Fireworks lit up the sky in London on New Year's Eve as thousands gathered on the banks of the River Thames for a fireworks display (paragraph 1). Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak left his trial on a stretcher (paragraph 3). Thousands of Nigerians launched an indefinite strike against the removal of fuel subsidies (paragraph 5).

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2. 2

3. 3
Fireworks light up the
skyline and Big Ben
just after midnight,
January 1, 2012 in
London, England.
Thousands of people
lined the banks of
the River Thames in
central London to
ring in the New Year
with a spectacular
fireworks display.
(Dan Kitwood/Getty
Images)

4. 4
Former Egyptian
president Hosni
Mubarak leaves on a
stretcher after a new
session of his trial at the
Police Academy, in
Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 2
2012. The trial of
Mubarak will resume
Jan. 3, where the
prosecution will give its
closing argument over
three days. (EPA)#

5. 5
Protesters chant slogans as
they march through
Ikorodu road during a
protest against a fuel
subsidy removal in Lagos,
Jan. 9, 2012. Thousands of
Nigerians took to the
streets across Africa's top
oil producing nation,
launching an indefinite
nationwide strike to protest
against the axing of fuel
subsidies. (Akintunde
Akinleye/Reuters)#

6. 6
A man injured in a bomb blast puts on his
shoe before being taken to the hospital in
the Khyber region, near Peshawar,
Pakistan. A bomb targeting a tribal militia
opposed to the Pakistani Taliban exploded
in a market close to the Afghan border,
killing dozens of people in the deadliest
blast in the country in several months, Jan.
10, 2012. (Qazi Rauf/Associsted Press)#

7. 7
Anti-riot police take
cover behind shields
after residents threw
a Molotov cocktail
during the demolition
of shanties in
Corazon De Jesus
village in San Juan
city, metro Manila,
Jan. 11, 2012. At least
12 people were
injured during clashes
as a demolition team
attempted to clear
the area to make
way for a new city
hall. (Romeo
Ranoco/Reuters)#

8. 8
People travel on an outdoor public escalator at
Commune 13 in Medellin, Jan. 12, 2012. A huge,
384 metres (1,260 ft) long outdoor escalator,
divided into six sections, has been erected in one
of the poorest districts of Colombia's second
largest city to help the 12,000 residents there get
around. (Fredy Builes/Reuters)#

9. 9
Internally displaced
people in Pibor,
Jan. 12, 2012. The
World Food
Programme (WFP)
started distributing
food to 60,000
internally displaced
people in South
Sudan, according
to the United
Nations Mission in
South Sudan.
(Isaac
Billy/UNMISS/Reuter
s/Handout)#

10. 10
An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security
Consultant Ltd. Co, smashes a bottle over a female
recruit's head during a training session for China's first
female bodyguards in Beijing, Jan. 13, 2012. According to
the company, the training session consists of 20 women,
mostly college graduates, who will undergo 8-10 months of
training to develop sufficient skills to become security
guards. The company will then offer the best trainee a
chance to attend the International Security Academy in
Israel. (David Gray/Reuters

11. 11
A man rides a horse through
a bonfire, Jan. 16, 2012 in
the small village of San
Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.
In honor of San Anton, the
patron saint of animals,
horses are riden through the
bonfires on the night before
the official day of honoring
animals in Spain. (Jasper
Juinen/Getty Images)#

12. 12
A demonstrator wears a
Guy Fawkes mask during
an "Occupy Congress"
rally at the West Front
Lawn of the Capitol, Jan.
17, 2012 in Washington,
DC. Hundreds of
members of the
"Occupy" movement
from across the country
participated in the
Occupy Congress rally
on Capitol Hill. (Alex
Wong/Getty Images)#

13. 13
The luxury cruise ship Costa
Concordia run aground off the
coast of Giglio in this Jan. 17,
2012 DigitalGlobe satellite
photograph. Eleven people are
confirmed dead and at least
23 are still missing from more
than 4,200 passengers and
crew after the Concordia ran
aground two hours into a week-
long cruise of the western
Mediterranean.
(DigitalGlobe/Reuters/Handout
)#

