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		<title>Natures Best Photography Of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States named winners `Nature&#8217;s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2009 &#8216;, the prize is awarded nearly two dozen nominations. The competition may participate as amateurs and professionals, most importantly to fulfill the basic requirement &#8211; pass the time of life, so that between the observer and the plot originated communication. [...]]]></description>
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<p>In the United States named winners `Nature&#8217;s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2009 &#8216;, the prize is awarded nearly two dozen nominations. The competition may participate as amateurs and professionals, most importantly to fulfill the basic requirement &#8211; pass the time of life, so that between the observer and the plot originated communication. I invite you to look under the category best photos of wildlife in 2009.</p>
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Nomination `Zoos and aquariums`: Mountain lion, zoo Elmvud Park, USA. By David F. Bezold (Contact David at GLeddy1@netzero.net)<br />
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Nomination `Weather`: Northern Lights, Canada. By Linda Drake (LindaDrake.com)<br />
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A young photographer `2009`: Owl, Everglades National Park, USA. By Alexander Mody (AlexMody.com)<br />
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Nomination Mikromir &#8220;: Dragonflies, Confederation Park, Canada. By Minghui Chen (MinghuiChenPhotography.com)<br />
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Nomination `Wilderness&#8217;: Zebra and lion, Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya. By John Reiter (JohnReiterPhoto.com)<br />
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Nomination `Ecology`: Polar bear, Norway. By Hans Strand (HansStrand.com)<br />
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Nomination `Life Plant`: Gekelberi and Hemlock, Wash.. By Dennis Frates (FratesPhoto.com)<br />
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Nomination &#8220; Birds: Atlantic Puffin, Scotland. By Danny Green (DannyGreenPhotography.com)<br />
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Nomination `Landscape`: Beach Bulders and penguins, South Africa. By MaryLou Graham (NatureShapesPhoto.com)<br />
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Nomination `People in the nature of`: Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. By Mike Reyfman (MikeReyfman.com)<br />
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Nomination &#8220; Endangered Species: Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve, China. By Juan Carlos Muñoz (ArteNatural.com)<br />
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Nomination `faces` Animals: Cheetahs, Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya. By Federico Veronesi (FedericoVeronesi.com)<br />
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Grand Prix 2009: The mountain gorilla, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. By John Reiter (JohnReiterPhoto.com)<br />
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Nomination &#8220; Art in Nature: Northern cormorants, Canada. By Arthur Morris (BirdsAsArt.com)<br />
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Nomination &#8220; Oceans: Marine Crocodile, Papua New Guinea. By Yeang Ch&#8217;ng (YChng.com)<br />
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Nomination &#8216;native cultures&#8217;: Hunters with golden eagles, Mongolia. By David Tipling (DavidTipling.com)<br />
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Nomination `Digital` creative: Summer &#8211; Avia Grannyfolia, By Catlin Harrison (CatlinHarrison.com)</p>
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		<title>Best Photos Of Year 2009 From Reuters ( Part 4 )</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we present the selection of the best photos of the year 2009 on the version of agency Reuters. Hope you have already enjoyed the (Part 1 ), (Part 2) and (Part 3) selection.  Check out this photos after the jump … The relatives of the victims of the crash airline «Yemenia Airways» holding placards [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here we present the selection of the best photos of the year 2009 on the version of agency Reuters. Hope you have already enjoyed the (<a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-photos-of-the-year-2009-from-reuters/" target="_blank">Part 1</a><strong> </strong>), (<a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-photos-of-the-year-2009-from-reuters-2/" target="_blank">Part 2</a>) and (<a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-photos-of-the-year-2009-from-reuters-3/" target="_blank">Part 3</a>) selection.  Check out this photos after the jump …</p>
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<p>The relatives of the victims of the crash airline «Yemenia Airways» holding placards killed during a protest near the government building in Sanaa July 14, 2009.</p>
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<p>Dead Stork in salt on the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea on Dec. 16, 2008. Dead Sea dries slowly, but surely, and within 50 years could disappear altogether if nothing is done.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border: 0px;" title="best photos reuters 4_004" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotosreuters4_004.jpg" border="0" alt="best photos reuters 4_004" width="660" height="434" /></p>
<p>A worker trying to raise weakened cow, lying among the dead carcasses of cows on pasture drought in Kenya meat-packing plant near the Athi River, 50 km east of the capital Nairobi.</p>
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<p>The superintendent zoo weekly feeding baby bristly Battleship abandoned by his mother, in Jerusalem Zoo February 4, 2009. (REUTERS / Baz Ratner)</p>
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<p>Morning fog shrouds stadium «Green Point» built specifically for the World Cup 2010. Snapshot of affairs in Cape Town on August 25, 2009. South Africa will host the FIFA World Cup, which begins June 11, 2010. (REUTERS / Mike Hutchings)</p>
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<p>The Prime Minister of Belgium Herman Van Rompuy arrived at the press conference after he was elected president of the EU leaders at a summit in Brussels on 19 November 2009.</p>
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<p>Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in celebration of 20 anniversary of the ascension to the throne of the emperor in Tokyo November 12, 2009.</p>
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<p>A man while walking on a mountain top Saentis (2502 meters above sea level) near the Shvegalpa in the Swiss Alps, 15 October 2009. A few days most of Switzerland covered with frosty wave of snow and frost. (REUTERS / Christian Hartmann)</p>
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<p>People are skating at the Christmas market in Berlin on November 25, 2009. (REUTERS / Ahmad Masood)</p>
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<p>U.S. President Barack Obama is on the Great Wall at Badaling November 18, 2009.</p>
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<p>Stadium «Green Point» in Cape Town highlighted during the audit coverage of 27 October 2009 in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup 2010. (REUTERS / Mike Hutchings)</p>
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<p>Muslim pilgrims go around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca after morning prayers before the start of the hajj pilgrimage November 24, 2009. (REUTERS / Caren Firouz)</p>
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<p>Rescuers are preparing to enter the coal mine Xinxiang to start searching for survivors after a gas leak in a mine in Hegange, Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 22, 2009.</p>
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<p>On the head coach «Montreal Alouettes» Mark Trestmana poured a soft drink «Gatorade» during the last minutes of the final against «BC Lions »Olympic Stadium in Montreal on November 22, 2009. (REUTERS / Shaun Best)</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border: 0px;" title="best photos reuters 4_016" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotosreuters4_016.jpg" border="0" alt="best photos reuters 4_016" width="660" height="440" /></p>
<p>A resident of the village goes by power plants operating on coal. The picture was taken on the outskirts of Datong, Shanxi Province, Nov. 20, 2009.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border: 0px;" title="best photos reuters 4_017" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotosreuters4_017.jpg" border="0" alt="best photos reuters 4_017" width="660" height="441" /></p>
<p>Greek actress Maria Nafpliotu in the role of the priestess lights the torch during the handover ceremony of the Olympic flame in Athens on October 29, 2009.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border: 0px;" title="best photos reuters 4_018" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotosreuters4_018.jpg" border="0" alt="best photos reuters 4_018" width="660" height="471" /></p>
