Senin, 02 Januari 2012

The Year in Pictures: Part III


The Year in Pictures: Part III

In this post, featuring images from the last quarter of 2011, we remember a tumultuous year of change across the globe, the capture of Khadafi, the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the passing of Apple icon Steve Jobs, fire, famine, flood and protests. A memorable year, indeed. -- Paula Nelson -- Please seepart 1 and part 2 from earlier. (EDITOR'S NOTE: We will not post a Big Picture on Monday, December 26, due to the Christmas Holiday ) (51 photos total)

A defaced portrait of fugitive Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli on Sept. 1, 2011 as the fallen strongman vowed again not to surrender in a message broadcast on the 42nd anniversary of the coup which brought him to power. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)


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Homelessness around the world

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Homelessness around the world

Boston conducted its 32nd census of the city’s homeless population earlier this week. A report to the United Nations in 2005 stated there were an estimated 100 million homeless people in the world, and an additional 1.6 billion living without adequate housing. Here are some images of homelessness across the globe, collected from wire images this year. -- Lloyd Young (31 photos total)

Scenes from Iraq


Scenes from Iraq

As 2011 ends, Iraqis confront their challenges with neither the presence of US troops, nor the shadow of Saddam Hussein, who was executed five years ago today. He had ruled since 1979, although he'd been a power player in the government since 1968. The American occupation ended officially on December 15, eight years after the 2003 invasion. Sectarian strife still plagues Iraq, and although the violence lessened from near-civil war levels in 2006, the pullout of American forces has seen a return of hostilities. While the number of American casualties of the occupation stands at 4,487, figures for Iraqi casualties have no such certainty. Some estimates put the figure as high as 100,000. Now conflicts new and old wait to be dealt with by a country free to decide its own fate for the first time in generations. Sectarian struggle, problems with water and electricity delivery, and war-ravaged infrastructure are just a few of the issues facing Iraqis today. Gathered here are recent images of Iraq as it looks ahead to 2012. The last four images are portraits by Reuters photographer Shannon Stapleton, who asked ordinary Iraqis for their thoughts on their future after the pullout of American forces. -- Lane Turner (36 photos total)

A man smokes a water pipe at a cafe on Mutanabi Street in Baghdad on December 9, 2011. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)


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Japan's nuclear exclusion zone

What does a sudden evacuation look like? After everyone is gone, what happens to the places they've abandoned? National Geographic Magazine sent Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder to the nuclear exclusion zone around Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant to find out. Evacuated shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami led to a nuclear radiation crisis, the area has been largely untouched, with food rotting on store shelves and children's backpacks waiting in classrooms. The area may face the same fate as the town of Pripyat, Ukraine after the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago. This isn't the first time Guttenfelder has gotten a rare glimpse of a place few see, as The Big Picture featured his photographs of North Korea in an earlier post. Collected here are Guttenfelder's haunting images just released of a place abandoned, and of people dealing with the loss. -- Lane Turner (39 photos total)

In this April 7, 2011 photo, local police wearing white suits to protect them from radiation, search for bodies along a river inside Odaka, Japan. Weeks after authorities had searched for victims and started recovery in other tsunami-hit regions, cleanup crews hadn't yet been dispatched around the crippled reactors because of high radiation levels. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)


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Winter storm warning issued for Michigan
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Winter storm warnings were issued for parts of Michigan and an area west of Washington DC by the National Weather Service early Sunday. It issued its "first major winter storm" warning of 2012 for parts of Michigan, saying snow, sleet and rain along ...
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Revelers Across Globe Ring in New Year - Voice of America


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Revelers Across Globe Ring in New Year
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January 01, 2012 Revelers Across Globe Ring in New Year VOA News Singer Lady Gaga performs during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York Revelers Across Globe Ring in New Year DATE: 01/01/12 PUBLISHED AT: Sunday, January 01, ...
World Rings in 2012, Bids Goodbye to Rough YearFox News
World celebrates 2012USA TODAY
US rings in 2012 as world bids 2011 farewellCBS News
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The World Welcomes 2012
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By AP / VERENA DOBNIK Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011 (NEW YORK) — Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York's Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded celebrations and glittering fireworks displays around ...
NYC, world ring in 2012, bid adieu to a tough yearThe Associated Press
World welcomes 2012 with cheers, celebrationsCNN
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NEW YORK — People have already started to stake out space in Times Square in anticipation of New York City's big New Year's Eve bash. Revelers wearing party hats and “2012” glasses were camped out inside metal police barricades on Seventh Avenue. ...
Finishing touches in Times Square for big nightCBS News
Hope reigns as Americans prepare to ring in 2012WFTV Orlando

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