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Top 20 photos that will make you go WOW!

Last updated on: May 15, 2012 18:25 IST


Photographs: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

We bring you some of the best photographs from across the world. 

Wrangler Nate Cummins takes the opportunity to ride by moonlight, the night before the "Super Moon" during Montana Horses' annual horse drive outside Three Forks, Montana.

The Mantle family, who own Montana Horses, held their last horse drive where they rounded up approximately 300 horses and drove the herd 35 miles from their winter range to the Mantle ranch. The horses will be picked up by leasers to be used as pack and trail horses at dude ranches and national parks.

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An Israeli soldier fires a blank round during a drill simulating urban warfare at a mock village on Tzeelim military base in southern Israel.

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Photographs: Mike Hutchings/Reuters

A long exposure picture shows a seasonal fog illuminated by the lights of Cape Town harbour as the city prepares for the start of the southern hemisphere winter.

 

 

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Members of a local dance troupe perform during a visit by Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the commemoration of the Algerian war of independence during May 1945, in Setif .

 

 

 

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Russian servicemen take part in the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square. Russia celebrates its 67th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.

 



 

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A waitress poses inside an egg-shaped dining booth at an A380 theme restaurant during a media event before its official opening in Chongqing municipality, China.

Special Class, the name of the restaurant, is about 600 square metres in size, including the six private rooms, and can serve up to 110 customers.

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Photographs: John Kolesidis/Reuters

An actress, playing the role of a priestess, releases a dove during the dress rehearsal for the torch lighting ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece.

 

 

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Photographs: Heinz Plenge/Reuters

People sit near a dying pelican at Pimentel beach in Chiclayo. Peru's government declared a health alert along its northern coastline after at least 1,200 birds and an estimated 800 dolphins washed up dead in the same area in recent months.

 



 

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Photographs: Alexei Nikolsky/Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin pours tea for Sonya, 8, a patient of the Rogachev Federal Research and Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology during her visit to the Kremlin.

 

 

 

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Photographs: Jason Lee/Reuters

A security guard yawns as he keeps watch at a gate of the Chaoyang hospital, where blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is reported to be staying.

 

 

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Photographs: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

The full "super Moon," scientifically known as a "perigee moon," is pictured over the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

 

 

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Photographs: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

United States President Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters during a campaign event at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

 

 

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A man falls as he tries to avoid a third cow joining two Herens cows locking horns during the qualifications for the annual "Battle of the Queens" cow fight finals in Aproz, in the western Alpine canton of Valais.

Each year when taken to the alpine pastures, the cows test their strength and fight for the herd's leadership. The competition continues until a new queen has forced all the other cows to retreat.

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Photographs: Desmond Boylan/Reuters

A tourist sits on Havana's seafront boulevard El Malecon May 4. Cubans seem generally pleased that economic change is afoot. Some like the idea they can strike out on their own, with an opportunity to earn more than the paltry state wages.

 

 

 

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Photographs: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

A boy who is waiting to greet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the National Museum makes a face while holding the US and Chinese flags in Beijing.

 

 

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Photographs: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Two men on a scooter ride near soldiers on military vehicles at Abbasiya square near Egypt's defence ministry, in Cairo. Egypt's army imposed an overnight curfew around the defence ministry in Cairo after protesters clashed with troops there during demonstrations against the country's military rulers, leaving one soldier dead and 373 people wounded.    

 

 

Tags: Egypt , Cairo , WOW , Abbasiya

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Photographs: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

A man transports lanterns for decorations on his motorbike ahead of Vesak Day celebrations in Colombo. The festival commemorates the birth and enlightenment of Buddha and his attainment of Nirvana.

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Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

Sana, a five-year-old girl, plays on a cloth sling hanging from a signalling pole as smoke from a garbage dump rises next to a railway track in Mumbai.

 

 

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Photographs: Allison Joyce/Reuters

Occupy Wall Street activists, one wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, rest on a sidewalk during a May Day demonstration in New York.

 

 

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Photographs: David Mercado/Reuters

A Bolivian miner looks out of his car, in front of a police line, during May Day celebrations in La Paz.

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