Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 11

Schoolchildren wear padded hoods to protect them from falling debris during a disaster drill named Shakeout Tokyo at Izumi elementary school in Tokyo. ISSEI KATO/REUTERS

Palestinian demonstrators run away from tear gas fired by Israeli security officers during clashes at a weekly protest near Ramallah. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

Defected army soldiers backing anti-government protesters sit atop an armoured personnel carrier securing a rally in Sanaa. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Men and women take part in Huranga as others throw coloured powder at Dauji temple near Mathura. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

Anti-government protesters take cover in front of riot police blocking the road leading to Pearl Square in Manama. HAMAD I MOHAMMED/REUTERS

An anti-government protester holds a tear-gas canister fired by riot police blocking the road leading to Pearl Square in Manama. HAMAD I MOHAMMED/REUTERS

Girls skip a rope at the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan. STRINGER/REUTERS

Security guard prevents students from climbing a fence into the compound of the Cambridge Union Society in central England. PAUL HACKETT/REUTERS

A riot police officer attempts to take cover behind a passerby making a recording of the scene on his mobile phone, from protesters throwing stones during a student demonstration in Bogota. FREDY BUILES/REUTERS

Two ravens sit after sunset in a forest near the town of Cherven. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

A woman takes cover behind riot police as protesters throw stones during a demonstration in Bogota. FREDY BUILES/REUTERS

Model holds up her hands as she waits backstage before the Katty Xiomara Winter 2013 collection show during Lisbon Fashion Week. RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS

Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima. YURIKO NAKAO/REUTERS

The aurora borealis is seen on Beam Road above snow-covered tundras near Nome, Alaska. STRINGER/REUTERS

The Krasna Horka castle is seen on fire in the village of Krasnohorske Podhradie near Roznava. STRINGER/REUTERS

Buddhist monks walk in lines past people who have gathered for a mass alms-offering ceremony in Bangkok. SUKREE SUKPLANG/REUTERS

Children offer prayers for their parents, who were killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during the first anniversary of the disaster in Iwaki. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

Students study during classes in a hut, in the al-Zailaea village of the western Yemeni province of Houdieda. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Alexandra Malmgren is leapt upon by her Greyhound Radar on the final day of competition at the Crufts dog show in Birmingham. CHRIS HELGREN/REUTERS

Workers move a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex model into position at Chester Zoo. PHIL NOBLE/REUTERS

People cross a footbridge in front of cluster of traditional houses in Srinagar. FAYAZ KABLI/REUTERS

A street vendor sells peanuts at a street side in central Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

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Italian gymnast Vanessa Ferrari attends a training session to prepare for the Olympics in Brescia. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS

Kohari, known as Slovak Batman, cleans up around his home in town of Dunajska Streda. RADOVAN STOKLASA/REUTERS

The Aurora Australis is seen in this handout picture taken on board the International Space Station between Antarctica and Australia. NASA/REUTERS

A girl with hearing challenges cries after her ears were cleaned during an event held by Starkey Hearing Foundation at St. Monica in Gulu. STRINGER/REUTERS

Nissan's new Deltawing racing car is seen after it was unveiled in London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS

An anthropologist looks at a shoe as she works in a mass grave in the former Regional Command headquarters of the Guatemalan Army in Coban. JORGE DAN LOPEZ/REUTERS

Panelling hangs down from the Brooklyn Bridge after it was struck by a crane passing underneath in New York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

A helicopter takes off from the entrance of a tunnel into which a foreign coach crashed in Sierre. DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS

Emergency services work on the wreckage of a bus that crashed into a motorway tunnel in Sierre. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A U.S. Marine watches as an Osprey carrying U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta arrives at Forward Operating Base Shukvani. POOL/REUTERS

A woman and her son sit inside an electric tricycle as they drive along a road in Beijing. DAVID GRAY/REUTERS

Noori, a cloned Pashmina goat, is seen at SKUAST, in Shuhama. FAYAZ KABLI/REUTERS

The pods on the London Eye casts shadows against a thick morning fog as the spring sun shine begins to burn it off in central London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS

An East Timorese child runs as sea water hits the wall on Dili beach. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

Ferry passes a rental car stranded in the ocean at Oyster Point. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Men wear cardboard hats depicting Apple's new iPad as they stand in line to purchase tablet in front of Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS