Coolest Pix Of 2013 Week 11

The rising tide comes up against a house on Plum Island that came off its foundation during an overnight winter storm on in Newbury. BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate on the outskirts of Nairobi. STRINGER/REUTERS

Al-Ahly fans react after hearing the final verdict of the 2012 Port Said massacre in Cairo. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

Members of the fire and rescue service set a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS

A Balinese family stand at the beach as they attend the Melasti ceremony prayer at Gianyar beach in Bali. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel steps off a military helicopter after arriving from Kabul at Bagram Air Field. JASON REED/REUTERS

A dog with a sticker reading Nuclear go zero is seen during a protest in Taipei. PICHI CHUANG/REUTERS

Tyres burnt by protesters against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi are seen on the dock near the Suez Canal. MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/REUTERS

A man poses while wearing a pair of women's high heels during the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes initiative in central Sofia. STOYAN NENOV/REUTERS

Supporters of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga look out from the balconies of a building in the Mathare slum in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS

Cardinals arrive for a meeting at the Synod Hall in the Vatican. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS

Devotees raise their hands to receive coloured holy water from a priest on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad. JITENDRA PRAKASH/REUTERS

Visitors look at humanoid robot Roboy at the exhibition Robots on Tour in Zurich. MICHAEL BUHOLZER/REUTERS

A protester holds a shield during clashes with riot police, along Qasr Al Nil bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square in Cairo. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

A French soldier directs his colleagues while creating a barrier filled with sand at a French military encampment at a Malian air base in Gao. JOE PENNEY/REUTERS

Jordanian Chiefs-of-Staff Mashal Al Zaben welcomes Filipino U.N. Peacekeepers at the headquarters of the General Command of the Jordanian Army in Amman. MUHAMMAD HAMED/REUTERS

A bride wearing a traditional garland waits for her groom during a mass marriage ceremony in Karachi. AKHTAR SOOMRO/REUTERS

Lighting, illuminating Saint Peter's Square, is seen near the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

Residents are showered in sparks as fireworks explode during the annual event Quema de toritos (Burning of the bulls) in the municipality of Tultepec near Mexico City. STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS

A French Foreign Legion soldier directs a helicopter to land during a full invasion training exercise on Browndon beach in Gosport, southern England. KIERAN DOHERTY/REUTERS

A French Foreign Legion soldier stands on the beach during a full invasion training exercise on Browndon beach in Gosport, southern England. KIERAN DOHERTY/REUTERS

Members of the National League for Democracy party sit at a tea shop on a street in front of the building where the NLD are holding their congress, in Yangon. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

Ethnic minority delegate wearing a traditional headwear attends the third plenary session of the NPC in Beijing. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

A sadhu, or Hindu holy man, is pictured on the premises of Pashupatinath Temple during the Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Activists with the colours of the Tibetan flag painted on their faces take part in a rally to support Tibet in Taipei. PICHI CHUANG/REUTERS

People sunbathe by the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. ALEXANDER DEMIANCHUK/REUTERS

Policemen use water cannons to break up the crowd of protesters during a rally in Baku. STRINGER/REUTERS

Catholic clergy take part in morning prayer at the Al- Bishara Church in Beit Jala. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

Police beat and detain a Pakistani Christian protester during a demonstration in Badami Bagh. MOHSIN RAZA/REUTERS

Labour Party supporters wave flags and let off flares during a election victory rally in Floriana, outside Valletta. DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI/REUTERS

Handler Gavin Robertson kisses Jilly the Basset Griffon Vendeen after winning best in show on the final day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham. DARREN STAPLES/REUTERS

Greenpeace activists light candles to mourn victims of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in downtown Bucharest. BOGDAN CRISTEL/REUTERS

Local resident and a dog walk near a ship brought ashore by the March 11, 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. KYODO/REUTERS

A Qantas A-380 plane flies past the Sydney Opera house in central Sydney. DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

Contestants ride camels during a camel race at Tsonjin Boldog of Tov aimag. RENTSENDORJ BAZARSUKH/REUTERS

Visitor poses for a portrait during Lisbon Fashion Week. RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS

A dead pig lies on a street in Pinghu, Zhejiang province. ALY SONG/REUTERS

The mother of Ram Singh, the driver of the bus in which a young woman was gang-raped and fatally injured three months ago, wails inside her house in New Delhi. MANSI THAPLIYAL/REUTERS

North Korean soldiers with weapons attend military training in an undisclosed location. KCNA/REUTERS

A lion stretches early morning at Nairobi's National Park. MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS

The Silver Bullet airstream trailer carrying U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is pictured in Germany. JASON REED/REUTERS

A view of the night sky above the Mars Desert Research Station is seen outside Hanksville in the Utah desert. JIM URQUHART/REUTERS

A woman lies down in front of the grave of her brother at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Chris Huhne, Britain's former energy secretary, is accompanied by his partner Carina Trimingham, as he arrive to be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London. STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS

Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican is illuminated as seen from the Tiber river in Rome. PAUL HANNA/REUTERS

KC-135 tanker aircraft is pictured during mid-air refueling of U.S. Secretary of Defense Hagel's E-4B plane, over Newfoundland. JASON REED/REUTERS

Security personnel holding umbrellas waits for delegates to arrive ahead of the closing ceremony of the CPPCC in Beijing. PETAR KUJUNDZIC/REUTERS

A Balinese man kicks up fire during the Perang Api ritual ahead of Nyepi day, in Gianyar, Bali. STRINGER/INDONESIA/REUTERS

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visits the Wolnae Islet Defence Detachment in the western sector of the front line, near Baengnyeong Island of South Korea. KCNA/REUTERS

A whale shark approaches a feeder boat off the beach of Tan-awan. DAVID LOH/REUTERS

Yushkov drives his self-made three-wheeled cross-country vehicle called Bolivar near the frozen Mana river, near Krasnoyarsk. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

The body of a young Tunisian man, who set himself on fire, is seen at the main street of the capital Tunis. STRINGER/REUTERS

People help a driver to move his bus after BNP activists set fire to it during a nationwide strike in Dhaka.. ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS

A Free Syrian Army fighter mourns at the grave of his father in a public park that has been converted into a makeshift graveyard in Deir el-Zor. STRINGER/REUTERS

A worker at a factory in Kfar Saba cuts fabric printed with U.S. flags ordered ahead of President Obama's visit to Israel. NIR ELIAS/REUTERS

An Israeli soldier collects wheat stalks as her comrades search for remains at the site of a helicopter crash in a field near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS

View of snow-covered rooftops of residential buildings in Paris. GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS

Parabolic antennas of the ALMA project are seen at the El Llano de Chajnantor in the Atacama desert. IVAN ALVARADO/REUTERS

Swanepoel, Kloss and Ambrosio pose during a media opportunity to celebrate the launch of Victoria's Secret 2013 Swim collection in Los Angeles. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS

A man runs amongst rubble as smoke rises from buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province. STRINGER/REUTERS

A woman cycles as she carries baskets to sell in a market near Lapdaung mountain in Sarlingyi township. Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS

A member of General Motors Thailand union joins other workers protesting outside U.S. embassy in Bangkok. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS

An image of a cat painted on a tree hole by Wang Yue is seen in Shijiazhuang. PILLAR LEE/REUTERS

Newly graduated Afghan national police officers demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony at the National Police Centre in Jalalabad. PARWIZ/REUTERS

A serviceman of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special forces unit breaks a stack of burning tiles with his head during a show in Minsk. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

Britain's Prince Charles smiles next to members of a traditional Jordanian troupe as they welcome him during his visit to the ancient Roman ruins in Jerash. MUHAMMAD HAMED/REUTERS

White smoke rises from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel indicating a new pope has been elected at the Vatican. MAX ROSSI/REUTERS

U.S. President Obama walks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington upon his return from a meeting with House Republicans on a budget deal. JASON REED/REUTERS

Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS

Dead fish are seen at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio de Janeiro. SERGIO MORAES/REUTERS

NYPD officers arrest a young man during a protest in the Brooklyn borough of New York. EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS

Hotel guides walk at Tiananmen Square near Great Hall of People during of fourth plenary meeting of National People's Congress in Beijing. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

North Korea's artillery sub-units, whose mission is to strike Daeyeonpyeong island and Baengnyeong island of South Korea, conduct a live shell firing drill in the western sector of the front line. KCNA/REUTERS

A South Korean soldier takes a position during a drill, a part of annual joint military exercise Key Resolve between South Korea and the U.S., near the U.S. airbase in Pyeongtaek. YONHAP/REUTERS

Naina, a student, and her instructor Rahul practice swinging pois at a park in Mumba. VIVEK PRAKASH/REUTERS

Tea Party activist William Temple, dressed as a patriot, arrives for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Loving message on a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Labourers carry harvested wheat as they walk in a field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. AMIT DAVE/REUTERS

Shin, President and Head of IT and Mobile Communication Division, holds Galaxy S4 phone during its launch at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

China's newly-elected Premier Li and China's former Premier Wen shake hands during fifth plenary meeting of NPC at Great Hall of the People in Beijing. JASON LEE/REUTERS

Handout still image of a female giant panda Ke Lin watching a panda mating video at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Journalists look at latest work of art 'Big Air Package' by Christo during preview at Gasometer in Oberhausen. INA FASSBENDER/REUTERS

Painting Sitzender Akt, sich den Fuss trocknend by Picasso is pictured during press preview at Museum Berggruen in Berlin. TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS

Woman walks during a heavy snow storm in central Minsk. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

A young Syrian man laughs as he takes his head out of a hole in a Syrian opposition flag during a protest marking two years since the start of the uprising in Aleppo. STRINGER/REUTERS

Hot air balloon shaped like Darth Vader's head floats over early morning fog in Canberra. DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS