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AP Photographers Best Photos of 2011

Best Photos of 2011 from Associated Press wire service

FILE -In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt.

FILE -In this March 29, 2011 file photo, Regina Mayer jumps with her cow Luna over a hurdle in Laufen, southern Germany.

FILE -In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, Nurunnaha Miah touches her son Nurul H.Miah's name, engraved on the north pool at the National September 11 Memorial, during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks at the World Trade Center, in New York.

FILE -In this July 12, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes the prosthetic hand of U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Arthur Petry of Santa Fe, N.M., who received the Medal of Honor for his valor in Afghanistan, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Petry lost his right hand as he tossed aside a live grenade during a 2008 firefight in Afghanistan, sparing the lives of his fellow Army Rangers.

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2011 file photo, trader Andrew Stavros reacts after the close of trading in the NASDAQ, 100 Index pit, on the floor of The CME Group in Chicago. Stocks plummeted at the close after anxiety overtook investors on the first trading day since Standard & Poor's downgraded American debt.

FILE -In this July 7, 2011 file photo, a calf, used as a game to amuse revelers, jumps into the arena after the running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain.

FILE -In this Oct. 25, 2011 file photo, Turkish rescuers carry Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby girl they saved from under debris of a collapsed building in Ercis, Van, eastern Turkey. The baby's mother, Semiha, was still alive, pinned next to a sofa inside the flattened building from where the child was rescued.

FILE -In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Faye Hyde, right, sits on a mattress in what was her yard as she comforts her granddaughter Sierra Goldsmith, 2, in Conord Ala. Their home was completely destroyed.

FILE -In this Sept. 10, 2011 file photo, the "Tribute in Light" shines above lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and One World Trade Center, left, in New York. 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

FILE -In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, first lady Michelle Obama, second from right, former President George W. Bush, second from left, and former first lady Laura Bush observe a moment of silence at the National September 11 Memorial for a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks at World Trade Center in New York.

FILE -In this Nov. 5, 2011 file photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, center, is placed in a police car in Bellefonte, Pa., to be taken to the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight young men.

FILE -In this Aug. 22, 2011 file photo, burning oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan are seen along a road after being attacked by gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno arrives home in State College, Pa. Paterno was fired in the aftermath of child sex-abuse charges against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who maintains his innocence. Paterno is not a target of the investigation.

FILE -In this Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, top left, gestures to troops loyal to his father in Tripoli, Libya.

FILE -In this Aug. 22, 2011 file photo, people view the new Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington.

FILE -In this July 26, 2011 file photo, Minhaj Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child with a weight of 3.4kg, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya.

FILE -In this March 22, 2011 file photo, a boat sits atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated a vast area of northeastern Pacific coast of Japan.

FILE -In this July 19, 2011 file photo, a leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials. 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 injured.

FILE -In this Feb. 23, 2011 file photo, a motorcycle policeman burns as his colleague, left, tries to help him after protesters threw a petrol bomb in Athens. Scores of youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at riot police after clashes broke out during a mass rally taking place as part of a general strike.

FILE -In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, a giant American flag is held by first responders, police officers and firefighters before an NFL football game between the Chicago Bears and Atlanta Falcons in Chicago. The day marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

FILE -In this Sept. 7, 2011 file photo, Evansville fire Capt., Don Spindler carries a young girl out of a burning apartment in Evansville, Ind.

FILE -In this July 8, 2011 file photo, space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA.

FILE -In this June 6, 2011 file photo, lightning strikes over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile.

FILE -In this April 29, 2011 file photo, Britain's Prince William kisses his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, as bridesmaid Grace van Cutsem, left, covers her ears on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Royal Wedding in London.

FILE -In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo, an activist holds up a cross for the media, in front of a burning barricade during evictions at the Dale Farm travellers site, near Basildon England, 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of London. Police in riot gear used sledgehammers to clear the way for the eviction of a community of Irish Travellers from a site where they have lived illegally for a decade.

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FILE -In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt.

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