If you think you’ve got it bad, why not check out some of the situations pictured in our selection for week 22. Remember, you could be living in the killing fields that is Syria (Hello, Western politicians, what’s the difference between Libya and Syria? Oil?), you could be without work in Spain, you could be living in the civil war torn African continent or you could be the Amazon rainforest currently under siege from people burning up the trees to make charcoal. All in all, if you are able to view these images on your home PC you haven’t got it that bad. Have a good weekend all and don’t forget about our TotallyCoolPix contest.
1A Palestinian protester looks through the slot of a hand-made shield during clashes with Israeli soldiers at
a demonstration near Nablus. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS
2People hold candles in a protest against the shortage of electricity after opposition leader Aung San Suu
Kyi addressed the crowd in Yangon. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS
3Buranovskiye Babushki of Russia perform their song Party For Everybody during a rehearsal for the
Eurovison Song Contest final in Baku. DAVID MDZINARISHVILI/REUTERS
4Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayer in Binsh.
HANDOUT/REUTERS
5Actress Stewart arrives on the red carpet ahead of the screening of the film Cosmopolis in competition at
the 65th Cannes Film Festival . JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER/REUTERS
6German design collective Urbanscreen projects images onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House at the
opening night of the Vivid Festival in Sydney. DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS
7Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), listens in Afgoye.
HANDOUT/REUTERS
8Coast Guard and government officials examine garbage washed out to sea by the 2011 Japan tsunami,
which litters the wreck line of Montague Island. HANDOUT/REUTERS
9A woman walks along the Hudson River as the sun sets on One World Trade Center and the skyline of
Lower Manhattan as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey. GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS
10Revellers attend Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig. THOMAS PETER/REUTERS
11Models present creations from Lenny's collection during Fashion Rio Summer 2012/2013 in Rio de Janeiro.
RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS
12Kites are flown at an open-air ethnographic museum during a kite festival in Kiev. GLEB GARANICH/
REUTERS
13Participants interview each other during a blind date party in Shanghai. ALY SONG/REUTERS
14A police officer reconstructs a shooting incident on a building rooftop of the crime scene, using the rifle
recovered elsewhere from a gunman who opened fire in a Finnish town centre in Hyvinkaa. LEHTIKUVA/
REUTERS
15U.S. military academy cadets throw their caps into the air after their graduation ceremony at West Point.
ALLISON JOYCE/REUTERS
16Pilgrims ride on horses near the shrine of El Rocio in the province of Huelva. JAVIER DIAZ/REUTERS
17A boy runs past the V-22 Osprey during a demonstration put together by the Marines as a part of Fleet
Week in East Meadow, New York. ANDREW BURTON/REUTERS
18Loreen of Sweden performs her song Euphoria after winning the Eurovision song contest in Baku. DAVID
MDZINARISHVILI/REUTERS
19An artist performs during the annual Kiev fire fest in Kiev. GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS
20Demonstrators from animal rights society AnimaNaturalis take part in a protest against Ringling Brothers
Circus in front of the Mexico City Arena. STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS
21Riot police officers stand guard behind barricades near the Constitution Assembly building as the midnight
deadline of Nepal's first federal constitution approaches in Kathmandu. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS
23Muslims sit at the Jama Masjid after offering their evening prayers in the old quarters of Delhi.
B MATHUR/REUTERS
24Boys working at a shop selling coal take a break in Yangon. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS
25Women work in a brick factory on the outskirts of Yangon. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS
26Director Haneke reacts after receiving the Palme d'Or award for the film Amour during the awards
ceremony of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. YVES HERMAN/REUTERS
27A U.S. Marine salutes motorcycle riders in the annual Rolling Thunder First Amendment Demonstration
Run in Washington. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
28A girl walks amongst graves of military veterans at the Cyprus Hills National Cemetery in New York.
ALLISON JOYCE/REUTERS
29A woman presents an African-Colombian hairstyle during the Afro-Hairstyles VIII Competition in Cali.
JAIME SALDARRIAGA/REUTERS
30Former British Prime Minister Blair arrives before giving evidence before the Leveson Inquiry into the
ethics and practices of the media at the High Court in central London. STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS
31Labourer smokes after loading coal onto trucks at a coal yard near Chiwaki railway station in the northern
Indian city of Allahabad. JITENDRA PRAKASH/REUTERS
32Woman injured during an explosion sits on a police pick-up in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
STRINGER/REUTERS
33Woman holds her malnourished child at therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa.
