Thursday, December 13, 2007

Shot at sight: The best news pictures of 2007

DESPERATE... Iraqi mother Wafaa Hussein, tries to revive her dead son Thaer, aged six, at a Baquba morgue, northeast of Baghdad, September 16, 2007. The boy was shot by an unidentified sniper while riding with his family in a public bus from Baghdad to Baquba.




HARROWING... Five executed Syrian men hang from the gallows with signs detailing their crimes wrapped around their bodies in the centre of the northern town of Aleppo, dawn October 25, 2007. Five Syrians aged between 18 and 23 reported.




HEAVE... A group of men work to try to use a crane to remove a fallen giant iron commercial pole in Taipei, October 7, 2007, which crushed two cars on the ground after the pole was snapped by Typhoon Krosa.




AT GUNPOINT... An Iraqi woman shouts "Don't shoot!" as US soldiers from Alpha Company, 1/38 Infantry Regiment detain her son and husband (L), who are suspected of targeting their Stryker convoy with an IED, 5 miles south of Baquba, 05 October 2007.




DEATH OF A JOURNO... This TV grab image from a video obtained from the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) 28 September 2007 shows Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai lying dead on the street after being shot by Myanmar troops in Yangon's city centre the day before.




SNEAK-PEEK... US President George W. Bush waits behind a camouflage curtain before being announced to speak to the troops at Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq's western al-Anbar province September 3, 2007.




HUMAN CHAIN... Buddhists monks, protected by their supporters walking hand in hand on either side of their procession, march down the street in Yangon, September 23, 2007, launching the biggest challenge against military rule in nearly two decades.




GORY END... This image taken from a video footage provided to AFP October 1, 2007 by the Democratic Voice of Burma, shows the dead body of a buddhist monk, floating in a river in Yangon.




LAW OF THE LAND... Four Iranian criminals are hanged in public in the southern city of Shiraz, 950 km south of Tehran, September 5,2007. Iran executed today 21 criminals in a single day


TERROR STRIKES... Wounded Pakistani men wait for help on the site of a blast site near the convoy of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi, late October 18, 2007. AFP Photo




HOLDING ON... Somali women hold on to each other as they gather around a foreign journalist covering food aid given out to displaced Somalis by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in the Jowhar Somalia village just outside the town of Jowhar September 26, 2007




WEIGHTY ISSUE... A man reads an Italian newspaper in Rome September 24, 2007, showing the new fashion brand Nolita advertising campaign against anorexia, realised by Oliviero Toscani.





OUTSTANDING... US First Lady Laura Bush (2nd R) sits next to breast cancer survivors during the Pink Majlis and Conversation with survivors at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Centre in Abu Dhabi, October 22, 2007.




HUNTER... This picture provided September 3, 2007 shows Russian President Vladimir Putin carrying a hunting rifle in the Republic of Tuva, August 15, 2007. AFP Photo

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