Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 52

Youths play in a fountain at Mexico City's Monument to the Revolution. EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

Reverend Billy performs to celebrate the End of the World in Times Square, New York. ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS

Anti-riot policemen stand guard outside a supermarket in San Fernando. MARCOS BRINDICCI/REUTERS

A boy reacts near the body of his sister, whom activists say was killed after a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syrian President al-Assad fired missiles, during her funeral in Jerjanz. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote in the final stage of a referendum on Egypt's new constitution in El Dokki district of greater Giza, south of Cairo. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

Demonstrators shout slogans as police use water cannons to disperse them near the presidential palace during a protest rally in New Delhi. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

A boy walks past a queue of Syrian refugee waiting to receive aids from Turkish humanitarian agencies at Bab al-Salam refugee camp in Syria near the Turkish border. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

People dressed as Santa Claus row boats through the fog on the Venice canal. STRINGER/ITALY/REUTERS

A rainbow forms after a rain storm next to SmartCity Malta in Valletta. DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI/REUTERS

Tourists gather to watch and take pictures of Cambodia's world famous Angkor Wat temple during sunrise in Siem Reap. ERIK DE CASTRO/REUTERS

An undated handout image shows a piece of wreckage of North Korea's Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket being pulled up by the South Korean navy. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A man walks in a clothing market destroyed in a fire in Kabul. MOHAMMAD ISMAIL/REUTERS

South Korean soldiers patrol along the military fence just south of the demilitarized zone separating South Korea from North Korea in Cheorwon. YONHAP/REUTERS

A horse carriage carrying tourists travels past ice sculptures during the lights testing period of the 14th Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Christmas decorations are seen in front of a pond ahead of Christmas day celebrations in Colombo. DINUKA LIYANAWATTE/REUTERS

Guatemalan Firefighter Chacon, dressed as Santa Claus, rappels down from Belize bridge to give toys to children living in the area under the bridge. JORGE DAN LOPEZ/REUTERS

A woman walks with a dog on the embankment of a river in Moscow. MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS

Britain's Queen Elizabeth watches a preview of her Christmas message with a pair of 3D glasses in London. POOL/REUTERS

A woman walks past trees covered with heavy hoarfrost and snow on the bank of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

A man dressed as Saint Nicholas and people in traditional Bavarian attire known as Buttenmandl and Krampusse march in the southern German town of Maria Gern. MICHAEL DALDER/REUTERS

A couple embrace in a park with snowy trees seen around in Stavropol. EDUARD KORNIYENKO/REUTERS

Passengers ride a double decker bus past Christmas lights on Oxford Street, in London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-aircraft artillery weapon during an air strike in Binsh near Idlib. HANDOUT/REUTERS

CRH380 Harmony bullet trains are seen at a high-speed train maintenance base in Wuhan. DARLEY SHEN/REUTERS

Workers hang dried fish onto poles at a processing facility on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. LANG LANG/REUTERS

A spotted seal swims in a partly frozen lake at Dongpaotai Park in Yantai. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the crowd as he makes his Urbi et Orbi address from a balcony in St. Peter's Square in Vatican. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS

Unidentified women console the wife of Subhash Tomar, a policeman, during his funeral in New Delhi. MANSI THAPLIYAL/REUTERS

Abdlhamid Haj Omar, 70, a father who lost three sons and two grandsons in the ongoing Syrian crisis, prays as he visits their graves at the Martyrs' cemetery in Azaz city, North Aleppo. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

A member of the Free Syrian Army prays with his gun in front of him in Aleppo. MUZAFFAR SALMAN/REUTERS

An image of six-year-old Jesse McCord Lewis, one of 20 schoolchildren killed in the December 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, sits on a snow-covered teddy bear on Christmas morning in Newtown, Connecticut. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

Jorge, 33, who has been living on the streets for three months, plays with his dog as he speaks with a member of the Comunidade Vida e Paz organization in Lisbon. RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS

A mahout prepares food for his elephant at Sauraha in Chitwan. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Mahouts ride on elephants as they cross Rapti River after collecting food from Chitwan National Park at Sauraha in Chitwan. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Shoppers beg sales assistants for perfume products Selfridges on the morning of the Boxing Day sales in London. OLIVIA HARRIS/REUTERS

