2011 - The Year in Review (part 2)

2. This unprecedented view of the space shuttle Atlantis, streaking through the Earth's atmosphere during re-entry, was photographed by the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station, on July 21, 2011. Atlantis, the final space shuttle to ever go into orbit, was on its way home for the last time, landing in Florida later that day. Each of the shuttle orbiters are now undergoing decommissioning in preparation for being placed on public display. (NASA)

3. A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier stands in line during a rehearsal of the Independence Day ceremony in Juba, Sudan, on July 5, 2011. On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence, creating the newest nation in the world -- the 193rd nation to join the United Nations. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

4. Men play football on Ipanema Beach ahead of the Preliminary Draw of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on July 28, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Michael Regan/Getty Images)

5. A federal policemen guards a crime scene in Monterrey, Mexico, on May 30, 2011. Gunmen killed five persons, four taxi drivers and one woman working at a taxi stand, during a drive-by shooting outside a supermarket, local media reported. Drug wars and widespread violence between cartels and the Mexican government continued throughout the year, some estimates tallying 46,000 related deaths in the past five years. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo)

6. This aerial photograph shows a neighborhood destroyed by a powerful tornado in Joplin, Missouri, on May 24, 2011. A tornado moved through much of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 116 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

7. Foreign soldiers leave the Intercontinental Hotel at the end of a military operation against Taliban militants who had stormed the hotel in Kabul, on June 29, 2011. Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul sparking a five-hour battle with Afghan commandos backed by a NATO helicopter gunship in an assault that left at least 10 people dead. (Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images)

8. Lynsey Addario / VII for Newsweek - Aug. 20 - Dadaab, Kenya First war, now starvation. A famine in Somalia could kill as many 750,000 people, while much-needed food is turned away by the Islamist Al-Shabab. Hundreds of thousands have fled to the world’s largest refugee camp at Dadaab, Kenya, where hunger and dehydration are also now rampant.

9. Mihag Gedi Farah, a malnourished seven-month-old child weighing only 7.5 pound (3.4kg), is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, on July 26, 2011. The U.N. will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia that militants banned it from more than two years ago, in a crisis intervention to keep hungry refugees from dying along what an official calls the "roads of death." Tens of thousands already have trekked to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, hoping to get aid in refugee camps. A reporter tracked down Mihag shortly after and was told that doctors expected him to make a full recovery. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

10. An aid worker using an iPad films the rotting carcass of a cow in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 23, 2011. Since drought gripped the Horn of Africa, and especially since famine was declared in parts of Somalia, the international aid industry has swept in and out of refugee camps and remote hamlets in branded planes and snaking lines of white 4x4s. This humanitarian, diplomatic and media circus is necessary every time people go hungry in Africa, analysts say, because governments - both African and foreign - rarely respond early enough to looming catastrophes. Combine that with an often simplistic explanation of the causes of famine, and a growing band of aid critics say parts of Africa are doomed to a never-ending cycle of ignored early warnings, media appeals and emergency U.N. feeding - rather than a transition to lasting self-sufficiency. (Reuters/Barry Malone)

11. A Somali woman weeps for her child (wrapped in cloth), who just died after being brought in for treatment for malnutrition, at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, on July 21, 2011. (Reuters/Feisal Omar)

12. Japan wins the World Cup after a penalty shoot-out at the FIFA Women's World Cup Final match between Japan and USA, on July 17, 2011, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Christof Koepsel/Getty Images)

13. A leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India,on July 19, 2011. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. The forest guard being attacked was also injured. (AP Photo)

14. Ciara Trait of Ireland, after winning the 25 meter backstroke event in the 2011 Special Olympics Summer Games, on July 1, 2011 in Athens, Greece. (Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

15. n injured man is attended to at the site of a powerful explosion that rocked central Oslo July 22, 2011. A huge explosion damaged government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters witness said. The blast blew out most windows on the 17-story building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire. (Reuters/Per Thrana)

