Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 51

A woman comforts a young girl, during a vigil service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown. POOL/REUTERS

Supporters of Moon gather for Moon's campaign in central Seoul. LEE JAE-WON/REUTERS

A soldier of Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSBIH) takes position during an exercise on the Manjaca mountain. DADO RUVIC/REUTERS

Member of Brazil's Roofless Movement plays with a soccer ball in the courtyard of one of the 11 empty buildings that the movement took over recently, in the centre of Sao Paulo. NACHO DOCE/REUTERS

Fighter from the moderate Ahlu Sunna forces stands on guard, as security is tightened during a public gathering in the area of Dhusamareeb in central Somalia. FEISAL OMAR/REUTERS

A memorial is seen along the road to Sandy Hook Elementary School a day after a mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

Paramilitary policemen shovel debris to search for trapped residents at a collapsed residential building in Ningbo. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Reservist Greek army commandos and Coast Guard officers retrieve the corpse of an immigrant on a coast of the island of Lesvos. STRINGER/REUTERS

Two women paddle on stand up paddle boards at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. PILAR OLIVARES/REUTERS

Recording artist Ciara performs during a tribute to Michael Jackson at the VH1 Divas 2012 show in Los Angeles. DANNY MOLOSHOK/REUTERS

Participants launch sky lanterns during an event in Puebla, near Mexico City. STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS

Mount Lokon spews volcanic ash during an eruption in Tomohon in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. STRINGER/INDONESIA/REUTERS

Afghan villagers stand around the bodies of girls who were killed by an explosion in Jalalabad. PARWIZ/REUTERS

Jacintha Saldanha's widower Barboza and her children Lisha and Junal mourn during her funeral at a cemetery in Shirva. DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS

A boatman arranges wishing spheres floating on the Singapore river. EDGAR SU/REUTERS

Seven-month-old malnourished child awaits medical tests at the paediatric ward of the Banadir hospital in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. ISMAIL TAXTA/REUTERS

A man feeds seagulls at the Cais das Colunas, in front of the Tagus River in Lisbon. RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS

Hearse carrying the casket of six-year-old Jack Pinto is driven to the Newtown Village Cemetery during his funeral service in Newtown, Connecticut,. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

File photo shows a passerby photographing an Apple store logo with his Samsung Galaxy phone, in central Sydney. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

A girl looks out from the entrance door of a temple as her mother offers daily prayers inside the temple in Lalitpur. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Villagers stand around an ancestral tomb which is being relocated from a construction site of a residential compound in Taiyuan. JON WOO/REUTERS

Two women play in the snow in an air temperature of about minus 30 degrees Celcius in Krasnoyarsk. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

Britain's Queen Elizabeth poses with members of the cabinet in the Pillarded Room of Number 10 Downing Street in London. POOL/REUTERS

Female ANP trainees fire their weapons at the shooting range at a training centre near army camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif. FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS

A worker wheels electrical goods across an empty shop floor at a Comet store in Leicester central England. DARREN STAPLES/REUTERS

A fisherman carries a shark on his back from the Indian Ocean waters to the market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. ISMAIL TAXTA/REUTERS

A restorer works on a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a laboratory in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS

Children look out through condensation in the windows of school bus number 26 as it pulls into Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Free Syrian Army fighters from Al-Farooq battalion remove a poster of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad from a military hospital after the fighters said they fought and defeated government troops in Halfaya. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A chimpanzee eats a pineapple after receiving a Christmas basket at Rio de Janeiro's zoo. RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS

A Ferris wheel is seen as part of Christmas activities on Massena square in Nice. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

Christmas trees for sale are silhouetted at sunset on Promenade Des Anglais in Nice. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

Hooded workers protest against Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica's job cuts in Barcelona. ALBERT GEA/REUTERS

People on ice skates pause near a statue, on the artificial rink built for the Christmas holiday season, across from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. CHARLES PLATIAU/REUTERS

Members of Egypt's Republican Guard Force stand atop a tank as protesters opposing President Mursi demonstrate in front of the presidential palace in Cairo. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Clowns pose for a group photo before a mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. TOMAS BRAVO/REUTERS

