Photos of 2015

1. An Israeli soldier hands a buttercup flower to a child in a field near Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel, just outside the Gaza Strip. Amir Cohen / Reuters

2. 70 Powerful Photos of 2015

3. Football fans gather on the field of the Stade de France stadium following the friendly football match between France and Germany, after a series of terrorist attacks across
Paris. More than 120 people have been killed in the coordinated attacks. Officials said the death toll is expected to rise as at least 99 people have been listed as critically
injured. Franck Fife / AFP / Getty Images

4. Palestinian students supporting Hamas flash three fingers to draw attention to their electoral number during an election campaign for students’ council at Palestine
Polytechnic University in the West Bank city of Hebron. Mussa Qawasma / Reuters

5. Local residents and rescue workers help a migrant woman after a boat carrying migrants sank off the island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on April 20, 2015. At least three
people, including a child, died when a boat carrying more than 80 migrants sank off the Greek island of Rhodes. Argiris Mantikos / AFP / Getty Images

6. Bakarwal nomad children are seen through a veil that covers their tent as they react to a Kashmiri man photographing them on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled
Kashmir, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Bakarwals are nomadic herders of Jammu and Kashmir state who wander in search of good pastures for their cattle. Dar Yasin / AP

7. Shi'ite fighters fire a rocket during clashes with Islamic State militants in Salahuddin province, Iraq, March 1, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmed Al-Hussaini

8. A man holds a giant pencil as he takes part in a Hundreds of thousands of French citizens solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris January 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

9. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (3rd R) and wife Ri Sol Ju (4th L) enjoy an art performance given by the Chongbong Band to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of
the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on October 19, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

10. Anti-gay protesters attack a gay rights activist during an LGBT community rally in central Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

11. A child rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest is attended to at a clinic at the Internally Displaced People’s camp in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria on May 3, 2015.
Hundreds of traumatised Nigerian women and children rescued from Boko Haram Islamists have been released into the care of authorities at a refugee camp in the eastern
town of Yola, an army spokesman said. Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters

12. Singer Rihanna prepares for a photoshoot with photographer Annie Leibovitz in Havana May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

13. A young woman offers a flower to police officers blocking the street at the Government building in Skopje, Macedonia, on May 6, 2015. More than 1,000 opposition
supporters protested peacefully outside Macedonia’s parliament on Wednesday over the 2011 police killing of a student, a day after violence at a similar demonstration left
38 police officers and one protestor injured. Boris Grdanoski / AP

14. People observe a minute of silence at the Trocadero in front the Eiffel Tower to pay tribute to the victims of the series of deadly attacks on Friday in Paris, France, November
16, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

15. People place candles and flowers outside the French embassy in Berlin, a day after the deadly attacks in Paris. Tobias Schwarz / AFP / Getty Images

16. French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France, November 13, 2015. REUTERS/Christian
Hartmann

17. Sangita Magar, 16, cries as she lies down on a bed at a hospital while undergoing treatment after an unidentified person attacked her with a bottle of acid in Kathmandu,
Nepal, February 22, 2015. Sangita and her friend Sima Basnet were attacked by the stranger while they were sitting inside their coaching class early morning, according to
Sangita. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

18. Migrants, who were found at sea on a boat, collect rainwater during a heavy rain fall at a temporary refuge camp near Kanyin Chaung jetty, outside Maungdaw township,
northern Rakhine state, Myanmar June 4, 2015. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

19. Race horses stabled at the nearby Garrison course are taken by grooms to the sea for aerobic exercise and recovery for foot weary and sore muscles. Trainers consider the
aerobic exercise a break from track-work and monotony of being confined to the stables and vital in the horses fitness preparation. Michael Steele / Getty Images

20. Tony Lyerly and his granddaughter Maraih Lyerly, 3, wait with others to buy "Go Set A Watchman" at Ol' Curiosities & Book Shoppe in Monroeville, Alabama July 13, 2015. In
the southern hometown of author Harper Lee, a freight truck unloaded the first of 7,000 copies of "Go Set a Watchman" at a small bookshop just ahead of midnight, minutes
before the release of Lee's first published novel in 55 years. REUTERS/Michael Spooneybarger

21. Runners take part in the ‘The Color Run Night’ in Stockholm. The Color Run founder, Travis Snyder, was inspired by the Indian Holi Festival, and decided to combine the idea
with a 5km running experience. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty Images

22. An anti-xenophobia activist stands chained in front of a banner as thousands of people get ready to march against the recent wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa
through the streets of Johannesburg CBD on April 23, 2015.Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images

23. A sea of red poppies are pictured at the site of the former Royal New Zealand Air Force base at Hobsonville Point in Auckland, New Zealand. On April 25, Australia and New
Zealand will commemorate 100 years since more than 20,000 Australian and New Zealand servicemen landed at the Gallipoli Peninsula during the first World War on April
25, 1915. Phil Walter / Getty Images

