Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 13

Trucks loaded with trash wait in line to offload at the Olusosun dump site in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos. AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS

An anti-government protester returns tear gas fired by riot police at them during clashes in the village of Jidhafds. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

Women supporters of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh hold up Saleh's posters during a rally marking his 70th birthday anniversary in Sanaa. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Riot police fire teargas during clashes with anti-government protesters in the village of Jidhafds. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

Workers talk in an external elevator while descending from the top floors of One World Trade Center as the building nears 100 stories tall in New York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Some tens of thousands of Buddhist monks arrive for a mass alms-offering ceremony in Bangkok's Chinatown. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS

A man preps a hot air balloon during the last day of the International Hot Air Balloon festival in Sentul, Bogor. SUPRI/REUTERS

Pope Benedict XVI addressing the crowd after arriving in Leon. CLAUDIA DAUT/REUTERS

Ironworkers work while balancing on support beams above the 93rd floor of One World Trade Center as the building nears 100 stories tall in New York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Palestinian nurse tends to a baby inside an incubator in a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/REUTERS

A hippopotamus opens its mouth as visitors feed him at Yangon Zoo. STAFF/REUTERS

Riot police standing guard are pictured through a protester's cutout during a rally outside the Cairo convention centre against the formation of a constituent assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama looks along the DMZ looking North from South Korea. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

A man holds up a kite as he helps to fly it at a demolition site near residential areas in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. PILLAR LEE/REUTERS

Gwen Lawrence, of Sanford, Florida, mourns during a candlelight vigil for Trayvon Martin in Sanford. DAVID MANNING/REUTERS

Pope Benedict XVI wears a sombrero while being driven through the crowd before officiating mass in Silao. OSSERVATORE ROMANO/REUTERS

German shepherd dogs are tested at a local cynologist police centre in Krasnoyarsk. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

Wife of Sergeant Silvestri reacts as she arrives along with other relatives at Ciampino Airport near Rome. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS

Protesters attack a petrol station with sticks and bricks during a protest against power cuts in Lahore. MOHSIN RAZA/REUTERS

Student protesters burn tyres during a demonstration against the government's plans to raise fuel prices in Makassar. YUSUF AHMAD/REUTERS

A Tibetan exile runs after setting himself on fire during a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu in New Delhi. STRINGER/INDIA/REUTERS

A man stands on a visitor platform beside the Rhine Falls in the town of Neuhausen south of Schaffhausen. ARND WIEGMANN/REUTERS

Sweden's Princess Victoria holds her baby daughter Princess Estelle. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Vehicles destroyed by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami are seen piled up in Ishinomaki. ISSEI KATO/REUTERS

A student protester runs as police shoot fire crackers during a clash against the government's plans to raise fuel prices in Jakarta. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

U.S. servicemen sit after boarding a transport plane before leaving for Afghanistan at the U.S. transit center at Manas airport near Bishkek. VLADIMIR PIROGOV/REUTERS

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks to local supporters during a tour in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs. SANA/REUTERS

France's President and UMP party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections Nicolas Sarkozy delivers his speech as he attends a political rally in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes. STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS

Combination of handout pictures released by the University of Maryland Medical Center shows Richard Norris before and after his face transplant surgery. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Colombian judicial police transport the remains of FARC rebels killed during a dawn attack in Meta, at the Military Base Apiay in Villavicencio. JOHN VIZCAINO/REUTERS

An untitled art piece from Australian artist Stephen Birch is seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan walk near Fuxing Road in Shanghai. STRINGER/REUTERS

The Abah River Flying Frog, commonly known as Wallace's flying frog, is seen in a terrarium of the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

Palestinian runner Maslaha stretches as she practises at a field belonging to her family near Nablus. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

A JetBlue pilot is removed from the plane after erratic behavior forced the crew to land in Amarillo Texas. STRINGER/REUTERS

Pope Benedict XVI meets former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana. OSSERVATORE ROMANO/REUTERS

Handout photo shows Beyonce, possibly the world's smallest dog, on an iPhone. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Mourners hold a candlelight vigil to remember Shaima Alawadi outside her home in El Cajon, California. MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS

Hard-boiled eggs are cooked in boys' urine on a street in Dongyang. ALY SONG/REUTERS

A Humboldt Penguin dives off a board as a heron takes a fish at London Zoo in London. TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS

A Tibetan exile shouts slogans inside a car after being detained by police during a protest in New Delhi against the visit of Chinese President Hu to India. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

Protesters crowd Madrid's Puerta del Sol square during a rally at the end of a nationwide general strike. PAUL HANNA/REUTERS

A protester wearing a mask of Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs performs a street drama in Hong Kong. BOBBY YIP/REUTERS

People travel onboard a ferry across a river in Yangon. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS

Masked special forces police escort a member of the Islamist community under heavy guard in Coueron. STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS

Child looks at an Bornean orangutan cub at a city zoo in Moscow. SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS

Bottles of Schorschbock beer are pictured at the Schorschbraeu brewery in Gunzenhausen. MICHAELA REHLE/REUTERS

Palestinian protesters hide behind a stone wall during clashes with Israeli security officers on Land Day in East Jerusalem. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS