Lightning strikes over a pier during a storm in Atlit, near the northern Israeli city of Haifa in October. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
A Kashmiri government teacher shouts anti-government slogans from inside a police van after he was detained during a protest in Srinagar in July. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli
A reveller tries to hold on to a wild horse during the 'Rapa Das Bestas' traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo in July. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal
The hands of US President Barack Obama are seen with his teleprompters at a campaign event at Cheyenne Sports Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada in November. REUTERS/Larry Downing
An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co smashes a bottle over a female recruit's head during a training session for China's first female bodyguards in Beijing in January. REUTERS/David Gray
Artist Pyotr Pavlensky, with his mouth sewn up, takes part in a protest in support of Russian female punk band 'Pussy Riot', in St Petersburg in July. REUTERS/Trend Photo Agency/Handout
A double rainbow appears after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight, Nevada in July. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
A wrestler rubs his hands with mud to prevent slipping due to sweat during a traditional mud wrestling (Kushti) bout at the Akhaara centre in Kolhapur, India in February. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Russian servicemen in historic uniform take part in a military parade rehearsal in Red Square, Moscow, in November. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
Supporters of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party gather outside their party's headquarters as ballots are thrown from the building in Athens in June. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis
A full moon rises over the skyline of Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center (L) in New York in May 6. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
The father of Captain Nancy Flores kisses her pilot helmet during her funeral in Lima, Peru in April. Flores was killed in an armed encounter with Shining Path rebels. REUTERS/Vera Lentz
Attendees pass between display areas during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), in Los Angeles in June. REUTERS/Phil McCarten
An amusement park roller coaster lies partially submerged in Seaside Heights, New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast of the US in November. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator gestures at Goldman Sachs employees watching demonstrations below their building on the one-year anniversary of the movement in New York in September. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
An aurora appears in the sky over Whitehorse, Yukon on the night of September 3. REUTERS/Courtesy of David Cartier, Sr./NASA/Handout
Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace after their wedding in Westminster Abbey, in London in April. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/Files
Palestinians wave flags during a rally marking the UN General Assembly's upgrading of the Palestinians' status from 'observer entity' to 'non-member state', in the West Bank city of Ramallah in December. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Paratroopers from Chosen Company of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry board a waiting CH-47 Chinook as they begin a helicopter assault mission in Afghanistan's Paktiya Province in July. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Vacationers bask in front of the wreckage of capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto in June. REUTERS/Max Rossi
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
A group of riot policemen is engulfed in flames after protesters threw petrol bombs in Athens' Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike in September. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is escorted by two F18 jets as it passes the Hollywood sign on the back of a 747 on its arrival in Los Angeles in September. REUTERS/Mike Blake
A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site in the northwest of Pyongyang, North Korea in April. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
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US President Barack Obama celebrates on stage as confetti falls after his victory speech during his election rally in Chicago in November. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
A supporter attends a rally for A. Zombie as he announces his candidacy for President of the United States and kicks off his cross-country bus tour in San Diego, California in August. REUTERS/Mike Blake