<p>Russia&#8217;s armed forces in the historical form during a military parade on Red Square in Moscow on November 5, 2009. The parade was held on November 7 in honor of the anniversary of the historic parade in 1941, when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square in front of the Second World War. (REUTERS / Denis Sinyakov)</p>
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<p>The reaction of Stepan Bozika from Croatia to lose in a duel of World Championship boxing in the middle category against Demetrius Sartisona from Germany in Kiel, 21 November 2009. (REUTERS / Christian Charisius)</p>
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<p>Whitney Houston&#8217;s bow after singing the song &#8220;I Didn&#8217;t Know My Own Strength&#8221; at the ceremony music awards «American Music Awards 2009&#8243; in Los Angeles on Nov. 22, 2009. (REUTERS / Mario Anzuon)</p>
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		<title>Best Sports Photos Of 2009 (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the success of best sports photos of 2009 (Part 1). Here we&#8217;re glad to offer you the second part of the &#8220;hundreds of the best sports photos of the year&#8221;. Hope you will enjoy this … A fan support their favorite team in the match against «Michigan State Spartans» game at the National Basketball [...]]]></description>
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<p>After the success of <a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-sports-photos-of-2009/" target="_blank">best sports photos of 2009 (Part 1).</a> Here we&#8217;re glad to offer you the second part of the &#8220;hundreds of the best sports photos of the year&#8221;. Hope you will enjoy this …</p>
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<p>A fan support their favorite team in the match against «Michigan State Spartans» game at the National Basketball Championship on April 6 in Detroit at the stadium &#8220;Ford&#8221;.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_003" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_003.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_003" width="660" height="425" /></p>
<p>A fan waits for the beginning of South Africa team Confederations Cup match between the national teams of South Africa and Spain</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_004" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_004.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_004" width="660" height="486" /></p>
<p>Brian McCann of the team «Atlanta Braves» freezes on the bench during a baseball game against Major League teams</p>
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<p>Hope the race «Belmont Stakes» nicknamed &#8220;This is a bird&#8221; stuck out his tongue in anticipation of the soul after a morning workout at Belmont Park in Elmonte, New York.</p>
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<p>Residents of nearby villages are looking at the participant Marathon on the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing</p>
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<p>Member of the 24th &#8220;Sand Marathon&#8221; in the Sahara desert dune climbs on April 1. Participants were more than 200 miles in 7 days in the Sahara Desert, Morocco.</p>
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<p>Paul Hawkins is waiting for a wave of his board  in Sydney. Modern riding a board with a paddle happened in Hawaii in the 1960&#8242;s, when the surfing instructors monitor their students in the water, sitting or standing on the boards.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_009" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_009.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_009" width="660" height="440" /></p>
<p>Women&#8217;s  rest during the training at the rowing competitions of New Zealand  in Cambridge.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_010" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_010.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_010" width="660" height="439" /></p>
<p>A diver immersed in water from a height of 27.5 meters during the competition on cliff-diving in La Rochelle, France</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_011" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_011.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_011" width="660" height="440" /></p>
<p>Timo Clam dive during a competition at the Grand Prix diving «AT &amp; T USA Diving Grand Prix» in a pool of Fort Lauderdale</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_012" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_012.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_012" width="660" height="460" /></p>
<p>Michael Phelps warmed up before the competition on June 12 in the basin of Santa Clara.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_013" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_013.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_013" width="660" height="434" /></p>
<p>Children watching a tennis match at Queens Club in London on 8 June.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_014" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_014.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_014" width="660" height="426" /></p>
<p>Kobe Bryant of the «Los Angeles Lakers» (left) and Ron Artest from the «Houston Rockets» «exchange of courtesies&#8221; to match the second series of Playoffs in Los Angeles on May 6.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_015" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_015.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_015" width="660" height="360" /></p>
<p>Michael Ballack of Chelsea screams at referee during a Champions League match against Barcelona</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_016" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_016.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_016" width="660" height="405" /></p>
<p>Jacoby Elsberi of the team «Boston Red Sox» overtaking Jobe Chamberlain of the «New York Yankees» Stadium Fenway Park on April 24 in Boston.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_017" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_017.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_017" width="660" height="440" /></p>
<p>Participants of the 50th annual &#8220;Cheese races&#8221; are celebrating the victory on the street Stilton High Street on May 4 in Stilton, England.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_018" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_018.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_018" width="660" height="400" /></p>
<p>The second championship race for office chairs go down the street in the village of Bad Keuning-Zell, Germany, April 25.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_019" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_019.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_019" width="660" height="424" /></p>
<p>A girl enjoys the rain on the upper balcony of the stadium. Because of the rain on June 10 canceled Major League baseball game in Arlington, Texas.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_020" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_020.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_020" width="660" height="440" /></p>
<p>Fans of the football team Ecuador support their team before the match with the Argentine in Cuenca, Ecuador, April 23.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_021" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_021.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_021" width="660" height="330" /></p>
<p>The swimmers are prepared to swim «Travessia dos Fortes» Rio de Janeiro on 5 April.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_022" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_022.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_022" width="660" height="435" /></p>
<p>Players school team Westwood, Massachusetts, to rejoice in lacrosse, winning the final against the high school at Wellesley College, Wellesley, June 4.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_023" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_023.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_023" width="660" height="467" /></p>
<p>Teams compete in the Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong on May 28. The festival is part of the celebration in honor of Qu Yuan &#8211; Chinese poet, resist corruption of the imperial court.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_024" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_024.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_024" width="660" height="379" /></p>
<p>Team «Team Canada 1&#8243; during his brief speech at World Synchronized Skating Championships in Zagreb on April 3.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_025" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_025.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_025" width="660" height="444" /></p>
<p>Cricket fans watch 20-20 World Cup match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, on the TV screen in Karachi on June 21.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="sports 2_026" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sports2_026.jpg" border="0" alt="sports 2_026" width="660" height="439" /></p>
