illuminated next to One World Trade Center during events marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2011. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

15 Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2011. REUTERSJustin Lane/Pool

16 Blood-stained shoes worn by Linda Lopez as she evacuated from the 97th Floor of Tower 2 on September 11, 2001 are displayed before becoming a part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York August 22, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

17 Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims from his popemobile as he arrives to lead a mass at the Cuatro Vientos aerodrome as part of World Youth Day festivities in Madrid August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

18 Looters run from a clothing store in Peckham, London August 8, 2011. Youths hurled missiles at police in northeast London on Monday as violence broke out in the British capital for a third night. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

19 Flowers and tributes are seen outside the home of Amy Winehouse in London July 24, 2011. Winehouse, one of the most talented singers of her generation whose hit song Rehab summed up her struggles with addiction, died in London on July 23 at the age of 27. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

20 Pro-Mubarak supporters are detained by anti-government demonstators at an underground metro station after being rounded up during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 3, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

21 A would-be immigrant wrapped in a blanket rests on a rescue ship after arriving at the southern Spanish port of Motril late July 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

22 A demonstrator is detained by riot police during anti-austerity protests in Athens, June 29, 2011. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

23 U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece, at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

24 A wave caused by a tsunami flows into the city of Miyako from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the area March 11, 2011. REUTERS/Mainichi Shimbun

25 Two kitchen chairs are all that is left in a destroyed house as its foundation is prepared to be bulldozed following the May 22 tornado in Joplin on June 1, 2011. REUTERS/Sarah Conard

26 Police detain protesters during clashes in Tbilisi May 26, 2011. Georgian riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon on Thursday to disperse several hundred opposition protesters demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, a Reuters reporter said. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

27 Britain's Prince William helps his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, to leave the 1902 State Landau carriage as they arrive at Buckingham Palace after their wedding in Westminster Abbey in central London April 29, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

28 A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi May 22, 2011. Militants attacked a Pakistani naval aviation base on Sunday, killing at least four people, officials said, the latest attack on a heavily guarded military installation in Pakistan. REUTERS/Athar Hussain

29 A boat navigates through a flooded farm in the municipality of Cajica near Bogota. May 21, 2011. Downpours due to La Nina have rocked the Andean nation since last year, displacing 3.8 million people and killing almost 450, authorities said. REUTERS/John Vizcaino

30 A home is protected from encroaching floodwaters by a levee near Yazoo City, Mississippi May 18, 2011. Floodwater released from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou on Tuesday, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

31 Demonstrators gather and shout slogans in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, against politicians, bankers and authorities' handling of the economic crisis May 18, 2011. REUTERS/Juan Medina

32 A U.S. Army soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 in this U.S. military handout image from March 1, 2011. The New York Times and other United States media have reported that a military canine accompanied Navy SEAL Team Six commandos into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. REUTERS/Manuel J. Martinez/U.S. Air Force/Handout

33 U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) and Vice President Joe Biden (L), 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. Also pictured are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd R) and Defense Secretary Robert Gates (R). EDITORS NOTE: A classified document seen in this photograph has been digitally obscured at source. REUTERS/White House/Pete Souza/Handout

34 A decomposing body lies on a road in Abidjan April 14, 2011. Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo was overthrown by Ivorians, not by foreign powers, the United Nations said on Thursday amid rising criticism of its role in the removal of the former leader. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

35 A supporter of Uganda's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Kizza Besigye falls as he is attacked by a military policeman during riots in the Kasangati suburb of the capital Kampala, April 14, 2011. REUTERS/James Akena

36 A demonstrator shows his bottom to riot police during a protest by European workers and trade union representatives to demand better job protection in the European Union countries in Brussels March 24, 2011.REUTERS/Thierry Roge

37 Snow falls as rescue workers walk through a devastated factory area hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, March 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

38 A house lies damaged in a river going through Kesennuma, March 15, 2011, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

39 A resident sits on the bed of his pick-up truck as he looks at a burning tanker truck in the municipality of Juarez, on the outskirts of Monterrey March 8, 2011. A tanker exploded late Tuesday on a dirt road, according to local media. The cause of the explosion remains unknown and no injuries were reported. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

