Reuters Top Images of 2012: gallery
A policeman gestures in front of some of the dead miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012.
Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS
Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS
A policeman fires at protesting miners outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012.
Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS
Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS
A SPLA soldier looks at warplanes as he lies on the ground to take cover beside a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force
Image by: GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS
Image by: GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS
An explosion and smoke are seen after Israeli strikes in Gaza City November 17, 2012. Israeli aircraft pounded Hamas government buildings in Gaza on Saturday, including the building housing the prime minister's office, after Israel's Cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing the ground for a possible invasion into Gaza.
Image by: SUHAIB SALEM / REUTERS
Image by: SUHAIB SALEM / REUTERS
A group of riot policemen is engulfed in flames after protesters threw petrol bombs in Athens' Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike September 26, 2012.
Image by: YANNIS BEHRAKIS / REUTERS
Image by: YANNIS BEHRAKIS / REUTERS
Riot policemen arrest a student protester during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago, September 27, 2012.
Image by: Ivan Alvarado / REUTERS
Image by: Ivan Alvarado / REUTERS
Burned houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens, after they were devastated by Hurricane Sandy October 31, 2012.
Image by: ADREES LATIF / Reuters
Image by: ADREES LATIF / Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama appears with tears on his cheek during remarks at his final presidential campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, November 5, 2012, on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections.
Image by: JASON REED / REUTERS
Image by: JASON REED / REUTERS
The manpowered section of the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant makes its way along the River Thames in central London June 3, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth joined an armada of 1,000 boats in a gilded royal barge, in a pageant down the River Thames on Sunday in a spectacular highlight of four days of nationwide celebrations to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
Image by: POOL / Reuters
Image by: POOL / Reuters
A performer playing the role of Britain's Queen Elizabeth parachutes from a helicopter during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium July 27, 2012.
Image by: FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS
Image by: FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS
Space Shuttle Endeavour is transported on Manchester Avenue while being moved from Los Angeles International Airport to its retirement home at the California Science Center in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California October 12, 2012.
Image by: JONATHAN ALCORN / REUTERS
Image by: JONATHAN ALCORN / REUTERS
Police and wildlife rangers stand next to a dead humpback whale lying in a rock pool at Newport beach in Sydney August 1, 2012. Residents of Newport, a popular surfing beach in Sydney, woke to find the corpse of a 30-tonne humpback whale washed up in an ocean swimming pool on Wednesday, according to local media.
Image by: DANIEL MUNOZ / REUTERS
Image by: DANIEL MUNOZ / REUTERS
Devotees try to form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai August 10, 2012. Janmashtami, which marks the birthday of Hindu god Krishna, is being celebrated across the country today.
Image by: DANISH SIDDIQUI / REUTERS
Image by: DANISH SIDDIQUI / REUTERS
A crane removes the carcass of a 40-year-old elephant called Chanchal after it was hit by a truck and killed at the Noida expressway on the outskirts of New Delhi June 29, 2012. Chanchal was a pet kept by a resident.
Image by: PARIVARTAN SHARMA / REUTERS
Image by: PARIVARTAN SHARMA / REUTERS
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the U.S. side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012.
Image by: MARK BLINCH / REUTERS
Image by: MARK BLINCH / REUTERS
A keeper looks inside the mouth of a South American sea lion at 'Tiergarten Schoenbrunn' Zoo in Vienna, January 10, 2012.
Image by: LISI NIESNER / REUTERS
Image by: LISI NIESNER / REUTERS
These are a selection of the best images of 2012 from Reuters photographers around the world.
Top Reuters Images of 2012.
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