366: The Year in Photographs 2012

Jan. 8, 2012. Workers weld at a ship-building yard next to the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Jan. 10, 2012. Iraqi citizen and British resident Bisher al-Rawi, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Gambia, speaks during a press conference in central London to mark the 10-year anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at the US military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Jan. 12, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seen through a door before giving a press conference with the Algerian Foreign Minister at the State Department in Washington, DC.





Jan. 13, 2012. A 14-year-old boy waits to get his calipers at the Delhi Council for Child Welfare (DCCW) Orthopaedics centre in New Delhi.



Jan. 14, 2012. The Italian cruise ship 'Costa Concordia', carrying more than 4,000 people, ran aground and keeled over off the Italian coast near the island of Giglio in Tuscany, Italy.



Jan. 19, 2012. People gather around a bath of ice cold water as they prepare to plunge into it at the Kolomenskoe park on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia.



Jan. 21, 2012. Candidate for Republican Nominee for the Presidential Race of 2012, Newt Gingrich and his wife Calista, leave a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Anderson, S.C. on Primary Day. Gingrich won the Primary.




Jan. 22, 2012. Supporters of a Kosovo nationalist opposition party gather around camp fires during a protest in the northern Kosovo town of Podujevo.



Jan. 23, 2012. Water from a leaky fire hose rains down on neighborhood residents as they attempt to put out a fire that had already burned dozens of homes, in the New Building slum neighborhood in central Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.



Jan. 24, 2012. A child looks at a line of riot police from a passing car during an anti-government protest in Bucharest, Romania.




Jan. 26, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama walks to his car as he arrives in Romules, M.I.



Jan. 27, 2012. Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum sits for an interview after appearing at the Latin Builders Association luncheon in Miami.



Jan. 29, 2012. Clergymen stand in front of a picture of Hildegard Burjan during the beatification ceremony for Hildegard Burjan at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria.



Jan. 31, 2012. Supporters shake hands with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she arrives in Bagan on her way to Pakokku in Bagan Township, Myanmar.



Feb. 1, 2012. The return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran is reenacted in Tehran's Mehrabad airport. Khomeini, who was in exile, had refused to return to Iran until the Shah left.



Feb. 4, 2012. A Kashmiri village woman stands near the site of a gun battle in Woodder village, south of Srinagar, India.



Feb. 5, 2012. Firefighters climb a mountain to extinguish a wildfire in Jubrique, near Malaga, southern Spain.



Feb. 6, 2012. Indian women cover their faces from clouds of dust kicked up by the arriving helicopter transporting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for a rally in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh state.



eb. 9, 2012. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton waits backstage before addressing the crowd at the Invest In Ireland forum at New York University, in New York. The Forum, hosted by Clinton, was also attended by Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Ireland's Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and Ireland's Minister for Enterprise, Jobs, and Innovation Richard Bruton.



Feb. 12, 2012. A horse falls down as it pulls a skier during the "Kumoterki" race in Bukowina Tatrzanska, southern Poland. The race, which marks the end of the annual Highlanders' Festival, is a competition involving riders, two on every sledge, pulled by horses. Every year in mid-February, hundreds of highlanders arrive at Bukowina to take part in the traditional event, which has become one of the main tourist attractions of the area.




Feb. 13, 2012. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a Get Out the Vote Rally in Mesa, Arizona. Romney spoke to a crowd of more than 2,000 people.



Feb. 15, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride Nechama Paarel Horowitz enters the men's section in a wedding hall during her traditional Jewish wedding with Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the great-grandson of the Rabbi of the Wiznitz Hasidic followers, in the Israeli town of Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv.



Feb. 19, 2012. Cardinals and Bishops during the ceremony of Concistory at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.



Feb. 20, 2012. A child stands with his father as they wait to receive blankets and winter jackets from Welthungerhilfe, a German NGO, during snowfall at a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul.



March 7, 2012. Visitors brace against the rotor wash of the Marine One helicopter as President Barack Obama takes off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.



March 9, 2012. A girl dressed as a bride on Purim walks through the streets of Jerusalem.



March 10, 2012. Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib, northern Syria. Aida's husband and two children were killed in the shelling.



March 16, 2012. A portrait of a Free Syrian Army rebel mounted on horseback in Al-Shatouria village, near to the Turkish border in northwestern Syria.



March 20, 2012. Suspended by wires, Chinese artist Li Wei performs in the sky at La Villette in Paris.



March 25, 2012. A girl wearing a ballet dress plays on the street in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.



March 27, 2012. An aerial view of the Lower North Fork Wildfire near Denver Colo.




March 31, 2012. Children play on a gym set in a village in southern Turkey near the border with Syria.



April 3, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls wait for free potatoes to be distributed to large families in preparations for the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem.



April 4, 2012. Relatives assist an unidentified woman injured in an explosion at the national theater in Mogadishu, Somalia.



April 5, 2012. A Christian pilgrim prays inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City during the Easter Holy Week.



April 6, 2012. The full moon rises over the Colosseum before the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession in downtown Rome.



April 7, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle during the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday at St Peter's basilica at The Vatican.



April 8, 2012. Pablo Leal Requejo plays the role of an angel during the 'Bajada del Angel' Eastern Holy Week 
celebration in Penafiel, Spain.



April 9, 2012. A North Korean woman cleans a portrait of the late North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il, right, and Kim Il Sung at an office in Pyongyang.



April 14, 2012. A Pakistani girl enters her home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Some of Pakistan's poorest women are eligible for something many have never experienced: a little bit of help from the government. It comes in the form of a debit card that is topped up with the equivalent of 30 dollars every three months.



April 15, 2012. A handout photo provided by Gerry Hofstetter Marketing shows a projection of the 'Titanic' on a 500-meter-long iceberg in the Northern Polar sea of Greenland. Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter projected pictures of the Titanic on a giant iceberg to mark the 100th anniversary of its maiden voyage.



April 21, 2012. Spanish matador Jose P. Prados "El Fundi" performs a pass to a bull during the last bullfight of his career at the Maestranza bullring in Seville.

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