45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 (Part 2)

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20. A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an "Occupy UCD" demonstration in Davis, California.

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  • A student is punched in the face by a police officer in Chile. Students in Chile are demanding a new framework for education.
  • A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage. Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her.
  • A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an Occupy UCD demonstration in Davis, California.
  • A woman hangs onto a street sign in chest deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok on October 24.
  • A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami.
  • A monstrous dust storm (Haboob) roared through Phoenix, Arizona in July.
  • Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer s riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.
  • Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk s office.
  • Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
  • Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 24.
  • Cars are abandoned on Chicago s Lake Shore Drive during the Snowpocalypse in February.
  • Harold Camping speaks about the end of the world. The world was supposed to end on May 22 of this year.
  • A policeman detains an opposition activist in Baku on March 12. Azerbaijan police detained more than 30 activists of the opposition Musavat Party when its members took to the street of Baku to protest against the ruling elite following a similar rally a day before.
  • A boy looks at a figure of Steve Jobs next to flowers laid in his tribute at an Apple store in Hong Kong, China.
  • US gay service members march in a gay pride parade for the first time ever.
  • Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.
  • A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.
  • Office workers look for a way out of a high rise building in central Christchurch, New Zeland on February 22. A strong earthquake killed at least 180 people.
  • Flowers and tributes are seen outside the home of Amy Winehouse in London on July 24.
  • Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood on August 28 in Nags Head, N.C. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed by Hurricane Irene, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head.
  • A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11.
  • Firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead on May 2.

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