Damn, we’re nearly half way through 2012 already. Time flies when you have stuff to do. No one real news story stood out for me this week, it was a week of the weird, wonderful and downright horrible. Venus moving across the sun, The Queen’s jubilee celebrations, Mubarak sentenced to life in prison and a stone cold killer from Canada caught in Berlin.
1German design collective Urbanscreen projects images onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House during the
Vivid Festival in Sydney. DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS
2Bullet casings are seen near sandbags in the center of Houla. HANDOUT/REUTERS
3A woman walks past U.S. Army soldiers of 82nd Airborne Division securing an area during a patrol in the
town of Senjaray, Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/
REUTERS
4A man poses for photographers with an oversized donut during a donut giveaway marking the 75th annual
National Donut Day in New York. EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS
5A worker rests on a truck after unloading vegetable in a wholesale market at Kawranbazar in Dhaka.
ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS
6Trader Mario Picone works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. BRENDAN MCDERMID/
REUTERS
7Space Shuttle replica Explorer moves by barge into Clear Lake towards the dock at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston. RICHARD CARSON/REUTERS
8Canadian singer Bieber listens to fans from a balcony of his record label after singing a musical set in Paris.
JULIEN MUGUET/REUTERS
9A truck overloaded with straw travels to a paper-making factory on the outskirts of Shenyang. SHENG
LI/REUTERS
10Supporters of deposed president Hosni Mubarak react after a court sentenced him to life in prison, outside
the police academy where the court is located in Cairo. MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS
11Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits inside a cage in a courtroom in Cairo. REUTERS TV/
REUTERS
12A helicopter makes an approach to a base in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. TIM WIMBORNE/
REUTERS
13A boy bathes next to a well while his family members collect water at a brick factory on the outskirts of
Islamabad. REBECCA CONWAY/REUTERS
14Contestant Zhu Wen competes during the 2nd China Pole Dance semi-final in Tianjin municipality. JASON
LEE/REUTERS
15Brazilian native Indian Zahy Guajajara checks her computer at the former Indian Museum where she lives,
in Rio de Janeiro. SERGIO MORAES/REUTERS
16Mist and drizzle shrouds Tower Bridge and the former Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast museum on the
Thames river ahead of the Queen's flotilla in London. CHRIS HELGREN/REUTERS
17The wreckage of a cargo plane sits just off the runway in Ghana's capital Accra. STRINGER/REUTERS
18Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip wave during a pageant in celebration of the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee in London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS
19Men cool down in a canal in the eastern city of Lahore. MOHSIN RAZA/REUTERS
20The Orvillecopter by Dutch artist Jansen flies in a gallery as part of the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam.
STRINGER/REUTERS
21Members of Queer Utah Aquatic Club dance in a gay pride parade in Salt Lake City, Utah. JIM
URQUHART/REUTERS
22People gather near the engine of a plane, after it crashed into a neighbourhood in Ishaga disrict, an outskirt
of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos. AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS
23Cherson is carried by her father Alan prior to Celebrate Israel parade in New York. ANDREW KELLY
/REUTERS
24Soldiers stand guard upon the arrival of a plane carrying Yemen's former Deputy Prime Minister Sadiq
Amin Abu-Rass at Sanaa International Airport. Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS
25Actress Jennifer Aniston accepts the award for best on-screen dirtbag for her role in Horrible Bosses at the
2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS
26Former Societe Generale trader Kerviel arrives with his lawyer Koubbi for the first day of his trial to appeal
his three-year jail term in Paris. JULIEN MUGUET/REUTERS
27Coal miners run during confrontations with the riot Civil Guard after setting an incendiary device to a
barricade near highway A-66 in Vega del Rey. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS
28People take part in candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on 23rd anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown.
