50 Best Photos of 2011- Part 2

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A Bull Frog hops around as Carlos Costly #13 of Honduras brings the ball up against the USA at Sun Life Stadium on October 8, 2011 in Miami Gardens, Florida.

 (Marc Serota - AFP/Getty Images)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy talk as they arrive for a press conference after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and EU and IMF representatives over Eurozone bailout plan ahead of the G20 summit on November 2, 2011 in Cannes, France.

 (David Ramos - AFP/Getty Images)

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Director and performer Bartabas trains 12-year-old Le Tintoret on stage at the Sadler's Wells Theatre on March 1, 2011 in London, England.

 (Peter Macdiarmid - AFP/Getty Images)

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Chinese children swim along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on July 17, 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline and although not poisonous, it can hinder the fishing industry and tourism in affected areas.

 (STR - AFP/Getty Images)

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Marine Jaime Rincon, marches down University Avenue, with other military personel, during the San Diego Gay Pride Parade on Saturday, July 16, 2011 in San Diego, California. Hundreds of active-duty military persone — gay and straight — participated for the first time in the march as the government's official "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy slowly comes to an end.

 (Sandy Huffaker - AFP/Getty Images)

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Cuts are seen on the back of a Shi'ite Muslim man after practicing self-flagellation during the religious ritual of Ashura on December 6, 2011 in New Delhi, India. Hundreds of Muslims in New Delhi and thousands around India took part in a procession to mark the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram.

 (Daniel Berehulak - AFP/Getty Images)

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A general view shows hundreds of thousands of piligrims praying at Mecca's Grand Mosque on October 31, 2011, as more than 1.5 million Muslims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage to the shrine city, the world's largest annual human assembly which peaks on November 5.

 (Fayez Nureldine - AFP/Getty Images)

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.

 (The White House - AFP/Getty Images)

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Recently-formed Hurricane Irene is seen August 22, 2011 over the coastal waters of Venezuela. At the time Irene was packing winds of 80mph and was just north of the Mona Passage between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.

 (NASA - Courtesy)

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Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement are reflected in a stock ticket screen as they march though Lower Manhattan on October 5, 2011 in New York City.

 (Mario Tama - AFP/Getty Images)

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JOPLA storm cloud passes over a communications tower following a thunderstorm five days after a massive tornado passed through the town, killing at least 132 people on May 27, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. The town is still recovering from the storm, which damaged or destroyed an estimated 8,000 structures.

 (Mario Tama - AFP/Getty Images)

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TV reporter Roby Chavez (L) and his partner Chris Roe (R) share a moment as they wait for their facial masks to dry in their hotel room prior to their wedding ceremony August 21, 2010 in Washington, DC.

 (Alex Wong - AFP/Getty Images)

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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian anti-government demonstrators crowd Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 8, 2011 on the 15th consecutive day of protests demanding the ouster of embattled President Hosni Mubarak.

 (Pedro Ugarte - AFP/Getty Images)

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Wild horses are herded down from the mountains for the annual Rapa das Bestas (shearing of the beasts) festival on July 2, 2011 in Sabucedo, Spain. Hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the mountains and directed into the outdoor pen to be trimmed and marked.

 (Denis Doyle - AFP/Getty Images)

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Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center July 21, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Atlantis was the final shuttle mission for NASA, ending the shuttle program's 30 years.

 (Joe Raedle - AFP/Getty Images)

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An illegal ivory stockpile goes up in smoke on July 20, 2011 at the Tsavo National Park, approximately 350 kilometres southeast from Nairobi.

 (Tony Karumba - AFP/Getty Images)

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A devotee of the Chinese shrine of Kathu Shrine, pierces his cheeks with power drills during a procession at the Vegetarian Festival on October 4, 2011 in Phuket, Thailand. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves and bring the community good luck.

 (Athit Perawongmetha - AFP/Getty Images)

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Halima Hassan holds her severely malnourished son Abdulrahman Abshir, 7 months, at the Banadir hospital on August 14, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia.

 (John Moore - AFP/Getty Images)

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Somali refugees wait in the registration area of the Dagahaley refugee camp, which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement, on July 23, 2011 in Kenya. The refugee camp at Dadaab, located close to the Kenyan border with Somalia, was originally designed in the early 1990s to accommodate 90,000 people, but the UN estimates that more than four times as many people now reside there.

 (Oli Scarff - AFP/Getty Images)

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Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations.

 (Peter Macdiarmid - AFP/Getty Images)

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A stuntman receives Indian Rupee notes from spectators as he rides on a motorbike inside an attraction called the "Well of Death" during the Sonepur Mela on November 16, 2011 in Sonepur near Patna, India.

 (Daniel Berehulak - AFP/Getty Images)

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An Arctic Tern pecks a man's head as he walks through nesting seabirds on June 25, 2011 on Inner Farne, England. Visitors to the Farne Islands are advised to wear hats to protect themselves from the Terns, who will dive down and attack anyone they perceive as a threat to their nest.

 (Dan Kitwood - AFP/Getty Images)

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The car of Dan Wheldon of England, driver of the #77 Bowers & Wilkins Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda (left), and the #30 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Dallara Honda of Pippa Mann fly in the air during the Las Vegas Indy 300 part of the IZOD IndyCar World Championships presented by Honda on October 16, 2011 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 (Robert Laberge - AFP/Getty Images)

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Billy Stinson, his wife Sandra Stinson and daughter Erin Stinson walk out to watch the sunset from the steps where their cottage once stood August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed yesterday by Hurricane Irene, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head.

 (Scott Olson - AFP/Getty Images)

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The Hudson River churns under the early effects of Hurricane Irene August 28, 2011 in New York City. Hurricane Irene made a second landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey early Sunday morning, battering the northeast with high winds and rain.

 (Chip Somodevilla - AFP/Getty Images)