50 Best Photos of 2011- Part 1


50 Best Photos of 2011
As another year comes to a close, we take a look back at the best photos of 2011. The world has changed tremendously this year in politics, the environment and economics. We've watched the explosion of the Arab Spring throughout the Middle East and North Africa, the collapse of financial markets around the world and a massive disaster strike Japan, to name a few. Here's all of it, as told through photography.
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A protester wears a dollar bill over his mouth at the start of a march by demonstrators opposed to corporate profits on Wall Street on September 30, 2011 New York City.
 (Mario Tama - AFP/Getty Images)
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A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya.
 (Chris Hondros - AFP/Getty Images)
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A libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from an upstairs room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. The photographer. Chris Hondoros, was later fatally wounded in a mortar attack by government forces in Misrata.
 (Chris Hondros - AFP/Getty Images)
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An anti-government protestor holds a blooded Egyptian flag in Tahrir Square on February 3, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.
 (Peter Macdiarmid - AFP/Getty Images)
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Police scuffle with members of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement as they march through the streets of the financial district after the deadline for their removal from a park in the financial district was postponed on October 14, 2011 in New York City.
 (Spencer Platt - AFP/Getty Images)
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Libyans take pictures with their mobile phones of the body of Moamer Kadhafi in Misrata on October 20, 2011.
 (Mahmud Turkia - AFP/Getty Images)
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Burnt bodies lay in a warehouse on August 27, 2011 in Tripoli, Libya. Up to 150 people were found dead, 53 bodies were burnt in a warehouse in the last few days. The victims are believed to be Libyan civilians arrested by pro-Gaddafi loyalists for interrogation.
 (Daniel Berehulak - AFP/Getty Images)
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Thai residents make their way across a flooded street close to the rising waters of the Chao Phraya river on October 30, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.
 (Daniel Berehulak - AFP/Getty Images)
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A Thai resident watches television in his flooded home in China Town near to to the overflowing Chao Phraya river on October 26, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. This year, the country experienced its worst flooding in 50 years.
 (Daniel Berehulak - AFP/Getty Images)
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An aerial view of Honda vehicles at the flooded Honda factory in the Rojuna Industrial district on November 14, 2011 in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
 (Paula Bronstein - AFP/Getty Images)
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Cosplay enthusiasts dressed as Lolitas prepare to go on the catwalk at the North East Manga and Anime Convention (NemaCon) at Middlesborough Town Hall on June 18, 2011 in Middlesbrough, England. Hundreds of Manga, Anime and Cosplay enthusiasts gathered for NemaCon 2011. Cosplay is short for Costume Play where players dress and perform roles from Japanese culture, Anime and Manga art characters.
 (Christopher Furlong - AFP/Getty Images)
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Riot police walk in the street as a young man consoles his girlfriend, who fell amid the chaos, on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after their hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks, lost in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals.
 (Rich Lam - AFP/Getty Images)
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People gathered outside Olso Cathedral for a memorial concert for the victims of deadly attacks in Oslo, Norway, on July 30, 2011. At least 77 were killed on July 22 in a bombing in central Oslo and a series of shootings at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoeya island just outside the capital.
 (Odd Anderson - AFP/Getty Images)
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Paint-splattered police officers look on during clashes outside Top Shop on Oxford Street during marches in protest at government cuts on March 26, 2011 in London, England.
 (Dan Kitwood - AFP/Getty Images)
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A British riot policeman walks by a burning, 140-year-old furniture store in Croydon, South London on August 8, 2011. London saw sporadic outbreaks of looting and clashes both north and south of the river Thames. Numerous buildings were set on fire in Croydon as hundreds of looters plundered high street shops of their goods.
 (Carl De Souza - AFP/Getty Images)
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Hindu devotees play with coloured powders during Holi celebrations at the Bankey Bihari Temple on March 21, 2011 in Vrindavan, India. Holi, the spring festival of colours, is celebrated by Hindus around the world in an explosion of colour to mark the end of the winter.
 (Majid Saeedi - AFP/Getty Images)
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An Indian Muslim bride smiles as other brides pose with their hands adorned with henna art before the start of a mass wedding in Ahmedabad on March 21, 2010. Some 201 Muslim couples participated in a mass wedding organised by The Gujarat Sarvajanik Welfare Trust.
 (Sam Panthaky - AFP/Getty Images)
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Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during the 10th anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2011.
 (Justin Lane - AFP/Getty Images)
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Alvaro Bautista of Spain and Rizla Suzuki MotoGP rides during a warm up for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on July 24, 2011 in Monterey, California.
 (Jeff Gross - AFP/Getty Images)
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Spot lights are pointed toward the sky commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers during a halftime ceremony.
 (Jeff Zelevansky - AFP/Getty Images)
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Sigo Hatareyama works to clean out what is left of his house on March 21, 2011 in Kesennuma, Japan. The 9.0 magnitude-strong earthquake struck offshore on March 11 at 2:46 p.m. local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to ten meters that engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan, and also damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant, threatening a nuclear catastrophe.
 (Chris McGrath - AFP/Getty Images)
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A devasted area is seen prior to the sixth month anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and massive tsunami on September 10, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
 (Athit Perawongmetha - AFP/Getty Images)
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An elephant is painted in decorative colours during the Sonepur Mela on November 15, 2011 in Sonepur near Patna, India. The cattle fair, held in the Indian state of Bihar, has its origins during ancient times, when people traded elephants and horses across the auspicious river Ganges.
 (Daniel Berehulak - AFP/Getty Images)
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Active servicemen practice a routine ahead of the British Military Tournament at Earls Court on December 1, 2011 in London, England.
 (Dan Kitwood - AFP/Getty Images)
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Karmel Kwipprath holds her entry to the Old English game section of the Scottish National Poultry Show in Lanark Market on January 22, 2011 in Lanark, Scotland.
 (Jeff J. Mitchell - AFP/Getty Images)

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