14. 14
Authorities
detained a man
during a march in
which hundreds of
people
participated
pleading for their
demands and
called by the
Association of
Housing Debtors on
the main avenue of
downtown
Santiago de Chile
heading to the
presidential palace
La Moneda, in
Santiago, Chile,
Jan. 7, 2012. (Mario
Ruiz/EPA)#

15. 15
A Palestinian man reacts
upon the arrival of the
body of a man, killed by
an Israeli strike, at a
hospital in Beit Hanoun in
the northern Gaza Strip,
Jan. 18, 2012. An Israeli
aircraft and tank strike
killed at least one
Palestinian close to the
border fence in the
Hamas-controlled Gaza
Strip. (Mohammed
Salem/Reuters)#

16. An Israeli homeless woman with
her child warm themselves by
the fire outside of the tents 16
during a cold weather snap in
Sacher Park in Jerusalem, Israel,
Jan. 23, 2012. The homeless
people staying at Sacher Park
have lived in tents since the
summer 2011 protest and have
not been able to find a housing
solution. (Abir Sultan/ EPA)#

17. 17
Two Russian Orthodox priests
lift a child from the ice-cold
water to mark celebrations
of the Epiphany Orthodox
holiday, outside St.
Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 19,
2012. People believe that
dipping into blessed waters
during the holiday of
Epiphany strengthens their
spirit and body. (Anatoly
Maltxev/EPA)#

18. 18
Mother of Palestinian Mohammed Abu
Odah kisses his body during his funeral in
Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Jan.
18, 2012. Israeli forces attacked a group
of suspected Palestinian militants
believed to have been planting a bomb
along Gaza's border with the Jewish
state. (Ali Ali/EPA)#

19. 19
Severely malnourished two-year-old girl,
Rajni, is weighed by health workers at the
Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri
district in the central Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh, Feb. 1, 2012. India has failed to
reduce its high prevalence of child
malnutrition despite its economy doubling
between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia's
third largest. A government-supported
survey last month said 42 percent of children
under five are underweight - almost double
that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43
percent five years ago. The statistic - which
means 3,000 children dying daily due to
illnesses related to poor diets - forced Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to admit last
month that malnutrition was "a national
shame" and was putting the health of the
nation in jeopardy. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)#

20. 20
A protester with tear gas cartridges shot by the
riot police during clashes between protesters
and riot police near the interior ministry, Feb. 3,
2012 in Cairo, Egypt. The protest follows the
deaths of 74 football fans who were killed in
clashes between rival fans following the match
between al-Masry and al-Alhy in Port Said,
Egypt. Three-days of mourning have been
announced and marches are scheduled to
protest at the lack of protection provided by
police who were at the stadium when the
violence occurred. (Carsten Koall/Getty
Images)#

21. 21
Two people stand
in front of the
Colosseum during a
snowfall in Rome,
Italy, Feb. 10, 2012.
Schools and public
offices were closed
and snow-removal
crews were in
place as Rome was
on high alert for a
second winter
blast. (Massimo
Percossi/EPA)#

22. 22
A child, with eyelashes
covered with hoarfrost,
along a street in the
eastern Siberian city of
Yakutsk in Sakha
(Yakutia) Republic, Feb.
10, 2012. The air
temperature in Yakutsk is
about minus 35 degrees
Celsius (minus 31
degrees Fahrenheit).
(Viktor
Everstov/Reuters)#

23. 23
Demonstrators throw fire bombs toward riot police during violent protests in central Athens, Feb. 12, 2012. Thousands of
demonstrators clashed with police as the Greek parliament prepared to vote on a new and deeply unpopular EU/IMF austerity deal,
to secure a 130 billion euro bailout, aimed at saving Greece from bankruptcy and what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned
would be "uncontrollable economic chaos". (Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)#

24. 24
A picture combo shows a sightseeing boat on the roof of a
guesthouse in Otsuchi, northern Japan, May 7, 2011, and a
view of the same guesthouse, Feb. 15 2012. March 11, 2012
marked the first anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude
earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated
northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. (Kimimasa
Mayama/EPA)#

