Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 29

Babies are baptised during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi. DAVID MDZINARISHVILI/REUTERS

Supporters of Awami Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan burn a U.S flag during anti-American rally in Quetta. NASEER AHMED/REUTERS

Art student Mackenroth poses with 194 bread loafs in Munich. MICHAELA REHLE/REUTERS

Riot police arrest a woman during a protest outside the Spanish socialist PSOE party headquarters in Madrid. JUAN MEDINA/REUTERS

Lighting strikes over a barn surrounded by a soybean crop in Donnellson, Iowa. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

Alphajet planes from the Patrouille de France fly over the Invalides in Paris. CHARLES PLATIAU/REUTERS

A riot police hits demonstrators outside the Spanish socialist PSOE party headquarters in Madrid. JUAN MEDINA/REUTERS

Herring hugs a neighbor as Cooper looks on in Village Trailer Park in Santa Monica. LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS

The French Republican Guard ride down the Champs Elysees during the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris. PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS

Tourists play in mud during the opening day of the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong. LEE JAE-WON/REUTERS

Gigantes dance during a farewell ceremony on the last day of San Fermin festival's Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos in Pamplona. SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Lighting strikes over Saint Joseph cathedral during a storm in Hanoi. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in the reain during a campaign event in Glen Allen. JASON REED/REUTERS

A double rainbow appears after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight Nevada. GENE BLEVINS/REUTERS

Spanish bullfighter Padilla kneels down in front of a bull during the last bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Protesters try to extinguish flames from a protester after he set himself on fire during a demonstration calling for social justice in Tel Aviv. STRINGER/ISRAEL/REUTERS

The Eiffel Tower is illuminated during the traditional Bastille Day fireworks display in Paris. GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS

Contestants stand backstage during the Boy and Girl Fitness Sao Paulo 2012 contest in Sao Paulo. PAULO WHITAKER/REUTERS

International Space Station crew member Japanese astronaut Hoshide waves after reporting to members of the State Committee before the launch of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft at Baikonur cosmodrome. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visits Kyongsang Kindergarten. KCNA/REUTERS

A boy stands as a goal keeper as children play soccer on a road in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

People look at a bus, which was carrying Hindu pilgrims, after it fell into an irrigation canal near the pilgrimage site of Triveni. STRINGER/REUTERS

Two members of the Free Syrian Army hold their weapons as they take defense positions in a house in El Moalimin neighborhood in Homs. STRINGER/REUTERS

Luke Pritchard of British indie rock band The Kooks performs at the Optimus Alive Festival. HUGO CORREIA/REUTERS

Supporters of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles reach out to him as he greets them during a presidential election rally in Caracas. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS

The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA/REUTERS

Girls rest on a straw art installation during the 7th Straw - Land Art Festival in Osijek. ANTONIO BRONIC/REUTERS

Workers unload oil palm fruits in a state-owned crude palm oil processing unit in North Sumatra. STRINGER/INDONESIA/REUTERS

A Hindu devotee takes a dip at the Bagmati River while she takes part in the Bol Bom (or Say Shiva) pilgrimage in Kathmandu. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Beekeeper Titov watches as his daughter Anastasia uses his self-made fitness apparatus at his farm outside the village of Novopyatnitskoye. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung throws defaced mask with long nose towards Chun-ying at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. BOBBY YIP/REUTERS

A Kashmiri government teacher shouts anti-government slogans from inside a police van after he was detained during a protest in Srinagar. FAYAZ KABLI/REUTERS

Shaped in the form of an aeroplane, an attendant opens the door to the entrance of a cave that was once the headquarters of former Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao, located in mountains on the outskirts of Beijing. DAVID GRAY/REUTERS

A young Tibetan monk laughs as he waits for a free medical examination at a hospital in Henan Autonomous County. SHENG LI/REUTERS

An ultra-Orthodox Jew man encourages boys to pray during a protest in Jerusalem. RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS

U.S. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are shown kissing on the Kiss Cam screen during a timeout in the Olympic basketball exhibition game between the U.S. and Brazil national men's teams in Washington. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS

Paratroopers from Chosen Company of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry board a waiting CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Young divers attend a training session at a gymnasium in Hefei. JIANAN YU/REUTERS

