Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 20

Residents untie the hose of a cement mixer to douse water on a fire engulfing houses at a slum community in Manila. CHERYL RAVELO/REUTERS

Baboons climb into a Hyundai i30 hatchback at Knowsley Safari Park during a promotional event by the manufacturer to test the car's durability in Merseyside. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Members of the Samaritan sect take part in the traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover near Nablus. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

A woman walks past a graffiti art of Colombian artist Stinkfish at the Poliniza Festival of Urban Art at the Polytechnic University in Valencia. HEINO KALIS/REUTERS

A resident holds on to his belongings while floating in the waters of Manila bay as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila. CHERYL RAVELO/REUTERS

Fireworks explode during the opening ceremony for the 2012 Yeosu Expo. YONHAP/REUTERS

A man is silhouetted against the setting sun as he walks with his camel in the outskirts of Karachi. ATHAR HUSSAIN/REUTERS

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite holds hand of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko during her visit to a hospital in Kharkiv. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Giant ants appear to crawl up and down facade of Fausto Theater, in sculpture created by Colombian artist Barros, during exhibition set up for Havana Biennal. ENRIQUE DE LA OSA/REUTERS

Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of ash and steam high into the air in Puebla. STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS

An employee carries a pelican from its cage to an open air enclosure, during summer, at the Royev Ruchey zoo, on the suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

A Leica 0 series camera, number 116, is seen on a shelf in Westlicht gallery in Vienna. LEONHARD FOEGER/REUTERS

Onlookers walk past a stranded Taiwanese fishing trawler, which ran aground, in thick fog off Cape Town's popular Clifton beach. MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS

Romney watches proceedings during the commencement ceremony at Liberty University in Lynchburg. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

A woman cries as she mourns her deceased relative in Minxian county, Gansu province. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

A demonstrators wears a Guy Fawkes mask during a protest marking the one year anniversary of Spain's Indignados (Indignant) movement in Puerta del Sol. PAUL HANNA/REUTERS

Policemen take pictures of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft during transportation to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

Palestinian protester gestures in front of a U.N. vehicle during a protest in Gaza City. MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS

Buddhists pray during a ceremony to commemorate the birth of Buddha, at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. PICHI CHUANG/REUTERS

Rescue team stand below as a helicopter lifts up logistical supplies at the peak of Mount Salak, near Sukabumi. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

An Indonesian soldier eats breakfast, in the early morning, before embarking on a search and rescue mission for possible casualties from the Sukhoi Superjet air crash on top of Mount Salak. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

A Sunni Muslim gunman fires during clashes at the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. STRINGER/REUTERS

Kraft, top candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Loehrmann of the Greens hug each other before giving a TV interview following the NRW federal state election in Duesseldorf. KAI PFAFFENBACH/REUTERS

Lord's Resistance Army commander Caesar Achellam is presented to the media in Djema. JAMES AKENA/REUTERS

Women stand on 'The Human Floor' as he lays on a bed of broken glass at the Watch City Festival celebrating Steampunk in Waltham. JESSICA RINALDI/REUTERS

An abandoned building stands in the middle of ploughed fields on the outskirts of Venice. DAVID GRAY/REUTERS

Madame Tussauds employee Lisa Burton poses with a paintbrush on a new figure of Britan's Queen Elizabeth, produced in honour of her Diamond Jubilee in London. SUZANNE PLUNKETT/REUTERS

To match story CHINA/INSTANT-BUILDING/. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Tattoo artist Dave Hurban displays an iPod Nano which he has attached to his wrists through magnetic piercings in his wrist in New York. KEITH BEDFORD/REUTERS

Haitians purchase cow heads and skin from a truck of a Dominican vendor during the bi-weekly market in Dajabon. STRINGER/REUTERS

The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft carrying an International Space Station (ISS) crew blasts off from its launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

A morpho peleides butterfly lays its eggs, while two ants surround one, in Butterfly Garden in La Guacima. JUAN CARLOS ULATE/REUTERS

