2012 was a year rich in events, from large events such as the London Olympic Games and the US presidential race, and to regional conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Which began two years ago and never-ending "Arab Spring" is still a significant influence on Syria and Egypt. The slow recovery from the global economic crisis has brought severe austerity measures in Europe, leading to widespread mass protests.
January 14, 2012. The liner "Costa Concordia" ran aground and tilted near the islands of Giglio. 32 passengers and crew members were killed after the Italian ship with about 4,200 people on board hit a shoal. "Costa Concordia" cruise the Mediterranean made when hit a reef near the island of Giglio on Friday, a few hours after the start of the journey, sat down to dinner when the passengers. The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, who reportedly left the ship shortly after it crashed, lost his job and is accused of murder.
January 16, 2012. A man rides through the fire in the small village of San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain. On horseback ride through bonfires on the night before the official Day of honoring animals in honor of St. Anthony, patron of animals.
January 22, 2012. Sydney, Australia. Famous actress of the Australian Ballet Amber Scott (right) and actor Patrick Bangarra Dance Theatre Teydey during the photograph on the roof of the Sydney Opera House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the ballet.
January 22, 2012. The presidential candidate of the Republican former governor of Utah Jon Huntsman stands on the counter in a diner in Hampstead, New Hampshire, USA.
January 2, 2012. The sun highlights the silhouette of a horse through the tissue barrier at the races at Plumpton, England.
January 7, 2012. The leopard attacked the Indian laborer in a residential area Silpuhukhuri Indian city of Guwahati. Three people were seriously injured in attacks by wild cat before she was caught and placed in the public zoo. 40-year-old worker fully recovered, leopard, according to press reports, released into the wild in the Wildlife Refuge.
January 24, 2012. Roger Federer kick on the left in the quarterfinal match against Argentine Juan Martin del Potro at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia.
January 25, 2012. Members of the United Kennel Club Japan cares about animals, taken from the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Dogs and cats that were left in the Fukushima exclusion zone, have experienced strong radiation, lack of food and winter cold. March 11, 2011 earthquake in 9.0 points and a massive tsunami led to the worst nuclear accident in the world over the past 25 years, forcing the people living in the vicinity of Fukushima, run, do not always managing to take with them their pets.
January 19th, 2012. The corpse of the bandit is seen riddled with bullets windshield of a car in the city Hungapeo, Michoacan, Mexico. In a shootout between bandits and soldiers killed two bandits, while three managed to escape. Although the increase in the level of violence in wars Mexican drug traffickers seem to have slowed down in 2012, the horrible murder - still a usual thing.
January 15, 2012. Overcrowded trains ready to go after the final prayer ceremony on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
January 25, 2012. The Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican lively gestures during a conversation with US President Barack Obama after his arrival at the airport Phoenix-Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. When she then asked what she was talking with the president, Brewer said: "He was a little excited about my book." Publishing recently released a book called "Scorpions for Breakfast" - something like a political autobiography, where Jan Brewer talks about how long it protects the signing of the controversial Arizona law against illegal immigrants, opposes Obama.
January 5, 2012. A resident of the Netherlands stands at the window in his home in the city of Dordrecht. Hurricane winds reaching 110 km / h and torrential rains fell on the Dutch coast.About a quarter of the country is below sea level.
February 26, 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy icon of Myanmar forces, closed hand from sunlight. She arrived in the village Tongwa that is about 50 km from Yangon to speak at a rally during the election campaign.
January 10, 2012. Peshawar, Pakistan. A man wounded in the explosion, puts on his shoes before he will be taken to the hospital. The bomb, which was intended to blow up the representatives of tribal militias against the Pakistani Taliban exploded in the market close to the Afghan border, killing scores of innocent people.
February 7, 2012. Light poles, covered with ice in the Croatian town of Senj on the Adriatic coast.
February 26, 2012. Actress Angelina Jolie poses for photographers before the 84th Academy Awards.