24. Tribe members march for indigenous territorial rights in Angra dos Reis, Brazil. Indigenous communities strongly oppose a constitutional amendment facing Congress which
would allow Congress to demarcate indigenous territory.Mario Tama / Getty Images

25. A rescue worker touches the face of a horse as they try to save it at Bento Rodrigues district, which was covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd
burst in Mariana, Brazil, November 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

26. A migrant woman carries her child after arriving at a rocky beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast to Lesbos
October 11, 2015. REUTERS/Fotis Plegas G

27. A young girl covers herself from the rain with a banana leaf next to a man in the sea on the outskirts of Colon City October 17, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

28. Pakistan’s Waseem Akram takes a break while working at coal depot in Karachi, Pakistan. Shakil Adil / AP

29. Malaysian Muslim activists display pickets during a protest against the upcoming visit of President Barack Obama outside the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Barack Obama will
be attending the 27th Association of South East Asian Nations Summit, taking place in Malaysia from November 18-22. Mohd Rasfan / AFP / Getty Images

30. South Korean Marine amphibious assault vehicles fire smoke shells to land on the seashore during a joint landing operation by U.S. and South Korean Marines in the
southeastern port of Pohang on March 30, 2015. Jung Yeon-je / AFP / Getty Images

31. Tyra Izor jumps to third place in the ladies’ aerials at the 2015 U.S. Freestyle Ski National Championships at Steamboat Ski Resort on March 28, 2015, in Steamboat Springs,
Colorado. Doug Pensinger / Getty Images

32. Ultra-orthodox Jews visit Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem April 14, 2015. Wednesday marks Israel’s annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by
the Nazis during World War Two. Baz Ratner / Reuters

33. A protester jumps on the table in front
of the European Central Bank President
Mario Draghi during a news conference
in Frankfurt, April 15, 2015. The news
conference was disrupted on
Wednesday when a woman in a black
T-shirt jumped on the podium. Kai
Pfaffenbach / Reuters

34. Ukrainian police detain activists of women’s rights group “Femen” as they protest against homophobia outside the parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine. Femen and gay rights activists are
pushing parliament to adopt bills, including one that would ban discrimination in the workplace based on sexuality, which is included in a package of laws to liberalize Ukraine’s visa regime with
the EU. Gleb Garanich / Reuters

35. A female Kurdistan Workers Party fighter stands near a security position in Sinjar. Women fighters at a PKK base on Mount Sinjar in northwest Iraq, just like their male
counterparts, have to be ready for action at any time. Reuters Photographer / Reuters

36. This image taken Tuesday March 31, 2015 shows Typhoon Maysak taken by astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from the International Space Station. The Pacific Daily News
newspaper in Guam reports the storm was upgraded Tuesday to a super typhoon with winds of 150 mph and was moving west-northwest at 15 mph. Samantha Cristoforetti
/ NASA / AP

37. A rescued sea lion rests in a holding pen at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California, on March 30, 2015. Record numbers of starving baby sea lions
continue to wash ashore in California, and the problem has shown no sign of abating. Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images

38. A fishing boat is seen on shore in the port of Coquimbo after an earthquake on September 17. A million people were evacuated in Chile after an 8.3-magnitude quake struck
offshore in the Pacific, killing at least 10 people and triggering tsunami waves along its northern coast. Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty Images

39. A man touches a beached humpback whale with his foot in Pacifica, California on Tuesday, May 05, 2015. This is the second dead whale that has washed ashore in Pacifica
this month. Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Images

40. Members of Saudi security forces take part in a military parade in preparation for the annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca. Ahmad Masood / Reuters

41. Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stops to take a selfie after meeting with members of the Iowa State legislature at the Iowa State
Capital on April 15, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

42. A man with a dog watches runners the start of the London Marathon in Blackheath, England on April 26. Cathal Mcnaughton / Reuters

43. A palace guard stands at the gate to Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea on May 6, 2015. Thomas Peter / Reuters

44. Fernando Verdasco of Spain in action against Marin Cilic of Croatia in their second round match during day five of the Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament at the Caja
Magica on May 6, 2015 in Madrid, Spain. Clive Brunskill / Getty Images

45. Workers burned an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino during a May Day protest outside the presidential palace in Manila on May 1st. International Workers’ Day,
also known as Labour Day or May Day, commemorates the struggle of workers in industrialized countries in the 19th century for better working conditions. Romeo Ranoco /
Reuters

46. People hold hands during a rally lead by faith leaders in front of city hall calling for justice in response to the death of Freddie Gray on May 3, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Maryland state attorney announced on Friday that charges would be brought against the six police officers who arrested Gray. Andrew Burton / Getty Images

47. A woman breaks down during the cremation of her father on the banks of Bagmati river at the Pasupathinath temple in Kathmandu on April 29. Manan Vatsyayana / AFP /
Getty Images