25. 25
An Afghan shows a
copy of the holy Koran
that was allegedly
burnt by US soldiers
during a protest in
Bagram, about 60
kilometres (40 miles)
north of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Feb. 21,
2012. Thousands of
Afghans took to the
street in a Bagram to
protest the 'burning of
the Koran' by NATO-
led troops. (S.
Sabawoon/EPA)#

26. Afghan children who lost their
parents in a land mine blast in
volatile Helmand province, sit 26
near a stove in a refugees
camp in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Feb. 24, 2012. At least 24
children have died in refugee
camps in Afghanistan as a
result of freezing temperatures
over the past two weeks.
(Jawad Jalali/EPA)#

27. 27
A physically disabled
woman clashes with
riot police in the centre
of La Paz, Feb. 23, 2012.
Hundreds of physically
disabled people
arrived in La Paz after
completing a protest
march of some 1600
km (994 miles) over a
hundred days to
demand that Bolivia's
government offer
support in the form of
3000 bolivianos ($434)
payment to each
physically disabled
Bolivian. (David
Mercado/Reuters)#

28. 28
Bodies of two who
were killed after a
heavy shelling by
government forces
are covered with a
mat in Sermeen
near the northern
city of Idlib, Feb.
28, 2012. (Zohra
Bensemra/Reuters)
#

29. 29
A man confronts hooded protesters who
were vandalizing a bank facility during a
protest against spending cuts in public
education in Barcelona, Feb. 29, 2012.
(Albert Gea/Retuers)#

30. 30
Steve McDonald
stands in the debris
from the home of his
mother-in-law, Mary
Osman, who was
killed after a tornado
touched down, Feb.
29, 2012 in
Harrisburg, Illinois. At
least nine people
died in tornadoes
across the Midwest.
(Whitney
Curtis/Getty
Images)#

31. 31
The body of a man killed in a suspected drug-related execution
lies along the path where he was shot, March 1, 2012 in
Acapulco, Mexico. Drug violence surged in the coastal resort in
the last year, making Acapulco the second most deadly city in
Mexico after Juarez. One of Mexico's top tourist destinations,
Acapulco has suffered a drop in business, especially from
foreign tourists. Toursim accounts for some 9 percent of Mexico's
economy and about 70 percent of the output of Acapulco's
state of Guerrero. (John Moore/Getty

32. 32
Men wait to buy
bread in front of a
bakery shop during
winter weather in Al
Qusayr, a city in
western Syria about
4.8km (3 miles)
southwest of Homs,
March 1, 2012.
(Goran
Tomasevic/Reuters)
#

33. 33
Students embrace after leaving
the burial of Chardon High
school student Daniel Parmertor
in Chardon, Ohio, March 3, 2012.
Three students were killed and
two others wounded by suspect
TJ Lane in a shooting rampage
at Chardon High school.
(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)#

34. 34
A doctor at a makeshift
hospital displays a bullet
removed from the hand of
a young girl wounded
during what protesters said
was an attack by Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad's
forces, at the Khalidiya
neighborhood in Homs,
March 8, 2012. (Reuters) #

35. A pro-reform protester performs prayers using the Bahraini flag
on a blocked highway during clashes with police following a
march along Budaiya Highway, north of the Bahraini capital 35
Manama, March9, 2012. Thousands of opposition supporters
marched on the outskirts of Manama, demanding democratic
reforms, in one of the largest rallies to be witnessed by the Gulf
island since last year's pro-reform protests. (Mazen Mahdi/EPA)#

36. Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March
11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Kitaizumi beach
in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, some 25 km
(15 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima
36
Daiichi nuclear power plant March 10, 2012, a day
before the disaster's one-year anniversary. The
magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, last year,
unleashed a tsunami that killed about 16,000 and
triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since
Chernobyl. About 326,000 people are still homeless
and nearly 3,300 remain unaccounted for. (Yuriko
Nakao/Reuters)#

