Jan. 1, 2013. Young residents watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during new year celebrations at the Pavao Pavaozinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Felipe Dana—AP
Looking back, 2013 has proven to be a turbulent, unsettling year. Americans were rocked by the terror attack at the Boston Marathon that left three dead and more than 250 wounded. In Bangladesh, a garment factory collapsed, taking with it the lives of more than 1000 workers in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. In the Middle East, the promise of the Arab Spring seemed extinguished by the military overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected President and the killing of hundreds of Egyptians in the streets of Cairo.
This year also marked a difficult start to Barack Obama’s second term in office, facing numerous challenges domestically and abroad. The murder trial of George Zimmerman, meanwhile – which ended in acquittal — and the continued debates on gay marriage reminded us that, half a century after the March on Washington and JFK’s assassination, the issues of gun violence and civil rights are still very much with us.
It was a year of departures and arrivals: In England, the country bid farewell to its “Iron Lady,” Margaret Thatcher, and a “royal baby” George arrived. And at the Vatican, the troubled reign of Pope Benedict came to a close with his surprise resignation, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) was elected as the first Pontiff to reign from the Americas.
These were just some of the countless topics that touched the world’s collective conscious in 2013. We hope this edition of 365: A Year in Pictures marks the past as history and beckons a welcome step into 2014.
Jan. 1, 2013. Young residents watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during new year celebrations at the Pavao Pavaozinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Felipe Dana—APJan. 2, 2013. Fatme Ulanova stands during her wedding ceremony with Djamal Sirakov (not pictured) in the village of Ribnovo, in southwestern Bulgaria.Dimitar Dilkoff—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 3, 2013. Sandy Hook Elementary students leave on a school bus in Newtown, Connecticut.Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 4, 2013. Tammy Holmes, second from left, and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, four-year-old Esther Walker, third from left, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, second from right, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, right, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia.Tim Holmes—APJan. 5, 2013. The roller coaster knocked off the amusement pier by Hurricane Sandy is seen partially submerged in the Atlantic Ocean in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.Nicolaus Czarnecki—Metro US/Zuma PressJan. 6, 2013. Men jump into the waters of a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia, Bulgaria. Stoyan Nenov—ReutersJan. 7, 2013. Palestinian Greek Orthodox Christian altar boys attend Christmas mass at the Orthodox Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAJan. 8, 2013. Classical dancers of the Latvian National Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal of 'Giselle' at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.Cristina Quicler—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 9, 2013. South Africa's Riaan Van Niekerk falls with his KTM during the 5th stage of the Dakar Rally 2013 from Arequipa in Peru to Arica in Chile.Jacky Naegelena—ReutersJan. 10, 2013. Children play in an abandoned building at a snow covered field in the Golan Heights on the border with Syria.Ariel Schalit—APJan. 11, 2013. Members of a local winter swimming club take part in their weekly bath in the Yenisei River, while air temperatures stand at minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the town of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.Ilya Naymushin—ReutersJan. 12, 2013. The largest camp for displaced Syrians on the border with Turkey provides shelter to nearly 13,000 people. Most of them are children; due to the harsh living conditions, they are often in need of treatment in the only medical facility set up in the camp.Alessio RomenziJan. 13, 2013. Workers fix a lightpost, one of many that will illuminate the vast grounds receiving the millions of Hindu devotees that will congregate here for the next couple of months to celebrate the Kumbh Mela, in Allahabad, India.Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 14, 2013. A female Hindu pilgrim takes a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, India.Rupak De Chowdhuri—ReutersJan. 15, 2013. A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world.Steeve Iuncker—Agence VUJan. 16, 2013. An Iranian officer lashes a man, convicted of rape, at the northeastern city of Sabzevar, Iran.Hossein Esmaeli—APJan. 17, 2013. Om Mustafa stands with five of her seven children in front of the tent she is staying in on farmland outside of Saadnayal, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.Lynsey Addario—VIIJan. 18, 2013. People carry the coffin of the Kurdish activist Sakine Cansiz, shot dead in the French capital, in Tunceli.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 19, 2013. A boy plays with balloons by Buriganga river as smoke emits from a dump yard during sunset in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Andrew Biraj—ReutersJan. 20, 2013. A French soldier wearing a skeleton mask stands next to a tank on a street in Niono, Mali.
Issouf Sanogo—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (C) pauses with his escorts before walking through the Lower West Terrace Door of the US Capitol to begin swearing-in ceremonies in Washington.Jonathan Ernst—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 22, 2013. Malian women sift wheat in a field near Segou, central Mali.Jerome Delay—APJan. 23, 2013. A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago, Ill.Scott Olson—Getty ImagesJan. 24, 2013. The outfit worn by the two-year-old Princess Anne at Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on June 2, 1953, is seen during a photo opportunity at the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace in central London.Lefteris Pitarakis—APJan. 25, 2013. The shadow of a relative's hand is projected onto the coffins of victims, killed in massacres executed by Shining Path militant group and the army in Peru's southern district of Chungui between 1984 and 1985, during a funeral ceremony in Ayacucho city.Musuk Nolte—ReutersJan. 26, 2013. An Egyptian 'Ahly Ultra' soccer fan holds a smoke flare above his head during celebrations after the announcement that 21 fans of the Al Masry football club involved in a football stadium massacre last year were sentence to death in Cairo, Egypt.Ed Giles—Getty ImagesJan. 27, 2013. Relatives wait to identify victims killed in the Kiss night club fire, at the municipal gymnasium in Santa Maria. Jefferson Bernardes—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 28, 2013. US surfer Garrett McNamara rides a wave off Praia do Norte beach in Nazare, Portugal.To Mane—Barcroft Media/LandovJan. 29, 2013. Sixth grade students from the Park Maitland School in Maitland, Florida, watch as Marine One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama takes off from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington as he departs for Las Vegas.Larry Downing—ReutersJan. 30, 2013. Bodies float down a stream in Aleppo, Syria, more than 24 hours after a massacre.Alessio RomenziJan. 31, 2013. Hundreds of containers full of equipment are stacked in the yards of Forward Operating Base Shank, the logistical hub for American operations in Logar Province.Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
Feb. 1, 2013. Masha, an 11-year-old bear from a traveling circus troupe based in Moscow, practices a tightrope walking act during rehearsals at the Circus on Fontanka in St. Petersburg, Russia.Alexander Demianchuk—ReutersFeb. 2, 2013. French President Francois Hollande, upper center, is surrounded by security as he greets well-wishers during his two-hour-long visit to Timbuktu, Mali.Jerome Delay—APFeb. 3, 2013. U.S. singer Beyonce performs during the half time show of Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans, La.Dan Anderson—EPAFeb. 4, 2013. Sri Lankan Navy personnel fire a 21-gun salute on the capital's seafront Galle Face promenade to mark the island nation's 65th Independence Day in Colombo.Ishara S. Kodikara—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 5, 2013. A Palestinian child cries after his family house has been demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.Bernat Armangue—APFeb. 6, 2013. A Malian man sits on a window sill to watch the Nigeria versus Mali Africa Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match taking place in South Africa, in Gao, northern Mali.Jerome Delay—APFeb. 7, 2013. Models pose at the Tome fall 2013 presentation during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Industria Superstudio in New York City.Mark Von Holden—Getty ImagesFeb. 8, 2013. Horses are hoisted in the air by a crane as they're being transferred from a cargo ship onto a truck upon arrival at a port in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Trisnadi—APFeb. 9, 2013. Bratislav Stojanovic, a homeless man, holds candles as sits in a tomb where he lives in southern Serbian town of Nis.Marko Djurica—ReutersFeb. 10, 2013. An Indian woman holds up the corners of two saris to dry on the banks of the Sangam or confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Saraswati rivers at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 11, 2013. A woman stands in the snow and prays towards the former city hall in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan. The Asahi Shimbun/Getty ImagesFeb. 12, 2013. A boy dressed up as Momotxorro, a local mythical animal, walks in the snow during carnival celebrations in Alsasua, northern Spain.Alvaro Barrientos—APFeb. 13, 2013. Astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords look out at the view from the Speaker's balcony while making the rounds to talk about the issue of gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.Nikki Kahn—The Washington Post/Getty ImagesFeb. 14, 2013. Participants of Kumbh Mela bathe in the Ganges river in Allahabad, India.Stefano De Luigi—VIIFeb. 15, 2013. Children walk on the Askia mausoleum, built in 1495 in Gao, northern Mali, one week after a suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed himself attempting to blow up an army checkpoint at the entrance of the town. Jerome Delay—APFeb. 16, 2013. A model of Knut the polar bear, that features Knut's original fur, stands on display to the public on its first day at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany.Sean Gallup—Getty ImagesFeb. 17, 2013. Libyans release lanterns into the air at Nasr Square during the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Benghazi, Libya.Mohammad Hannon—APFeb. 18, 2013. Spacesuits are left on chairs before cosmonauts' training session at the Russian cosmonaut training facility in Star City outside Moscow, Russia.Sergei Remezov—ReutersFeb. 19, 2013. A soldier from the Somali National Army (SNA) lies on a bed at an SNA infirmary in Belet Weyne, about 315 km (196 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, Somalia in this handout photo.Tobin Jones—AU-UN IST/ReutersFeb. 20, 2013. Oscar Pistorius enters the court room during the second day of Oscar Pistorius bail application at Pretoria Magistrates Court, Pretoria, South Africa.Chris Ricco—PA/LandovFeb. 21, 2013. A Buddhist devotee prays after offering alms to a Buddhist monk on a street corner near Mong Pan town in central Shan state, Myanmar. Gemunu Amarasinghe—APFeb. 22, 2013. A man in his apartment in Hong Kong.Benny Lam—SoCO/Rex USAFeb. 23, 2013. A tamed golden eagle attacks a fox during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty in Kazakhstan.Shamil Zhumatov—ReutersFeb. 24, 2013. A Chinese blacksmith throws molten metal against a cold stone wall to create sparks during the Lantern Festival which traditionally marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations, in Nuanquan, Hebei province.Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 25, 2013. A dancer performs in front of judges in one of the heats in the All Scotland Championships in Irish Dancing being held at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow.Andrew Milligan—PA Photos/LandovFeb. 26, 2013. A dog looks at Pakistani Kushti wrestlers, right, reflected on a mirror, as they attend their daily training session in Lahore, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APFeb. 27, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI waves from his Popemobile as he rides through a packed Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican during his last general audience.Stefano Rellandini—ReutersFeb. 28. 2013. Egyptian Actvists and youth perform the Internet craze, the "Harlem Shake" in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.Gianluigi Guercia—AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 1, 2013. Saudi citizens rest after presenting Saudi billionaire HRH Prince al Waleed bin Talal with petitions for his help, at a desert camp outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Lynsey Addario—VIIMarch 2, 2013. Members of Crew 125 EuroMoonMars B mission venture out in their simulated spacesuits to collect geologic samples to be studied at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) outside Hanksville in the Utah desert.Jim Urquhart—ReutersMarch 3, 2013. Maggie, a victim of domestic abuse, and Kayden, four, share a moment in the apartment they now share with Maggie's husband, Zane.Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for TIMEMarch 4, 2013. Vestments for the new Pope to be elected are displayed in the window of Italian ecclesiastical tailor Gammarelli in Rome. Alberto Pizzoli—AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 5, 2013. A sandstorm hits the town of Shandan Horse Ranch in Zhangye, northwest China's Gansu province.AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 6, 2013. A llama seeks shelter next to an abandoned school bus at Cox Farms in Centreville, Va.Win McNamee—Getty ImagesMarch 7, 2013. An old American car, long a staple of Cuban roads, sits along Guanabo Beach, near Havana, Cuba.Joakim Eskildsen for TIMEMarch 8, 2013. A woman wrapped in cloths decorating a light post in the colors of Venezuela's flag sleeps outside the military academy where a funeral ceremony will take place for Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela.Rodrigo Abd—APMarch 9, 2013. A hot air balloon shaped like Darth Vader's head lands after a sunrise flight in Canberra, Australia.Daniel Munoz —ReutersMarch 10, 2013. People sunbathe by the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia.Alexander Demianchuk—ReutersMarch 11, 2013. Wrecked vehicles remain in a field of reeds in Namie, two years after the March 11, 2011 tsunami and earthquake, near the striken TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.Yoshikazu Tsuno—AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 12, 2013. One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky in a photo made from a passing airplane in New York. Matthew Ziegler—APMarch 13, 2013. White smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican indicating that a new Pope has been elected.Alessia Paradisi—Abaca USAMarch 14, 2013. A gust of wind blows a nun's veil as she stands in front of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican.Oded Balilty—APMarch 15, 2013. A portrait of U.S. Army Sgt. Alessandro L. Plutino rests at the base of a tree in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.Win McNamee—Getty ImagesMarch 16, 2013. Islamic religious students take mid-term exams at Jamia Binoria, the nation's largest Islamic seminary in Karachi, Pakistan.Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 17, 2013. Pope Francis leads his first Angelus Prayer and blessing from the studio of his private apartment at the Vatican.Alessandra Benedetti—L'Osservatore Romano/CorbisMarch 18, 2013. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures while entering to meet Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale palace in Rome, Italy.Tony Gentile—EPAMarch 19, 2013. Searching for survivors among the rubble of a residential building targeted by a regime airstrike in the rebel-held Al-Sukri district in Aleppo, Syria.Moises Saman—MagnumMarch 20, 2013. US President Barack Obama delivers a speech upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. Ariel Schalit—APMarch 21, 2013. An Afghan refugee boy watches chickens feeding in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APMarch 22, 2013. Indian villagers from Nandgaon wait for the arrival of villagers from Barsana to play Lathmar Holi at the Nandagram temple famous for Lord Krishna and his brother Balram, in Nandgaon, 120 kilometers ( 75 miles) from New Delhi, India.Manish Swarup—APMarch 23, 2013. Body bags cover charred bodies of victims of a fire at the burnt Ban Mae Surin refugee camp near Mae Hong Son, Thailand.Athit Perawongmetha—ReutersMarch 24, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jews collect water to make matza during the Maim Shelanoo Ceremony at a mountain spring in Jerusalem.Oded Balilty—APMarch 25, 2013. Penitents from "San Gonzalo" brotherhood take part in a procession in Seville, Spain.Emilio Morenatti—APMarch 26, 2013. Boys spray coloured foam during Holi celebrations at a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Adnan Abidi—ReutersMarch 27, 2013. Three years after the earthquake, a scene in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Jim Goldberg—MagnumMarch 28, 2013. Men are dragged on the ground to cover them in red colored water during "Huranga" at Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura.Ahmad Masood—ReutersMarch 29, 2013. Central African Seleka rebels speak to an injured Seleka rebel at a community hospital in Bangui. Sia Kambou—AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 30, 2013. The bullet-riddled poster of Syria's current president in the newly liberated neighborhood of Sheikh Maksoud in Aleppo, Syria.Sebastiano Tomada—SIPA USAMarch 31, 2013. An Afghan police man offers evening prayers on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan.Ahmad Jamshid—APApril 1, 2013. A man throws water on a woman as part of traditional Easter celebrations in Holloko, 100 km (62 miles) east of Budapest.Bernadett Szabo—ReutersApril 2, 2013. A devotee lies on hot sand as a form of penance on the first day of the Danda festival at Kulagarh, in Ganjam district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Bhubaneswar, India. Biswaranjan Rout—APApril 3, 2013. A Palestinian demonstrator looks on during clashes with the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Hebron. Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 4, 2013. Texas Gov. Rick Perry looks on as a flag is folded to present to the family of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia after a memorial services in Mesquite, Tx.LM Otero—APApril 5, 2013. Young ballet dancers climb a staircase to take part in auditions for six-year-olds at the School of American Ballet (SAB) at Lincoln Center in New York.Lucas Jackson—ReutersApril. 6, 2013. Spain's bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla's hand is stained with blood from a bull during a bullfight at La Muralla bullring in Brihuega, Spain.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APApril 7, 2013. Muslim children come out of school at the Zahra Academy, which is a former christian church, Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria.Benedicte Kurzen—NOORApril 8, 2013. A ''Pura Raza Espanola'' or Pure Spanish Breed mare belonging to breeder Francisco Jose Rodriguez runs next to the stable at "La Yeguada de Cuatro Vientos" ranch in Almonte, in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. Laura Leon—APApril 9, 2013. The wind blows a red flag onto the face of an honour guard before a welcome ceremony for Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.Feng Li—Getty ImagesApril 10, 2013. U.S. Border Patrol agent Sal De Leon stands near a section of the U.S.- Mexico border fence while stopping on patrol in La Joya, Texas. John Moore—Getty ImagesApril 11, 2013. An Afghan woman waits in a changing room to try out a new Burqa, in a shop at in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan.Anja Niedringhaus—APApril 12, 2013. Indian slum residents weep as they stand near their burnt shanty in Bawana on the outskirts of New Delhi. A fire broke out in a slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, a local report said, with one person reported dead and another five injured. Manan Vatsyayana—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 13, 2013. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (not pictured) ignites fireworks at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Michael Kooren—ReutersApril 14, 2013. Runners rest inside Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.David Guttenfelder—APApril 15, 2013. A man comforts a victim on the sidewalk at the scene of the first explosion near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon.John Tlumacki—The Boston Globe/Getty ImagesApril 16, 2013. Carlee Soto, sister of Victoria Soto, a teacher killed at the Sandy Hook Elemenatry School, is overcome during a vigil outside of the U.S. Capitol.Pete Marovich—Zuma PressApril 17, 2013. Guests take their seats during the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral in London, England.Dominic Lipinski—WPA Pool/Getty ImagesApril 18, 2013. A teacher instructs during a drawing class at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea.Alexander F. Yuan—APApril 19, 2013. Accused "Boston Bomber" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown before his arrest with a sniper's laser sight trained on his head as he surrenders to authorities after a massive manhunt.Sean Murphy—Boston Magazine/ReutersApril 20, 2013. Rescuers carry an injured girl to safety zone in Baosheng Township in the quake-hit Lushan County, Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Jiang Hongjing—Xinhua/LandovApril 21, 2013. A mother holds the hands of her son as they attend an interfaith worship service at a memorial on Boylston Street for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts.Brian Snyder—ReutersApril 22, 2013. U.S. Marine soldiers from 3rd Marine Expeditionary force landing team deployed from Okinawa, Japan, rest during the CJLOTS (Combined Joint Logistics Over The Shore) exercise in Pohang, South Korea.Chung Sung-Jun—Getty ImagesApril 23, 2013. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two suspects in the Boston bombing, walks surrounded by reporters near her home in Makhachkala, Russia.Dimitry Kostyukov—The New York Times/ReduxApril 24, 2013. A North Korean man checks his bicycle next to a painted exclamation point on a propaganda billboard in Kaesong, North Korea, north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas. David Guttenfelder—APApril 25, 2013. Two victims amid the rubble of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.Taslima AkhterApril 26, 2013. Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova looks on from behind bars as a petition for her early release is heard. Stanislav Krasilnikov—Zuma PressApril 27, 2013. A swarm of the Red Locusts north of the town of Sakaraha, south west Madagascar. Bilal Tarabey—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 28, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women pray on Mount Meron during the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer near the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron. Abir Sultan—EPAApril 29, 2013. Workers leave for their lunch break in a building that houses garment factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Jeff Holt—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesApril 30, 2013. Palestinians help a wounded man during clashes with Jewish settlers near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus.Nasser Ishtayeh—APMay 1, 2013. Afghan school girls receive treatment at a hospital in Kabul.Ahmad Jamshid—APMay 2, 2013. At a group burial service at Arlington National Cemetery, a U.S. Navy honor guard team carries the remains of four sailors, Lieutenant Dennis Peterson, Ensign Donald Frye, Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician William Jackson, and Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician Donald McGranein, all missing since the Vietnam War, in Arlington, Virginia.Jim Lo Scalzo—EPAMay 3, 2013. Veils used as cover from sniper fire are seen at Sheikh Maksoud front line, a majority-Kurdish neighborhood in Syria.Narciso Contreras—PolarisMay 4, 2013. Horses run around a muddy track during the ninth race before the 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Ky.J. David Ake—APMay 5, 2013. An activist tries to take another severely injured activist to the hospital, as no one else offers to help, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Atish Saha—Demotix/CorbisMay 6, 2013. An Israeli soldier (L) prays inside a net tent pitched close to Merkava tanks deployed in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria. Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 7, 2013. The home of Beth Serrano, the sister of Amanda Berry, one of three women who disappeared about a decade ago who were found alive in the home of Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio. Peter Larson—The New York Times/ReduxMay 8, 2013. Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives for the State Opening of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster in London.Dan Kitwood—ReutersMay 9, 2013. A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, Pakistan.Damir Sagolj—ReutersMay 10, 2013. Iron workers lean out as they watch a crane lift the final piece of the spire to the top of the One World Trade Center in New York.Lucas Jackson—ReutersMay 11, 2013. Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz, watch news on a television screen at the party's election headquarters after polling stations closed in Lahore. Damir Sagolj—ReutersMay 12, 2013. A grave above the sleepy village of Utamysh, Russia.Dmitry Kostyukov for TIMEMay 13, 2013. An underground bunker used by rebel fighters is pictured as Syrian troops take control of the village of Western Dumayna, north of the rebel-held city of Qusayr, Syria.Joseph Eid—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 14, 2013. Youth train in one of the boxing and wrestling schools in the regional capital of Makhachkala, Russia.Dmitry Kostyukov for TIMEMay 15, 2013. Workers are silhouetted on the roof as they play with a helmet during the visit of the FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Christophe Simon—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 16, 2013. A restraining chair and force-feeding apparatus on display in an empty room of the detainee hospital at Guantanamo Bay.Eugene Richards for TIMEMay 17, 2013. A Tibetan woman (bottom) prostrates near Labrang monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province, a flashpoint for many Tibetan protests against Chinese authorities. Ed Jones—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 18, 2013. A man carries a gun while walking through a field in Zambia.Marcus Bleasdale—VIIMay 19, 2013. Graduates listen under heavy rain to President Barack Obama as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony address in Atlanta. Carolyn Kaster—APMay 20, 2013. Four-year-old Sophia Phillips carries an American flag presented to her during a burial service for her father, Staff Sergeant Francis G. Phillips, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington Va.Win McNamee—Getty ImagesMay 21, 2013. Dead horses waiting to be buried after being killed by an F5 tornado in Moore, Okla.Bryan Anselm—ReduxMay 22, 2013. