11 Striking Images of 2013

In our age of high-pitched news television, everyone’s-a-photographer-now smartphones and the resulting social media overload, does photojournalism still have a place? We like to think it does. Skille...

Dec 30, 2013, 06:55 IST3 min

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Flowers left by mourners surround a portrait of Nelson Mandela in Sandton district of Johannesburg. Mandela, an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering p...

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US President Barack Obama (left) greets his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro before his speech at the memorial service of late South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Decembe...

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (left) tries his hand at table tennis along with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Omaha on May 5, the day after Berkshire&rsquos annual meeting. At the...

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A protestor is hit by water sprayed from a water cannon in Taksim Square, Istanbul, in June. The city erupted in protest after a sit-in against urban development plans of a park was brutall...

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Journalist and presenter Evan Davies poses with a 3D printed model of himself at an exhibition on the future of printing at the Science Museum in London on October 8. Davies&rsquo model fea...

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Miss New York Nina Davuluri (left) reacts after being chosen the first Indian-American winner of the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The win left a bitter aftertaste as D...

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Soldiers try to repair a temporary footbridge over river Alaknanda after it was destroyed during rescue operations in Uttarakhand. The state was ravaged by monsoon rains in June as the Gang...

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Volunteers carry out rescue operations after an eight-storied building housing garment factories collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh in April. About 1,000 workers, han...

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Women run for safety with their children as police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi in September. The assailants killed at least 15 people...

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Team India gives Sachin Tendulkar a mobile guard of honour, from the pitch all the way to the pavilion, as the Master Blaster leaves the ground for one last time during his illustrious 24-y...

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