<p>A man collecting water near the stadium Royal Bakofeng on June 16 before the Confederations Cup football match.</p>
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<p>Here is the last and third collection of best photos of the year 2009. Already you have checked the <a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-photos-of-year-2009/" target="_blank">the first part</a> and <a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-photos-of-2009-part-2/" target="_blank">the second part</a> of the collection… Here are few of the remaining collection of such photos after the jump …</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_002" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="397" alt="best photos 3_002" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_002.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Fireworks over the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on November 9, 2009 during the celebration of 20 anniversary of the demolition of the Berlin Wall.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_003" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="393" alt="best photos 3_003" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_003.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">New solar panel Towers PS20 accumulate sunlight on the mirrors, which are also called &quot;heliostat&quot;.&#160; Light is used to produce steam, which in turn is converted into electricity turbine. The picture was taken in Sanlucar la Mayor, Spain.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_004" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 3_004" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_004.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Student samba school &quot;Leandro de Itakuera&quot; takes part in the parade &quot;Sambadrom&quot; in Sao Paulo in the evening on Feb. 21, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_005" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="420" alt="best photos 3_005" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_005.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Supporters of the deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya during a clash with soldiers near the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Monday, 29 June 2009. Police fired tear gas to restrain the pressure of several thousand people who gathered at the presidential residence occupied.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_006" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="438" alt="best photos 3_006" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_006.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Ted Kennedy Jr. kisses his father&#8217;s coffin at the Basilica of St. Mary in the Mishna Hill in Boston, August 29, 2009.&#160; President Barack Obama, three former U.S. president and the entire nation&#8217;s elite gathered in the rain to last farewell to the great policy of Ted Kennedy.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_007" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="431" alt="best photos 3_007" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_007.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Hindu prayers in the waters of the Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, May 4, 2009.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5093" title="7" height="446" alt="7 660x446 Best Photos Of 2009 (Part 3)" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/7-660x446.jpg" width="660" /></p>
<p align="justify">The girl and her dog sitting in the cart while her family waits for permission to pass through a checkpoint on the outskirts of Bannu &#8211; a city on the edge of Pakistan&#8217;s tribal village in Waziristan October 22, 2009. Pakistani troops and militants organization of the Taliban in Waziristan faced &#8211; military shelter near the Afghan border. Both sides indicated earlier victories in military campaigns, which could shape the future of the national struggle against extremism.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_009" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="427" alt="best photos 3_009" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_009.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">View of the eruption Redaut (Mount Redoubt) from the cockpit DC-6 flying over the Cook Strait near Anchorage, Alaska.&#160; March 31, 2009.&#160; Photo courtesy of Brian Mulder &#8211; a pilot and a photographer.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_010" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="460" alt="best photos 3_010" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_010.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The workers of the company «Delhi Metro Rail Corporation» finalizing the last segment of the underground tunnel between the areas Dzhangpura and Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi on October 12, 2009. This project is part of a larger project to build subway lines, which will cover the whole national region, on the eve of the Commonwealth Games 2010.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_011" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="423" alt="best photos 3_011" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_011.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">A couple floats in a canoe on the famous tunnel Atlanta Krogh September 21, 2009 after flooding caused by prolonged rains in the region.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_012" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="428" alt="best photos 3_012" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_012.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">11 American infantryman 2 nd Expeditionary Brigade MP tries to escape from the explosion in the Afghan province of Helmand Garmsir July 13, 2009. 2 soldiers who tried to clear the way to the rear of the Taliban in southern Helmand province killed in the explosion.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_013" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="431" alt="best photos 3_013" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_013.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Infantryman from the second battalion of rest, while his platoon completes sweep of houses on the second day of Operation Germinat &quot;in the passage Bhudzhi Bhast Farah province, southern Afghanistan, October 8, 2009.Passage Bhudzhi Bhast &#8211; a corridor for the organization of the Taliban, mined with homemade devices from one end to the other and framed by the villages, where Western troops to encounter hostility.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_014" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="414" alt="best photos 3_014" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_014.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Passenger spaceship «SpaceShipTwo» from the company «Virgin Galactic» presented to the public in Moheyve, Calif., Dec. 7, 2009. Billionaire Richard Branson on Monday introduced the first commercial passenger space plane in the world &#8211; a beautiful black and white aircraft, which gave rise to the industry of commercial space tourism.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_015" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="420" alt="best photos 3_015" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_015.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Woman carrying water from the Yalu River in the North Korean city of Hyesan April 6, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_016" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 3_016" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_016.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Participating Northern Ireland scuba diving in the swamps crosses the start / finish in Pitlends Park, Dungannon, County Tyrone July 26, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_017" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="456" alt="best photos 3_017" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_017.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Dwight Howard of the «Orlando Magic» did not take his eyes off the ball in the final basketball match with the «Los Angeles Lakers» Los Angeles June 4, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_018" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="435" alt="best photos 3_018" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_018.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Wadi Dawud &#8211; five impaired Palestinian boy &#8211; reacts to light after the teacher opened the window in his class at the center of Helen Keller, the blind and visually impaired children in the area of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem September 10, 2009. The Center was founded as a home for blind girls in English missionary Mary Lavell in the 1890&#8242;s.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_019" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="433" alt="best photos 3_019" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_019.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Local woman shouting at the Chinese soldiers, while a crowd of her compatriots behind her confronts the security services in the streets of Urumqi in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in China, July 7, 2009. Uighur demonstrators clashed with police in the capital of the Muslim Xinjiang region on Tuesday &#8211; two days after the ethnic riots, which killed 156 people and over 800 injured.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_020" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="434" alt="best photos 3_020" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_020.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Owen Rabago (left) wipes tears from the face of his father &#8211; a military specialist Sheldon Rabago, while his mother, Nancy hugs them both with a minute of silence in the stadium Art in Fort Hood, Texas, November 6, 2009. The day before a military psychiatrist, opened fire on a military base, killing 13 people and wounding 30.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_021" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 3_021" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_021.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Scene with the annual festival of &quot;cheese races&quot; near Gloucester, England. After this dangerous race of one person (inverted) was taken to hospital.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_022" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="411" alt="best photos 3_022" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_022.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">One of the offices of news publications «Rocky Mountain News» deserted February 27, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. Friday&#8217;s number was the last for almost 150 years of publishing &#8211; Colorado&#8217;s oldest newspaper. The owner of the publishing house «EW Scripps Co.» Announced the closure of the newspaper, after the publication failed to raise the level of sales.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_023" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="461" alt="best photos 3_023" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_023.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Police detained the suspect and from the place of shooting at a police training center in Lahore on March 30, 2009. Pakistani security services took the police academy under its control in Lahore on Monday after gunmen stormed the complex, killing at least eight cadets and wounding several more.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_024" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="443" alt="best photos 3_024" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_024.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Miss USA Kristen Dalton paints her lips during a photo session at the observation platform &quot;Top of the Rock&quot; at Rockefeller Center in New York</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_025" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="412" alt="best photos 3_025" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_025.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Chinese parents gathered in the audience to sleep, after seeing their children to university in their first semester in Wuhan, central China Hubei Province</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_026" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 3_026" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_026.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The wounded girl was crying during the evacuation immediately after the earthquake in Padang on the island of Sumatra on Sept. 30, 2009. The earthquake struck at 7.6 points in the city Padang on the island of Sumatra on Sept. 30, 2009, killing more than 1000 people and thousands more were under the rubble.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_027" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="414" alt="best photos 3_027" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_027.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Burned trees at Kingleyka destroyed by fire, February 8, 2009. More than 170 people were killed and many villages were burned almost to ashes in one of the worst forest fires in Australian history.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_028" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="442" alt="best photos 3_028" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_028.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Maldives signed a declaration appealing to countries to reduce carbon emissions before the major UN climate summit in December, 17 October 2009. Maldives president and the ministers held the world&#8217;s first underwater assembly, symbolizing their request to help them cope with rising sea levels, threatening the tropical archipelago.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_029" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="381" alt="best photos 3_029" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_029.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The rocket fired by Palestinian militants from northern Gaza Strip, flies to Israel on Jan. 2, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_030" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="437" alt="best photos 3_030" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_030.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Israeli boy hiding under a table in a bomb shelter in a school in Jerusalem, 2 June 2009 during the military exercises conducted throughout the country.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_031" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="416" alt="best photos 3_031" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_031.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Jewish settler (right) and Palestinian demonstrators shouting at each other during a protest against the illegal outpost near the Israeli settlement in Hebron Kharsina May 22, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_032" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="429" alt="best photos 3_032" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_032.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Silhouettes of the shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope next to each other in the sun at 12:17, 13 May 2009, in the west of Vero Beach, Florida. These two space objects were imprinted at an altitude of 600 kilometers (375 miles), during the passage in the sun, which lasted only 0.8 seconds. Image was acquired by NASA on May 14.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_033" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="433" alt="best photos 3_033" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_033.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Girl dives into a lake about 100 km west of St. Petersburg on Aug. 7, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_034" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 3_034" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_034.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Scientists at the center of the organization&#8217;s management CERN rejoice successful restart of Large Hadron Collider November 20, 2009 near Geneva.&#160; The world&#8217;s largest atom Milling was closed shortly after the launch in September 2008 by a technical problem and restarted on Nov. 20, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_035" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="427" alt="best photos 3_035" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_035.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Seven-time winner of the Tour de France Lance Armstrong of Team Astana rides in the group under a strong downpour July 17, 2009 at 200 km and on the 13th stage of cycling &quot;Tour de France 2009&quot; between Vittel and Colmar. Armstrong came third, behind Alberto Contador.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_036" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="339" alt="best photos 3_036" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_036.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The car drove into a parade, in which a queen Beatrix and the royal family members in the national Queen&#8217;s Day in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn April 30, 2009. As a result of the disaster Ten people were injured and eight killed, including 38-year-old driver, who only accidentally drove into a bus without a top, which rode the Queen and other members of the royal family.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_037" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="393" alt="best photos 3_037" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_037.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Gymnast balancing on a log during training at the World Cup, taking place at the O2 stadium in London on October 12, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_038" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="439" alt="best photos 3_038" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_038.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Insurgents movement Hizbul Islam &quot;a corpse 48-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim out of the pit. Mohammed was stoned to death after he was accused of sexual relationship with a woman in the district of Afgoye 13 December 2009. Ibrahim was sentenced to death, local Islamic court, after he was found guilty of adultery.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_039" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="453" alt="best photos 3_039" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_039.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Hunter holds a hawk during the annual competition for hunting with birds of prey, 150 km east of Almaty, Kazakhstan.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_040" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="418" alt="best photos 3_040" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_040.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Chief Petty Officer Bill Places replaces photograph of former President George Bush at a photo of the newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama in the lobby of headquarters of the naval base on Jan. 20, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 3_041" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="441" alt="best photos 3_041" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos3_041.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Football fans celebrate the opening ceremony of FIFA U 20 World Cup in Alexandria. The home team played against the Egyptian national team of Trinidad and Tobago at the first football game of the championship, winning 4-1.</p>