40 A woman pretends to be gagged while taking part in a protest during International Women's Day in Mexico City March 8, 2011. The writing on the woman's chest reads, neither a whore, nor crazy, nor a saint, just a woman. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

41 Oscar winners for best supporting actor Christian Bale, best actress Natalie Portman, best supporting actress Melissa Leo, and best actor Colin Firth pose backstage at the 83rd Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 27, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Blake

42 A man holds a pole as he installs a pump to extract mud at a primitive gold mine in Panompa near Phichin February 17, 2011. A group of Thais use primitive tools and methods to extract gold from self-run mines near the country's biggest and most modern Chatree gold mine. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

43 A government backer hurls rocks at anti-government protesters during clashes in Sanaa February 17, 2011. Hundreds of Yemen government loyalists wielding batons and daggers chased off a small group of protesters trying to kick off a seventh day of rallies on Thursday to demand their president end his 32-year rule. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

44 A street performer reacts after getting injured during riots in Oaxaca February 15, 2011. Hundreds of members of the teacher's union, teachers and students took to the streets to protest after they were denied access to Mexico's President Felipe Calderon who was in town. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata

45 A car, damaged by Tuesday's earthquake, remains under a collapsed rock wall in Christchurch February 25, 2011. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

46 Members of Congo's presidential guard walk through heavy rain ahead of incumbent Joseph Kabila (not seen) as he leaves a polling station after voting in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, November 28, 2011. Voting began slowly on Monday in Congo's second-post war election, held despite fears logistical problems and irregularities would undermine the result. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

47 Anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square listen as President Hosni Mubarak speaks to the nation February 10, 2011. Mubarak provoked rage on Egypt's streets on Thursday when he said he would hand powers to his deputy but disappointed protesters who had been expecting him to step down altogether after two weeks of unrest. Leave! Leave! chanted thousands who had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation that a televised speech would be the moment their demands for an end to Mubarak's 30 years of authoritarian, one-man rule were met. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

48 Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is seen in this still image taken from video footage October 20, 2011. Gaddafi was killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

49 A man looks out over an area swept by a tsunami following an earthquake in Sendai City, northeastern Japan March 12, 2011. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people. REUTERS/Kyodo

50 A man who fled the unrest in Tunisia leaves the immigration centre to protest against being sent back to his country, on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa April 11, 2011. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stepped up calls on Saturday for Europe to help deal with the

51 Medical staff use a Geiger counter to screen a woman for possible radiation exposure at a public welfare centre in Hitachi City, Ibaraki, March 16, 2011, after she was evacuated from an area within 20km (12.4 miles) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The woman was tested negative for radiation exposure. Radiation has been released into the atmosphere at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the country's northeast coast, which was badly damaged after a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11. REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun

52 A sea of flowers and lit candles are placed in memory of those killed in Friday's bomb and shooting attack in front of Oslo Cathedral July 25, 2011. At least 100,000 people, many carrying white or red roses, rallied in Oslo on Monday to show support for victims of attacks that killed 76 people, police said. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

53 Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend their wedding at Westminster Abbey in London April 29, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville

54 Family photo albums are seen in ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit Otsuchi March 15, 2011. In the fishermen town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, 12,000 out of a population of 15,000 have disappeared following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

55 An injured taxi driver, who later died of his injuries, lies behind his vehicle at a crime scene in Acapulco February 18, 2011. Heavily armed groups shot at least a dozen people, six taxi drivers among them, burned about 18 vehicles, a house and a business and carried out shooutout in different parts of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco early Friday, according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer

56 Fashion designer John Galliano (C) and his lawyer Stephane Zerbib (L) arrive for a hearing at a police station in Paris February 28, 2011. The Christian Dior fashion house suspended its star designer John Galliano on Friday pending an inquiry into accusations he hurled racist remarks at a couple in a Paris bar. About a week before Galliano was due to present Dior's collection in Paris, police were called to a bar in the city's trendy Marais district on Thursday evening where they found the designer doling out a drunken torrent of abuse to a couple of customers, a police source told Reuters. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