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama reacts with school children from Willow Springs Elementary School in Fairfax, Va, as they participate in a play about the emancipation of slaves during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, at historic Decatur House in Washington.Jason Reed—ReutersMay 23, 2013. Indian people stand on a government tanker as others struggle with hoses to collect drinking water from the tanker because of short supply in running water taps at a slum in New Delhi, India.Kevin Frayer—APMay 24, 2013. A wounded Afghan policeman is carried away from the site of an explosion in Kabul.Omar Sobhani—ReutersMay 25, 2013. Fans dressed as characters of the Tolkien classic The Hobbit take part in the reenactment of a battle in a forest near the village of Doksy, northern Czech Republic. Michal Cizek—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 26, 2013. Memorial day fireworks explode over a house damaged by the May 20 afternoon tornado in Moore, Okla.Lucas Jackson—ReutersMay 27, 2013. Contestants in the men's race chase a replica Double Gloucester Cheese down the steep gradient of Cooper's Hill during the annual Bank Holiday tradition of cheese-rolling in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England. Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesMay 28, 2013. A Bahraini girl is carried by her mother during the funeral of Sayed Omran Sayed Hameed, in the village of Karzakkan, south of Manama. Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 29, 2013. A Palestinian girl plays with her brothers inside their family's home on a hot day in Bait Lahiya town, northern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAMay 30, 2013. People carry candles and rosary beads during a procession to celebrate Corpus Christi along a street in Brasilia, Brazil.Ueslei Marcelino—ReutersMay 31, 2013. A cat sits behind a rainy window and looks out in Berlin, Germany.Wolfgang Kumm—Picture-Alliance/DPA/APJune 1, 2013. A demonstrator reacts to teargas fired by Turkish police during a protest in the neighborhood Besiktas in Istanbul, Turkey. Daniel Etter—ReduxJune 2, 2013. Pope Francis Leads Worldwide Eucharistic adoration in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.Alessandra Benedett—CorbisJune 3, 2013. Victims' relatives are seen at the scene after a fire that killed 119 and injured 54 people at a locked poultry slaughterhouse in Dehui, northeast China's Jilin province. Imaginechina/CorbisJune 4, 2013. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrives for a service of celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London.Dan Kitwood—Getty ImagesJune 5, 2013. A Palestinian refugee girl plays inside her family home in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAJune 6, 2013. LeBron James (R) of the Miami Heat tries to navigate before the trio of Danny Green (3rd-L), Tony Parker (2nd-L) Tim Duncan (L) of the San Antonio Spurs in the first half during Game 1 of the NBA Finals at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Fla.Brendan Simalowski—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 7, 2013. Israelis participate in the annual Gay Pride parade on the beach of Tel Aviv, Israel.Oded Balilty—APJune 8, 2013. A dead deer hangs on a fence along the flooded A3 motorway near Deggendorf, Germany. Wolfgang Rattay—ReutersJune 9, 2013. Syrian children sleeping inside their family's tent in the Al-Jarrah tent settlement in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.Moises Saman—MagnumJune 10, 2013. Yasaman Karimi, 23, a young supporter of Dr. Aref who is one of two reformists out of the eight candidates in the Iranian election, gathers near Hejab stadium in the center of Tehran.Newsha Tavakolian—Polaris for TIMEJune 11, 2013. A protestor is hit by pressurized water sprayed from a riot police water cannon during clashes Taksim Square Istanbul, Turkey.Kerim Okten—EPAJune 12, 2013. Bobby Henline, 41, a veteran of four tours to Iraq and sole survivor of an IED blast that killed the other four soldiers in his humvee in Iraq in 2007, swims at a Motel 6 in Humble, Tx. after visiting the father of Rodney McCandless. Rodney was killed in the IED explosion that injured Bobby.Peter van Agtmael—Magnum for TIMEJune 13, 2013. The Milky Way is seen between the Biferstock, the Piz Urlaun and the Toedi mountain above Linthal, Switzerland.Arno Balzarini—EPAJune 14, 2013. Pakistani youths enjoy a ride at a makeshift entertainment park set up outside a shrine in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 15, 2013. Smuggled bear paws are recovered by Chinese customs officers at the China-Russia border in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ReutersJune 16, 2013. A large banner of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seen in a pro-government rally in Istanbul, Turkey.Ed Ou—Reportage by Getty ImagesJune 17, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.Kevin Lamarque—ReutersJune 18, 2013. A member of the Free Syrian Army sits with his weapon inside a house in Aleppo's al-Sayyid Ali neighborhood.Muzaffar Salman—ReutersJune 19, 2013. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens secure a sedated elephant on the back of a truck during a relocation exercise, aimed at relocating to a national park 10 elephants that were encroaching on community land, on the margins of the Ol Pejeta conservancy in central Kenya.Siegfried Modola—ReutersJune 20, 2013. Revelers gather to celebrate the Summer Solstice within the circle of standing stones at Stonehenge, near Salisbury, U.K.Kerim Okten—EPAJune 21, 2013. Colombian tango dancers Valentina Valencia and Cristian Montoya perform during the Third World Tango Championships as part of the "VII International Tango Festival" in MedellÌn, Antioquia department, Colombia.Raul Arboleda—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 22, 2013. Musicians perform on the beach at the 2013 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Mario Tama—Getty ImagesJune 23, 2013. A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens.Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 24, 2013. A picture taken in Moscow Sheremetyevo airport aboard a plane of Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Havana shows the empty window seat 17A, which fugitive U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was scheduled to occupy according to Aeroflot's flight records. Kirill Kudryavtsev—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 25, 2013. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, stands on a near empty senate floor as she filibusters in an effort to kill an abortion bill in Austin, Tx.Eric Gay—APJune 26, 2013. Palestinian children play outside their family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAJune 27, 2013. First Lady Michelle Obama looks out a window at local children during her visit to a cultural center on Gorée Island, Senegal.Chuck Kennedy—The White HouseJune 28, 2013. Russian same-sex couple Yury Gavrikov and Maxim Lysak arrive at a registry office to apply for marriage licences in St. Petersburg.Artur Bainozarov—ReutersJune 29, 2013. People with LED lights take part in forming a giant pink dot at the Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park in Singapore.Edgar Su—ReutersJune 30, 2013. Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers approach a captured would-be suicide attacker after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province.Parwiz Parwiz—ReutersJuly 1, 2013. Firefighters tackle a large blaze at a recycling center in Smethwick, near Birmingham, central England in a handout picture provided by the West Midlands Fire Service. West Midlands Fire Service/ReutersJuly 2, 2013. Supporters of the Contrada of Wolf attend a horse-blessing ceremony in the church of Saint Rocco prior the Palio horse race in Siena, Italy.Fabio Muzzi—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 3, 2013. A hearse is pictured at Mvezo resort after being accompanied by a police convoy to collect the remains of former South African President Nelson Mandela's children.Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 4, 2013. People visit the Statue of Liberty during the reopening ceremony in New York. Under steamy summer skies, tourists in New York flocked to ferries headed for the Statue of Liberty, re-opening with an Independence Day ceremony after closing in October as Superstorm Sandy approached.Eduardo Munoz—ReutersJuly 5, 2013. Backers of ousted President Mohamed Morsi helped an injured man near Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo.Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIMEJuly 6, 2013. The wreckage of a train is pictured after an explosion in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Mathieu Belanger—ReutersJuly 7, 2013. Andy Murray (R) of Great Britain climbs down after celebrating in his player's box with friends, family and members of his coaching team following his victory in the Gentlemen's Singles Final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia on day thirteen of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.Julian Finney—Getty ImagesJuly 8, 2013. Egyptian supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi attend a rally in support of the former Islamist leader outside Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIMEJuly 9, 2013. Zack Miller buries himself in the mud pit during the 26th annual Mud Day at Nankin Mills recreation complex in Westland, Mich.Jeff Kowalsky—EPAJuly 10, 2013. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara uses a foam dummy to describe the altercation between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin to defense witness and law enforcement expert Dennis Root (R) during Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla.Gary W. Green—ReutersJuly 11, 2013. A Palestinian child rests as others pray and read the Quran in a mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City.Ali Ali—EPAJuly 12, 2013. Runners make their way through the street with "El Pilar" fighting bulls watched by people from their balconies during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain.Alvaro Barrientos—APJuly 13, 2013. Family members pray over the bodies of two Syrian children, Safia Baour, 14, and her three-year-old brother Khaled, who were killed after a shell landed on their family home as they gathered to break their fast with the iftar meal in Maaret Al-Numan in southern Idlib province, Syria.Daniel Leal-Olivas—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 14, 2013. A member of the Zr. Ms. Johan de Witt Dutch navy warship says goodbye on to a loved one on the quayside in Den Helder, Netherlands. Catrinus van der Veen—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 15, 2013. Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) is seen through the glass of C-Explorer 5 submersible after a dive to see the remains of the naval frigate "Oleg." which sank in the 19th century, in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.Ria Novosti—Kremlin/ReutersJuly 16, 2013. Dylan Strother, 13, of Jersey City, watches the crowd from a tree at the Hub Shopping Center where supporters of Trayvon Martin staged a rally in memory of Martin in Jersey City, N.J.Lauren Lancaster for TIMEJuly 17, 2013. Congolese army soldiers react to shelling in Kanyarucinya, around 10km from Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 19, 2013. Students at the University of Delaware's Ocean Exploration, Remote Sensing, Biography (ORB) Lab make an amazing find as they try to recapture sharks tagged for scientific research: they reeled in the large female sand tiger shark and discovered a 3ft long dogfish inside its mouth.Haulsee/Univ. of Delaware/Splash News/CorbisJuly 18, 2013. An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian city of Mafraq. Mandel Ngan—ReutersJuly 20, 2013. A chalk outline, a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea are seen during a "Justice for Trayvon" vigil outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington.Win McNamee—Getty ImagesJuly 21, 2013. Mexico's Ivan Garcia and German Sanchez enter the water as they compete in the men's 10-meter synchro platform preliminary diving event in the FINA World Championships at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuic in Barcelona, Spain.Francois Xavier Marit—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 22, 2013. Performers participate in the Arirang mass games in Pyongyang, North Korea.Wong Maye-E—APJuly 23, 2013. Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, holds the Prince of Cambridge as she poses for photographers outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London where the Duchess gave birth on Monday, July 22. Lefteris Pitarakis—APJuly 24, 2013. Air Force One's shadow is seen while flying over Knob Noster to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 25, 2013. A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network allegedly shows the Khaled bin Walid mosque whose mausoleum has been partially destroyed in the al-Khalidiyah neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs. SHAAM News Network/AFP/Getty ImagesJuly 26, 2013. Pope Francis is projected on screens at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.Paulo Whitaker—ReutersJuly 27, 2013. Morsi supporters carry a man shot in the head outside the makeshift hospital in Rabaa Square.Mosa'ab Elshamy—Anadolu AgencyJuly 28, 2013. A young man is detained in the back of a police car in Rochester, N.Y.Paolo Pellegrin—MagnumJuly 29, 2013. A woman carrying her baby and wrapped with a shawl walks through a sandstorm in Timbuktu, Mali. Joe Penney—ReutersJuly 30, 2013. Female supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi are sprayed with water to cool themselves down as they continue their sit-in in Cairo while fasting.Mosa'ab Elshamy for TIMEJuly 31, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children play in a fountain at a park outside Jerusalem's old city, Israel.Uriel Sinai—Getty ImagesAug. 1, 2013. Protesters confront Israeli's riots police during a demonstration against Israeli government's plans to resettle Bedouins in the Negev desert in the Arab Israeli city of Ar'Ara, north of Israel.Jack Guez—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 2, 2013. People at a quarry in Epworth, a suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe.Pete Muller—The New York Times/ReduxAug. 3, 2013. Lightning flashes across the sky as a freight train known as "la bestia," prepares to depart in Arriaga, Mexico. John Moore—Getty ImagesAug. 4, 2013. Female Palestinian worshippers pray in front of the Dome of the Rock, in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, during Lailat-Al-Qadr, or Night of Power, in which the Muslim Holy book of Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammad by Allah.Ammar Awad—ReutersAug. 5, 2013. New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez has a news conference before the Yankees play the Chicago White Sox in a baseball game at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.Charles Cherney—APAug. 6, 2013. A horse and rider perform during a "sneak peek" performance of Cavalia's show "Odysseo" in Somerville, Mass.Brian Snyder—ReutersAugust 7, 2013. Wind-blown embers fly from an ancient oak tree that burned in the Silver Fire near Banning, Calif.David McNew—ReutersAug. 8, 2013. People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at Parang Kusumo beach, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Ignatius Eswe—ReutersAug. 9, 2013. Men, dressed in folk costumes, ride on horses during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Benghazi, Libya.Esam Omran Al-Fetori—ReutersAug. 10, 2013. Charlotte Wyzykowski, 9, and her sister, Stella, 7, of Dunwoody, Georgia, sit poolside at Hogan's Beach in Tampa as their cousin, Jake Talbert, 10, practices holding his breath underwater.Carolina Hidalgo—Tampa Bay Times/Zuma PressAug. 11, 2013. Thousands of hikers wait for the sun to rise on the summit of Mount Fuji before dawn.David Guttenfelder—APAug. 12, 2013. A Perseid streaks across the sky over the Mojave Desert in Landers, Calif.Paul Buck—EPAAug. 13, 2013. An Indian policewoman helps her comrade who fainted during the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Babu Babu—ReutersAug. 14, 2013. An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth during clashes that broke out as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi in a huge protest camp near Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo.Mohammed Abdel Moneim—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 15, 2013. A Bahraini protestor sits next to a tree to rest during the clashes with riot police following an anti-regime protest in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama.Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 16, 2013. Fellow demonstrators carry the lifeless body of a man fatally wounded during clashes between pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators and Egyptian security forces in the Ramses district of Cairo.Moises Saman— Magnum Aug. 17, 2013. Adan Sheikh Abdi Sheikh, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of journalist Hassan Yusuf Absuge, stands tied to a pole before he is executed by shooting at close range at the Iskola Bulisiya square in the capital Mogadishu.Feisal Omar—ReutersAug. 18, 2013. Juventus players celebrate with the trophy after winning their Italian Super Cup match against Lazio at the Olympic stadium in Rome.Alessandro Bianchi—ReutersAug. 19, 2013. Women wait for services at the Ahmed Shah Baba Hospital in Kabul. Andrea Bruce—NoorAug. 20, 2013. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., before a hearing in his court martial.Patrick Semansky—APAug. 21, 2013. Bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region are seen in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.Bassam Khabieh—ReutersAug. 22, 2013. A supporter of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plays the trumpet at the gates of the Maadi Military Hospital where Mr. Mubarak was admited after being released from Tora Prison on the outskirts of Cairo.Moises Saman—MagnumAug. 23, 2013. Dozens of residents were evacuated when two adjoining apartment buildings caught fire in the Madrid neighborhood of Tetuan.Rodrigo Garcia—NurPhoto/Zuma PressAug. 24, 2013. Visitors run away as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou Zhejiang province, China.ReutersAug. 25, 2013. A man runs up the "gostra," a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta.Darrin Zammit Lupi—ReutersAug. 26, 2013. A captured wild male black rhino named Sero at Lewa Wildlife looks out from its crate at Lewa conservancy in Kenya.Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 29, 2013. A newly married couple walks up a hill with a view of the city of Antakya, Turkey.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesAug. 28, 2013. Spanish bullfighter David Mora, left, and Juan Jose Padilla wait to do the paseillo or ritual entrance to the arena before a bullfight, in Toro, Spain.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APAug. 27, 2013. A Palestinian girl play outside her family's tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAAug. 30, 2013. Lightning strikes the Grand Canyon in Arizona.Rolf Maeder—Rex/Rex USAAug. 31, 2013. A young Syrian man is executed by anti-regime rebels in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo.Emin Özmen—Agence LeJournal
Sept. 1, 2013. Storks fly over the border between Turkey and Syria, as they prepare to migrate in Hatay, Turkey.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 2, 2013. Smoke from the fires below Pilot Peak intermingles with clouds from an arriving weather front as firefighters begin to get the Rim Fire under control.Al Golub—Zuma PressSept. 3, 2013. Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City.Ammar Awad—ReutersSept. 4, 2013. Lawrence Payne practices backflips on his front lawn in the Six Mile Gratiot neighborhood of Detroit, Mich.Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesSept. 5, 2013. Nick Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker who was born without limbs, swims with sharks at the Marine Life Park in Singapore. Edgar Su—ReutersSept. 6, 2013. A reflection of the rubber duck designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman on the water at Beijing Garden Expo Park in Beijing.Feng Li—Getty ImagesSept. 7, 2013. Former basketball star Dennis Rodman displays a photograph he took with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as he arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport. Kim Kyung-Hoon—ReutersSept. 8, 2013. Serena Williams of the United States celebrates winning her women's singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on Day Fourteen of the 2013 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City.Joe Scarnici—Getty ImagesSept. 9, 2013. A Palestinian child removes a migrant quail from a net after catching it on the beach of Gaza City.Hatem Moussa—APSept. 10, 2013. The Tribute in Light rises above buildings in lower Manhattan during a test in New York. Mark Lennihan—APSept. 11, 2013. A Navy honor guard prepares a wreath before the arrival of United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell at the Flight 93 National Memorial during ceremonies commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on in Shanksville, Pa.Jeff Swensen—Getty ImagesSept. 12, 2013. A pair of water spouts form on Lake Michigan southeast of Kenosha, Wis. Kevin Poirier—The Kenosha News/APSept. 13, 2013. South Korean army soldiers take a rest before they reenact the Battle of the Naktong Bulge near the Waegwan railway bridge in Waegwan, South Korea. Ahn Young-joon—APSept. 14, 2013. A large section of Colorado U.S. 34 completely washed out from recent flooding of the Big Thompson River in the Big Thompson Canyon in Larimer County Colorado.Andy Cross—The Denver PostSept. 15, 2013. Numerous tents are seen during the 2013 International I Camping Festival in Mount Wugongshan of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, China.ReutersSept. 16, 2013. Supporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hold umbrellas in front of a giant portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in front of the party's headquarter in Berlin, Germany.Michael Sohn—APSept. 17, 2013. A view of the wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship after emerging from water near the harbour of Giglio Porto, Italy. Andreas Solaro—AFP/Getty ImagesSept. 18, 2013. A Kurdish Free Syrian Army fighter holds out a doll while his fellow fighter takes shooting position in Ashrafieh, Aleppo, Syria.Muzaffar Salman—ReutersSept. 19, 2013. A worker tightens a rope to raise a four-metre-high (13 ft) statue of horses at a new housing complex at Parung village in Bogor, Indonesia's West Java province.Beawiharta—ReutersSept. 20, 2013. Chinese employees cheer a customer after he bought new iPhone at an Apple store in Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing.Andy Wong—APSept. 21, 2013. A woman and children hide inside Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya after a group of armed men attacked the upscale shopping center, killing at least 59 people and wounding at least 175. Tyler Hicks—The New York Times/ReduxSept. 22, 2013. A Syrian man with more than half his body burnt from an air strike leaves a field hospital to go back home at a village turned into a battlefield with government forces in Idlib province, northern Syria. APSept. 23, 2013. The brother of Staff-Sgt. Gabriel Kobi is comforted by another family member during his funeral in Haifa, northern Israel.Oliver Weiken—EPASept. 24, 2013. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leaves after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Committee luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington.Alex Wong—Getty ImagesSept. 25, 2013. Police remove the door and push away a refrigerator as they break into Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero's apartment to evict her and her family in Madrid, Spain. Andres Kudacki—APSept. 26, 2013. Mariano Rivera #42 of the New York Yankees waves to the crowd after leaving the game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth inning during their game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. Al Bello—Getty ImagesSept. 27, 2013. Kaden Bowden, son of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Bowden, looks at the casket for his father during burial services for Staff Sgt. Bowden at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.Susan Walsh—APSept. 28, 2013. Lou Hamrani, 6, walks in the street after attending the Mini Miss model beauty contest in Paris, France. Thibault Camus—APSept. 29, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter rests along a street in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.Molhem Baraka—ReutersSept. 30, 2013. Bodies of migrants who drowned lie on the beach in the Sicilian village of Sampieri in Italy.Gianni Mania—ReutersOct. 1, 2013. A U.S. Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill in Washington.Brendan Simalowski—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 2, 2013. A raptor with a snare attached to its leg is used by Egyptian raptor hunters in Egypt's Western Desert.David Guttenfelder—AP for National Geographic MagazineOct. 3, 2013. People enjoy riding on the Teufelsrad (Devils wheel) merry-go-round at Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany.Alexander Hassenstein—Getty ImagesOct. 4, 2013. A tourist poses for a picture on a bridge at the Ebrington Square area of Derry City.Cathal McNaughton—ReutersOct. 5, 2013. Rubber ducks, all adapted into wearing swimming caps and Special Olympic gold medals, drifting down Huangpu River in a charity event in Shanghai, China.Silver Young—EPAOct. 6, 2013. A man kisses a poster of late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as supporters of army shout slogans against ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood at Sadat's tomb, during the 40th anniversary of Egypt's attack on Israeli forces during the 1973 war, at Cairo's Nasr City district.Amr Abdallah Dalsh—ReutersOct. 7, 2013. Reporters and photographers question Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesOct. 8, 2013. Afghan National Army officers take part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul.Omar Sobhani—ReutersOct. 9, 2013. Pakistani schoolboys look out the window of their classroom at other classmates chanting prayers to commemorate the anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APOct. 10, 2013. A portrait looking down on Saturn and its rings created from images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft made by amateur image processor and Cassini fan Gordan Ugarkovic. Gordan Ugarkovic—EPAOct. 11, 2013. Palestinian protesters hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers during clashes in Betunia, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Mohamad Torokman—ReutersOct. 12, 2013. The brother of Yussef al-Nashmi, who died in hospital the day before as he was detained by Bahraini authorities since August 17, mourns over his body during his funeral in the western Manama suburb of Jidd Hafs. Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 13, 2013. A White Standard Poodle is prepared during the World Team Dog Grooming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. David Ramos—Getty ImagesOct. 14, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sing with their teacher before starting their classes, at their makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APOct. 15, 2013. Pigeons rest on a metallic structure at Kotzia square, in front of Athens' city hall. Dimitri Messinis—APOct. 16, 2013. A Christian pilgrim immerses himself in the waters of the Jordan River at Yardenit Baptismal Site near Tiberias in northern Israel.Uriel Sinai—Getty ImagesOct. 17, 2013. Plumes of smoke were visible from Bondi Beach after strong north westerly winds and high temperatures resulted in dozens of bush fires across great Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands in Australia. Andrew Quilty—OculiOct. 18, 2013. An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of an attack in Kabul.Mohammad Ismail—ReutersOct. 19, 2013. Participants fight during fire war ceremony at Dalem Temple in Tuban, Kuta, Indonesia.Putu Sayoga—Getty ImagesOct. 20, 2013. Royal Marine Cadets prepare ahead of National Trafalgar Day in London.Dan Kitwood—Getty ImagesOct. 21, 2013. A pier damaged by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012 sits in Long Branch, N.J.Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesOct. 22, 2013. A boy stands on a whale shark towed by fishermen along the coast of Surabaya in eastern Java island to be sold to prospective buyers after getting entangled in a fishing net.Juni Kriswanto—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 23, 2013. The official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in The Morning Room at Clarence House in London.Jason Bell—Camera PressOct. 24, 2013. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) arrives for a meeting of the European People's Party (EPP) ahead of a European Union summit at Meise, outside Brussels, Belgium. Thierry Roge—EPAOct. 25, 2013. An Indian street child plays in a dry river bed after flood waters receded in Allahabad, India.Sanjay Kanojia—AFP/Getty ImagesOct. 26, 2013. Lava flows during an eruption of Mount Etna volcano as seen from the village of Viagrande, near the Sicilian town of Catania, Italy. Carmelo Imbesi—APOct. 27, 2013. A member of staff demonstrates a massage using pythons at Bali Heritage Reflexology and Spa in Jakarta, Indonesia.Ulet Ifansasti—Getty ImagesOct. 28, 2013. Workers use backhoes to dig through the rubble as the demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary School continues, in Newtown, Conn. Jessica Hill—APOct. 29, 2013. Residents plant beach grass on protective sand dunes in the Breezy Point neighborhood on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy in the Queens borough of New York City. Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesOct. 30, 2013. Jonny Gomes #5 of the Boston Red Sox slides safely into home plate as Yadier Molina #4 of the St. Louis Cardinals tries to make the play during Game Six of the 2013 World Series at Fenway Park in Boston, Mass.Jamie Squire—Getty ImagesOct. 31, 2013. Protesters wearing Batman costumes stand over the Carioca Aqueduct, also know as Arcos da Lapa, during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Felipe Dana—APNov. 1, 2013. Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, drops from a helicopter to fly near Mount Fuji in this handout photograph released by Breitling SA. Tokunaga/Breitling SA/ReutersNov. 2, 2013. David Ferrer (L) of Spain and his compatriot Rafael Nadal (R) during a break in their semi final match at the BNP Paribas 2013 Masters tennis tournament in Paris.Yoan Valat—EPANov. 3, 2013. A Kosovo Albanian man leaves a polling station in Pristina. Armend Nimani—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 4, 2013. Indian Hindu devotees gather to collect scattered rice to celebrate the Annakut ritual on the second day of Diwali in Calcutta, India.Tumpa Mondal/Xinhua Press/CorbisNov. 5, 2013. A US Marine braces himself against the wind as Marine One carrying the U.S. President arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.Jim Watson—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 6, 2013. A fake dead horse is seen on set for a television show being filmed in the Lower East Side neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City.Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesNov. 7, 2013. Antonio Acuna, 7, plays dress up with a wig and high heel shoes at the factory where he lives with his family after the postponement of the demolition of their homes in Madrid. Susana Vera—ReutersNov. 8, 2013. Students walks between chilli trees covered by ash from Sinabung Mount as they return home at Kuta Rakyat village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province. Roni Bintang—ReutersNov. 9, 2013. An activist for the independence of Western Sahara places a sticker on a dog during an annual protest organized by the state coordinator of associations of solidarity in Madrid.Dani Pozo—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 10, 2013. Indian camel herders sit near their camels during the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India.Ajit Solanki—APNov. 11, 2013. Sarah Stanczyk lays covered up at the gravesite of her husband, SFC David Metzger, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, at Section 60 in Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day.Mark Wilson—Getty ImagesNov. 12, 2013. Iranian Muslim Shiite boys impersonating the role of genies, the spiritual creatures mentioned in the Quran, take part in the annual religious performance of "Taazieh," in the Iranian town of Noosh Abad near the central city of Kashan, Iran.Behrouz Mehri—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 13, 2013. A woman rests on a roadside with her family's belongings near the Typhoon Haiyan ravaged town of Tacloban, central Philippines. David Guttenfelder—APNov. 14, 2013. Palestinians look at Hamas militants as they rappel down a building during a military parade marking the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel, in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem—ReutersNov. 15, 2013. Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, right, runs with Batman after saving a damsel in distress in San Francisco.Jeff Chiu—APNov. 16, 2013. People play by a fire in a neighborhood destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines.Adam Dean—Panos for TIMENov. 17, 2013. People demonstrate violently in the street in Bangui, Central African Republic, demanding that President Djotodia steps down following the murder of a magistrate shot dead the night before.William Daniels—Panos for TIMENov. 18, 2013. An aerial image shows the devastation caused by a tornado which struck the town of Washington, Ill.Nathan Weber for TIMENov. 19, 2013. A man fans flames of a fire in Leyte, Philippines a week after Typhoon Haiyan.Dan Kitwood—Getty ImagesNov. 20, 2013. People play football and basketball in Manaus, Brazil.Mario Tama—Getty Images,Nov. 21, 2013. An Indian woman cries while her baby is missing after a fire in Ambedkar Nagar slum in Mumbai, India.Divyakant Solanki—EPA
Nov. 22, 2013. The news media arrived early Friday morning to cover the 50th-anniversary commemoration of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Tx.David Woo—Dallas Morning News/CorbisNov. 23, 2013. Tribesmen lead their camels through the sand dunes of the Liwa desert, 220 kms west of Abu Dhabi.Karim Sahib—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 24, 2013. An aerial view at night of the downtown Chicago skyline.Kiichiro Sato—APNov. 25, 2013. Pope Francis receives in audience the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a private audience in the private library of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Servizio Fotografico OR/CPP/PolarisNov. 26, 2013. Afghan Army soldiers exercise under a picture of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at a training facility in the outskirts of Kabul.Anja Niedringhaus—APNov. 27, 2013. The chains around the ankle of eleven-year-old He Zili are seen in the boy's home in Zhejiang province, China.William Hong—ReutersNov. 28, 2013. The Elf on the Shelf balloon floats down Sixth Avenue during the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.Eric Thayer—ReutersNov. 30, 2013. Stand-up paddle boarders row past before the lighting ceremony for Rio de Janeiro's famed floating Christmas tree in Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mario Tama—Getty ImagesNov. 29, 2013.
