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From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.
- 3G
- A330
- Africa
- Airbus A330
- Akane Ito
- al-Abidine Ben Ali
- al-Qaeda
- Alaska
- Ali-Yurt
- Allison Shelley
- America
- Amir Cohen
- Antonio Banderas
- Arab Spring
- Argentina
- Arizona
- Army
- Asahi Shimbun
- Asahi Shimbun
- ATHAR HUSSAIN
- Athens
- Australia
- Ayesha Walker
- Balochistan
- BARRY MALONE
- BEAWIHARTA
- Bo Xilai
- Brad
- Bradley Chic
- Brazil
- Brega
- Brian Snyder
- Britain
- Cairo
- Canon
- Canon EOS
- Canon EOS 1D Mark III Digital Camera
- Canon EOS 1D Mark IV Digital Camera
- Canon EOS 50D Digital Camera
- Canon EOS 5D Digital Camera
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital Camera
- Canon EOS 7D Digital Camera
- Canon EOS-1D Mark II Digital Camera
- car door
- Caracas
- Carlos Barria
- Carlos Garcia Rawlins
- Carlos Gutierrez
- Cathay Pacific
- Caucasus
- cellular telephone
- cement
- Changchun
- Charles
- Chechnya
- Chernobyl
- Chile
- China
- China Daily
- Chinese Red Army
- Chongqing
- Christina Green
- Christina Greene
- Communist Party of China
- Dale Wetz
- DAMIR SAGOLJ
- Daniel Munoz
- Danny Martinez
- Dante Mitchell
- DAVID ANGELL
- Denis Balibouse
- Detroit
- Diana
- DIANA MARKOSIAN
- DWI OBLO
- Dylan Martinez
- East Java
- EDGARD GARRIDO
- Egypt
- electricity
- Eric Thayer
- Estela del Carmen
- Federal Government
- food carts
- forensic services
- Gabrielle Giffords
- gas ovens
- Gaza
- Georgia
- GLEB GARANICH
- Goran Tomasevic
- Greece
- Grozny
- Guo Zhongfan
- Haiti
- hand tools
- holy week
- Honduras
- Hosni Mubarak
- Imran Ali
- Indonesia
- IRAKLI GEDENIDZE
- Islamabad
- Israel
- Iwate Prefecture
- JACKY CHEN
- Jakarta
- Japan
- Jason Lee
- Jerusalem
- Jim Urquhart
- Jo Yong-Hak
- John Kolesidis
- John Mohr
- Jon Nazca
- Karachi
- Kate Middleton
- Kathmandu
- Kenya
- Lhasa
- LI PING
- Libya
- Local media
- London
- Los Angeles
- Lucas Jackson
- Lucy Nicholson
- Madrid
- Magomed Yevloyev
- Malaga
- Manchester
- MARGARITO PEREZ RETANA
- Mass media
- Melanie Griffith
- Merkava mark 2
- Mexico
- Miami
- Miyagi
- Miyagi Prefecture
- mobile phone network
- mobile phones
- Mohammad Azam
- Montana Horses
- Moscow
- Mount Bromo
- Mount Kumgang
- Muammar Gaddafi
- NACHO DOCE
- NASEER AHMED
- Natori
- NAVESH CHITRAKAR
- Nepal
- Nikon
- Nikon D3 Digital Camera
- Nikon D700 Digital Camera
- North Korea
- Olivia Harris
- Osama bin Laden
- Pakistan
- Pashtun
- Patan
- photography
- pictures of the year
- Port-au-Prince
- Portugal
- POY
- prayer site
- primitive tools
- Prince
- Prypiat
- Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano
- radiation
- Raduga
- Rafael Marchante
- Ras Lanuf
- Rason City
- Reuters
- Reuters
- REUTERS/China Daily
- Ricardo Moraes
- Robert Capa
- Roza Yevloyeva
- rubber bullets
- Russia
- Sao Paulo
- Sarah Palin
- Seoul
- Shannon Stapleton
- Singapore
- social networking
- Soling
- Somalia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Steve Crisp
- Sudan
- Sumayya
- Susana Vera
- Switzerland
- Sydney
- synagogue services
- Tbilisi
- tear gas
- tear gas rounds
- Tegucigalpa
- Thailand
- Thangka
- the Hindu
- the Union Jack
- the World Cup
- Three Forks
- Tibet
- Tiffany
- Todd Green
- Tokyo
- Toshiyuki Tsunenari
- Tucson
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- Uncategorized
- United Kingdom
- United Nations
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- United States
- Venezuela
- West Bank
- William
- Wingwalker Todd Green falls
- Yannis Behrakis
- Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali
- ZOHRA BENSEMRA
August was dominated by news of the fall of Tripoli, rioting in Britain, the aftermath of Hurricane Irene and the famine in the Horn of Africa. This selection of our top photos of the month includes these news stories alongside the IAAF championships in Daegu, Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s release and Thailand’s election of their first female prime minister. Warning: Graphic content