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<p>After the collection of best photos of 2009 part 1, here we present the second part to you.&#160; hope you may have liked the <a href="http://www.bigpicture.in/best-photos-of-year-2009/" target="_blank">previous post</a> on this … check here the few collections after the jump …</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5087" title="901_1931" height="426" alt="901 1931 660x426 Best Photos Of 2009 (Part 2)" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/901_1931-660x426.jpg" width="660" /></p>
<p align="justify">A girl shows heart shape with her hands tied with green ribbons, the color of the party during the Worldwide Hossein Mousavi show.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_003" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="507" alt="best photos 2_003" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_003.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The supporters of the candidate Hossein Mosavi being beaten up by the security personnel during the presidential elections in Tehran, Iran.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_004" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 2_004" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_004.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The injured supporter of losing the election presidential candidate Worldwide Hossein Mosavi being taken to the hospital by the fellow members in Iran. The election was won by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_005" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 2_005" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_005.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The boy touches the ice sculpture of a polar bear, which melts and exposes the bronze skeleton in Copenhagen</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_006" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="426" alt="best photos 2_006" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_006.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A month old forest fire destroyed more than 250 square meters in Los Angeles. The smoke from forest fires is rising over downtown.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_007" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="397" alt="best photos 2_007" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_007.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The forest fire in California,</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_008" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="427" alt="best photos 2_008" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_008.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A young orphan Faustin Mugisa with scars from a machete on the head and body is in a shelter Kizito in Bunia in northeastern Congo.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_009" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="416" alt="best photos 2_009" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_009.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The Burning Su-27 aerobatic team &quot;Russian Knights&quot; in just a few seconds before the collision with the two-seat Su-27 near the Zhukovsky airfield east of Moscow</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_010" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="410" alt="best photos 2_010" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_010.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The Pine trees covered with snow in the flood waters in Moorhead, Minnesota.&#160; Because of the severe snowstorms was difficult work of rescuers trying to help people during the most severe flooding in the U.S..</p>
<p>&#160;<img title="best photos 2_011" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="433" alt="best photos 2_011" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_011.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Bushmen from the community Khomani San stands on dry land in the Kalahari Desert, in South Africa. One of the largest African genetics research conducted by an international team from the University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_012" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="480" alt="best photos 2_012" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_012.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Bull with ranch Palha horn pierced the Spanish matador Yisrael lunch during a bullfight at the fair of San Isidro in the arena for a bullfight Las Ventas in Madrid</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_013" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="433" alt="best photos 2_013" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_013.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">People pray beside the fired car in a radical Red Mosque, while the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz makes a speech to supporters at Friday prayers in Islamabad. Pakistan</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_014" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="452" alt="best photos 2_014" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_014.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Huge puppets of Big and Little Giant giantess &#8211; Props for the French street theater «Royal de Luxe» and its presentation entitled &quot;The reunification of Berlin.&quot;</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_015" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="479" alt="best photos 2_015" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_015.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Romain Grosjean (left) and Adam Khan (right) test cars Renault F1 in the desert in Dubai, April 9, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_016" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="414" alt="best photos 2_016" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_016.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The celebration of 60th anniversary of the PRC in China. The Chinese military are involved in the performance of patriotic songs in chorus, which employs up to 10 thousand participants.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_017" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="410" alt="best photos 2_017" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_017.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A old man waiting in the queue for food in a refugee camp near Peshawar in Pakistan tribal area of Zargul Bayur.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_018" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="431" alt="best photos 2_018" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_018.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The stars in the night sky above the spinning chimney at the top of Cape Cornwall near Saint Just, in England.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_019" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="453" alt="best photos 2_019" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_019.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The boy, suffering from malnutrition, lies on the hands of the mother in a camp for internally-displaced persons on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_020" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="best photos 2_020" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_020.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Girls enjoying the sunbathe, while the Brazilian pilot «Ferrari» Felipe Massa went around the track Monaco in Monte Carlo during the second training session of the Grand Prix of Monaco Formula 1.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_021" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="447" alt="best photos 2_021" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_021.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The new offer – exchange old cars for new for economical fuel consumption. More than 700000 cars exchanged in Bettifild Ford in Culpeper.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_022" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 2_022" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_022.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The protestors during the 60th anniversary of the People Republic in China. The demonstrators trying to cross the police cordon during the protest, in Hong Kong.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_023" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="408" alt="best photos 2_023" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_023.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The Norwegian Anders Jacobsen made its first jump in the third stage of the competition «Four Hills FIS» ski jumping&#160; in Innsbruck.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_024" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="484" alt="best photos 2_024" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_024.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The daughter of the legend Michael Jackson being soothe by the family members during the funeral of the legend of pop music in Los Angeles.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_025" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="404" alt="best photos 2_025" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_025.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The slope of 20% to the rings of Saturn. Camera mounted on Cassini, 75 times removed Saturn, its rings and some of his companions, one and a half days after the equinox, when the solar disk exactly at the equator to close part of the planet.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_026" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="403" alt="best photos 2_026" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_026.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The injured leopard in the neck with a tranquilizer is a residential area of Guwahati, India. Three people seriously injured, after the wild cat broke into the city.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_027" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="421" alt="best photos 2_027" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_027.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The beautiful sunset behind the famous London Eye Ferris Wheel, in London.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_028" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="457" alt="best photos 2_028" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_028.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Palestinian civilians and doctors are fleeing to the shelter during the Israeli shelling of UN school in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_029" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="437" alt="best photos 2_029" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_029.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The old model taxies thrown in the courtyard in the Chongqing city, in China. They have taken this step to control the traffic jams and air pollution.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_030" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 2_030" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_030.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A Bengal tiger playing with the pumpkin in the entertainment park in Jackson, New Jersey, November 8, 2009.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_031" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="435" alt="best photos 2_031" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_031.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A Palestinian man beats a tennis racket empty container with tear gas at Israeli soldiers during a protest rally at the Israeli border in the village of Bilin near Ramallah</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_032" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 2_032" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_032.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The Ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to the sect «Vishnitz Hassidic» dancing on the benches during the celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_033" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="399" alt="best photos 2_033" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_033.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The ring of water vapor created around the aircraft «F/A-18F Super Hornet», during an air show at Jones Beach in Vantage, New York.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_034" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="429" alt="best photos 2_034" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_034.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The goal keeper Eduardo Carvalho from Braga enjoying during the football match against Portugal.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_035" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="419" alt="best photos 2_035" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_035.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Thousands of people gathered to the farewell of former President of South Korea during his funeral in Seoul.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_036" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="411" alt="best photos 2_036" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_036.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Belgian Milk producers in the protest against the low prices. They poured more than three million liters of milk on the field.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_037" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="437" alt="best photos 2_037" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_037.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A horse ride enjoyed by the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the South Siberian region</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_038" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="449" alt="best photos 2_038" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_038.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Disaster after the typhoon quetzales, in Philippines. More than 650 peoples killed.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_039" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="453" alt="best photos 2_039" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_039.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A unsuccessful Intercontinental Ballistic missicle submarine test conducted by Russia.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_040" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="392" alt="best photos 2_040" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_040.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>A lady dressed in traditional costume during the celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 2_041" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 2_041" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos2_041.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">An empty wheelchair belonging to 15-year-old Patrick Ivisonu with paralysis of four limbs, standing on the beach, Cardiff, San Diego, California.</p>
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<p align="justify">The year 2009 is coming to an end. Lots of events took place in this year. 2009 Like elections, solar eclipse of the decade and the break out of H1N1 disease. A lot of natural disasters and accidents took place in this year. Each of these photos became the international news and many created history in the world… lets check out few of this photos after the jump …</p>
<p><img title="2009 in Photos" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="493" alt="1. ????? ????? ? ???????? 44-??? ?????????? ??? ????????? ?? ??????, ??????? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ?????, ? ????????? 20 ?????? 2009 ???? ? ??????????, ????? ????????. ????? ????? ?? ?????? – ????? ? ???? ?????. (Chuck Kennedy-Pool/Getty Images)" src="http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/901_1768.jpg" width="660" border="0" /></p>
<p align="justify">Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president swears on the Bible, which holds his wife, Michelle Obama, at the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. Nearby are their daughters &#8211; Malia and Sasha Obama. (Chuck Kennedy-Pool/Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_003" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 1_003" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_003.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">74-year-old Verti Hodge crying Boulevard Martin Luther King January 20, 2009 during the inauguration of President Barack Obama, who at that time speech. Barack Obama became the first black U.S. president. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_004" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="464" alt="best photos 1_004" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_004.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">A flock of common cranes gathered at dawn at the lake in Brandenburg near Berlin, September 26, 2009.&#160; From September to November, tens of thousands of cranes stop in the rural areas of the capital of Germany during the winter migration from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to Spain. (REUTERS/Thomas Krumenacker)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_005" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 1_005" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_005.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Soldiers of the First Battalion, 26th Infantry, U.S. troops occupied the defensive positions on the basis of Restrepo, after they shot at militants organization of the Taliban in Korengal Valley of Kunar province of Afghanistan May 11, 2009. Soldier Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas, (left in his underwear with the words &quot;I love New York&quot;) ran out of the sleeping tents to help his comrades. The right of soldiers Cecil Montgomery Maney, Los Angeles, and Jordan Custer of Spokane, Washington (center). (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_006" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="396" alt="best photos 1_006" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_006.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Passengers waiting for rescue on the wings of the plane «Airbus 320&quot; company US Airways, which landed safely in the cold waters of the Hudson River in New York after a flock of birds put out of action two of its engine January 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Steven Day, File)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_007" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="445" alt="best photos 1_007" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_007.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Schoolgirl made vaccine against the virus of influenza H1N1 in a hospital in Suining, Sichuan Province on Nov. 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_008" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="462" alt="best photos 1_008" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_008.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Iranian police tear gas splashes in the face of a supporter of defeated presidential election candidate Worldwide Hossein Mousavi during the demonstrations in Iran June 13, 2009. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_009" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="456" alt="best photos 1_009" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_009.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">In the photo, cut out videos from YouTube, visible woman named Ned Agha-Soltan, which lies on the ground after she was shot in the chest in Tehran June 20, 2009. Iranians in social networks declared mourning in memory of &quot;Nede&quot; &#8211; a girl who died in the same Saturday. (REUTERS/YouTube)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_010" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="438" alt="best photos 1_010" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_010.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The fishermen rowing in a boat on the Chaohu Lake in Hefei, China&#8217;s Anhui Province, where the waters &quot;blossomed&quot;, ie filled with overgrown unicellular algae, 19 June 2009. China has invested 51 billion yuan (7.4 billion dollars) in the creation of 2,712 projects whose purpose is the purification of eight rivers and lakes in 2009. (REUTERS/Jianan Yu)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_011" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="423" alt="best photos 1_011" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_011.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Moon came between the Sun and Earth during a total solar eclipse, which could be observed in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, July 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_012" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="442" alt="best photos 1_012" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_012.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The girl, who has lost homes because of the huge waves caused by cyclone Isla, stands in front of his temporary haven on the dam the river in Sathire in southwestern Bangladesh June 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Andrew Biraj)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_013" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="505" alt="best photos 1_013" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_013.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Cone moisture around the rocket Ares IX during its launch on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at suborbital test flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/Chris O&#8217;Meara)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_014" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="434" alt="best photos 1_014" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_014.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Assault police squad is trying to keep fans of the national soccer team in Mozambique after the qualifying match between their team and a team from Kenya to the FIFA World Cup 2010 6 September 2009. (REUTERS/Grant Lee Neuenburg)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_015" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="449" alt="best photos 1_015" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_015.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Pitcher Team «Chicago White Sox» Scott Laynbrink serves during a match against a team «Chicago Cubs» in Las Vegas March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_016" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 1_016" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_016.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">A young man walking a dog on a hill not far from Sydney Observatory September 23, 2009, when the largest city in Australia was gripped by a strange cover of red dust. Cars and buildings in Sydney were orange, when a strong wind brought the dust in the city, preventing residents and forcing the children and the elderly remain at home. (GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_017" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="450" alt="best photos 1_017" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_017.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Claire Williams (right) and Cory Giroks kiss after their wedding ceremony at midnight in South Burlington, Vermont, September 1, 2009 &#8211; the first day of entry into force of the law on marriages between same-sex citizens enrolled in Vermont. (AP Photo/Karen Pike)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_018" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="456" alt="best photos 1_018" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_018.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Brazilian Formula 1 pilot Felipe Massa of team «Scuderia Ferrari» pull out of the car, after his head hit a piece of the body of another punishment, during the Preliminary round of the track «Hungaroring» in Mogiorod nedalko from Budapest, 25 July 2009. Weight was taken to hospital and underwent surgery. (TAMAS KOVACS/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_019" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="426" alt="best photos 1_019" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_019.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">French aerobatic team &quot;Cartouche Dore&quot; performs Room near Aix-en-Provence, southern France. (JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_020" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="448" alt="best photos 1_020" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_020.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The sun shines on the skin of a hippopotamus in his cage at the zoo in Berlin on Friday, April 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_021" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="467" alt="best photos 1_021" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_021.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Photography, Emilio Morenatti photographed himself, while his wheelchair taken to the Medical Center of the University of Maryland, to transport to a rehabilitation center in Baltimore on Aug. 25, 2009.&#160; Morenatti, who amputated his left leg after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, was transferred to a rehabilitation center in Baltimore, where he will pick up limbs. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_022" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="429" alt="best photos 1_022" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_022.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Rescuer, holding year-old child, trying to close the window to suicide is not jumping from the eighth floor apartment in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, July 7, 2009. The rescuers managed to distract the man, and one of them saved the girl. The man, who was under the influence of drugs, was arrested and placed under investigation. (REUTERS/China Daily)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_023" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="455" alt="best photos 1_023" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_023.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Blood and bullet holes on the door of the car after the unidentified man was killed in Tijuana, northern Mexico, August 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_024" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="463" alt="best photos 1_024" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_024.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Demonstrators fled down the street in London during the protest, matched with the Summit Big Twenties April 1, 2009.&#160; Demonstrators entered the fight with police and smashed windows of banks in London&#8217;s financial center on Wednesday before the meeting «G20» as a protest against the system, which according to them, robbing the poor to the rich. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_025" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="367" alt="best photos 1_025" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_025.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Australian surfer Mark Visser saddled the 11-meter wave in Cau bombs in the vicinity of the West Australian city Greystaun 280 km south of Perth, 28 September 2009. The organizers of surfing competitions stated that Visser caught one of the biggest waves in Australia in 2009. (REUTERS/Calum Macauley/Handout)</p>
