Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Coolest Pix Of 2012


Open a bottle of champagne, we’re halfway throught the year. This is another coolest pix selection made with loving care by us. it features the Colorado wildfires, the Egyptian people getting a Muslim Brotherhood (Fallout 3 anyone?) president and loads of other cool and newsworthy stuff.

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1A man swims in the polluted waters of a pond on the outskirts of Kolkata. 
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2A child cools off in a fountain on a hot summer day in downtown Donetsk. 
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3An albino baby Bennett's wallaby is carried by his mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg. INA FSBENDER/REUTERS
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4Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Morsy and other protesters pray during a 
demonstration against the delay in the Egyptian presidential results and against the SCAF at Tahrir square 
in Cairo. 
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5Members of the national police look on as they guard the incineration of illegal drugs in Panama City. 
CARLOS JASSO/REUTERS
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6The moon sets behind Wilhelminenberg Palace in Vienna. HEINZ-PETER BADER/REUTERS
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7Paraguayan Vice-President Franco reacts following impeachment of Paraguayan President Lugo by 
Congress in Asuncion. MARIO VALDEZ/REUTERS
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8Andrew carries a Chinese Crested during the 24th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma. 
STEPHEN LAM/REUTERS
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9Naked volunteers, numbering around 1700 people, pose for U.S. artist Spencer Tunick in downtown
 Munich. MICHAELA REHLE/REUTERS
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10Fishermen pull their fishing net from the waters of Bay of Bengal during sunrise in Chennai. BABU/
REUTERS
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11People take part in the annual Mansky tourist three-day-long festival in the Siberian Taiga district near the
 settlement of Beret. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS
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12Firefighters try to extinguish fire that broke out in colours manufacturing unit, amid smoke, at industrial 
area of western Indian city of Ahmedabad. AMIT DAVE/REUTERS
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13A racegoer attends the fifth day of racing at Royal Ascot, southwest of London. STEFAN WERMUTH/
REUTERS
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14Japan's pop idol Kyarypamyupamyu performs at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2012 in Chiba. 
ISSEI KATO/REUTERS
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15Rocks and sand bags are thrown into the air by a controlled detonation of an unexploded, Russian made,
 82mm mortar round inside of FOB Joyce in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS
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16Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate for the ruling PAN, during a rally in Mexico City. STRINGER/
MEXICO/REUTERS
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17Devotees covered with mud and dried banana leaves pray near their patron Saint John the Baptist in the 
village of Bibiclat. ERIK DE CASTRO/REUTERS
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18People watch fireworks as they take a bath in the Mediterranean Sea on San Juan's night in Malaga. 
JON NAZCA/REUTERS
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19A rider rears up on his horse surrounded by a cheering crowd during the traditional Fiesta of San Joan in 
Ciutadella. STRINGER/SPAIN/REUTERS
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20Crew members watch a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter land on the deck of U.S. aircraft carrier
 USS George Washington during joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea in the West Sea. 
LEE JAE-WON/REUTERS
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21A boy sits on a buffalo as he cools off in a pond during a hot summer day at Jetapura village. AMIT DAVE
/REUTERS
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22Bosnian efendis, or Muslim clerics, pray before commemorating the anniversary of Ajvatovica near the 
central Bosnian village of Prusac. DADO RUVIC/REUTERS
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23Women walk carrying metal pitchers against the backdrop of pre-monsoon clouds at Nani Shinoli village.
 AMIT DAVE/REUTERS
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24Antoine sits on a giant waterlily leaf during a photo shoot for babies aged under 1 at the National Botanic 
Garden of Meise. SEBASTIEN PIRLET/REUTERS
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25Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy celebrate his victory at the 
election at Tahrir Square in Cairo. SUHAIB SALEM/REUTERS
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26A sandstorm blows past an inflatable blimp inside FOB Joyce in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. LUCAS 
JACKSON/REUTERS
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27Marchers participate in the Gay Pride Parade in New York. KEITH BEDFORD/REUTERS
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28A veterinarian checks on Anyin, a sick orangutan, as it waits to be transported to a hospital, in Pontianak. 
STRINGER/INDONESIA/REUTERS
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29Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a protest in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood. BAZ RATNER
/REUTERS
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30Wu welds component to fit onto his newly-made robot at his repair shop in Shenyang. SHENG LI/
REUTERS
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31A man works inside a rubber scrap yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. AMIT DAVE/REUTERS
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32Smoke bombs explode near South Korean Marines' landing crafts during a landing operation drills of South
 Korean marines and the navy in Taean. STRINGER/KOREA/REUTERS
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33A boatman counts money on his boat by the Buriganga river in Dhaka. ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS
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34Hindu pilgrims travelling either on ponies or on foot, to holy cave of Lord Shiva during an annual pilgrimage,
 in Pishutop. FAYAZ KABLI/REUTERS
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35Soldiers from Alpha Battery of the 2nd Platoon, 2-77 Field Artillery fire a 155mm Howitzer towards
 insurgent positions at FOB Joyce in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS
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36Obama boards Air Force One under the watch of a U.S. Secret Service agent at Joint Base Andrews 
outside Washington before departing for New Hampshire. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS
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37Helper of a driver rests on top of his parked truck along a busy highway on the outskirts of New Delhi. 
ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
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38Sprott Power Corporation Technician Zack Fisher stands on top one of the fifteen new wind turbines 
which were officially opened in Amherst. PAUL DARROW/REUTERS
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39A worker show a newly-hatched baby crocodile during a hatching inside a crocodile farm in Pasay city,
 metro Manila. ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS
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40Drug addicts watch a performance to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 
at a drug addiction rehabilitation centre in Taiyuan. STRINGER/CHINA/REUTERS
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41A coal miner carries a tree trunk to make a barricade on motorway AP 66, between Asturias and Leon, 
during a protest in Pola de Lena. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS
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42A steam roller moves through a pile of confiscated liquor bottles, during a campaign to mark the 
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, on the outskirts of Karachi. AKHTAR 
SOOMRO/REUTERS
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43A C-130 military cargo plane drops thousands of gallons of retardant on the Waldo Canyon fire west of 
Colorado Springs. RICK WILKING/REUTERS
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44Zeke Andreassen, 11, cuts an orange into a decorative basket in the kitchen of the Vermont Kids Culinary
 Academy during a residential cooking summer camp in Highgate. HERB SWANSON/REUTERS
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45Phillip Roser struggles to pedal his bike in downtown Live Oak. PHILIP SEARS/REUTERS
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46Hugo Chavez hi-fives Nikolay, the son of Alexander Lukashenko at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. Carlos
 Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS
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47Gristina stands next to her son as she exits the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. EDUARDO
 MUNOZ/REUTERS
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48A penguin fails in its first attempt to leave its footprint on a white canvas at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. 
DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS
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49Police officers block the street as Boeung Kak lake residents protest in Phnom Penh. SAMRANG
 PRING/REUTERS
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50A sculpture called Woman walking to the sky by US artist Jonathan Borofsky is seen in Strasbourg. 
VINCENT KESSLER/REUTERS
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51A Palestinian stands on a thresher during wheat harvest near Nablus. 
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52Spanish riot police restrain a member of the Stop Deshaucios social movement during a protest to prevent 
an eviction in Oviedo. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS
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53Britain's Queen Elizabeth shakes hands with Northern Ireland deputy first minister Martin McGuinness at
 the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. POOL/REUTERS
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54Onlookers stand next to an overturned passenger bus at the site of an accident in Chennai. 
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55Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gives a thumbs-up sign from the cockpit of the Turkish Primary 
and Basic Trainer Aircraft Hurkus during a ceremony at the Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara. UMIT
 BEKTAS/REUTERS
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56A burnt fence leans over in the aftermath of the Wood Hollow Fire north of Fairview. GEORGE FREY/
REUTERS
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57Jim Wilson, a 70-year-old Virginian supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, 
holds up a fire extinguisher presented to him by Romney following an election rally in Sterling. JASON REED
/REUTERS
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58Suspects accused of being members of the Los Zetas drug cartel, look on during sentencing in the Supreme
 Court of Justice in Guatemala City. STRINGER/REUTERS
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59Bolivia's riot policemen take position at a street in La Paz. GASTON BRITO/REUTERS
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60People wave during the inauguration trip of the world's first open-air doubledecker cable car system on the
 Stanserhorn mountain. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS
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61A Turkish military truck transport a mobile missile launcher in Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian 
border. STRINGER/TURKEY/REUTERS
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62Boys play in a destroyed car at Manshiyet Nasser shanty town in eastern Cairo. AMR ABDALLAH 
DALSH/REUTERS
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63A boy swims near a boat carrying people on Phewa Lake in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal's capital 
Kathmandu. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS
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64Guests visit a cool conservatory at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. TIM CHONG/REUTERS
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65An aerial view shows homes destroyed by the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs.
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66Private First Class Trent Pritchartt, Specialist Lance Doan, and Specialist Ben Purvis from the mortar 
platoon on Combat Outpost Nangalam fire 81mm mortar rounds at suspected insurgent positions in Pech
 River Valley. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS
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67A demonstrator attacks a riot police vehicle with barricades while enveloped in tear gas during an anti-
government rally demanding changes in the public state education system in Santiago. 
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68US pop singer Madonna performs during a concert of her MDNA world tour in Berlin. THOMAS PETER
/REUTERS
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69Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut, salute in front of the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. XINHUA/REUTERS
70A crane removes the carcass of elephant after it was hit by a truck and killed at the Noida expressway on
 the outskirts of New Delhi. PARIVARTAN SHARMA/REUTERS
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71US Air Force handout of wildfires near the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. HANDOUT/REUTERS
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72A boy enjoys the water fall as he cleans himself after celebrating Asar Pandhra festival in Pokhara valley. 
NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS
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73The hand of a woman is pictured as she separates paddy saplings during the Asar Pandhra festival in 
Pokhara valley. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS