2016 Year in Pictures: News
JAN. 1, 2016 — People watch as fireworks explode over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)
JAN. 5, 2016 — U.S. President Barack Obama sheds a tear while delivering a statement on steps the administration is taking to reduce gun violence in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
JAN. 7, 2016 — Dwayne Ehmer carries an American flag as he rides his horse on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. An armed anti-government militia group continues to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Headquarters as they protest the jailing of two ranchers for arson. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
JAN. 8, 2016 — Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by army soldiers to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
JAN. 11, 2016 – A woman with a tattoo on her back looks at a mural of British singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London. Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday aged 69. He was born in Brixton. (Matt Dunham/AP)
FEB. 2, 2016 — Actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives for a preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Cosby has been charged with the 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand, a former women’s basketball team manager at Temple University in Philadelphia, Cosby’s alma mater. (Mark Makela/Reuters)
FEB. 3, 2016 — Flint residents Gladyes Williamson (C) holds a bottle full of contaminated water, and a clump of her hair, alongside Jessica Owens (R), holding a baby bottle full of contaminated water, during a news conference after attending a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Flint, Michigan water crisis on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Williamson, and Owens traveled to Washington by bus with other flint familes to attend the House hearing on the crisis, and demand that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder be brought before Congress to testify under oath. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
FEB. 11, 2016 — Jackeline, 26, holds her son who is 4-months old and born with microcephaly, in front of their house in Olinda, near Recife, Brazil. Recent laboratory analyses identified Zika virus infections in three people who died in Brazil last year, the health ministry said on Thursday, although authorities could not confirm that Zika alone was responsible for their deaths. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)
FEB. 14, 2016 — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, meets 3-month-old Oliver Jack Carter Lomas-Davis, of Venice, Calif., who was dressed as Sanders during a rally at Bonanza High School in Las Vegas. Baby Bernie, the cheerful toddler who won the affections of people of all political stripes after his mom posted photos of him greeting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in a white-haired wig and over-sized glasses, has died at the age of 4 months. Lomas-Davis of Los Angeles died Feb. 25 of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. (Evan Vucci/AP)
FEB. 16, 2016 — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's courtroom chair is draped in black to mark his death as part of a tradition that dates to the 19th century at the Supreme Court in Washington. Scalia died Saturday at age 79. He joined the court in 1986 and was its longest-serving justice. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
FEB. 7, 2016 — Denver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak is dunked with Gatorade during the fourth quarter against the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.. (Cary Edmondson/USA TODAY Sports/Reuters)
MAR. 9, 2016 — The casket of Nancy Reagan rest at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jae C. Hong/AP, Pool)
MAR. 20, 2016 — Air Force One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama and his family flies over a neighborhood of Havana as it approaches the runway to land at Havana’s international airport. (Alberto Reyes/Reuters)
MAR. 21, 2016 — Cuban President Raul Castro lifts up the arm of President Barack Obama at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
MAR. 22, 2016 — Udai Faisal, an infant who is suffering from acute malnutrition, is hospitalized at Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Udai died on March 24. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade a year ago. (Maad al-Zikry/AP)
MAR. 22 – 2016 — Flight attendant Nidhi Chaphekar (R) reacts in the moments following a suicide bombing at Brussels Zaventem airport in Brussels, Belgium. Georgian journalist Ketevan Kardava, special correspondent for the Georgian Public Broadcaster, was travelling to Geneva when the attack took place, she was knocked to the floor and began to take photographs in the moments that followed. At least 31 people were killed and more than 260 injured in a twin suicide blast at Zaventem Airport and a further bomb attack at Maelbeek Metro Station. (Ketevan Kardava/Getty Images)
MAR. 28, 2016 — U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama perform a reading of the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” for children gathered for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
APR. 1 2016 — General view shows a partially collapsed overpass in Kolkata, India. The overpass spanned nearly the width of the street and was designed to ease traffic through the densely crowded Bara Bazaar neighborhood in the capital of the east Indian state of West Bengal. About 100 meters (300 feet) of the overpass fell, while other sections remained standing. (Bikas Das/AP)
APR. 14, 2016 — Male chimpanzee ‘Chacha’ screams after escaping from nearby Yagiyama Zoological Park as a man tries to capture him on the power lines at a residential area in Sendai, northern Japan. The chimp was eventually caught after being shot with a tranquilizer gun and falling from the power lines. (Kyodo/Reuters)