<p align="justify"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5013" title="925_2034" height="442" alt="925 2034 660x442 Best Photos Of Year 2009" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/925_2034-660x442.jpg" width="660" /></p>
<p align="justify">Rows of bullets in a 7.62 mm, ready to use by novices Afghan National Police during a daily training in Kabul July 19, 2009. Attempts to train thousands of new military so that they joined the fight against militant organization Taliban. However, hindered by lack of training supervisors and high level of illiteracy among recruits. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_027" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="449" alt="best photos 1_027" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_027.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">A woman shows her finger in ink after the elections at a polling station in Sonapure 50 km from Guwahati &#8211; the main city of north-eastern state of Assam, India, April 23, 2009. Millions of Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voted in the largest democratic election in the world. (REUTERS/Utpal Baruah)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_028" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 1_028" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_028.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Residents of the city Kaintal Rizal, east of Manila, are moving through wires or wade after floods caused by typhoon Ondoy, September 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_029" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="407" alt="best photos 1_029" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_029.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">New Hampshire, awaits the 96-kilometer race at the sleigh in Fort Kent, Maine, February 28, 2009. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_030" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="423" alt="best photos 1_030" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_030.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Church of Santa Maria Paganica, severely hit after the earthquake of April 7, 2009 in Abruzzo &#8211; the capital L&#8217;Akvily, Italy. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_031" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="421" alt="best photos 1_031" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_031.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">In this photo released June 8, 2009 the Brazilian Navy divers raised to the surface of a large part of the plane «Air France A330», Lost in the voyage over the Atlantic Ocean June 1, 2009. While in the ocean was found 17 bodies at the spot where the plane fell. (AFP / Getty Images)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_032" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="435" alt="best photos 1_032" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_032.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">A Pakistani boy from the valley of Swat, who lost at home, sleeping under a mosquito net at the tent in a refugee camp Jalozai near Peshawar, Pakistan, May 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_033" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="409" alt="best photos 1_033" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_033.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Sailors People&#8217;s Liberation Army marching on Tiananmen Square during the celebration of the 60 th anniversary of China&#8217;s October 1, 2009 in Beijing. </p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_034" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="427" alt="best photos 1_034" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_034.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>The body of the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Prabhakaran Vellupillaya bear on a stretcher through the group oldat Sri Lanka in the lagoon near the town of Nantikadal Mullaittivu in northern Sri Lanka, May 19, 2009. The warlord armies of Sri Lanka said that the corpse of the leader of the Tigers &quot;was found on Tuesday, and on television in Sri Lanka showed video of his body from the demolished head. </p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_035" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="438" alt="best photos 1_035" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_035.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p>Missiles fired by Israeli aircraft hit the target in the northern Gaza Strip. The picture was taken with the Israeli side of the border on Jan. 1, 2009. </p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_036" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="464" alt="best photos 1_036" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_036.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Mentally ill patient on behalf Totok reacts to shower in a charity house Galuh in East Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, October 23, 2009. Charity House Galuh sheltered more than 285 indigent mentally ill patients since its inception in 1982 Gendy Mulatipom. </p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_037" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="418" alt="best photos 1_037" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_037.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">The newly constructed fence at the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Picture taken at dawn on March 14, 2009, the interval between the city of Yuma, Arizona, and Calexico, California. The new fence height of 15 feet (4.5 meters) is installed on top of sand dunes, so that it could lift and move, when migrating dunes begin to fill it. It was established almost seven miles (11 km) a fence at a cost of $ 6 million per mile.</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_038" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="441" alt="best photos 1_038" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_038.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Military and legal medical expert examine the body of man killed at a nightclub in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, August 31, 2009.&#160; Man handcuffs clipped to the fence and shot him several times. Local media reported that the shooting narkokiller.&#160; The killers also left at the crime scene a warning note. </p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_039" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="440" alt="best photos 1_039" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_039.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Type Sarychev volcano on the Kuril Islands in the early stages of the eruption of 12 June 2009. Picture taken from the International Space Station. (AFP/Getty Images/NASA)</p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_040" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="446" alt="best photos 1_040" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_040.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">16-month Aubrey Melton reaches for his father, Senior Sergeant Josh Melton at his funeral, sitting at the hands of her mother Larissa before the memorial service June 27, 2009 in Germantaune, Illinois.&#160; Melton, who served in Afghanistan as part of the National Guard of Illinois, died in Kandahar when an improvised explosive device on June 19. </p>
<p><img title="best photos 1_041" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="432" alt="best photos 1_041" src="http://www.bigpicture.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bestphotos1_041.jpg" width="660" border="0" /> </p>
<p align="justify">Children run away from the &quot;bull by the Fire&quot; &#8211; a man in a metal suit, bull, charged with fireworks, the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, July 12, 2009.</p>
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