Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 18

People assist an injured woman at the scene of an explosion in Dnipropetrovsk. STRINGER/REUTERS

Lebanese Druze men mourn the death of Sheikh Abou Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, the head of the spiritual Druze council around his body lying in a glass coffin at his house in Baakline village in the Chouf area, Mount Lebanon. MOHAMED AZAKIR/REUTERS

An armed police officer walks in Tottenham Court Road in central London. LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS

The Soyuz TMA-22 capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew lands in Kazakhstan. POOL/REUTERS

Still image taken from video shows blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng holding a petition in his village home in Linyi in eastern Shandong province. REUTERS TV/REUTERS

Armed police officers walk in Tottenham Court Road in central London. LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS

Customers purchase vegetables from a roadside vendor amid fumes caused by a municipal worker fumigating a residential colony at Noida. PARIVARTAN SHARMA/REUTERS

Space shuttle Enterprise, riding atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies past the skyline of Manhattan as seen from Weehawken, New Jersey during a flyover in New York. GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS

Former Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko shows what she claims an injury in the Kachanivska prison in Kharkiv, in this undated handout picture. HANDOUT/REUTERS

NATO peacekeepers from Austria march together after arriving at Djakovica Airport in Kosovo. HAZIR REKA/REUTERS

U.S. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama pay respects to fallen Fort Stewart in Georgia. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

The Black Sea is seen at dusk in Mamaia seaside resort. RADU SIGHETI/REUTERS

Space Shuttle Enterprise, riding atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies past skyline of Manhattan as seen from Weehawken. GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS

A student organizes his papers before meeting with potential employers at the Big Apple Job and Internship Fair in New York. ANDREW BURTON/REUTERS

Fishermen stand on Havana's seafront boulevard El Malecon as the sun sets. DESMOND BOYLAN/REUTERS

A protester shouts during clashes with the police in Kuala Lumpur. STRINGER/MALAYSIA/REUTERS

Protester lies on road to stop riot police vehicle firing water cannon from advancing during clashes in Kuala Lumpur. STRINGER/MALAYSIA/REUTERS

Armed policemen are seen through the shattered window of a police van which was damaged during a firefight in Karachi's Lyari area. ATHAR HUSSAIN/REUTERS

People stroll under pink cherry blossoms in a Stockholm park. SCANPIX SWEDEN/REUTERS

A woman stands in in front of her shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS

Girls dressed in evening gowns pose for photograph at Zocalo square in Mexico City. EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

Handout photo of the exterior of a mountainside bunker where King County Police found the body, thought to be that of suspect Peter Keller near North Bend. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A Kuna indigenous boy dives into the water as his friends watch on Gardi Sugdub Island in Comarca de Kuna Yala at the San Blas region. STRINGER/REUTERS

Comedian Robin Williams reacts after receiving the Stand Up Icon Award during the second annual 2012 Comedy Awards in New York. STEPHEN CHERNIN/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama laughs at comedian Jimmy Kimmel at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner in Washington. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

Students from the Yermolov Cadet School rest during a training march outside the southern Russian city of Stavropol. EDUARD KORNIYENKO/REUTERS

People raise their hands to vote during the annual Landsgemeinde meeting at a square in the town of Appenzell. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS

Francois Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election arrives to deliver a speech during a campaign rally in Paris. JACKY NAEGELEN/REUTERS

Armed tribal militants man a checkpoint on a road linking the Yemeni capital Sanaa with the oil-rich province of Marib. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Girls dance in Gijon's seafront to celebrate International Dance Day. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS

A rock fan gestures as he crowd surfs during a performance at the 2012 Strawberry Music Festival at Tongzhou Canal Park in Beijing. BARRY HUANG/REUTERS

Investigators work at scene of crash where van carrying seven drove off highway overpass in New York. KEITH BEDFORD/REUTERS

Churchgoers perform as they dance with signs and flags during Sunday service at First AME Church in Los Angeles. HYUNGWON KANG/REUTERS

An Airbus A330-300 aircraft of Taiwan's Eva Airlines is seen with Hello Kitty motifs in Taoyuan International Airport, northern Taiwan. PICHI CHUANG/REUTERS

A North Korean soldier gestures toward a Chinese tourist boat after monitoring with a pair of binoculars on the bank of Hwanggumpyong island. JACKY CHEN/REUTERS

Sun Fengqin, participates in a pole-dancing class in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

Suitcases are piled up behind check-in desk test run at airport terminal of the future Berlin Brandenburg international airport Willy Brandt (BER) in Schoenefeld. TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS

Vicky, a 40-year-old, Canadian-born, Greek drug addict, prepares a cocktail known as speedball, a cocaine and heroin mix, on a central Athens sidestreet. YANNIS BEHRAKIS/REUTERS

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands walks in a ticker tape parade during the annual Queens' day in Veenendaal. POOL/REUTERS