February 19, 2012. South Africa. Helicopter transports the black rhino. For the seventh black rhino population moved to the area free from poachers in the Limpopo Province.
February 23, 2012. A woman in a wheelchair in a clash with police protection of public order in the center of La Paz, Bolivia. Hundreds of people with disabilities arrived in La Paz after the protest march at about 1600 km, lasting more than a hundred days to ask the Bolivian government to pay financial assistance in the amount of 3,000 bolivianos ($ 434) each Bolivian with disabilities.
February 10, 2012. The two-month monkey named Julian biting the ear actor transvestite named Kang backstage Tiffany Show in Pattaya, which is 150 km east of Bangkok, Thailand. The first Tiffany show was delivered as a one-man performance for their friends on the eve of the new 1974. Since then it has become a world-famous transvestite cabaret with dozens of artists performing every night.
February 16, 2012. Australia. Surfer.
February 10, 2012. The Afghan Border Police sits in a helicopter before the operation "Eagle Storm" in profintsii Helmand.
February 12, 2012. The burning police. Greeks are rioting in Athens against the plans of the parliament to adopt new austerity measures aimed at preventing bankruptcy.
February 24, 2012. The boy refugee in Myanmar.
March 28, 2012. Susan Clark of Santa Monica, California protests against health care reform before the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, United States on the last day before the adoption of the Law on Health Care, signed by President Barack Obama. Red hand painted on her face, in her words mean that socialism violates her freedom of choice and right.
February 15, 2012. Police soldiers and journalists from the bottom on top hiding during the armed uprising of prisoners in Komayagua, Honduras, north of the capital Tegucigalpa, which led to the deaths of at least 360 people
March 22, 2012. North India, the city of Allahabad. A farmer carries a basket of cucumbers grown them on the market for sale.
March 2, 2012. Greg Cook hugs his dog named Coco after her release from the ruins of the house of Greg in East Limestone, Alabama, United States. Several tornadoes swept over the area, committing severe damage in Limestone and Madison counties.
March 14, 2012. A man stands in a crumbling building of the Bulgarian Communist Party on the mountain Bazludzha that in central Bulgaria. After more than two decades after the fall of the communist regime, which it was supposed to celebrate, a monument to the communist era still stands, creating problems for the Bulgarian authorities, who can neither maintain nor dismantle it.
March 21, 2012. The reaction Huan Sufen, a resident of the village Yangzhi, the destruction of her home workers, Guangdong province, China. Workers mistakenly demolished part of her house, which was not included in the demolition project.
27 March 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia. "Molotov cocktail" thrown during clashes between protesters and students of government over plans to raise the last fuel prices by a third.
March 24, 2012. Guanajuato, Mexico. Dog on the road, which will pass just about Pope Benedict XVI.
March 4, 2012. The Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin of Russia in tears vytupaet at a rally of his supporters on Manezh Square near the Kremlin. Next to him - President Dmitry Medvedev.
March 16, 2012. Syrian rebel poses on horseback in the village of Al-Shatura in northwestern Syria, near the border with Turkey.
March 10, 2012. Idlib, Northern Syria. Husband and two children of the woman killed during the shelling of their home.
March 26, 2012. New Delhi, India. Attempt self-immolation of Tibetan activist before the visit to the Chinese leader Hu Jintao.
April 17, 2012. The sky over Washington, DC, USA. After the last flight into orbit in March 2011, the shuttle Discovery Boeing-747 aircraft delivered to the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
April 16, 2012. Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik in court.
April 15, 2012. Indio, California. Snoop Dogg performs on stage with a holographic image of Tupac Shakur.
April 18, 2012. US President Barack Obama at the Henry Ford Museum.
March 18, 2012. frosted tree in a park in the center of Beijing.
April 21, 2012. The player Dortmund "Borussia" Łukasz Piszczek pours beer on her head to his coach Jürgen Klopp after winning the game.
