50 Gripping Photos of 2011
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There was no shortage of moments in 2011 that changed the way we view the world. Fortunately, photographers were there to capture many of them as they unfolded.
Click through this collection of some of the most gripping, awe-inspiring, and shocking photos taken over the past year.
WARNING: Some images contain graphic content
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Half-naked South Korean Special Warfare Forces reacts during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011.
AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
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Mitsubishi's driver Guilherme Spinelli and co-driver Youssef Haddad, both from Brazil, compete during the fourth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Jujuy, Argentina, and Calama, Chile, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.
AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko
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Local residents look on as the body of a man killed by gunfire lies covered in a side street of the Abobo neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011.
AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
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An injured woman is escorted out of a supermarket in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. An explosion rocked a grocery store frequented by foreigners.
AP Photo/Rahmat Gul
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An Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.
AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
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Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore drive in Chicago, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011.
AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato
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Anti-government protestors hold candles as they walk surrounding an Egyptian Army tank at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011.
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
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Men from Bangladesh, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, walk with their belongings alongside a road, as they head to a refugee camp after crossing the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Friday, March 4, 2011.
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
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Waves of a tsunami hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011.
AP Photo/Kyodo News
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A warplane of Gadhafi's forces is seen being shot down over the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011.
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
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A boat sits atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated a vast area of northeastern Pacific coast of Japan, Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun
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A Belgian firefighter hands out apples to police after they were sprayed with a foam water hose during a firefighter's demonstration in Brussels, Friday, March 25, 2011.
AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert
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Regina Mayer jumps with her cow Luna over a hurdle in Laufen, southern Germany, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.
AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson
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Traders work the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2011.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
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A Kurdish protestor attacks a row of ATMs, one of which is already burning, as demonstrators armed with firebombs and slings clashed with Turkish police in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 19, 2011.
AP Photo
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A Palestinian protester throws a tear gas canister back towards Israeli troops, not seen, during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, May 6, 2011.
AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed
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U.S. Army flight medic SGT Jaime Adame, top, cares for seriously wounded Marine CPL. Andrew Smith following an insurgent attack on board a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment north of Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, May 15, 2011.
AP Photo/Kevin Frayer
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Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011.
AP Photo/Chris O'Meara
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Meghan Miller stands in the middle of a destroyed neighborhood as she checks on her sister-in-law's home in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011
AP Photo/Jeff Roberson
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U.S. President Barack Obama drinks Guinness beer as he meets with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, Monday, May 23, 2011, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather.
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
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Lightning strikes over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile, Monday, June 6, 2011.
AP Photo/Francisco Negroni, AgenciaUno
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A plane dusted in volcanic ash sits grounded at the San Carlos de Bariloche airport, southern Argentina, Tuesday, June 7, 2011.
AP Photo/Alfredo Leiva
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A Darth Vader actor waits for tourists who want to be photographed together with him, in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a thunderstorm in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 14, 2011.
AP Photo/Michael Sohn
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Canadian Forces soldier, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue, plays on a drum kit on Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Friday, June 24, 2011.
AP Photo/David Goldman
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A Greek Orthodox priest drives his buggy next to riot police during clashes in central Athens, Wednesday, June 29, 2011.
AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
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A calf, used as a game to amuse revellers, jumps into the arena after the running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain, Thursday, July 7, 2011.
AP Photo/Ivan Aguinaga
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Indian railway workers remove debris of a derailed passenger train, near Bhatkuchi, about 70 kilometres west of Gauhati, India, Monday, July 11, 2011.
AP Photo/Anupam Nath
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U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the prosthetic hand of U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Arthur Petry of Santa Fe, N.M., who received the Medal of Honor for his valor in Afghanistan, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2011.
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
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This aerial photo shows Interstate 405 during a 53-hour shutdown in Los Angeles, Saturday, July 16, 2011.
AP Photo/M.Heller
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A leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2011.
AP Photo
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Minhaj Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child with a weight of 3.4kg, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, Tuesday, July 26, 2011.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam
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The broken fuselage of a Caribbean Airlines' Boeing 737-800 is seen after it crashed at the end of the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Timehri, Guyana, Saturday, July 30, 2011.
AP Photo/Jules Gibson
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The remains of a carp is seen on the dried out lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011.
AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
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Surf rescue swimmer Doug Knutzen carries Dale Ostrander to the shore of the Cranberry Rd. beach approach in Long Beach, Wash., Friday, Aug. 5, 2011.
AP Photo/Damian Mulinix/Chinook Observer
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A property is on fire near Reeves Corner in Croydon, south London, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.
AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld
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Competitors sprint from the starting line during the Bare Buns Run, a 5km clothing optional run, at Wreck Beach in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Burning oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan are seen along a road after being attacked by gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011.
AP Photo/Arshad Butt
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan is helped by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as she takes a tumble at the Reagan Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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A woman kisses the glass case containing a wax figure of Pope John Paul II with relics and a vial of the ex-pontiff's blood at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2011.
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
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A person searches for anyone who may be occupying the building as raging flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene cross Route 100, closing the main road to traffic in Waitsfield, Vt., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011.
AP Photo/Sandy Macys
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Evansville fire Capt. Don Spindler carries a young girl out of a burning apartment in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.
AP Photo/The Evansville Courier & Press, Jason Clark
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A man sets himself on fire outside a branch of Piraeus bank in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
AP Photo/Nontas Stlianidis
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Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, centre, salutes as he is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, at the Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011.
AP Photo/ IDF, HO
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An activist holds up a cross for the media, in front of a burning barricade during evictions at the Dale Farm travellers site, near Basildon England, 50 kilometres east of London, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
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A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Chopin airport, Warsaw Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011.
AP Photo
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Activists of the Occupy Frankfurt movement set up a fire near the Euro sculpture in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.
AP Photo/Michael Probst
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A man lifts an elderly woman after she de-boarded a passenger bus on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
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A demonstrator taking part in an electricians' protest over payment rates reacts as he is confronted by police officers in London, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
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A soldier touches the plaque of a fallen comrade at the war memorial after the last Remembrance Day ceremony at Kandahar Air Field in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif., Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.
AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock
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