- Africa
- Africa
- Britain
- Consciousness
- Daegu
- Disaster
- Dominique
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- DSK
- famine
- Geography
- Irene
- Libya
- london
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Neuropsychology
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of mind
- Photographic filter
- riots
- Self
- Somalia
- Sumayya
- Thailand
- Tripoli
- Tripoli
- Uncategorized
WIDE-EYED: Sumayya, 8, whose uncle, Imran Ali, was injured by gunmen, looked at him in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a political party, called a strike to protest the deaths of at least 96 people killed in the city in the past week. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)
PINNED DOWN: Police officers arrested a protester on Market Street in San Francisco Monday. Dozens of people protested against the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency’s decision to shut down wireless service in its stations on Aug. 11 to quell a brewing protest that day. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press)
SANDSTORM: Soldiers shielded themselves from sand as a helicopter transported their wounded comrades to a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanisan, Tuesday. At least three soldiers were wounded by an improvised explosive devise. (Johannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
STATION STRESS: A mother held her daughter as people scrambled into the Pasar Senen train station Tuesday in Jakarta, Indonesia, to begin their journey back to their hometowns for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday. (Beawiharta/Reuters)
FLOATING ALONG: Rattanaporn,13, floated on a street near her home Tuesday in Phinchit, Thailand, after the Yom River overflowed. Dozens of people have died in flooding. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
LOTUS SHADE: Girls rode their bicycles with lotus leaves keeping their heads cool in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China, Monday. (ChinaFotoPress/Zuma Press)
- Bay Area Rapid Transit
- Blogs
- China
- ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA Press
- Collaboration
- Digg
- Eid al-fitr
- Getty Images
- Imran Ali
- Indonesia
- Jakarta
- JOHANNES EISELE
- Kandahar
- Karachi
- Muttahida Qaumi Movement,
- MySpace
- Pakistan
- Paula Bronstein
- Phinchit
- Rattanaporn
- San Francisco
- Senen
- Social bookmarking
- Social information processing
- Staten Island
- StumbleUpon
- StumbleUpon
- Sumayya
- Thailand
- Uncategorized
- wireless service
- World Wide Web
- Yom River
- Zhejiang Province
Athar Hussain / Reuters
Eight-year-old Sumayya, whose uncle, Imran Ali, was injured in a shootout by unidentified gunmen, looks at him as he is brought to a hospital for treatment in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 23.
Athar Hussain / Reuters
A man rides a donkey-cart on the deserted streets during a strike in Karachi on August 23. Karachi faced a complete shutdown on Tuesday after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced that a day of mourning would be observed against the ongoing wave of violence that has claimed nearly 100 lives in less than a week, local media reported.
David R Arnott writes
Karachi, a city of 18 million people, ground to a halt Tuesday, with most residents staying off the streets after a political party called a strike to protest the deaths of at least 96 people killed in the past week, the AP reported.
Yet the violence shows few signs of abating. Police chief Saud Mirza told the AP that the bodies of 10 more people were found overnight, some of them stuffed in bloody sacks. Read the full story.
Also on PhotoBlog: August 18 - Wave of violence in Karachi kills 39 in two days.