Coolest Pix Of 2012 Week 27

An ethnic Roma man carries his child after being rehoused at Cuprom offices in Romania’s northern town of Baia Mare. BOGDAN CRISTEL/REUTERS

Hershkovitz, a Holocaust survivor and winner of a beauty contest for survivors of the Nazi genocide, stands with other contestants during the contest in Haifa. AVISHAG SHAR-YASHUV/REUTERS

Lightnings strikes over buildings during a thunderstorm in Berlin. PAWEL KOPCZYNSKI/REUTERS

German Chancellor Merkel and other delegates prepare to cast their ballots in the Reichstag in Berlin. FABIAN BIMMER/REUTERS

U.S. President Barack Obama surveys fire damaged area with first responders in Colorado Springs. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

A Palestinian groom is thrown in the air during a mass wedding party for 19 Palestinian couples in the West Bank village of Silwad. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

Ducks sit by a pond as the Rose Crest fire burns the hills in Herriman. GEORGE FREY/REUTERS

Police officers push members of the media during a pro-democracy protest in front of the hotel where Chinese President Hu is staying in Hong Kong. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

People watch a firework display during the International Fireworks Festival in Zagreb. ANTONIO BRONIC/REUTERS

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying takes oath in front of Chinese President Hu Jintao during the inauguration of the new government in Hong Kong. BOBBY YIP/REUTERS

A member of the movement Yosoy132 takes part during a demonstration to demand transparency in the next election outside TV broadcaster Televisa building in Mexico city. EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

Government officials and guests attend a flag raising ceremony outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. BOBBY YIP/REUTERS

Smoke rises from 120mm mortar barrel after being fired by U.S. Army soldiers in Pech River Valley. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

A girl plays with bubbles during a march by pro-democracy demonstrators in downtown Hong Kong. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

Police detain an activist in front of the Olympic stadium in Kiev. GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS

A pro-democracy demonstrator holds a portrait of Queen Elizabeth as he marches along downtown Hong Kong, during the 15th anniversary of the territory’s handover to China. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

Afghan children gesture as they watch soldiers from 12th Infantry Regiment patrol in Pech River Valley. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Flood-affected residents are silhouetted against the setting sun as they travel on a boat through their submerged paddy fields at Himalua village. UTPAL BARUAH/REUTERS

Syrian fighters take position at a front line fighting at Hamidiyeh district area in the central city of Homs. STRINGER/REUTERS

Kids play in a water fountain in the Capital Heights neighborhood to beat heat gripping Washington. LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

People lean out of the windows of an office building on fire in Guayaquil. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Smoke from the Waldo Canyon fire blankets a hill in the background as an antlered deer walks through a neighborhood recently evacuated due to the wildfire in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

Members of the female punk group Pussy Riot perform during a concert by US rock group Faith No More in Moscow. SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS

A woman sits with her child in a boat during heavy rains at a flooded village in Kurigram. ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS

Belarussian servicemen take part in a military parade during celebrations marking Independence Day in Minsk. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

A worker tends to cannabis plants at a plantation near the northern Israeli city of Safed. BAZ RATNER/REUTERS

Residents look at damaged vehicles at the site of a bomb attack in a market in Diwaniya. STRINGER/IRAQ/REUTERS

Turkish F-16 fighter jets line up for takeoff from Incirlik airbase in the southern Turkish city of Adana. UMIT BEKTAS/REUTERS

Children eat in a makeshift shelter where they are taking refuge at from the floods in Kurigram. ANDREW BIRAJ/REUTERS

IMF Managing Director Lagarde arrives for news conference at IMF headquarters in Washington. JASON REED/REUTERS

Captain Kopp talks to therapy dog Hank at Combat Outpost Nangalam in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Two Blackhawk helicopters load passengers in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province. LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Man is seen photographing the full moon in Brasilia. UESLEI MARCELINO/REUTERS

Lighting strikes as rain clouds approach the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS

Handout photo of a 51 pound cancerous tumor removed from a patient from Riverview Medical Center, in Red Bank. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A house is surrounded by a burnt landscape, as a helicopter flies above after dropping water on the Quail Fire in Alpine. GEORGE FREY/REUTERS

A woman smears mineral-rich black mud on a man’s forehead near the Tus lake in Russia’s Khakassia region. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS

File picture shows miners on strike waiting for suspended ANC Youth League President Malema to address them outside the Impala Platinum mine in Rustenburg. SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS

Calluses are seen on the knuckles of a young performer during a Shaolin and Wu Dong Martial Arts Extravaganza at Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. BOBBY YIP/REUTERS

Klitschko, heavyweight boxing champion and leader of Ukrainian political party UDAR, walks away after police fired teargas during a rally in Kiev. STRINGER/REUTERS

Barclays bank former Chief Executive Bob Diamond arrives at Portcullis House in London. LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS

A miner kicks a gas canister fired by the Spanish national riot police during the clashes between police and miners in El Entrego. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS

A coal miner burns a wood barricade in the surrounding of Pozo Soton coal mine in El Entrego. ELOY ALONSO/REUTERS

Houses under construction are seen in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

A group of young people parody U.S. Republican presidential candidate Romney’s last name as R-MONEY as they march in a Fourth of July parade in Takoma Park. JIM BOURG/REUTERS

Dutch TV presenter and model Van der Vaart presents a creation by Hunkemoeller as her husband watches at Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 in Berlin. TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS

Joey Chestnut competes in the 2012 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. ERIC THAYER/REUTERS

A helicopter drops water on the north flank of the Fontenelle Fire outside Big Piney, Wyoming. JIM URQUHART/REUTERS

People look at fireworks exploding during Macy’s Independence Day celebration as seen from Hoboken. EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS

Soldiers from an honour guard practice ahead of an official welcoming ceremony for Cuba’s President Raul Castro at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. JASON LEE/REUTERS

Animal rights protesters lie covered in fake blood and black paint as they form the words Stop bullfighting during a demonstration in Pamplona. SUSANA VERA/REUTERS

Remains collected from the wreckage of Turkish F-4 jet which was shot down by Syria and retrieved from the seabed on Thursday, are seen in this undated picture released by Turkish Chief of Staff in Ankara. HANDOUT/REUTERS

A girl runs through a spray of water leaking from a hose outside the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall. JASON REED/REUTERS

People look on from a bridge as riot police stand guard during a blockade by public bus drivers on Roosevelt Avenue in Guatemala City. JORGE DAN LOPEZ/REUTERS

A penguin swims near Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro. RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS

A laser beam touches the Gherkin from the Shard during the laser and searchlight show which marks the completion of the exterior of the Shard building in central London. OLIVIA HARRIS/REUTERS

Venezuelan soldiers march during a military parade marking the 201th anniversary of Venezuela’s independence, in Caracas. STRINGER/VENEZUELA/REUTERS

All 20,000 fireworks lit the sky in 15 seconds when they were accidentally set off prematurely by a computer glitch at the San Diego Independence Day show, in San Diego. HANDOUT/REUTERS

IMF Managing Director Lagarde delivers a speech at a special forum in Tokyo. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

A woman carries water through the flooded Jamam refugee camp at the Upper Nile. ADRIANE OHANESIAN/REUTERS

Female giant panda Shin Shin’s new baby is seen at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Revellers hold up their red scarves next to a Basque Country flag during the start of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. SUSANA VERA/REUTERS