16. Covered bodies lie next to a small structure on the shore of the island of Utoya, on July 23, 2011, after a gunman in police uniform killed at least 77 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labour party, and hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)

17. People gather outside Oslo City Hall to participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of the July 22 bomb attack and shooting massacre in Norway, on July 25, 2011. Gunman Anders Behring Breivik has admitted bombing Norway's capital and opening fire on a political youth group retreat, but he entered a plea of not guilty, saying he wanted to save Europe from Muslim immigration. In November, Breivik was declared insane, and now faces compulsory psychiatric treatment, possibly for the remainder of his life. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

18. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (left) reacts as he embraces Eskil Pedersen, the leader of the Norwegian Labour Youth league and survivor of the Utoya island shooting, at a hotel where survivors of the youth camp attack are being reunited with their families in Sundvolden, Norway, on July 23, 2011. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

19. A festival attendee in mid-bungee-jump, during the 17th Woodstock Festival in Kostrzyn-upon-Odra River, Poland, on August 6, 2011. (Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski)

20. A hooded youth walks past a burning vehicle in Hackney, on August 8, 2011 in London, England. Pockets of rioting and looting took place in various boroughs of London this evening, as well as in Birmingham, prompted by the initial rioting in Tottenham and then in Brixton on Sunday night. Disturbances broke out late on Saturday night in Tottenham and the surrounding area after the killing of Mark Duggan, 29 and a father-of-four, by armed police in an attempted arrest on August 4. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

21. A female rebel fighter fires an AK-47 in the air to celebrate the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces from Benghazi during Arab Spring. - Source: Reuters / GORAN TOMASEVIC

22. Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon after riots on Tottenham High Road, on August 7, 2011 in London, England. After Biber's story became known, an online campaign raised more than £25,000 to help him get back in business. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

23. A woman takes part in a SlutWalk protest, in central Seoul, South Korea, on July 16, 2011. About 100 protesters, mostly women, attended the SlutWalk protest march which became a movement of rallies around the world after a Toronto policeman suggested in January that women could avoid sexual assault by not dressing like a "slut." (Reuters/Truth Leem)

24. Rebel fighters stomp on the head of a statue of Muammar Qaddafi inside the main compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Libyan rebels stormed Muammar Qaddafi's main military compound in Tripoli Tuesday after fierce fighting with forces loyal to his regime that rocked the capital as the longtime leader refused to surrender despite the stunning advances by opposition forces. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

25. Salem Hasam Ali, 62, a shop owner, cries while singing the pre-Qaddafi Libyan national anthem at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, late Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Muammar Qaddafi's compound Tuesday, charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

26. Burnt bodies lie in a warehouse in Tripoli, Libya, on August 27, 2011. Up to 150 people were found dead, 53 bodies were burnt in a warehouse in the last few days. The victims are believed to be Libyan civilians arrested by pro-Qaddafi loyalists for interrogation. As the Libyan rebel forces were advancing, the pro-Qaddafi forces acted to cover up the bodies of the people they were interrogating, they threw grenades into the warehouse and then set fire to tires inside to cover up the bodies, locals said. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

27. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attempts to bend a frying pan with his bare hands during his visit to the summer camp of the pro-Kremlin youth group "Nashi" at lake Seliger, some 400km (248miles) north of Moscow, on August 1, 2011. (Reuters/Yana Lapikova/RIA Novosti)

28. A photographer, after being thrown to the ground and beaten during a student rally in Santiago, Chile, on August 9, 2011. Students, teachers, and many others staged multiple protests throughout the year, seeking serious education reforms. (Reuters/Victor Ruiz Caballero)

29. Riot police stand covered with paint thrown by demonstrators trying to reach La Moneda presidential palace on the second day of a national strike in Santiago, Chile, Thursday August 25, 2011. Chileans marched Thursday, demanding profound changes in the country's heavily centralized and privatized form of government. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

30. Air Tahiti Nui wildcard trialist Anthony Wals of Lennox Head, Australia, rides a massive barrel during a tow-in surfing session at Teahupo'o, Tahiti, on August 27, 2011. (AP Photo/ASP, Kirstin Scholtz)