France's newly-elected President Holland and outgoing President Sarkozy say goodbye on the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris. PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS

A rainbow is seen in the sky as lightning strikes after a rainstorm in Haikou. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Fuel tankers, which were used to carry fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, are parked at a compound in Karachi. ATHAR HUSSAIN/REUTERS

A woman holds her malnourished child inside the pediatric ward at Banadir Hospital of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. OMAR FARUK/REUTERS

France's new President Francois Hollande stands up in his car as he rides up the Champs-Elysees after the handover ceremony in Paris. REGIS DUVIGNAU/REUTERS

Anna-Rae Douglass sorts through a dumpster for edible food behind an organic grocery store in Coquitlam, British Columbia. BEN NELMS/REUTERS

Head of Greece's Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting in Athens. YORGOS KARAHALIS/REUTERS

Lebanese soldiers point their rifles as they are deployed after clashes between Sunni Muslim Salafists and supporters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in the old souk of Tripoli. MOHAMED AZAKIR/REUTERS

A boy smokes a hookah, or waterpipe, as he sits at a waterpipe delivery service shop in a poor neigborhood south of Beirut. JAMAL SAIDI/REUTERS

Yawalapiti youth chief Anuia leads a dance in the Xingu National Park. UESLEI MARCELINO/REUTERS

German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande listen to national anthems during a ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin. THOMAS PETER/REUTERS

A forensic technician lifts the legs of a dead woman at a crime scene in San Pedro on the outskirts of Monterrey. STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS

Injured people, with blood on their faces, walk after an explosion in a central avenue in Bogota. FREDY BUILES/REUTERS

Firminger holds an elver in Portland. JOEL PAGE/REUTERS

A German riot police woman is covered with paint after being attacked by demonstrators as police clears the camp of occupy protestors in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. KAI PFAFFENBACH/REUTERS

Cast member Willis poses during a photocall at the 65th Cannes Film Festival,. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

Handout photo of a Burundian soldier serving with the AMISOM, manning a position along a defensive line in the area surrounding Baidoa airstrip, in central Somalia. HANDOUT/REUTERS

An Egyptian man walks in front of a wall sprayed with graffiti in downtown Cairo. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny. VALENTIN FLAURAUD/REUTERS

Uggie, the dog from the film The Artist, is interviewed by Larry King before the start of the Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York. ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS

Artists Emily Frankoski and Dolores Bilke paint a tornado damaged tree in Joplin. ERIC THAYER/REUTERS

A man smokes inside the theater before a show at Pamir Cinema in Kabul. DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS

Mejra Dzogaz prays near the graves of her two sons before the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in Potocari, near Srebrenica. DADO RUVIC/REUTERS

A gay rights activist clashes with an Orthodox Christian activist in Tbilisi. DAVID MDZINARISHVILI/REUTERS

Free Syrian Army fighters shout Allahu Akbar near Deraa. REUTERS TV/REUTERS

NASA handout image taken from the International Space Station. NASA/REUTERS

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip cruise around Liverpool's Albert Dock on a converted amphibious landing craft. STRINGER/REUTERS

Handout photo of George Zimmerman's head. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Barn owls chicks sit in a box in Israel's Beit Shean Valley, near the border with Jordan. BAZ RATNER/REUTERS

Director Audiard arrives on the red carpet with cast members Schoenaerts and Cotillard for the screening of the film De rouille et d'os at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. YVES HERMAN/REUTERS

Maintenance man laughs as an actor dressed as the character Baby Nadder from film How To Train Your Dragon makes his way through pedestrians in New York. KEITH BEDFORD/REUTERS

A woman walks past riot policemen in La Paz. DAVID MERCADO/REUTERS

Transgendered contestant Talackova takes part in Miss Universe Canada competition wearing her evening gown in Toronto. MARK BLINCH/REUTERS

Marylebone Cricket Club members read newspapers as they wait in a queue outside the ground at Lord's cricket ground in London. PHILIP BROWN/REUTERS