57 Rebels hold a young man at gunpoint, who they accuse of being a loyalist to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, between the towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf, March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

58 People watch from a nearby building as a fire burns in a slum in Mumbai March 4, 2011. A fire gutted a large shanty town, home to hundreds of residents, next to Bandra station in Mumbai's suburbs. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

59 A man walks as crude oil spills from a pipeline in Dadabili, Niger state April 2, 2011. Nigeria postponed parliamentary elections nationwide until Monday after voting materials failed to arrive in many areas, a major blow to hopes of a break with a history of chaotic polls in Africa's most populous nation. Voting materials also failed to arrive in large parts of the southern oil-producing Niger Delta. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

60 A man wades in neck-deep water filled with debris while searching for valuable items after a fire razed some 500 houses along a coastal village in Malabon city, north of Manila April 7, 2011. The fire, believed to be caused by an exploding liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank, started before dawn on Thursday. No casualties were reported but at least 3,000 residents lost their homes. Fire fighters had a difficult time getting to the scene and putting out the blaze because the houses were close to each other and made of light materials, local media reported. REUTERS/Erik de Castro

61 Staff Sgt. Keith Fidler kisses his wife Cynthia, as their son Kolin looks on, during a homecoming ceremony in New York, April 8, 2011 for the New York Army National Guard's 442nd Military Police Company's return from Iraq. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

62 An undated photo released on April 15, 2011 by Rio de Janeiro state's Public Safety Department (SESEG) shows Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 24, posing with a gun. The gunman, Oliveira, killed 12 children at a Rio de Janeiro school and then himself, police said on April 7, shocking the South American nation that has never seen such an incident before. REUTERS/SESEG/Handout

63 Kwykyti, 63, from Kayapo tribe receives medical attention during the second day of a medical expedition of the Expedicionarios da Saude (Brazilian Health Expeditions) in Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil April 22, 2011. The Expedicionarios da Saude (Brazilian Health Expeditions) organization is currently on a medical expedition to the area with volunteer doctors that twice a year build a mobile hospital to provide clinical and surgical treatment for indigenous tribes and residents from different parts of the Amazonian Rainforest. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

64 Students of Shankar Dev Campus, which is affiliated to the Nepal Student Union (NSU), gather stones to throw at the police during a clash with them while staging a protest demanding the release of their fellow student Binendra Giri of Trichandra Campus in Kathmandu May 10, 2011. Giri has been held in police custody after an alleged intimidation in a tender bid. He has also inflicted injuries on Birendra Rawal, an All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU) leader, on December 19, 2010 after a dispute over the admission of new students, according to local media. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

65 Osama bin Laden is shown watching himself on television in this video frame grab released by the U.S. Pentagon May 7, 2011. Five videos were found in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan after U.S. Navy Seals stormed the compound and killed bin Laden. The compound in Pakistan where U.S. forces killed bin Laden was an active command and control center where the al Qaeda leader remained in strategic and operational control of the organization, a senior U.S. intelligence official said on May 7. REUTERS/Pentagon/Handout

66 Police charge at a man they suspect of creating trouble during celebrations of the Red Machindranath chariot festival in Lalitpur May 15, 2011. The festival is one of the main festivals observed by both the Buddhist and Hindu communities of Kathmandu valley. It honours the deity Lord Machindranath, who is credited with saving Nepal from a prolonged drought in ancient times. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

67 Passengers on Cathay Pacific flight CX715 prepare to disembark from the aeroplane after it landed safely at Changi Airport in Singapore May 16, 2011. The A330 flight, which was enroute to Jakarta, experienced engine trouble shortly after takeoff and had to return to Singapore. Its starboard engine was burnt, according to pilot Bradley Chic. REUTERS/Beawiharta

68 Oprah Winfrey wipes a tear from her eye as she stands with actor Tom Hanks during the taping of Oprah's Surprise Spectacular in Chicago May 17, 2011. Winfrey kicked off one of her last-ever national talk shows on Tuesday with hugs from Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Madonna in a packed Chicago arena. REUTERS/John Gress