APR. 19, 2016 — Fidel Castro sits as he clasps hands with his brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, right, and second secretary of the Central Committee, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, moments before the playing of the Communist party hymn during the closing ceremonies of the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, in Havana, Cuba. (Ismael Francisco/Cubadebate via AP)
APR. 22, 2016 — President Barack Obama with First Lady Michelle Obama meets Prince George the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge watch at Kensington Palace in London. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
APR. 22, 2016 — Flowers lie on a T-shirt signed by fans of singer Prince at a makeshift memorial place created outside the Apollo Theater in New York. The pop star died at the age of 57. (Andres Kudacki/AP)
APR. 28, 2016 — An injured woman reacts at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria. (Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)
MAY 14, 2016 — A couple kisses in front of graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on the walls of a bar in the old town in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)
MAY 30, 2016 — U.S. Army soldiers Rick Kolberg (L) and Jesus Gallegos embrace as they visit the graves of Raymond Jones and Peter Enos on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
APR. 18, 2016 — Justin Nelzen, in red vest, joins others as they work to rescue up to 70 horses along Cypresswood Drive near Humble along Cypress Creek in Houston, TX. More than a foot of rain fell in parts of Houston, submerging scores of subdivisions and several major interstate highways, forcing the closure of schools and knocking out power to thousands of residents who were urged to shelter in place. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
MAY 16, 2016 — A Kenyan riot policeman repeatedly kicks a protester as he lies in the street after tripping over while trying to flee from them, during a protest in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyan police have tear-gassed and beaten opposition supporters during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption. (Ben Curtis/AP)
MAY 4, 2016 — A wildfire moves towards the town of Anzac from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Alberta declared a state of emergency Wednesday as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires. Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
JUN. 7, 2016 — Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to speak during her California primary night rally held in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
JUN. 8, 2016 — Muslims gather around the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters)
JUN. 9, 2016 — Souad Hamidi removes her Niqab after Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of her village, on the outskirts of Manbij city, Aleppo province, Syria. Rodi Said: ‘When U.S.-backed forces seized Hamidi’s village in northern Syria from Islamic State, the 19-year-old swiftly tore off the niqab she had been forced to wear since 2014 and smiled. “I felt liberated,” Hamidi said after swapping her black face-covering veil for a red headscarf. “They made us wear it against our will so I removed it that way to spite them.” (Rodi Said/Reuters)
JUN. 10, 2016 — A banner stating “We Love You Muhammad” is displayed as well-wishers touch the hearse carrying the body of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali during his funeral procession through Louisville, Kentucky. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
JUN. 12, 2016 — Pittsburgh Penguins players celebrate after beating the San Jose Sharks in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals in San Jose, Calif. The Penguins won 3-1 to win the series 4-2. (Eric Risberg/AP)
JUN. 13, 2016 — A man sits and cries after taking part in a candlelight memorial service the day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
JUN. 15, 2016 — Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius walks across the courtroom without his prosthetic legs during the third day of the resentencing hearing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, at Pretoria High Court, South Africa. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
JUN. 16, 2016 — A participant stands behind a rainbow flag during a vigil in memory of the victims of the Pulse gay nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, in Mumbai, India. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
JUN.19, 2016 — Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, center, celebrates with teammates after Game 7 of basketball’s NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, Calif.. The Cavaliers won 93-89. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
JUN. 22, 2016 — A photo taken and tweeted from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by House Rep. Katherine Clark shows Democratic members of the House staging a sit-in on the House floor "to demand action on common sense gun legislation" on Capitol Hill in Washington on. (U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark/Handout via Reuters)
JUN. 27, 2016 — Anti-abortion activist Ryan Orr, 17, of Manassas, Va., holds a silent vigil as he waits for rulings in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The court handed a victory to abortion rights advocates, striking down a Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion doctors and facilities (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
JUN. 29, 2016 — Passengers embrace each other at the entrance to Istanbul’s Ataturk airport following their evacuation after a blast. Suspected Islamic State group extremists have hit the international terminal of Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said Tuesday. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey. (Emrah Gurel/AP)
JUL. 7, 2016 — The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)
JUL. 9, 2016 — Notes, flowers and other items decorate a squad car at a make-shift memorial in front of the Dallas police department in Dallas. Five police officers are dead and several injured following a shooting in downtown Dallas. (Eric Gay/AP)
JUL. 9, 2016 — Revellers run with Jose Escolar Gil’s fighting bulls along Estafeta Street during the fourth day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the 1926 novel of US writer Ernest Hemmingway entitled ‘The Sun Also Rises’, involves the daily running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona to the bull ring. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
JUL. 9, 2016 — A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters)
JUL. 13, 2016 — Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister, David Cameron, accompanied by his wife Samantha, daughters Nancy (C) and Florence and son Arthur, speaks before leaving number 10 Downing Street, on his last day in office as Prime Minister, in central London, Britain. (Peter Nicholls/Reuters)
JUL. 14, 2016 — The funeral procession for Philando Castile travels from the Brooks funeral home to the St Paul Cathedral in St Paul, Minnesota. (Adam Bettcher/Reuters)
JUL. 15, 2016 — A body is seen on the ground in Nice, France after the Bastille Day truck attack on July 14. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
JUL. 16, 2016 — A man stands in front of a tank in the entrance to Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. Members of Turkey’s armed forces said they had taken control of the country, but Turkish officials said the coup attempt had been repelled in a night of violence, according to state-run media. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP)
JUL. 19, 2016 — The sun rises behind the Christ the Redeemer statue, above the Guanabara bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ahead of the 2016 summer Olympics. (Felipe Dana/AP)
JUL. 21, 2016 — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reactes as Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (2nd-R), Barron Trump (2nd-L) and his wife Melania Trump (L) look on at the end of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party’s nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images)
JUL. 23, 2016 — Jennilyn Olayres, 26, weeps over the body of her partner, who was killed on a street in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines July 23, 2016. Czar Dancel: ‘When the image of Olayres weeping as she cradled the body of her slain partner went viral in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte called it melodramatic. He mentioned the image of Olayres in his state of the union address and said media had tried to portray it as being like the Michelangelo’s Pieta, the sculpture of Mary holding the body of Jesus. (Czar Dancel/Reuters)
JUL. 27, 2016 — President Barack Obama hugs Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after addressing the delegates during the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
JUL. 28, 2016 — Former President Bill Clinton kicks a balloon at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
JUL. 29, 2016 — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds babies at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
AUG.5, 2016 — Fireworks explode over Maracana stadium with the Mangueira ‘favela’ community in the foreground during opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
AUG. 7, 2016 — Simone Biles of the United States competes on the balance beam during Women’s qualification for Artistic Gymnastics on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (David Ramos/Getty Images)
AUG. 8, 2016 — An Indian paramilitary soldier falls down as he tries to kick back an exploded tear gas shell thrown back at them by Kashmiri Muslim protesters at the end of a day long curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Kashmir has been under a security lockdown and curfew since the killing of a popular rebel commander on July 8 sparked some of the largest protests against Indian rule in recent years. (Dar Yasin/AP)
AUG. 9, 2016 — General view of the diving pool at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on Day 4 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The water in the diving pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre had been blue on the 8th, but changed to green overnight, due to what officials called algae, overnight. The water in an adjacent pool remained blue. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
AUG. 12, 2016 — A man cuts the beard of a civilian who was evacuated with others by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters from an Islamic State-controlled neighborhood of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Rodi Said/Reuters)
AUG. 13, 2016 — Michael Phelps (USA) poses with his gold medal during the 2016 Rio Olympics Men’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay Victory Ceremony at Olympic Aquatics Stadium. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)
AUG. 14, 2016 — A firefighter rescues goats as flames from a wildfire envelope the area in Lower Lake, Calif. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)
AUG. 14, 2016 — Usain Bolt (JAM) of Jamaica looks at Andre De Grasse (CAN) of Canada as they compete during the 2016 Rio Olympics Men’s 100m Semifinals at Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
AUG. 17, 2016 — Travis Guedry and his dog Ziggy glide through floodwaters keeping an eye out for people in need in Sorrento, La. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
AUG. 17, 2016 — A still image from a video posted on social media said to be shot in Aleppo, shows a boy with bloodied face sitting in an ambulance, after an airstrike, Syria. (Social Media via Reuters)
AUG. 24, 2016 — This aerial photo shows the damaged buildings in the town of Amatrice, central Italy, after an earthquake. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