31. In this television frame grab from KIMT in Mason City, Iowa, slain Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson's dog Hawkeye lays next to his casket during funeral services in Rockford, Iowa, on August 19, 2011. Tumilson, age 35, was one of 30 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan on August 6 when their helicopter was shot down during a mission to help fellow troops who had come under fire. (AP Photo/KIMT New 3, Shane Delaney)

32. A monstrous dust storm tore through Phoeniz, Ariz. in July, delaying flights, causing power outages and swallowing the city. The "haboob" dust cloud reached heights of 8,000-10,000 feet, and in some areas about 50 miles wide. Source: danbryant.com

33. Ten years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Robert Peraza pauses by his son Robert David's name at the 9/11 memorial. Source: Reuters/Pool

34. A policeman detains an opposition activist on March 12, 2011. Azerbaijan police detained more than 30 activists of the opposition Musavat Party when its members took to the street of Baku to protest against the ruling elite. - Source: Reuters

35. Hurricane Irene approaches the east coast of North America. Source: Reuters/Weather

36. A man in China saves a woman from committing suicide after her fiance called off their marriage. The startling image quickly became a viral sensation. - Source: Reuters / CHINA DAILY

37. Lt. John Pike sprays UC Davis students with pepper spray during a peaceful campus protest. The incident sparked outrage, and hacker collective Anonymous attempted to launch a vendetta against Pike, publishing his contact information and urging people to spam him with hate mail. Source: Jasna Hodzic

38. An aerial shot of the aftermath of Japan's tsunami. Source: Reuters/Kyodo

39. A phone hangs off the hook at the New York Stock Exchange. The global financial crisis has prompted Occupy protests around the world. Source: Reuters / LUCAS JACKSON

40. Violence breaks out between demonstrators and riot police at occupy Oakland. Escalations between demonstrators and cops would lead to the injuring of Iraq war vet Scott Olsen. - Source: Reuters

41. A man sits in front of what remains of his home in Joplin, Miss. Tornadoes across Southern states like Missouri and Alabama devastated small towns in the spring of 2011. - Source: Reuters

42. Police spray opposition party leaders with colored water during demonstrations in Kampala, Uganda on May 10. Riots erupted after a brief stalemate when opposition leader Kizza Besigye said he had been barred from re-entering the country. Source: James Akena/Reuters

43. A student demonstrating in favor of education reform is punched by a police officer in Chile. Students were demanding a new framework Source: Reuters / VICTOR RUIZ CABALLER

44. A demonstrator shows his backside to riot police in Brussels as part of a March 24 protest by European workers and trade union representatives. The protesters were working toward better job protection in E.U. countries. - Source: Reuters / Thierry Roge

45. A protestor walks through flames caused by the London riots in August. Source: Reuters

46. A U.S. Army soldier high-fives a young boy during patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. Source: Reuters / Umit Bektas

47. A boy plays with a swing in a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand. The record monsoon rains of mid-November were one of the country's worst recent natural disasters, killing hundreds and swamped some of the country's estimated 3,000 crocodile farms. Source: REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

48. The face of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is replicated in "stickies" on the window of the Apple store in Munich, Germany. Jobs passed away after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. Source: REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

49. Robert King / Polaris - May 23 - Vicksburg, Miss. “The Mississippi River will always have its own way,” Mark Twain once wrote, and Americans were reminded of his wisdom as rain and melting snow pushed the Mississippi, Missouri, and Souris rivers near all-time highs. In Vicksburg, only a few rooftops topped the brackish waters.

50. Umit Bektas / Reuters-Landov - Oct. 24 - Ercis, Turkey Yunus, age 13, was one of the lucky ones. Though grubby and bruised, he was rescued from a building that collapsed in the powerful earthquake that struck the eastern Turkish town of Van on Oct. 23. The quake injured more than 4,000 people and left thousands injured. It also killed more than 600—including the victim whose hand rested atop young Yunus.