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Our Thousand Words -- The World in Pictures
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| 1 | Egyptian soldiers beat up a woman and pull off her abaya (a loose over-garment worn by women in parts of the Islamic world) during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo on December 17 | Image by Reuters |
| 2 | School boys stand near fuel trucks set ablaze in Pakistan's Baluchistan province on December 12. Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on nine fuel trucks, killing one of the drivers | Image by Reuters |
| 3 | A trader at the New York Stock Exchange after trading ended for the day on December 12, when markets around the world crashed on worries over Europe’s growing debt crisis |
Image by Andrew Burton/ Reuters |
| 4 | Choristers practise in the choir stalls of St Paul's Cathedral in London on December 12 | Image by Toby Melville/ Reuters |
| 5 | A Palestinian girl weeps as Israeli soldiers detain activists in the West Bank on December 11 during clashes that followed the funeral of a Palestinian demonstrator | Image by Mohamad Torokman/ Reuters |
| 6 | Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (Centre) reacts during a parliamentary debate on last week's European Union summit in London on December 12. Cameron defended his decision to break with European partners by vetoing a change to the EU treaty |
Image by Parbul TV via Reuters TV/ Reuters |
| 7 | Travis Beard, organiser of "Secret Cinema", at a screening in Kabul on December 8. In a dusty, dimly lit Kabul basement, the cinema fan club launched their first movie event outside Britain |
Image by Ahmad Masood/ Reuters |
| 8 | A fire-fighter evacuates a patient from AMRI Hospitals in Kolkata on December 9. The fire that swept through the hospital killed at least 90 people, most of them patients |
Image by Rupak De Chowdhuri/ Reuters |
| 9 | Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for the Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Piazza di Spagna (Spain's Square) in downtown Rome on December 8 |
Image by Alessandro Bianchi/ Reuters |
| 10 | Ahmed Khan, 58, a rickshaw puller, gets his beard dressed by a roadside barber in Noida near New Delhi on December 8 |
Image by Parivartan Sharma/ Reuters |
| 11 | U.S. navy crew fold their national flag as they prepare to hand over their base to Iraqi forces in Basra on December 1. U.S. forces are expected to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011 | Image by Atef Hassan/ Reuters |
