Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 12

Mandaeans perform religious rituals under a parasol on the first day of the Benja festival in Baghdad. SAAD SHALASH/REUTERS

One of the coffins of victims of the Sierre bus crash is carried out of a cargo plane at Melsbroek military airport after returning from Switzerland. POOL/REUTERS

A labourer rests on sacks filled with charcoal as he takes a break inside a steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu. MUKESH GUPTA/REUTERS

A vendor rests next to sacks of onions at a wholesale vegetable market in Kolkata. RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS

George Clooney is arrested for civil disobedience after protesting at the Sudan Embassy in Washington. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

Naomi Laet, 22, an Israeli pro-Palestinian activist, is escorted by Israeli border police officers during clashes with Palestinian stone-throwers at a weekly protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

A technical worker brushes a human skeleton in a mass grave in a cemetery at Teba. JON NAZCA/REUTERS

An electoral worker helps a woman dip her finger into a bottle of ink to vote during the country's presidential election in Dili. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

File photo of convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. MICHAEL DALDER/REUTERS

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge presents a shamrock to 'Conmael', the mascot Irish hound at Aldershot army base in southern England. TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS

Syrian security officials inspect a damaged building near the intelligence building after an explosion in Damascus. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers parade as part of a passing-out ceremony in Mogadishu. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Sostis feeds his chickens on a bay near his house on the the volcanic islet of Palaia Kameni located in the caldera of Santorini. YANNIS BEHRAKIS/REUTERS

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is depicted as a vampire during a protest in Bochum. WOLFGANG RATTAY/REUTERS

The fountain on the South Lawn of the White House flows with water dyed green for St. Patrick's Day, in Washington. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS

The New York Fire Dept. marches past St. Patrick's Cathedral during the 251st St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York. CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS

A worker walks near a soccer ball inside the national stadium Mane Garrincha as they prepare to take part in the Solidarity Cup in Brasilia. UESLEI MARCELINO/REUTERS

Buddhist monks walk in lines past people who have gathered for a mass alms-offering ceremony in Bangkok. CHAIWAT SUBPRASOM/REUTERS

People are reflected in the water as they look at snow in a lake at Ritan Park in central Beijing. JASON LEE/REUTERS

Girl smiles as her face is covered in coloured powder during Holi festival celebrations in Kuala Lumpur. STRINGER/MALAYSIA/REUTERS

A mourner prays next to the body of Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, displayed for public viewing, inside the Abassiya Cathedra in Cairo. ESAM OMRAN AL-FETORI/REUTERS

People take pictures of Mount Etna as it spews lava on the southern Italian island of Sicily. STRINGER/REUTERS

Child plays on the road near the bank of Yangon River. STAFF/REUTERS

Maasai women participate in the preparation of "Entoto", a traditional coming-of-age ceremony in Olkerin Manyatta. THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS

A fan of Dynamo Kiev reacts during a local soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Kiev. STRINGER/REUTERS

Seventeen-year-old prostitute Hashi, embraces a Babu, her "husband", inside her small room at Kandapara brothel in Tangail, a northeastern city of Bangladesh. ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS

French police inspect outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France. JEAN-PHILIPPE ARLES/REUTERS

An anti-government protester throws a molotov cocktail towards riot police after the funeral procession of Sabri Mafooz in the village Sarakan, south of Manama. HAMAD I MOHAMMED/REUTERS

Effigies burn during the finale of the Fallas festival in Valencia. HEINO KALIS/REUTERS

Vehicles of the U.S. Army, are unloaded from MV Green Ridge at Pier 8 in Busan. LEE JAE-WON/REUTERS