37. 37
A girl with hearing
challenges cries
after her ears were
cleaned at an
event held by
Starkey Hearing
Foundation at St.
Monica in Gulu,
364 km (226 miles)
north of Uganda's
capital Kampala,
March 13, 2012.
(Xavier
Toya/Reuters)#

38. 38
A Balinese man
carries the body of
a flash flood victim
at Pinggan village
in Kintamani, Bali,
Indonesia, March
14, 2012. Flash
floods and
landslides swept
through a village.
Six people are
reported killed.
(Made Nagi/EPA)#

39. 39
U.S. President Barack
Obama accidentially steps
on First lady Michelle
Obama's dress as they walk
onto the North Portico
before the arrival of British
Prime Minister David
Cameron and his wife
Samantha Cameron at the
White House, March 14,
2012 in Washington, DC.
Cameron is on a three-day
visit to the U.S. and he was
expected to have talks
with Obama on the
situations in Afghanistan,
Syria and Iran. (Alex
Wong/Getty Images)#

40. 40
Thousands of ultra-
Orthodox Jews of the
Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty
stand on ladders as they
follow the funeral
procession of their rabbi
Moshe Yhoshua Hager's
body wrapped in a
prayer Shawl before his
funeral, March 14, 2012 in
Bnei Brak, Israel. Rabbi
Moshe Yehoshua Hager,
who was the head of
Israel's second largest
Hasidic community, died
aged 95 and was buried
beside his father's grave
in the Tel Aviv suburb of
Brei . (Uriel Sinai/Getty
Images)#

41. 41
An Afghan police
helicopter flies over Hazrat
Ali (Kart-i-Sakhi) shrine
where Afghans celebrate
the Afghan New Year
(Nawroz) in Kabul, March
20, 2012. Afghanistan uses
the Persian calendar which
runs from the vernal
equinox. The calendar
takes as its start date the
time when the Prophet
Mohammad moved from
Mecca to Medina in 621
AD. The current Persian
year is 1391. (Omar
Sobhani/Reuters)#

42. 42
Military police restrain
mourners surrounding the
ambulance carrying the
coffin of Pope Shenouda III,
the head of Egypt's Coptic
Orthodox Church, upon its
arrival for burial at St Bishoy
Monastery in Wadi al-
Natrun, 100km (62 miles)
north of Cairo, March 20,
2012. Thousands of mourners
dressed in black gathered in
Cairo for the funeral of
Egypt's Orthodox Christian
Pope Shenouda, who spent
his final years trying to
comfort a community
disturbed by the rise of
political Islam. (Mohamed
Abd El Ghany/Reuters)#

43. 43
Huang Sufang reacts
as she sees a part of
her house being taken
down by demolition
workers at Yangji
village in central
Guangzhou city,
Guangdong province,
March 21, 2012.
Huang, who is a
resident of Yangji
village, clashed with
demolition workers as
they mistakenly took
down a part of her
home, which is not
included in the
demolition project.
(Reuters)#

44. 44
Myanmar pro-
democracy leader,
Aung San Suu Kyi,
returns after giving
a speech to her
supporters during
the election
campaign at
Kawhmu Township,
March 22, 2012.
(Reuters)#

45. A boy stands near the coffins of
some of the victims of a bus
crash in Switzerland, during a
ceremony at the Saint Pieters
church in Leuven, March 22,
45
2012. A bus carrying a Belgian
school party home from a ski trip
crashed into the wall of a tunnel
in Sierre in the Valais region of
Switzerland, killing 28 people, 22
of them children. The bus
transported 52 people, mostly
school children from Heverlee
and Lommel in Belgian Flanders.
(Benoit Doppagne Yorick
Jansens/BELGA/Reuters)#

46. 46
Faithful pray in an
evangelical church
"The light of world"
before the arrival of
Pope Benedict XVI
in Leon, March 22,
2012. The Pope will
arrive on March 23
for a three-day visit
to the Mexican
state of
Guanajuato.
(Edgard
Garrido/Reuters)#

47. 47
A coach scolds a
young gymnastics
student during a
training session at a
gymnastics school in
Shanghai, March 23,
2012. More than 30
children, aged
between 5 and 9,
were chosen from
local kindergartens or
elementary schools to
attend training courses
five times a week. (Aly
Song/Reuters)#

48. 48
A beer bottle is thrown at
Italian Police as Alcoa
aluminium company
workers protest against
dismissals from
employment in front of
the Ministry of
Employment building in
Rome, March 27, 2012.
Alcoa is the world's
leading integrated
aluminium company,
providing jobs to 61,000
employees across 31
countries. (Alessandro
Bianchi/Reuters)#

49. 49
Pope Benedict XVI
and Cuban President
Raul Castro wave to
the media after a
meeting at the
Consejos de Estado
on the second day of
his three day visit,
March 27, 2012 in
Havana, Cuba.
Fourteen years after
Pope John Paul II
visited Cuba, Pope
Benedict is making his
first trip to the
communist country.
(Joe Raedle/Getty
Images)#

50. 50
Afghan security forces
escort Taliban militants clad
in Afghan women dresses
at the Afghan intelligence
department in Mehterlam,
Laghman province, east of
Kabul, Afghanistan, March
28, 2012. Afghan
Intelligence forces arrested
seven Taliban militants in
Qarghayi district of
Laghman province.
(Rahmat Gul/Associated
Press#

51. 51
Sebahat Tuncel, a Kurdish member of parliament, runs for
cover as riot police disperse demonstrators during a protest
against a government attempt to railroad a new education
bill through parliament in Ankara, March 29, 2012. Members of
teachers' union and opposition supporters gathered in the
Turkish capital of Ankara to protest against a government
attempt to railroad the new education bill through parliament
which secular parties say is designed to promote Islamic
schooling. The government wants to overturn a 1997 law
imposed with the backing of the military which extended
compulsory education from five to eight years, but also
stopped under-15s attending religious "imam hatip" schools.
(Umit Bektas/Reuters)#

52. 52
Israeli border police officers use pepper spray as
they detain an injured Palestinian protester during
clashes on Land Day after Friday prayers outside
Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, March 30,
2012. Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear
gas and stun grenades to break up groups of
Palestinian stone-throwers as annual Land Day rallies
turned violent. Police said they made five arrests at
Damascus Gate. Land Day commemorates the
killing by security forces of six Arabs in 1976 during
protests against government plans to confiscate
land in northern Israel's Galilee region. (Ammar
Awad/Reuters)#

53. 53
A Yemeni man learns to
walk with a prosthetic
limb at a prosthetics
center in Sana'a,
Yemen, April 3, 2012.
According to official
statistics, landmines and
explosive remnants of
war remain a significant
problem in Yemen due
to the fact that it does
not have accurate
mapping of the
landmine-affected
areas. In 2009 only
37,111 landmines and
explosives were
discovered. (Yahya
Arhab/EPA)#

54. 54
A tornado touches down in Lancaster, Texas,
south of Dallas. Tornadoes tore through the
Dallas area, peeling roofs off homes, tossing
big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened
tractor trailers strewn along highways and
parking lots. (Parrish Velasco/The Dallas
Morning News)#

55. 55
Children sit in front of a
tombstone waiting for their
relatives at a public
cemetery during the
Qingming Festival, or Tomb
Sweeping Day, in Jinjiang,
Fujian province, April 4,
2012. The festival marks a
day for the Chinese to
remember and honor one's
ancestors. Chinese experts
have called for legislative
efforts to standardize
funeral services, in an
attempt to regulate the
country's unscrupulous
funeral service providers
who siphon huge profits
from the relatives of the
dead. (China
Daily/Reuters)#

56. 56
A soldier stands guard in
front of the Unha-3 (Milky
Way 3) rocket sitting on a
launch pad at the West
Sea Satellite Launch Site,
during a guided media
tour by North Korean
authorities in the northwest
of Pyongyang, April 8,
2012. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)#