Job seeker Mugavero waits in front of the training offices of Local Union 46 in the Queens borough of New York. KEITH BEDFORD/REUTERS

Russian servicemen line up before a rehearsal for the annual Victory Day parade in Red Square in Moscow. MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS

Luiza Ezaledo undergoes a session of hydrotherapy at the AACD in Sao Paulo. NACHO DOCE/REUTERS

A left-wing protestor light flares during a protest ahead of May Day demonstrations in Berlin's Wedding district. FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS

Russian servicemen take part in a rehearsal for the annual Victory Day parade in Red Square in Moscow. MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS

Attendees of the 9/11 Memorial are seen from the 90th story of One World Trade Center in New York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prepare to give a news conference after their meeting at Suu Kyi's home in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

Armed North Korean soldiers joke with Chinese tourists as they keep guard at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong. JACKY CHEN/REUTERS

A girl stands on a plot of farmland in the area of Bani Matar. MOHAMED AL-SAYAGHI/REUTERS

File photo of BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch and his father, News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch, are questioned by parliamentary committee on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London. REUTERS TV/REUTERS

France's President and UMP party candidate for his re-election in the 2012 French presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy waves to supporters as he arrives on stage at Trocadero square in Paris. PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS

Cuba's President Castro gestures at May Day parade in Havana's Revolution Square. DESMOND BOYLAN/REUTERS

A man protesting against a ban on selling cannabis to foreigners pretends to smoke a mock joint in front of the central train station in Maastricht. MICHAEL KOOREN/REUTERS

A SPLA-N fighter stands near Gos village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS

A medic wearing a gas mask is seen during May Day demonstrations in Los Angeles. JASON REDMOND/REUTERS

A left-wing protestor rests on a street during May Day demonstrations in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS

Occupy Wall Street movement activist Jeremy Deheart is arrested by police during a march through downtown Manhattan, New York. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

Riot policemen stand guard after being hit by paint balls from students in clashes during International Workers' Day, or May Day, at the central square of Bogota. JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ/REUTERS

Masked protestors attempt to smash the glass storefront of an American Apparel store during May Day demonstrations in downtown Seattle. ANTHONY BOLANTE/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama salutes troops at Bagram Air Base in Kabul. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Demonstrator is arrested during a rally on the streets of Oakland as part of nationwide May Day protests, in California. JANA ASENBRENNEROVA/REUTERS

Sana plays on a cloth sling hanging from a signalling pole as smoke from a garbage dump rises next to a railway track in Mumbai. VIVEK PRAKASH/REUTERS

A trainer and his female student box under a street light in Sydney. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

Smoke is seen after UAE F-16 fighter jets fired missiles during joint military manoeuvres with the French army in the desert of Abu Dhabi. STRINGER/REUTERS

South Koreans attend a candle-lit rally demanding a full ban on the import of U.S. beef, in Seoul. KIM HONG-JI/REUTERS

Tear gas fired by Israeli troops falls near Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes near Ramallah. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

A man uses a mobile phone to take a photograph of his friends on the demolished site of a compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. MIAN KHURSHEED/REUTERS

Conservative supporters during a pre-election rally in the town of Thessaloniki. GRIGORIS SIAMIDIS/REUTERS

Actress Scarlett Johansson poses by her star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS

A gang member and inmate stands near masked police officers inside the jail in Quetzaltepeque. STRINGER/EL SALVADOR/REUTERS

Researchers dressed in panda costumes transfer giant panda Tao Tao to new living environment in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Women march during a demonstration demanding a trial for Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Pedestrian walks past traditional colonial-era Board House on Pademba Road in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. FINBARR O'REILLY/REUTERS

Nepalese police personnel charge at the people suspected of creating trouble during the chariot festival of Rato Machhindranath in Lalitpur. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Researcher closes cage door after giant panda Tao Tao climbed in, in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Britain's Queen Elizabeth inspects the guards during the ceremony to present new colours to the 1st Battalion and No. 7 Company the Coldstream Guards at Windsor Castle, near London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS

Italian Carabinieri with bulletproof vests stand in front of office of Equitalia in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. ALESSANDRO GAROFALO/REUTERS

Michele Bachmann speaks next to Mitt Romney during a rally at Crofton Industries in Portsmouth. MARK MAKELA/REUTERS

Model Linda Evangelista leaves Manhattan Family Court after facing her former beau Francois Henri-Pinault in New York. ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS

Lawmakers celebrate at the end of a debate in the Argentine Congress over the nationalization of Argentina's biggest oil company YPF in Buenos Aires. ENRIQUE MARCARIAN/REUTERS

A man offers butter lamp near the chariot of Rato Machhindranath in Lalitpur. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Combo of still images taken from video shows Argentine Olympics hockey player Fernando Zylberberg training in Port Stanley. REUTERS TV/REUTERS

Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat hold up a banner near the Finnish icebreaker Nordica in the Baltic Sea, close to Ruegen island. HANDOUT/REUTERS