Coolest Pix Of 2011 Week 26

A rider spears a suspended ring with a lance as he races through a cheering crowd in the Balearic town of Ciutadella during Menorca's traditional Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) June 24, 2011. The riders of the horses are the representatives of ancient Ciutadella society - nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo

A labourer collects earthen pots from a makeshift oven after they were baked at a factory on the outskirts of Lahore June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Mani Rana

Canadian army corporal John McMurry uses his laptop in the back of a light armored vehicle in Seprwan Ghar Forward fire base in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, June 24, 2011. Canada will end its combat role in Afghanistan by the end of July, after nearly ten years fighting in Afghanistan. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Pilots from The Red Arrows, Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, fly over the Firth of Forth as part of Armed Forces Day in Edinburgh, Scotland June 24, 2011. REUTERS/David Moir

A rebel fighter stands guard as Libyans attend Friday prayers near the courthouse in Benghazi June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

Nate Adams of the U.S. performs during the Red Bull X-Fighters 2011 World Tour freestyle motorcross event in Rome June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Max Rossi

Astronaut Dale Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a For Sale sign referring to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in this NASA handout photo dated November 14, 1984. Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV, who also participated in the two EVAs, is reflected in Gardner's helmet visor. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery's aft. REUTERS/NASA/Handout/Files

Lt. Col. Gabriel Green and Capt. Zachary Bartoe patrol the airspace in an F-15E Strike Eagle as the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-132) launches from Kennedy Space Center in this U.S. Air Force handout image dated May 14, 2010, Colonel Green is the 333rd Fighter Squadron commander and Captain Bartoe is a 333rd FS weapons system officer both assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/Capt. John Peltier/Handout

People celebrate after the New York Senate passed a bill legalizing gay marriage in New York June 24, 2011. New York's state legislature gave final approval on Friday to same-sex marriages, a key victory for gay rights ahead of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

A man attacks a gay rights activist during a gay pride parade, which was unsanctioned by the city authorities, in St. Petersburg June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark hits a return to Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

France's Alexianne Castel competes during the women's 200m backstroke at the Paris Open swimming competition June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a return to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Colorado Rockies center fielder Carlos Gonzalez is unable to catch a double by New York Yankees batter Mark Teixeira in the third inning of their MLB interleague baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine

Combination of six pictures showing Josef Fellner (first row, L-R), Belinda Winkler, Georg Thiede and (second row, L-R) Lidwina Weiss, Waltraud Leitner and Andreas Boehm after stuffing tobacco in their nose during the German tobacco sniffing championship in the little Bavarian village of Kucha near Nuremberg June 25, 2011. About 220 men and women tried to get as much tobacco, at a maximum of five grams, as they could in their nose in one minute. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

One of China's most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, can be seen carrying an AIDS patient in this undated file picture. Hu was reunited with his family in the early hours of Sunday after serving three and a half-years in jail on subversion charges said his wife, Zeng Jinyan. Hu was convicted in 2008 for inciting subversion of state power for criticising human rights problems in China, and was seen by some supporters as a potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize before it went to another jailed Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, last year. REUTERS/Handout

Egyptian Al-Sayed El-Essawy, who claims to be the 'strongest man in the world', fights with a lion in a cage at al El Hafaer village in the Delta city of Belqas, 200 km north of Cairo, June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Bryce Lamb lands in the pit during the men's long jump at the U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Steve Dykes

Police remove the dead body of a man from a bullet-riddled car at a crime scene on the outskirts of Guadalajara June 25, 2011. A couple was driving with their small son when hitmen opened fire at them from another vehicle. The couple was killed in the shooting but their son escaped unharmed, according to local media. REUTERS/Alejandro Acosta

Mexico's Javier Hernandez holds up his Golden Boot trophy, for scoring the most goals in the tournament, after their CONCACAF Gold Cup final soccer match victory over the U.S. at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu dances during the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) show in Toronto June 25, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Bosnian efendis, or Muslim clerics, walk up a mountain before commemorating the anniversary of Ajvatovica near the central Bosnian village of Prusac June 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Muslims climb the mountain to pray at a site where, according to tradition, a miracle happened when a huge rock divided in half after a Muslim man prayed in front of it. The pilgrimage, the biggest for Muslims in Europe, is a 501-year-old tradition. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Ghulam Shabbir, 30, a labourer who has been displaced by heavy floods for a year, works in a brick factory in Karampur, about 70 km (43 miles) from Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province June 26, 2011. Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction and the inadequate rehabilitation of survivors who are still reeling from last year's epic deluge, the United Nations said. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Police use water cannons to disperse irate River Plate fans after the Argentine First Division playoff soccer match against Belgrano in Buenos Aires June 26, 2011. River Plate, the record 33 times Argentine league champions, suffered their biggest humiliation ever with relegation to the second division for the first time on Sunday. Fans in the 60,000 plus crowd at the Monumental went wild with rage, throwing objects on to the pitch and some tried to climb over perimeter fencing to storm on to the field. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) addresses her hometown crowd at an event the day before the official announcement of her entering the 2012 presidential race, in Waterloo, Iowa June 26, 2011. Conservative firebrand Bachmann will test the limits of how far a favorite of the Tea Party movement can go when she formally launches her campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on Monday. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes

Horses race during the Queen's Plate horse race in Toronto June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

A worker walks among solar panels at a solar power field in Kawasaki, near Tokyo June 27, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO) and Kawasaki City are constructing two mega solar power fields which will produce some 2 million kWh in an area totaling roughly 30ha. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Officials look on while graduating soldiers from the Saudi special forces demonstrate their close quarter combat skills as they storm buildings near Riyadh June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed

Protesters by the Greek Communist-affiliated trade union PAME hold a huge banner in front of the Parthenon at the Acropolis hill in Athens June 27, 2011. Greek public and private sector labour unions have called a 48-hour strike for Tuesday and Wednesday opposing the government's plans for a new austerity package. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis

A swimmer wearing a yellow security cap makes his way past a police boat during the launch of the 2011 security measures for swimmers on lake Zurich, June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

The Grand Prismatic Spring, the largest in the United States and third largest in the world, is seen in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, June 22, 2011. Picture taken June 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

A member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet (Wiener Staatsopernballett) performs on stage during a dress rehearsal of Nureyev Gala at the State Opera in Vienna June 27, 2011. The Ballet will premiere on June 28, 2011. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pauses during a brief speech to the media as he leaves the Dirksen Federal building after being convicted on 17 of 20 counts in his second corruption trial in Chicago, Illinois June 27, 2011. A jury convicted Blagojevich on Monday of corruption for trying to trade the U.S. senate seat once held by President Barack Obama for financial and political gain. REUTERS/Frank Polich

A Linnaeus two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) is seen at a zoological park in Managua June 27, 2011. Nicaragua is hosting the first regional workshop of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

A man lifts weights made of rusty car parts at an improvised gym in Caracas June 16, 2011. As the cost of living in Venezuela's capital increases, residents are finding creative ways to keep in shape. Picture taken June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Flames from the Las Conchas fire burn in the hills above Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear facility, June 27, 2011. The fast-moving wildfire raged on Monday near the edge of the nation's preeminent nuclear facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a vast complex that houses research laboratories and a plutonium facility. Authorities said there was little threat to sensitive areas of the 28,000-acre complex, where explosives are stored in underground concrete and steel bunkers. REUTERS/Craig Fritz

Workers use electric irons to smooth out a Chinese flag on a table at the Beijing Jingong Red Flag factory located on the outskirts of Beijing June 28, 2011. The factory has made more than 30,000 Chinese national flags over the last three months for the upcoming celebrations to mark the 90th anniversary of China's Communist Party on July 1. REUTERS/David Gray

Boys look out from the back of an auto-rickshaw as they ride to school in Lahore June 28, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Managing Director Toshio Nishizawa speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo June 16, 2011. TEPCO will struggle to stay in business unless lawmakers quickly approve a bailout to help cover compensation for the thousands of residents forced to evacuate from around its Fukushima nuclear plant, said Nishizawa, who became its new president on June 28. Picture taken June 16, 2011. To match Interview TEPCO/ REUTERS/Toru Hanai

A performer dressed in Red Army uniform salutes at a revolutionary song singing event to celebrate the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Chongqing municipality June 28, 2011. China will celebrate the anniversary on July 1, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Lee

A protester wearing a gas mask walks beside a burning van during violent protests against austerity measures in Athens, June 28, 2011. With Greece teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, parliament is due to vote this week on a package of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations agreed as part of a massive bailout aimed at averting the euro zone's first default. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Hindu devotees perform a stunt during a rehearsal for the 134th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad June 28, 2011. The annual religious procession, which will be held on July 3, commemorates a journey by Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in specially made chariots. REUTERS/Amit Dave