An Egyptian man walks amid tear gas during clashes between Egyptian security forces and the Muslim Brotherhood following a demonstration in Cairo.Mahmoud Khaled—AFP/Getty ImagesDec. 1, 2013. A Metro-North passenger train derailed in the Bronx borough of New York.Mark Lennihan—APDec. 2, 2013. Surfers paddle on boards in the Mediterranean Sea off the shore of Tel Aviv, Israel.Ariel Schalit—APDec. 3, 2013. Members of the Civil Police's Core Coordination of Special Assets unit train in a mock favela at the Police City, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Christophe Simon—AFP/Getty ImagesDec. 4, 2013. A general view of the welcoming ceremony presided over by French Interior Minister, of the new promotion of new police officers at the Prefecture de police in Paris, France.Pierre Andrieu—AFP/Getty ImagesDec. 5, 2013. Wounded Christians and Muslims at the community hospital in Bangui. Aid workers and medical staff treated roughly 100 victims, and around 50 bodies were brought to the hospital. William Daniels—PanosDec. 6, 2013. Flowers are placed at the foot of a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the South African embassy in Washington. The iconic anti-apartheid leader died on December 5 at the age of 95.
Olivier Douliery—Abaca USADec. 7, 2013. Palestinians look out a window of a building damaged by an Israeli air strikes in the past during a rally marking the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in Gaza City.Suhaib Salem—REUTERSDec. 8, 2013. Parishioners attend church services at Regina Mundo Catholic Church as South Africans observe a national day of prayer for Nelson Mandela in Soweto, South Africa. Justin Sullivan—Getty ImagesDec. 9, 2013 Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during a protest against their military conscription outside a military prison on in Atlit, Israel. Uriel Sinai—Getty ImagesDec. 10, 2013. Attendees look down into a stadium entrance at the state memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in the Soweto township of Johannesburg.Stephen Crowley—The New York Times/ReduxDec. 11, 2013. An aquarium staff member dressed in a Santa Claus costume embraces a Zebra shark as he swims with fish inside the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan. Shizuo Kambayashi—APDec. 12, 2013. Ukrainian and European Union flags fly over the newly-erected barricades at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.Sergey Ponomarev—The New York Times/ReduxDec. 13, 2013. North Korean subway commuters gather around a public newspaper stand on the train platform in Pyongyang, North Korea to read the headlines about Jang Song Thaek, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle who was executed as a traitor. David Guttenfelder—APDec 14, 2013. A Christmas decoration lies on display near the former site of Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. One year ago Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 first graders and six adults at the school. Newtown decided not to hold a public memorial on the anniversary out of respect for victims' survivors, and the town appealed for privacy. John Moore—Getty ImagesDec. 15, 2013. A local boy, Anda, looks out from his hut's window at the burial ground of late former South African President Nelson Mandela ahead of his funeral in Qunu, South Africa.Yannis Behrakis—ReutersDec. 16, 2013. Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen, Christian Social Union (CSU) Bundestag faction leader Gerda Hasselfeld, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Chancellor Angel Merkel, Thomas Oppermann of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), CDU parliamentary faction leader Volker Kauder, CDU secretary general Hermann Groehe, Federal Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla, SPD Chairman Sigmar Gabriel and SPD parliamentary faction leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier (clockwise from top) talk informally after the coalition government agreement signing ceremony in Berlin.Tobias Schwarz—ReutersDec. 17, 2013. A Newari woman, with her lips and face painted to depict a deity, sits inside a house before she takes part in a parade to celebrate the Yamari Puni festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.Navesh Chitrakar—ReutersDec. 18, 2013. A woman stands in a corridor of a building in the Christian camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.Fred Dufour—AFP/Getty ImagesDec. 19, 2013. A view looking up from the Rotunda of the US Capitol before a tour of the dome in Washington, DC. Karen Bleier—AFP/Getty ImagesDec. 20, 2013. A jockey and his horse fall as they compete in a purebred Arabian horse race on the sidelines of the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the desert, 150 kilometres west of the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi.Karim Sahib—AFP/Getty ImagesDec. 21, 2013. Smoke rises after an attack on gas pipelines that feed electricity generating stations near Damascus, Syria.Sana/ReutersDec. 22, 2013. A layer of ice coats the leaves of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm in Toronto, Canada. Chris Helgren—ReutersDec. 23, 2013. Family members displaced by recent fighting in South Sudan sit around a sick child in a makeshift shelter inside the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) facility in Jabel, on the outskirts of the capital Juba. James Akena—ReutersDec. 24, 2013. Pope Francis kisses a statue of baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Italy.Gregorio Borgia—APDec. 25, 2013. Filipino relatives visit graves of their loved ones on Christmas Day outside a Catholic church turned into a mass grave in the typhoon devastated village of San Joaquin, near the town of Palo, Leyte Province, Philippines.Dennis M. Sabangan—EPADec. 26, 2013. Indians offer milk during a prayer ceremony to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami, on Marina beach, in Chennai, India.Arun Sankar K—APDec. 27, 2013. Friends and relatives of Yanguere Richard, 21, carry his remains to the burial grounds in Bangui. Richard was killed in the inter-religious fighting in Bangui, Central African Republic. Andreea Campeanu—ReutersDec. 28, 2013. A reveller takes part in the battle of 'Enfarinats', a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain. David Ramos—Getty ImagesDec. 29, 2013. Bangladesh Natinonalist Party (BNP) supported lawyers are hit by a police water cannon in front of the main gate of the Supreme Court during the March For Democracy protest rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Abir Abdullah—EPADec. 30, 2013. United States Marines support a 100 yard American flag during pre-game ceremonies at the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game in San Diego.Gregory Bull—APDec. 31, 2013. Light and laser illuminate the Great Wall of China to celebrate the new year before a new year countdown event at the Badaling section of the Great Wall, in Beijing, China.Kim Kyung Hoon—Reuters