69 The Space Shuttle Challenger moves through the fog on its way down the crawler way en route to Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in this NASA handout photo dated November 30, 1982. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

70 Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, June 3, 2011. Mladic appeared on Friday before the Yugoslav war crimes court to hear charges of genocide over the 1992-95 Bosnian war. REUTERS/Martin Meissner/Pool

71 A dog barks at a formation of riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens, June 15, 2011. Tens of thousands of grassroot activists and unionists converged on Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square Wednesday as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

72 A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier stands in line during a rehearsal of the Independence Day ceremony in Juba July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

73 Casey Anthony (C) reacts with her defense team following her acquittal on first degree murder charges of her daughter Caylee at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Red Huber/Pool

74 News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch is seen leaving his flat with Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, in central London in this July 10, 2011 file photograph. Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's most senior newspaper executive in Britain, has resigned as chief executive of News International, the British subsidiary of News Corp, Sky News reported on July 15, 2011. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/Files

75 A woman carries her baby as she queues for food in a camp established by the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) for the internally displaced people in Mogadishu July 20, 2011. The United Nations said on Wednesday two regions of southern Somalia had been hit by the worst famine in the area for 20 years and that 3.7 million people in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation risked starvation. REUTERS/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

76 An injured man is attended to at the site of a powerful explosion that rocked central Oslo July 22, 2011. A huge explosion damaged government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters witness said. The blast blew out most windows on the 17-storey building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire. REUTERS/Per Thrana

77 An internally displaced Afghan man talks from a small window at a refugee camp in Kabul July 28, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

78 An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 28, 2011. Aid groups, which have been clamoring for money to help famine-stricken Somalia, are struggling to reach millions in the affected areas. Some 3.7 million Somalis risk starvation in two regions of south Somalia controlled by Islamist al Shabaab militants. Yet more than 2 million of them have not received any help. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

79 Police spray demonstrators from the India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with water canons as the demonstrators try to climb past barricades during an anti-government protest in New Delhi August 9, 2011. Thousands of opposition activists marched on the Indian parliament on Tuesday demanding the resignation of a prominent ruling Congress politician over corruption, the latest move to pressure the beleaguered government to act. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma

80 Hundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham are seen posted on a looted storefront in southeast London August 10, 2011. British cities began on Wednesday to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting by gangs of hooded youths copying the tactics of young Londoners who had rampaged through districts of the capital for three nights.REUTERS/Chris Helgren

81 Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik (L), the man accused of a killing spree and bomb attack in Norway, sits in the rear of a vehicle as he is transported in a police convoy as he is leaving the courthouse in Oslo July 25, 2011. A judge ordered eight weeks detention on Monday for Breivik who has admitted a bombing and shooting massacre that killed about 90 people and who claimed in court to have two more groups of collaborators. Custody, in line with prosecutors' request, will allow them to investigate the case against Breivik, 32, an anti-Islamic zealot who has previously claimed sole responsibility for Friday's attacks. The custody can be extended. REUTERS/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen/Aftenposten via Scanpix

82 A man climbs a pole at the center of a pond while people try to grab a goat from the water as part of the Deopokhari festival in Khokana August 15, 2011. During the annual festival, a live goat is thrown into a pond and the team of devotees that retrieve the animal first wins. REUTERS/Sanjog Manandhar

83 A girl holds a peacock feather during the Krishna Janmashtami festival in Lalitpur near Kathmandu August 21, 2011. Krishna Janmashtami marks the birth of Hindu god Krishna. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

84 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez takes part in an ecumenic ceremony to pray for his health and cancer treatment at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

85 Somali government forces shoot at close range to execute two former soldiers Abdi Sankus Abdi (R) and Abdullahi Jinow Guure (L) at the Iskola Bulisiya square in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, August 22, 2011. The military court of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) executed Abdi, 31, and Guure, 29, after they were found guilty of killing another soldier and a civilian on the basis of witness testimony, the Chairman of the Military Court Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab said. REUTERS/Omar Faruk

86 Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair walk to catch a cab in New York August 25, 2011. A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his acc… Продолжение »