MOHAMED AL-SAYAGHI/REUTERS
34People jostle while holding water pots as they collect water from lorry from WASA in outskirts of Dhaka.
ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS
35A woman lies on the floor of her home, a tent provided by the United Nations' refugee agency in southern
Mauritania. JOE PENNEY/REUTERS
36Agents from Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA destroy clandestine ovens used to make
charcoal in Goianesia. STRINGER/BRAZIL/REUTERS
37A protester shouts during a protest against presidential candidates Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq
at Tahrir square in Cairo. SUHAIB SALEM/REUTERS
38Obama's shadow is reflected on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall as he delivers remarks during an
observance of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, on the National Mall in Washington. JONATHAN
ERNST/REUTERS
39A child looks at the prosthetic legs of Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball team members during a
Memorial Day Parade in Binghamton, New York. GARY CAMERON/REUTERS
40Labourer rests inside wagon of coal train as he takes a break from shovelling coal at a coal yard on the
outskirts of Jammu. MUKESH GUPTA/REUTERS
41Italian artists Garullo and Ottocento look at their exhibit entitled The Dream Of Italian, which comprises
of a wax figurine representing Italy's former prime minister Berlusconi as being dead, at the Ferrajoli Palace
in downtown Rome. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS
42A relative carries the body of a South African teenager during a funeral procession in Doha. HAMAD
I MOHAMMED/REUTERS
43Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a cup of tea at the VIP lounge of Yangon's
airport. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS
44A striking coal miner places a burning tyre onto a barricade on the A-66 motorway in Campomanes.
ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS
45Supporters of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party sing the National Anthem during a rally commemorating
the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 in Athens. YORGOS KARAHALIS/REUTERS
46A passenger walks with a suitcase during a cleaning staff protest at Barcelona's airport. ALBERT
GEA/REUTERS
47A man falls into the water as he walks in flooded street in Montreal. CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/REUTERS
48A Bolivian policeman stand in Pampa Colorada at the Carrasco national park. DAVID MERCADO/
REUTERS
49A rescue worker patrols in front of a building which was damaged in an earthquake, in Medolla.
STEFANO RELLANDINI/REUTERS
50Member of SLA stands guard as UNAMID delegation arrives to open a new clinic in Forog, north Darfur.
HANDOUT/REUTERS
51A young woman drinks tea as she waits for her turn to get food supplies outside a food distribution cente
r in Tarenguel, Mauritania. SUSANA VERA/REUTERS
52French reporter Langlois speaks after his release by Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Caqueta in this still
image taken from video. REUTERS TV/REUTERS
53Chinese bridal couples pose after their symbolic wedding in Fuessen. MICHAEL DALDER/REUTERS
54Six-year-old Lori Anne Madison ponders upon a question during a news conference at the Scripps
National Spelling Bee semi-finals at National Harbor, Maryland. GARY CAMERON/REUTERS
55A boy cools himself off as he sits under a fountain in New Delhi. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
56Blind activist Chen Guangcheng is pictured at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. ERIC
THAYER/REUTERS
57A man kisses a camel at the Pyramids Plateau in Giza. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS
58Man transports ducks on a motorcycle to a market in Nam Ha province. KHAM/REUTERS
59Jake Beaudoin, a U.S. Army Private of 82nd Airborne Division, takes cover during a controlled detonation
to clear an area for setting up a check point in Zahri district of Kandahar province. SHAMIL
ZHUMATOV/REUTERS
60U.S pop singer Madonna performs during the opening concert of her MDNA world tour at Ramat Gan
stadium near Tel Aviv. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS
61An aerial view shows a clandestine airstrip used for drug smuggling after it was destroyed in a military
operation approximately 35 km (22 miles) from the border with Colombia. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS
62NASA photo illustration depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky
Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. HANDOUT/REUTERS
63Xiao Cao performs as a cultural revolution red guard at a park in Shanghai. ALY SONG/REUTERS
64Members of the Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group use an improvised bomb to blast through
the main door of a building during an anti-terrorism drill at Taguig city. ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS
65To match Interview VALE-INDONESIA/. YUSUF AHMAD/REUTERS
66A boy jumps into a step well built inside the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi. ADNAN
ABIDI/REUTERS