57. 57
Dorothy Jackson and others pray together for
Trayvon Martin at the Allen Chapel A.M.E.
church after the Florida Special Prosecutor,
Angela Corey, announced to the media that
George Zimmerman has been charged with
second degree murder in the death of Martin,
April 11, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. Martin was
killed by Zimmerman on February 26th while
Zimmerman was on neighborhood watch patrol
in the gated community of The Retreat at Twin
Lakes, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)#

58. 58
North Korean leader Kim
Jong-Un waves during
the Fourth Conference
of the Workers' Party of
Korea (WPK) in
Pyongyang, April 11,
2012. WPK named Kim
as "first secretary," the
official KCNA news
agency said.
(KCNA/Reuters)#

59. 59
Smoke plumes are
seen above the
Popocatepetl
volcano, viewed from
the Dolores chappel
in San Andres
Cholula, Puebla,
Mexico, April 18, 2012.
(Francisco
Guasco/EPA)

60. 60
Men use ropes to try
and right a supply
truck overloaded with
wheat straw, used as
animal feed, along a
road in Dargai, in the
Malakand district,
about 165 km (100
miles) northwest of
Pakistan's capital
Islamabad, April 13,
2012. (Mian
Khursheed/Reuters)#

61. 61
A soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade take part in Exercise Joint
Warrior at West Freugh Airfield, April 16, 2012 in Starnraer,
Scotland. The exercise will involve more than 1600 troops, and
be supported by Apache, Chinook, and Royal Navy Sea King
Helicopters from the Joint Helicopter Force. RAF Fast Jets and
support aircraft, as well as several US and French aircraft will
also support the exercise. This year the ABTF will be joined by a
number of French personnel from 11 Parachute Brigade. (Jeff J
Mitchell/Getty Images)#

62. 62
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik
gestures as he arrives for his terrorism and
murder trial in a courtroom in Oslo, April 16,
2012. Breivik, who massacred 77 people last
summer, arrived under heavy armed guard at
an Oslo courthouse, lifting his arm in what he
has called a rightist salute as his trial began.
Breivik, 33, has admitted setting off a car
bomb that killed eight people at government
headquarters in Oslo last July, then massacring
69 in a shooting spree at an island summer
camp for Labour Party youths. (Heiko
Junge/Reuters)#

63. 63
A young boy wears an astronaut
costume in the parking lot of the
Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-
Hazy Center, April 17, 2012 in
Chantilly, Virginia. Hundreds of
people gathered at the museum
early in the morning to watch the
arrival of the space shuttle
Discovery, teathered to the back
of a modified 747 jumbo jet. The
oldest and most traveled vehicle
in NASA's space shuttle program,
Discovery will be placed on
permanent display at the
museum. (Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images)#

64. 64
Ayesha Ishaque, sister of Mohammad Saud Ishaque
who was killed in a Boeing 737 airliner crash, cries over
his casket at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences
hospital (PIMS) in Islamabad, April 21, 2012. The
Pakistani airliner with 127 people on board crashed in
bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad,
scattering wreckage and leaving no sign of survivors.
The Boeing 737, operated by local airline Bhoja Air, was
flying to the capital from Pakistan's biggest city and
business hub Karachi. (Rebecca Conway/Reuters

65. 65
A pedestrian walks past a traditional
colonial-era Board House dating back
about a century on Pademba Road in
Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, April
27, 2012. Scattered across Sierra
Leone's capital Freetown stand aging
wooden houses, some of which look
more like they belong on the east
coast of 18th century America than in
a steamy west African city. Others look
like they may have been built
hundreds of years ago in the islands of
the Caribbean, another reflection of
Sierra Leone's history as a colony
established for freed slaves. (Finbarr
O'Reilly/Reuters)#

66. 66
A Nuba woman, injured
during a raid by Sudan's
air force, sits in a makeshift
hospital in the Nuba
Mountains, South
Kordofan, April 28, 2012.
Fleeing aerial
bombardment by the
Sudanese air force
thousands of people have
abandoned their homes
and made make-shift
shelters between the rocks
and boulders. (Goran
Tomasevic/Reuters)#