A Free Syrian Army fighter smiles in a bunker they use to take shelter from fighter jet air-strikes in Aleppo. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS

A cat sits at the nativity scene outside a church in Warsaw. KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS

A man carries a box, as smoke rises from a building after fireworks stored in a building exploded in a densely populated area in Isale Eko. AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS

Free Syrian Army fighters aim their weapons during a gunfight with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near Aleppo's airport. MUZAFFAR SALMAN/REUTERS

A man pushes his boat with the help of a bamboo stick to reach the bank of Rapti River at Sauraha in Chitwan. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

A farmer harvests rice next to artist Tri's statue entitled Planting Brain at Nitiprayan village in Bantul. DWI OBLO/REUTERS

A demonstrator holds a placard as she takes part in a protest rally in New Delhi. AHMAD MASOOD/REUTERS

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, makes a speech to launch his political career during the fifth anniversary of his mother's death, in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. NADEEM SOOMRO/REUTERS

A deceased beached whale lies on a beach with the skyline of New York rising behind it in the Queens borough region of Breezy Point, New York. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

A man sand skis in the desert near Tabuk. STRINGER/REUTERS

Clouds roll over destroyed homes, almost two months after superstorm Sandy caused damage in the region of Breezy Point of Queens borough. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

A Buddhist monk stands on a boat as he crosses the Chindwin river in Sarlingyi township. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

A mahout climbs his elephant as he heads towards the Chitwan National Park at Sauraha in Chitwan. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Employees of the Korea Exchange pose in front of the final stock price index during a photo opportunity for the media at the ceremonial closing event of the 2012 stock market at the Korea Exchange in Seoul. KIM HONG-JI/REUTERS

Reindeer gather around herder Anna Jemmett, from the Glenmore Reindeer Centre, to eat lichen from her hands in the Cairngorm Mountains near Aviemore. DAVID MOIR/REUTERS

U.S. Capitol Police arrest and drag a man who shouted anti-abortion slogans at the U.S. Senate chambers, down the hallway of the basement at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. MARY CALVERT/REUTERS

Researches use heavy machinery to perform a necropsy on a dead finback whale in the Queens borough region of Breezy Point. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Undertakers and hospital staff carry body of Indian rape victim into van as they leave Mount Elizabeth Hospital for the morgue in Singapore. EDGAR SU/REUTERS

A family takes a bath under a water pipe at Tijuca national park in Rio de Janeiro. PILAR OLIVARES/REUTERS

PNP officer signs service pistol of a policewoman during a ceremonial sealing of the muzzles of firearms in Taguig city. ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS

Protester with a gag tied around her mouth takes part in a silent protest for a gang rape victim in New Delhi. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

A passenger sits on a public bus during a snow storm in central Shanghai. ALY SONG/REUTERS

Undertaker Tay and his crew carry the coffin of an Indian rape victim into a van as they leave a funeral parlour for the airport in Singapore. EDGAR SU/REUTERS

A wreckage of a plane is seen on a highway near Moscow's Vnukovo airport. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Television personality Allison Hagendorf throws confetti from an office building onto New York's Times Square as part of a test in preparation for New Year's Eve celebrations. KEITH BEDFORD/REUTERS

Firefighters participate in a search operation for a helicopter which crashed in the sea off Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS

People walk near a sand sculpture with the words We Want Justice created by Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik, in solidarity with a gang rape victim who was assaulted in New Delhi, on a beach in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS

A combination image shows mourning bands placed over different fire department badges as they arrive for the calling hours for firefighters Chiapperini and Kaczowka in West Webster. CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS

Police detain a demonstrator during a protest in New Delhi. DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS

People in Santa Claus costumes take part in the annual race in downtown Belgrade. MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS

A man walks across a field of snow in Somerville, Massachusetts. BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr district. MUZAFFAR SALMAN/REUTERS

People walk down North Bridge carrying lit torches during the annual torchlight procession to mark the start of Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh. DAVID MOIR/REUTERS

Members of the West Webster fire department load the casket of slain firefighter Michael Chiapperini onto a fire truck in New York. CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS

A student prays during a vigil for a gang rape victim, who was assaulted in New Delhi, in Ahmedabad. AMIT DAVE/REUTERS

Fireworks explode over and around the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House during new year celebrations. DAVID GRAY/REUTERS