Cambodian soldiers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon salute during a send-off ceremony in Phnom Penh. SAMRANG PRING/REUTERS

Still image from video shows a man, waving a knife in his hand, attacking a girl as he enters an elementary school in Guangshan county, Henan province. REUTERS TV/REUTERS

International Space Station crew members Russian cosmonaut Romanenko, U.S. astronaut Marshburn and Canadian astronaut Hadfield joke as they talk with relatives after putting on their space suits at the Baikonur cosmodrome. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

A worker looks out of a chimney while renovating it at a brick factory in Lalitpur. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

An Afghan police officer walks in front of a burned pile of illegal narcotics in the outskirts of Jalalabad. PARWIZ/REUTERS

The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew blasts off from its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew blasts off from its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

South Korea's presidential candidate Park waves as she holds a bouquet of flowers after arriving at the headquarters of the ruling Saenuri party in Seoul. POOL/REUTERS

Confiscated weapons hang from a magnet before being destroyed at a foundry in Santiago. IVAN ALVARADO/REUTERS

Amanda Curran, daughter of Bullet Blocker inventor Joe Curran, demonstrates how to use a child's bulletproof backpack, outside Curran's home in Billerica, Massachusetts. JESSICA RINALDI/REUTERS

The seven-foot-tall number 13, to be used atop One Times Square, arrives outside the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center in New York. ANDREW BURTON/REUTERS

Miss USA Culpo waves after being crowned during the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas. STEVE MARCUS/REUTERS

Pedestrians cast shadows on the sidewalk near the headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

Window cleaners dressed as Santa Claus work at the hotel of the business district in Tokyo. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

People sit against a wall filled with graffiti at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

Orang-utang Rosa carries her cub Sayang in their enclosure at the zoo in Frankfurt. LISI NIESNER/REUTERS

A Muslim family enjoys nice weather on the beach in Banda Aceh. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS

An unexploded ordnance is seen in the Ain Terma area in Ghouta, east of Damascus. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Cuban spiritualist, fortune teller and witch Mayra performs a Santeria ritual in her home in Havana. DESMOND BOYLAN/REUTERS

The casket of Senator Inouye lays in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington. JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS

A man in Aztec warrior costume dances in front of the Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza in Yucatan. STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron attends a carol service with soldiers during a visit to Forward Operating Base Price in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS

Naturopathic practitioner Vinholis rests on a ladder outside his house which he designed to resemble a spaceship outside Alto Paraiso de Goias. UESLEI MARCELINO/REUTERS

Anti-riot policemen fire tear gas to looters in the Argentine patagonian city of San Carlos de Bariloche. STRINGER/REUTERS

A reveller, dressed as a unicorn, celebrates the sunrise during the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southern England. KIERAN DOHERTY/REUTERS

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past an ambulance, which according to the Free Syrian Army was damaged by missiles shot by the Syrian Army, in Aleppo. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

Frenchman Pierre Frolla, dressed as Santa Claus, swims with fishes at the Oceanic Museum of Monaco. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

A woman walks along Rideau Canal during a heavy snowfall in Ottawa. CHRIS WATTIE/REUTERS

Piche Ulysses stands in front of a pyramid at the Mayan archeological site of Tazumal in Santa Ana. STRINGER/EL SALVADOR/REUTERS

A student protester gestures as he is hit by a water cannon during a rally demanding changes to the education system, in Santiago. IVAN ALVARADO/REUTERS

An unidentified man runs as German special police officers stand guard near a branch of Deutsche Bank in Berlin. TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS

A capybara stands in a lagoon at sunset at the Hato La Aurora. JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ/REUTERS

A protestor holding up a sign is removed by a security guard during a speech by Wayne LaPierre Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA during a press conference in Washington. JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS

U.S. President Obama and Senator Kerry shake hands after announcing Kerry's nomination as Secretary of State at the White House in Washington . KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Jake Hockley releases balloons as people look on during the funeral service for his brother, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Dylan Hockley, at Walnut Community Church in Bethel, Connecticut. JOSHUA LOTT/REUTERS