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Jan 13, 2012
Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of holy Quran, right, changes a page of the holy Quran with a student at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hussaini Khedri claims to have completed the writing of the world's biggest copy of Islam's holy Quran in 5 years along with his nine students with the financial support of an well- known figure Afghan Sayed Mansoor Nadri.
- AP Photo/ Musadeq Sadeq

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Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of holy Quran, right, changes a page of the holy Quran with a student at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hussaini Khedri claims to have completed the writing of the world's biggest copy of Islam's holy Quran in 5 years along with his nine students with the financial support of an well- known figure Afghan Sayed Mansoor Nadri. The cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its side off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. 5 bodies have been found aboard the ship raising the official death toll to 11. Teams have been searching the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized. Police and soldiers, bottom, and journalists, top, take cover during clashes after a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. At least 360 inmates and visitors were killed in the fire, according to authorities. Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, silhouetted against the setting sun as she arrives to deliver a speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 50 km from Yangon, Myanmar. Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, tears in his eyes, addresses a massive rally of supporters at Manezh square outside Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev stands behind him. Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Russia's presidential election, which the opposition and independent observers say was marred by widespread violations. Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib north Syria. Aida's husband and and two children were killed after their home was shelled. A Tibetan man screams as he runs engulfed in flames after self-immolating at a protest in New Delhi, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the country. Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives at the courtroom in Oslo, Norway. The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts amidst worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Anders Behring Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to death 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya island, outside the Norwegian capital. First, earlier in the month, last year's photos by Diana Walker for Time (top) and Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque of the US secretary of state went viral in cyberspace, creating waves as a meme in a tumblr: Texts from Hillary http://textsfromhillaryclinton.tumblr.com A larger-than-life image of North Korea's new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un is displayed on a giant screen during a concert on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army in Pyongyang, North Korea. A police lieutenant swings his baton at an Occupy Wall Street activist in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial institutions. Shareholders watch as Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, deploys an oversize bat against table tennis prodigy Ariel Hsing in Omaha. Homes crowd the Rocinha shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, photographed. Local officials and human rights groups are working to give legal title to tens of thousands of residents of shantytowns like Rocinha, a process that increases their wealth and gives them greater access to credit, as well as peace of mind. The programs so far are just a start at tackling a widespread problem: A third of the people in Rio state, nearly 5 million people, don't have title to their homes, an uncertainty shared by most of the approximately 1 billion people who living in slums globally. President Barack Obama presents rock legend Bob Dylan with a Medal of Freedom, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington. The space shuttle Enterprise is towed past the World Trade Center's Freedom Tower, on its way to permanent display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. A Free Syrian Army fighter carries an RPG launcher during clashes with Syrian troops near Idlib, Syria. Astronaut Andre Kuipers watches a bubble in a drop of water as he enjoys his last days of weightlessness aboard the International Space Station. Hugo Barra, Director of Google Product Management, holds up the Google Galaxy Nexus phone at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Brett Lee poses for photos at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney. Lee, the veteran Australian pace bowler has announced his retirement from all international cricket but will continue to play Twenty20 matches in the Indian Premier League and in Australia's domestic Big Bash competition. A squirrel, trapped in a manhole cover in Isenhagen, Germany. After they were called by neighbors, police managed to free the animal by using olive oil. A man carries puppies back inside their house as other dogs stay on the roof at a flooded area in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines. Men crosses deep flood waters in San Juan, north of Manila, Philippines. Widespread flooding paralysed the Philippine capital and many other areas as rescue efforts focused on the large number of distressed residents who are still marooned on their roof tops and unable to move to high ground. A boat is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat onto Uotsuri Island, one of several disputed islands (Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese), in the East China Sea. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea usedthe occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. The 14 people had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the disputed islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan. The mother of the Chinese quadruplets decided to shave numbers onto their heads after the children starting school this week so their teachers could tell them apart. The mother admitted that even their father had a hard time distinguishing each boy before their new haircuts, sometimes feeling confused when dealing with them. A US Sikh student's dignified response to a tasteless post making fun of her facial hair has earned her a legion of fans. A man took a photo of Balpreet Kaur and uploaded onto Reddit in the 'funny' category with the tagline 'im (sic) not sure what to conclude from this'. The aspiring neurosurgeon discovered the picture and instead of flying into a rage at the person behind the cheap dig, she posted a comment explaining why she didn't remove her hair: I'm not embarrassed or even humiliated by the attention [negative and positive] that this picture is getting because, it's who I am. Yes, I'm a baptised Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realise that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. <b>Staying On Top</b> <p> tiny Tuvalu usually sees king-tide events at austral summer’s end. Will-Kat’s visit came out of season, but demanded attention on no lesser a stage. With half the island out to greet them, they got it. A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people, leveling buildings and trapping survivors under the rubble, state TV said. More than 120 people were injured, the government said. Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from a capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever -- a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. The iPad Mini, at left, is shown next to the 4th Generation iPad in San Jose, California. In this undated handout photo issued by Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, England, Malala Yousufzai in her hospital bed, poses for a photograph, with her father Ziauddin accompanied by her two younger brothers Atal, right and Khushal, centre. Malala Yousufzai is recovering at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where she was flown for treatment and protection from Taliban threats after she was shot on Oct. 9 in northwestern Pakistan. Superstorm Sandy left a swath of destruction at the end of October, causing at least 250 deaths in seven countries, and $65.6 billion in damages. Here, Seawater pours into the Ground Zero construction site in New York, as Sandy made landfall. A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy in Hoboken, New Jersey. In Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover, newly landed on the red planet, used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture a set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait. The mosaic shows the rover at Rocknest, the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover. President Barack Obama hugs his wife Michelle, after she introduces him at a campaign event at the Village of East Davenport in Davenport, Iowa, on August 15, 2012. In November, this image was attached to a short message sent by Barack Obama's Twitter account, after his re-election became certain, saying simply Four more years. The image quickly became the most re-tweeted photo in Twitter's history. President Barack Obama smiles after delivering his victory speech to supporters gathered in Chicago. International Space Station crew member U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams smiles shortly after landing in a Soyuz capsule outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Three astronauts, NASA's Sunita Williams, Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan's JAXA space agency, touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan on board a Soyuz capsule after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his wife Gursharan Kaur poses with his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen and his wife at the Gala Dinner ahead of ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A bomb is pictured in mid-drop, part of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. For a week in mid-November, Gaza militants intensified rocket fire into Israel and Israeli forces struck hundreds of targets in the Gaza Strip in the latest flare-up of violence in the region. A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was mediated by Egypt, and has held so far. Visitors watch the Timeline Motorcycle with ten seats and seven different Harley Davidson engines at the motor show in Essen, Germany. The 7.8 meter long bike is allowed to drive in normal traffic.
Jan 13, 2012
Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of holy Quran, right, changes a page of the holy Quran with a student at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hussaini Khedri claims to have completed the writing of the world's biggest copy of Islam's holy Quran in 5 years along with his nine students with the financial support of an well- known figure Afghan Sayed Mansoor Nadri.
- AP Photo/ Musadeq Sadeq
Jan 18, 2012
The cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its side off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. 5 bodies have been found aboard the ship raising the official death toll to 11. Teams have been searching the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized.
- AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia
Feb 15, 2012
Police and soldiers, bottom, and journalists, top, take cover during clashes after a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. At least 360 inmates and visitors were killed in the fire, according to authorities.
- AP Photo/ Fernando Antonio
Feb 26, 2012
Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, silhouetted against the setting sun as she arrives to deliver a speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 50 km from Yangon, Myanmar.
- AP Photo/ Altaf Qadri
Mar 04, 2012
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, tears in his eyes, addresses a massive rally of supporters at Manezh square outside Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev stands behind him. Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Russia's presidential election, which the opposition and independent observers say was marred by widespread violations.