48. A member of the army stands watch over a destroyed temple in Bashantapur on April 29 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Chris Mcgrath / Getty Images

49. One of fourteen orangutans waits in a cage to be sent back to Indonesia at a military airport in Bangkok, Thailand. These orangutans were allegedly smuggled out of
Indonesia into a private zoo in Thailand. Thailand and Indonesia have cooperated in the repatriation program to return the primates to their original habitat. Sakchai Lalit /
AP

50. A performer wears a hat covered
with bees at an exhibition hall about
beekeeping during the Beijing
Agricultural Carnival April 3, 2015.
The annual event displaying
agricultural products goes on till
May 3. Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters

51. An Emirati gunner watches for enemy fire from the rear gate of a United Arab Emirates Chinook military helicopter flying over Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition targeting
Yemen’s Shiite rebels pounded the insurgents’ positions on Thursday with heavy artillery fire, part of their push to retake the capital, Sanaa. Adam Schreck / AP

52. In this photograph taken on April 26, rocks are kept over flattened tents at Everest Base Camp, to cover the bodies of some of the people that died a day earlier as an
earthquake triggered avalanche crashed through parts of the base camp killing scores of people. Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty Images

53. Kids hang from the rear bumper of a vintage American car as they play in a flooded street, after a heavy rain in Havana, Cuba. Ramon Espinosa / AP

54. Dog owner Laura Aquilina strolls with her two year old Rottweiler Brutus, who was recently fitted with prosthetics on all four paws, and is currently learning to use them,
near Aquilina’s home in Loveland, Colo. Brutus lost all four paws to frostbite as a puppy while under care of a breeder, and Aquilina began caring for him about a year
ago. Brennan Linsley / AP

55. Migrants arrive at dawn at the Hungarian border with Serbia in Roszke, Hungary. Migrants are rushing to the border due to fears that the borders will soon be closed by the
government. Christopher Furlong / Getty Images

56. People in traditional dai costumes celebrate the Dai minority group new year in Xishuangbanna, southwest China’s Yunnan province on April 14, 2015. STR / AFP Getty
Images

57. A Syrian refugee girl stands behind a door at a makeshift settlement in the village of Ketermaya, south of Beirut, Lebanon, January 8, 2015. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

58. Two women wrestle during a Bolivian wrestling Cholitas fight in Madrid, Spain. Paul White / AP

59. A boy carries his belongings at a site hit by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo’s al-Fardous district
April 2, 2015. Stringer / Reuters

60. Japanese artist Nishida Jun presents
“Hand Exoskeleton”, gloves which
transform the dimensions of the user’s
hands to reproduce those of a child, in
order to understand their perception,
on April 8, 2015, in Laval, western
France, as part of the 17th
international conference and exhibition
of virtual technologies. Jean-francois
Monier / AFP / Getty Images

61. A girl with an Israeli flag stands in between a barbed wire fences in at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during the ‘March of the Living’ at in
Oswiecim, Poland on April 16, 2015. The annual march honors Holocaust victims at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland. Janek
Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images

62. Canadian Major-General Richard Rohmer arrives for a church service prior to a parade in Wageningen, Netherlands, marking the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi
forces on May 5, 1945. A week of celebrations and remembrances marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II. Vincent Jannink
/ AP

63. Riot policemen stand splattered with red paint thrown by protesters outside the Athens University on April 16, 2015. The protesters demended the release of families of
political prisoners and changes to the anti-terrorist law. Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty Images

64. A resident rides his bicycle near what activists said was an exploded cluster bomb shell in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus November 5, 2015.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

65. Voters wait in line to vote for the presidential elections at a polling booth constructed in a run-down bus in Conakry, Guinea. Guineans flocked to the polls on October 11 to
choose their president, shrugging off deadly pre-election violence. Incumbent President Alpha Conde, the country’s first democratically elected president who is tipped to
win a second term, led appeals for calm after around a dozen people were killed in deadly clashes between rival camps.Cellou Binani / AFP / Getty Images

66. The cockpit wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shown at the Gilze-Rijen Military Base in Gilze-Rijen, Netherlands. Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Images

67. An Israeli policeman searches a supermarket inside the Central Jerusalem Bus Station after police said a woman was stabbed by a Palestinian outside the bus station. A
Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 70-year-old woman outside Jerusalem’s central bus station before an officer shot him dead. Israel began setting up roadblocks in
Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers across the country on Wednesday to stop a wave of Palestinian knife attacks. Seven Israelis and 32
Palestinians, including children and assailants, have been killed in two weeks of bloodshed in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Noam Moskovitz / Reuters

68. Demonstrators carry black flags during a protest at Parliament Square on election day on May 7, 2015 in London, England. Christopher Furlong / Getty Images

69. A banner reading ‘We are Paris ’ is pictured among candles and flowers outside the French embassy in Berlin, a day after deadly attacks in Paris. Tobias Schwarz / AFP / Getty
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