BOBBY YIP/REUTERS
29Buddhists monks and followers walk with lighted candles in hand around Wat Phra Dhammakaya during
Vesak Day. SUKREE SUKPLANG/REUTERS
30Yemeni army forces fire a missile towards al Qaeda-linked militants positions in the southern province of
Abyan. HANDOUT/REUTERS
31US Marine Col. John Miniclier at the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. MARCO GARCIA/
REUTERS
32Australian singer Kylie Minogue performs during the Diamond Jubilee concert in front of Buckingham
Palace in London . DAVID MOIR/REUTERS
33Former U.S. President Clinton and U.S. President Obama wave at fundraiser in New York. LARRY
DOWNING/REUTERS
34Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William are driven foe a service to celebrate the
Diamond Jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth at St Paul's Cathedral in London. NIGEL RODDIS/REUTERS
35Inhabitants of Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales during the traditional 'Grindadrap' near
Sandur on Sandoy island. ANDRIJA ILIC/REUTERS
36A Palestinian protester uses a sling during clashes near Ramallah. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS
37A soldier from the United States Army's Charlie Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry
Division keeps watch at night at Observation Post Mustang in Afghanistan's Kunar Province.
TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS
38Britain's Queen Elizabeth leaves Westminster Hall after a lunch to mark her Diamond Jubilee, in central
Londo. LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS
39The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team fly in formation over Buckingham Palace as the royal family stand on
the balcony to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth in central London. POOL/REUTERS
40Berlin police handout photo of Luka Rocco Magnotta. HANDOUT/REUTERS
41A woman with a towel wrapped around her head looks out at anti-riot police walking up to protesters in
Guatemala City. JORGE DAN LOPEZ/REUTERS
42A pig named Funtik is seen in its cage in Kiev. GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS
43Nancy Reagan observes the eighth anniversary of the passing of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in
California. HANDOUT/REUTERS
44Attendees pass between display areas during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), in Los Angeles.
PHIL McCARTEN/REUTERS
45South Korean primary school students wearing masks with solar viewers watch Venus passing between
the Sun and the Earth at the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Gwacheon, south of Seoul.
KIM HONG-JI/REUTERS
46People look at the planet Venus transiting across the sun during sunrise over Amman.
ALI JAREKJI/REUTERS
47A helicopter flies past as the planet Venus makes its transit across the sun over Tijuana.
STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS
48Thai fisherman catches freshwater white tilapia fish at a fish farm in Samut Prakarn province.
SUKREE SUKPLANG/REUTERS
49U.S. President Barack Obama walks up stairs towards Air Force One outside Washington. LARRY
DOWNING/REUTERS
50Workers attach huge placard displaying Euro 2012 trophy as they decorate building near Olympic stadium
in Kiev. ALEXANDER DEMIANCHUK/REUTERS
51Space Shuttle Enterprise is lifted onto deck of Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on retired USS
Intrepid Aircraft carrier in New York. MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
52U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser in Los Angeles in California. LARRY DOWNING/
REUTERS
53Singer Carrie Underwood performs at the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville. HARRISON
MCCLARY/REUTERS
54Oregon Parks and Recreation Department photograph of a dock that has washed ashore on Agate Beach
one mile north of Newport Oregon. HANDOUT/REUTERS
55A couple kiss at a tram stop in front of the soviet era statue Worker and Kolkhoz woman near Moscow's
All Russia Exhibition Centre. MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS
56A soldier runs across open ground to avoid sniper fire at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's
Kunar Province. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS
57Kasidiaris, the spokesman for Greece's far-right party Golden Dawn, slaps Communist Party deputy
Kanelli on live television in this still image taken from video. REUTERS TV/REUTERS
58England's national football team manager Roy Hodgson appears in a 108 foot tall reproduction of Rio de
Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue above the White Cliffs of Dover. HANDOUT/REUTERS
59U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is pictured as a Joint Economic Committee hearing on
economic outlook and policy on Capitol Hill in Washington. JASON REED/REUTERS
60Models are seen during the reality TV show Germany's next top model by Heidi Klum in Cologne.
WOLFGANG RATTAY/REUTERS
61Natasha Tretheway wipes her eyes after she began to cry following her naming as 19th U.S. poet laureate,
in Decatur, Georgia. TAMI CHAPPELL/REUTERS
62Actress Roberts winks as she tells a story about MacLaine at the TV Land cable channel taping of the
AFI Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles. FRED PROUSER/REUTERS
63Firefighters carry out rescue operations at the wreckage of a police car after a bus crashed into it on a
street in central Beijing. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS
64Parents wait at the gate of a school compound as their children take part in the National College Entrance
Exam in Huaibei. STRINGER/CHINA/REUTERS
65Kashmiri Muslim women perform Friday prayers in Srinagar. DANISH ISMAIL/REUTERS