AUG. 17, 2016 — Firefighters protect homes during the Blue Cut Fire in San Bernardino County, Calif. (Patrick T Fallon/Reuters))
SEPT. 15, 2016 — A wounded demonstrator is being evacuated by riot police following scuffles between protesters and the police as part of a protest against a labor law, in Paris, France. Police With strikes and protests, French unions are staging a last-ditch bid to dismantle a labor law that weakens their powers and worker protections. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
SEPT. 21, 2016 — A sniper from Misrata fires towards Islamic State militant positions in Sirte, Libya. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)
SEPT. 21, 2016 — Two women embrace while looking at a police officer in uptown Charlotte, NC during a protest of the police shooting of Keith Scott, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Jason Miczek/Reuters)
SEPT. 23, 2016 — At the Pagarinya refugee camp in Adjumani District in Gulu, Uganda, September 2016, Jeffrey Michael, a severely disabled boy crawls in the dirt near his tent. For the mentally handicapped living in the refugee camp is a constant struggle to get proper medication, and wheelchair access. Onward Struggle: A refugee crisis in Uganda deepens as South Sudanese Refugees are forced to leave their country behind. The outbreak of violence in the capital Juba last July created a humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda as thousands of South Sudanese sought refugee there. The country is hosting the lion's share of South Sudanese refugees, with 373,626, more than a third of them arriving since early July. The fighting was a major setback to peace efforts in South Sudan, coming as the troubled new nation prepared to celebrate its fifth anniversary, amid a short lived peace deal between supporters of President Salva Kiir and former First Vice President Riek Machar. South Sudan now joins Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia as countries which have produced more than a million refugees. While some South Sudanese may attempt to head for Europe, the numbers within east Africa are comparable in scale to recent refugee flows to Europe from the Middle East, and their traumatic experiences due to war are often just as hellish. More than 85 percent of the refugees in this recent influx are women and children. Many children have lost one or both of their parents, some forced to become primary caregivers to siblings. With the large influx of refugees in July 2015, relief agencies had to implement stringent food rationing in the refugee settlements. Currently the international humanitarian organizations lack the necessary funds to meet the needs of the more than 200,000 refugees. (Paula Bronstein)
SEPT. 24, 2016 — First lady Michelle Obama, center, hugs former President George W. Bush, as President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush walk on stage at the dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
SEPT. 24, 2016 — In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of Civil Defense removing a dead body from under the rubble after airstrikes hit in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian government forces captured a rebel-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city as an ongoing wave of airstrikes destroyed more buildings. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
SEPT. 25, 2016 — An overturned boat lies on a jetty off Miami Beach, Fla. Authorities said that Miami Marlins starting pitcher Jose Fernandez was one of three people killed in the boat crash early Sunday morning. Fernandez was 24. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
OCT. 7, 2016 — Trees sway from heavy rain and wind during Hurricane Matthew in front of Exploration Tower in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP)
OCT. 8, 2016 — Women from the Laguerre family cry as the coffin carrying Roberto Laguerre is taken out of the morgue, to bury him at the cemetery in Jeremie, Haiti. Roberto, 32, died when the wall of a church next door to his home fell during Hurricane Matthew. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
OCT. 9, 2016 — Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton watch during the second presidential debate sbetween Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis. (Jim Bourg/Pool via AP)
OCT. 11, 2016 — Mist rises off the water as a flooded building is pictured after Hurricane Matthew passes in Lumberton, North Carolina. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
OCT. 12, 2016 — Audience members reach to shake hands with President Barack Obama as he greets them after speaking at a reception for Hispanic Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
NOV. 1, 2016 — A displaced Iraqi boy leads his animals to safety after escaping from Islamic State controlled village of Abu Jarboa during clashes with IS militants near Mosul, Iraq. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)
NOV. 3, 2016 — The Chicago Cubs celebrate after defeating the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 to win the World Series at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)
NOV. 5, 2016 — Inmates sleep in the open at Quezon City Jail in Manila, Philippines. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
NOV. 8, 2016. Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as they watch election returns during an election night rally in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
NOV. 8, 2016 — Supporters of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton react at her election night rally in Manhattan, New York. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
NOV. 10, 2016 — President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
NOV. 13, 2016 — Anti-Trump Post Its adorn the walls of Union Square Subway Station in New York City. (Stephen Trupp/Star Max/IPx/AP)
NOV. 16, 2016 — A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they advance toward territory held by the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
NOV. 17, 2016 — A petrol bomb explodes among riot policemen during clashes following a rally marking the 43nd anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship that was ruling Greece, in Athens, Greece. (Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)
NOV. 17, 2016 — People run in panic after a coalition airstrike hit Islamic State fighters positions in Mosul, Iraq. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
NOV. 22, 2016 — Members of MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) and the Red Cross try to keep a man alive, who it was believed was suffering after breathing fumes from a boat engine he was travelling on on November 21, 2016 in Pozzollo Italy. The MOAS team worked through the night and into the next morning rescuing ‘approximately’ 600 people from vessels. MOAS are currently patrolling international waters off the coast of Libya, and running rescue missions for the many migrants and refugees who continue to attempt to make the dangerous crossing across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. MOAS are a Malta based registered foundation dedicated to providing professional search-and-rescue assistance to refugees and migrants in distress at sea and work alongside with the Red Cross on board the Topaz Responder. The number of deaths this year of people crossing the Mediterranean has risen to almost 4,300. MOAS alone have rescued around 19,000. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
NOV. 30, 2016 — Relatives of Chapecoense soccer players, who died in a plane crash in Colombia, cry during a memorial inside Arena Condado stadium in Chapeco, Brazil. Authorities were working to finish identifying the bodies before repatriating them to Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
DEC. 1, 2016 — Richard T. Ramsey and Sue Ramsey hold hands while looking at the skyline from the remains of their house of 41 years in Gatlinburg, Tenn. They safely evacuated from their home as wildfire approached Monday evening. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP)
DEC. 2, 2016 — A group of civilians pass close to the body of an Islamic State militant, while fleeing from Mosul due to ISIS heavy shelling in several areas under control of the Iraqi Army, Mosul, Iraq. Most of the fighting in Mosul has been taking place in the city’s eastern sector, where Iraq’s special forces are making slow progress because of fears over the safety of civilians still inside the city and spirited IS resistance. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
DEC. 4, 2016 — The ashes of Fidel Castro leave the Antonio Maceo plaza for its burial in a private funeral ceremony at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago, Cuba. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
DEC. 5, 2016 — Military veterans huddle together to hold a United States flag against strong winds during a march to a closed bridge outside the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
DEC. 5, 2016 — A woman holds a candle at a vigil for the victims of the fatal warehouse fire in Oakland, California. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
DEC. 7, 2016 — An injured woman walks at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Ansari neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)
DEC. 16, 2016 — Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn lies in state under a Marine honor guard in the rotunda of the Ohio statehouse in Columbus. (Bill Ingalls/NASA handout via Reuters)
DEC. 18, 2016 — A boy flashes the victory sign while riding a bus to be evacuated from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria. (Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)
DEC. 19, 2016 — A man identified as Mevlut Mert Altintas holds up a gun after shooting Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Shouting “Don’t forget Aleppo! Don’t forget Syria!” Altintas fatally shot Karlov in front of stunned onlookers at a photo exhibit. Police killed the assailant after a shootout. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
DEC. 20, 2016 — A trail of devastation is left behind in Berlin, Germany the day after a truck ran into a crowded Christmas market and killed several people. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
DEC. 27, 2016 — President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial, part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, adjacent to Honolulu, Hawaii as part of a ceremony to honor those killed in the Japanese attack on the naval harbor. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
DEC. 30, 2016 — A convoy of diplomatic vehicles leave a Russian owned compound, after President Barack Obama abruptly ordered the compound closed on Thursday, in Centreville, Maryland. (Joel Schectman/Reuters)
DEC. 31 / JAN 1, 2016 –Medics carry a wounded person at the scene after an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said that an armed assailant has opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s celebrations. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Istanbul attack within Turkey. (IHA via AP)
2016 Year in Pictures: News
Conflict, politics, jubilation, disaster and a look at the brave and the bold are among our selections for the year in pictures for 2016 from Associated Press, Reuters News Agency, the White House and Getty Images.
2016 saw tragic acts of terrorism abroad and civil unrest at home amid one of the wildest presidential election cycles in history. For the first time in 88 years, a U.S. president stepped foot on Cuba's soil; the plight of the Syrian people grew more dire; the fight against the Islamic State was held on many fronts; and the largest refugee movement in Europe since World War II continued. It also was a year of champions. Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time, the Denver Broncos took home the Super Bowl trophy and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years.
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