A visitor peers down inside the Smithsonian Institution's American Indian Museum in Washington. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Damaged buildings are seen in Juret al-Shayah. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A woman crosses a road as activists from the Communist Party of India hang onto doorway of a bus along with their fellow protestors while shouting slogans in Kolkata. RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS

Soldiers perform during a ceremony, attended by Egypt's new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi at the Egyptian military academy in Cairo. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Current and former HSBC Bank executives are sworn in before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington. GARY CAMERON/REUTERS

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visits former South African President Nelson Mandela at his home in Qunu. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Trajineras are seen parked at one of the canals of Xochimilco in Mexico City. TOMAS BRAVO/REUTERS

A festival-goer wearing a rabbit head, watches French band M83 as they perform during the 37th Paleo music festival in Nyon. DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS

Teenaged fans react as Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs at an early morning promotional event in Sydney. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

A man is pictured in front of an effigy of demon Ghantakarna to symbolize the destruction of evil while celebrating the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

A boy with his umbrella arrives to participate for the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Cambodian troops in armoured vehicles take part in a military withdrawal ceremony near the Preah Vihear temple. STRINGER/REUTERS

A motor tricycle loaded with recyclable plastic bottles drives along a street in Taiyuan. STRINGER/CHINA/REUTERS

A herd of endangered Przewalski horses gallop across the Takhin Us National Park. PETR JOSEK/REUTERS

Hungarian Csatary, suspected of war crimes against Jews during Word War Two, leaves the prosecution building in Budapest. LASZLO BALOGH/REUTERS

A naked man salutes a police vehicle in the middle of a street in Hefei. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Russian President Putin attends a news conference with Turkish PM Erdogan in Moscow's Kremlin. SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS

The Petermann Glacier grinds and slides toward the sea terminating in a giant floating ice tongue along the northwestern coast of Greenland. NASA/REUTERS

Flames move towards houses in Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira. DUARTE SA/REUTERS

Firefighters walk on collapsed rooftop of Hitachi Air Conditioning manufacturing factory in Kadi. AMIT DAVE/REUTERS

A Siberian tiger cub plays with its mother Amurskaya at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien. MATHIEU BELANGER/REUTERS

Firefighters pose naked in front of a banner during a demonstration against government cuts inside their fire station in Mieres. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS

Paramilitary soldiers take part in a catching and grappling training in mud in Chuzhou. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

A combination of still pictures taken from CCTV surveillance camera shows the suspected bomber at Burgas airport. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Angela Merkel lines up to vote on a Spanish bank aid package in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament in Berlin. THOMAS PETER/REUTERS

DigitalGlobe Satellite image shows a tank on 6th Rishreen road in Qabun neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A Belgian Air Force F16 fighter aircraft flies over Belgium, during a rehearsal for the country's National Day traditional military parade. YVES HERMAN/REUTERS

A firefighter sprays water inside a burning home during a forest fire near the town of Keratea south of Athens. JOHN KOLESIDIS/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with greeters on a rain-soaked tarmac upon landing in Jacksonville. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama waves to supporters at a campaign event in Jacksonville. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Smoke from forest and bush fires rise from the mountains on the Portuguese island of Madeira behind a regional flag. DUARTE SA/REUTERS

A girl poses with a picture of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on her face as she plays with foam thrown by firefighters during a protest against government austerity measures in Madrid. SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Friends and families of victims killed in an attack in Bulgaria, sit near their coffins during a ceremony near Tel Aviv. RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS

A combination photograph of a 1948 Ford Deluxe sedan and the same model transformed into a pickup truck in Havana. DESMOND BOYLAN/REUTERS

Rescue personnel work near the derailed locomotive of the Vidarbha Express and a local commuter train near Kasara. VIVEK PRAKASH/REUTERS

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei walks out of his studio in Beijing. PETAR KUJUNDZIC/REUTERS

An employee sits in front of a poster advertising the New iPad at an Apple dealership in Wuhan. DARLEY SHEN/REUTERS

Israeli soldier stands guard as Palestinians wait to cross into Jerusalem at Israel's checkpoint outside Ramallah, on the first Friday of Ramadan. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

A taxi drives beside an Olympic traffic lane in Westminster. NEIL HALL/REUTERS