- AP Photo/ Ivan Sekretarev
Mar 10, 2012
Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib north Syria. Aida's husband and and two children were killed after their home was shelled.
- AP Photo/ Rodrigo Abd
Mar 26, 2012
A Tibetan man screams as he runs engulfed in flames after self-immolating at a protest in New Delhi, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the country.
- AP Photo/ Manish Swarup
Apr 16, 2012
Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives at the courtroom in Oslo, Norway. The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts amidst worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Anders Behring Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to death 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya island, outside the Norwegian capital.
- AP Photo/ Hakon Mosvold Larsen, Pool
Apr 17, 2012
First, earlier in the month, last year's photos by Diana Walker for Time (top) and Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque of the US secretary of state went viral in cyberspace, creating waves as a meme in a tumblr: Texts from Hillary http://textsfromhillaryclinton.tumblr.com
- Courtesy Diana Walker (Time) and Kevin Lamarque (Reuters)
Apr 24, 2012
A larger-than-life image of North Korea's new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un is displayed on a giant screen during a concert on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army in Pyongyang, North Korea.
- AP Photo/ Ng Han Guan
May 01, 2012
A police lieutenant swings his baton at an Occupy Wall Street activist in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge against financial institutions.
- AP Photo/ Mary Altaffer
May 07, 2012
Shareholders watch as Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, deploys an oversize bat against table tennis prodigy Ariel Hsing in Omaha.
- AP Photo/ Nati Harnik
May 22, 2012
Homes crowd the Rocinha shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, photographed. Local officials and human rights groups are working to give legal title to tens of thousands of residents of shantytowns like Rocinha, a process that increases their wealth and gives them greater access to credit, as well as peace of mind. The programs so far are just a start at tackling a widespread problem: A third of the people in Rio state, nearly 5 million people, don't have title to their homes, an uncertainty shared by most of the approximately 1 billion people who living in slums globally.
- AP Photo/ Felipe Dana
May 30, 2012
President Barack Obama presents rock legend Bob Dylan with a Medal of Freedom, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington.
- AP Photo/ Charles Dharapak
Jun 06, 2012
The space shuttle Enterprise is towed past the World Trade Center's Freedom Tower, on its way to permanent display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
- AP Photo/ NASA, Bill Ingalls
Jun 15, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter carries an RPG launcher during clashes with Syrian troops near Idlib, Syria.
- AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra
Jun 24, 2012
Astronaut Andre Kuipers watches a bubble in a drop of water as he enjoys his last days of weightlessness aboard the International Space Station.
- AP Photo/ NASA, Andre Kuipers
Jul 04, 2012
Hugo Barra, Director of Google Product Management, holds up the Google Galaxy Nexus phone at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
- AP Photo/ Paul Sakuma
Jul 13, 2012
Brett Lee poses for photos at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney. Lee, the veteran Australian pace bowler has announced his retirement from all international cricket but will continue to play Twenty20 matches in the Indian Premier League and in Australia's domestic Big Bash competition.
- AP Photo/ Rick Rycroft
Aug 05, 2012
A squirrel, trapped in a manhole cover in Isenhagen, Germany. After they were called by neighbors, police managed to free the animal by using olive oil.
- AP Photo/ Police Hanover
Aug 08, 2012
A man carries puppies back inside their house as other dogs stay on the roof at a flooded area in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines.
- AP Photo/ Aaron Favila
Aug 09, 2012
Men crosses deep flood waters in San Juan, north of Manila, Philippines. Widespread flooding paralysed the Philippine capital and many other areas as rescue efforts focused on the large number of distressed residents who are still marooned on their roof tops and unable to move to high ground.
- AP Photo/ John Javellana
Aug 15, 2012
A boat is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat onto Uotsuri Island, one of several disputed islands (Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese), in the East China Sea. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea usedthe occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. The 14 people had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the disputed islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan.