NBA basketball player Dirk Nowitzki throws a basketball into the crowd of fans in front of the Wuerzburg Residenz during a visit to his German home town of Wuerzburg, June 28, 2011. Nowitzki became the first German to win an NBA title when his basketball team Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat last weeki, giving the Mavericks their first championship in their 31 year history. Nowitzki was also named the Most Valuable Player of the Championship series. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Boxers Floyd Mayweather (L) and WBC World Welterweight Champion Victor Ortiz (R) stare at each other during a news conference in New York, June 28, 2011, to announce their September 17, 2011 World Welterweight Championship bout in Las Vegas. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Protesters help a fellow demonstrator after he was injured by teargas and a stone in Tahrir square in Cairo June 28, 2011. Police fired teargas in Cairo's central Tahrir Square overnight on Wednesday at several hundred mainly Egyptian youths, some of whom threw stones and demanded that trials of former senior officials proceed more swiftly. Clashes broke out late on Tuesday in a nearby area of Cairo where families of some of the more than 840 people killed in the uprising that led to Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in February had gathered to honour those killed. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih

A child, covered with mud on his face, smiles after celebrating Asar Pandhra festival in Bhaktapur June 29, 2011. Farmers in Nepal celebrate the festival to mark the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

A protester takes cover during clashes with riot police in front of the Interior Ministry in Cairo June 29, 2011. Police in central Cairo fired tear gas on Wednesday at hundreds of mainly young stone-throwing Egyptians demanding that trials of former senior officials from the discredited Mubarak era proceed faster. Clashes broke out late on Tuesday in an area of the capital where some families of the more than 840 people killed in the uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in February held an event to honour those dead. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return to Mardy Fish of the U.S. during their quarter-final match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Men gesture as they sit in a police car after being detained in central Minsk, June 29, 2011. About one thousand people gathered in the Belarussian capital to take part in a flash mob Revolution via social network, but they were dispersed by police. Dozens of participants were detained during the action. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Spanish bullfighter Daniel Luque (C) waves before the start of a bullfight at the El Plantio bullring in Burgos, northern Spain, June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez

A girl drinks water at the Krinding Camp for internally displaced persons in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, June 29, 2011. The Darfur International Conference on Water for Sustainable Peace, organised by the Sudanese government and U.N. agencies, ended on Tuesday with plans to implement various water-related projects in the arid region. Darfur is the scene of an insurgency that has sparked a humanitarian emergency which has claimed 300,000 lives and driven more than 2 million people from their homes. REUTERS/ Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Police in riot gear stand guard before the Egyptian Premier League soccer match between Al-Ahly and Zamalek in Cairo June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

The sun shines through the smoke from the Las Conchas wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, June 29, 2011. The New Mexico wildfire raged largely unchecked for a fourth day near one of the nation's top nuclear arms production plants on Wednesday, but firefighters finally gained some ground in corralling the flames. REUTERS/Eric Draper

Ge Xiaoguang (L) uses an elevator in front of a giant portrait of China's late Chairman Maozedong in his working studio located between the Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing June 29, 2011. Reclusive Chinese painter Ge's art has gazed over one of the world's most famous city squares for decades. For 30 years, he has painted the portraits of former paramount leader Mao Zedong that look across Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The giant oil paintings of the Great Helmsman have kept watch from the Gate of Heavenly Peace since the Communist Party won the civil war and declared a New China on October 1, 1949. To match CHINA-PARTY/MAO Picture taken June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Barry Huang

A man walks past Monaco's and South Africa's national flags fashioned from two flowerbeds outside the Sainte Devote church in Monaco June 30, 2011. Charlene Wittstock, the fiancee of Prince Albert II of Monaco, will place her bouquet of flowers at the Sainte Devote church after the religious wedding ceremony on July 2. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Kaylyn Kyle of Canada and Gaetane Thiney (L) of France jump for the ball during their Women's World Cup Group A soccer match in Bochum June 30, 2011. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

Demonstrators gather around a barricade during a rally in Santiago city, June 30, 2011. Tens of thousands of students marched in Chile's capital on Thursday demanding changes in the public state education system. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrive at the National War Memorial in Ottawa June 30, 2011. The Royal couple arrived in Canada on Thursday for their first official visit overseas as a married couple. REUTERS/Blair Gable

Children play with giant bubbles as the sun sets at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, California June 30, 2011.
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A worker paints a dome of the Baiturrahman Mosque in Bekasi, Indonesia's West Java province July 1, 2011. REUTERS/Beawiharta

Ducati MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy takes a curve during the first practice session for the Italian motorcycling Grand Prix at Mugello circuit July 1, 2011. The race will take place on Sunday. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

Jockey Giovanni Atzeni of Oca (Goose) parish falls from his horse Mississippi, during a trial race at Del Campo square in Siena July 1, 2011. Almost every year without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders will compete bareback on July 2 and August 16, around Siena's shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child. REUTERS/Augusto Mattioli