Photo round-ups tend to go for larger-than life visuals. And many wind up featuring the same shots—because even in a 24/7 world, there are only<br /><br /><br /><br />so many iconic events. We chose,
A student runs for cover as riot police try to quash a demonstration in Barcelona, Spain. Student associations had called upon 120,000 pupils to strike in protest against education cuts recently announced by the Catalan government
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire in the small Spanish village of San Bartolome. In honour of San Anton, the patron saint of animals, horses are ridden through bonfires on the night before the official day of honouring animals in the country
Image by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
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Two horses tear ahead of the pack into the second turn of the Grand Prix Prestige race at the White Turf horse racing meeting held on the frozen Lake St Moritz in St Moritz, Switzerland
Image by Alex Livesey/Getty Images
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Relatives of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy killed in an Israeli air raid on the northern Gaza strip grieve during his funeral
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Israeli border police officers use pepper spray as they detain an injured Palestinian protester during clashes on Land Day in Jerusalem&rsquos Old City. Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinian stone-throwers as the Land Day rallies, organised to commemorate the killing of six Arabs in 1976 during protests against governmen
Image by Ammar Awad / Reuters
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A member of the Free Syrian Army, formed to bring down the dictatorial regime of President Bashar Assad, fires his sniper rifle in Aleppo
Image by Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
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The peloton make their way through the French countryside during stage six of the 2012 Tour de France from Epernay to Metz
Image by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images
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US President Barack Obama takes to the stage with his family after his victory in the 2012 US presidential polls, in Chicago. Obama beat Republican candidate Mitt Romney, defying the dragging economic recovery and high unemployment that haunted his first term
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9/25
China's new Politburo Standing Committee members (from left to right) Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan, line up as they meet with the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China&rsquos ruling Communist Party unveiled its new leadership line-up to steer the world&rsquos second-largest economy for the next five years,
Image by Carlos Barria / Reuters
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, finally released from her long house arrest, returns after giving a speech to her supporters during the election campaign at Kawhmu Township
