The most POWERFUL photos over the past year: Part II
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Rediff.com brings you some of the award-winning pictures from bestselling Reuters Our World Now collector's series. This is the second part of the series
A model stumbles as she presents a creation from the J Mendel Fall/Winter 2012 collection during New York Fashion Week February 15, 2012.
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Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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A Russian judge delivered a verdict against three members of the Pussy Riot punk band whose trial for staging an anti-Kremlin protest in a church provoked an international outcry against President Vladimir Putin.
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Photographs: Daniel Munoz/Reuters
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A girl smokes a cigarette before the arrival of Greek Socialist PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos during a rally in Athens May 4, 2012.
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Photographs: Kevin Coombs/Reuters
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Photographs: Jamal Saidi/Reuters
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Xiao Cao, a 57-year-old gay man, performs as an ancient Chinese fairy at Fuxing park in Shanghai March 13, 2012. China's gay community has long been on the edges of society but it is gradually becoming more accepted.
Cao, who is an unemployed drag queen, is one whose life lifts the curtain on a less romanticised view of Chinese homosexuals. Living in an eight-square-metre apartment behind a public toilet and with a monthly income of 500 yuan ($79) from social insurance, he passes his days dancing in public and spending time with friends at gay clubs.
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Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters
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Maria Delgado (C) who lost three children, all victims of violence, poses next to volunteers holding a picture of her in front of their faces, during a protest in Caracas July 28, 2012. The protest was part of a project called 'Esperanza' (hope) that through art makes a call for peace.
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Photographs: Marco Bello/Reuters
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Mandy Ellis wears a hat decorated with Union flags as she looks towards the London Eye June 2, 2012.
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Photographs: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
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Visitors walk through the "infinity room" before a public memorial service for United States astronaut Neil Armstrong at the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio August 29, 2012.
Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, died at the age of 82.
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Photographs: Matt Sullivan/Reuters
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Since Mali's coup d'etat in March last year, after which Islamist rebels took control of the country's northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne, according to the local tourism board.
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Photographs: Joe Penney/Reuters
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Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 12, 2012. Some youths, aged between 12 and 23 years old, in Gaza are training in parkour which was developed in France.
Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles. Training is held in cemeteries, and in former Israeli settlements.
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Photographs: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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Photographs: Olivia Harris/Reuters
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Photographs: Ricardo Rojas/Reuters
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French employers' body MEDEF union leader Laurence Parisot speaks with the MEDEF delegation after a major Labour Conference with labour unions representatives and employers at the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council headquarters in Paris July 10, 2012. France's new Socialist government aimed to reform the way welfare protection is financed, Ayrault said.
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Photographs: Charles Platiau/Reuters
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Photographs: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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A single woman looks at a bachelor's profile as a man poses in a glass box at the French dating site 'adopt-a-guy' (adopte-un-mec) store in Paris September 12, 2012. The boutique, with a short-term lease promised a high-end shopping experience for women searching for Mr Right.
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Photographs: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Photographs: Vincent West/Reuters
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Photographs: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
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Photographs: Fredy Builes/Reuters
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A participant has tanning lotion applied on his body during a regional bodybuilding and fitness competition in Minsk April 27, 2012.
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Photographs: Vladimir Nikolsky/Reuters
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Photographs: Carlos Barria/Reuters
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Hundreds of physically disabled people arrived in La Paz after completing a protest march of some 1600 km over a hundred days to demand that Bolivia's government offer support in the form of 3000 bolivianos ($434) payment to each physically disabled Bolivian, according to local media.
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Photographs: David Mercado/Reuters
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