April 24, 2012. Pyongyang, North Korea. A giant image of the new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un is shown on the huge screen during a concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army.
April 11, 2012. Young people in the punk festival in Yangon, Myanmar.
April 26, 2012. Colorado Boulder, USA. On the tree falls bear asleep under the influence of tranquilizers. He wandered around the campus of the local university and was caught by environmentalists.
August 15, 2012. Captured by the Japanese patrol ships Coast Guard boat with political activists.14 people sailed from Hong Kong towards the disputed islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan
August 2, 2012. The US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas speaks at the Olympics in London
June 12, 2012. The light of stars, lights and flashes of lightning megacities mingled on the composite photograph taken with the camera mounted on the International Space Station.
May 22, 2012. favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Approximately 1 billion people worldwide live in these slums here.
May 20, 2012. Half of the dial on the tower in Finale Emilia Modenese, destroyed by an earthquake of 6.0, Italy
May 4, 2012. Cowboy Nate Cummings rides during the "Supermoon", Montana, USA.
May 1, 2012. A police officer brandishing a baton on the activist movement Occupy Wall Street, which was released on May Day demonstration
May 13, 2012. She is an abandoned railway line, known as the "Tunnel of Love" in a small Ukrainian town of Klevan in Rivne region about 350 km from Kiev.
June 6, 2012. Venus passes through the disk of the sun. This photo is taken from the Japanese satellite Hinode. On that day, Venus is between the Sun and Earth. The next time this will happen in 2117.
May 8, 2012. South Africa. Fog over Cape Town.
5 June 2012. Londoners celebrate the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II
June 3, 2012. Ivory helicopter, created by Dutch artist Bart Jansen (right) flies in the center of Amsterdam at the festival of art KunstRAI. Jansen said that the cat helicopter built by him from his favorite stuffed cat Orville, hit by a car. He built "Orvilkopter" together with the pilot Arjen Beltmenom (left).
June 10, 2012. Ethnic arakanets comes with a homemade weapon in his hands. In the background is lit building that was set on fire during clashes between Arakanese Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Sittwe, Myanmar.
June 6, 2012. Space Shuttle Enterprise is towed by the Freedom Tower World Trade Center, the place of permanent exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
June 26, 2012. Forest fires in Colorado Springs, USA.
June 6, 2012. North Korea. Artists perform for farmers during the planting season.
June 16, 2012. Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut. China is going for 10 years independently build its own space station space.
July 8, 2012. Spain. Cardboard figure of Muhammad Ali, staged street artists next to a sleeping man in the park.
July 26, 2012. A girl cries during the funeral of his cousin, one of the 12 victims of the 24-year-old James Holmes opened fire on the people in the theater.
July 6, 2012. Women in special nylon masks that protect the face from the ultraviolet to the beach in Qingdao, China. Masks have been invented by a woman about seven years ago and is now in mass production and sold in local stores beachwear.
July 22, 2012. Emilia Hemplmen Adams poses with the Olympic flame on a background of Big Ben, standing on top of the capsule "London Eye"
August 3, 2012. A good picture of the full moon on the background of the Olympic rings hanging on the Tower Bridge during the London Olympics
July 31, 2012. The American Michael Phelps won with his gold medal during the Olympic Games in the summer of 2012 in London. At this Olympics Phelps won 4 gold and 2 silver medals and became the strongest Olympian of all time with 22 medals on the account
August 5, 2012. Usein Bolt of Jamaica crosses the finish line and wins the gold in the men's 100-meter final at the London Olympics
August 5, 2012. Silver medalist of the Olympic Games in London American McKale Maron
August 12, 2012. The attenuation of the Olympic flame during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics
August 13, 2012. President and presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to voters in Iowa during a three-day bus tour of propaganda
August 8, 2012. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, member of the punk band Pussy Riot before the court hearing in Moscow, Russia. Tolokonnikova and two other participants punk band were found guilty of criminal hooliganism and inciting religious hatred for having organized a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in February 2012.