- AP Photo/ Yomiuri Shimbun, Masataka Morita
Sep 10, 2012
The mother of the Chinese quadruplets decided to shave numbers onto their heads after the children starting school this week so their teachers could tell them apart. The mother admitted that even their father had a hard time distinguishing each boy before their new haircuts, sometimes feeling confused when dealing with them.
- AP Photo
Sep 26, 2012
A US Sikh student's dignified response to a tasteless post making fun of her facial hair has earned her a legion of fans. A man took a photo of Balpreet Kaur and uploaded onto Reddit in the 'funny' category with the tagline 'im (sic) not sure what to conclude from this'. The aspiring neurosurgeon discovered the picture and instead of flying into a rage at the person behind the cheap dig, she posted a comment explaining why she didn't remove her hair: "I'm not embarrassed or even humiliated by the attention [negative and positive] that this picture is getting because, it's who I am. Yes, I'm a baptised Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realise that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women."
- Photo Courtesy: cracked.tumblr.com
Sep 26, 2012
Staying On Top

tiny Tuvalu usually sees king-tide events at austral summer’s end. Will-Kat’s visit came out of season, but demanded attention on no lesser a stage. With half the island out to greet them, they got it.
- AFP (From Outlook 08 October 2012)

Oct 03, 2012
A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people, leveling buildings and trapping survivors under the rubble, state TV said. More than 120 people were injured, the government said.
- AP Photo/ Manu Brabo
Oct 14, 2012
Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from a capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever -- a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert.
- AP Photo/ Red Bull Stratos
Oct 23, 2012
The iPad Mini, at left, is shown next to the 4th Generation iPad in San Jose, California.
- AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Oct 26, 2012
In this undated handout photo issued by Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, England, Malala Yousufzai in her hospital bed, poses for a photograph, with her father Ziauddin accompanied by her two younger brothers Atal, right and Khushal, centre. Malala Yousufzai is recovering at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where she was flown for treatment and protection from Taliban threats after she was shot on Oct. 9 in northwestern Pakistan.
- AP Photo/ Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Oct 29, 2012
Superstorm Sandy left a swath of destruction at the end of October, causing at least 250 deaths in seven countries, and $65.6 billion in damages. Here, Seawater pours into the Ground Zero construction site in New York, as Sandy made landfall.
- AP Photo/ John Minchillo
Oct 30, 2012
A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- AP Photo/Charles Sykes
Oct 31, 2012
In Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover, newly landed on the red planet, used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture a set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait. The mosaic shows the rover at "Rocknest," the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover.
- NASA/ JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
Nov 07, 2012
President Barack Obama hugs his wife Michelle, after she introduces him at a campaign event at the Village of East Davenport in Davenport, Iowa, on August 15, 2012. In November, this image was attached to a short message sent by Barack Obama's Twitter account, after his re-election became certain, saying simply "Four more years." The image quickly became the most re-tweeted photo in Twitter's history.
-
Nov 07, 2012
President Barack Obama smiles after delivering his victory speech to supporters gathered in Chicago.
- AP Photo/ Jerome Delay
Nov 19, 2012
International Space Station crew member U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams smiles shortly after landing in a Soyuz capsule outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Three astronauts, NASA's Sunita Williams, Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan's JAXA space agency, touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan on board a Soyuz capsule after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station.
- AP Photo/ Maxim Shipenkov, Pool
Nov 19, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his wife Gursharan Kaur poses with his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen and his wife at the Gala Dinner ahead of ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- PTI Photo/Kamal Singh
Nov 21, 2012
A bomb is pictured in mid-drop, part of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. For a week in mid-November, Gaza militants intensified rocket fire into Israel and Israeli forces struck hundreds of targets in the Gaza Strip in the latest flare-up of violence in the region. A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was mediated by Egypt, and has held so far.
- AP Photo/ Bernat Armangue
Dec 07, 2012
Visitors watch the "Timeline Motorcycle" with ten seats and seven different Harley Davidson engines at the motor show in Essen, Germany. The 7.8 meter long bike is allowed to drive in normal traffic.
- AP Photo/ Martin Meissner
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