In Pictures: Best of Monitor Photography 2010 National
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Gallery: Our Photos of the Year 2009
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In Pictures: Life under Hamas
Bill T. Jones – dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – posed in the theater of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. He was there to premiere a new work, 'Body Against Body.' Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Day laborer Mariano Hernandez (l.) has been showing up to find work at the Central American Resource Center’s day labor center in Los Angeles for the past six years. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Graduate students Tuna Tuksoz (l.) and Mark Cutler, at the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Cambridge, Mass., worked on a simulator of a winged aircraft called a quadrotor, which may have military applications. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
The Russell Industrial Center in Detroit used to house auto-parts manufacturers. Recently, it was being prepared for new tenants: artists. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Pro- and anti-Mubarak forces clashed violently on Feb. 2. Here, a Molotov cocktail firebomb set a tree ablaze, and the fire spread to a nearby building. Ann Hermes/Staff
A protester sleeps on the wheels of a tank in Tahrir Square, Cairo. The intent was to keep the tanks from moving against the demonstrators. Ann Hermes/Staff
Anti-Mubarak protesters gathered at the Qasr El Nil bridge leading to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 1. Hosni Mubarak stepped down 10 days later. Ann Hermes/Staff
Goats were herded along an abandoned railroad track in the Manshiet Nasser slums on the eastern outskirts of Cairo. Residents here have no access to running water or sewers. Ann Hermes/Staff
A worker manufactured elevator parts at a small basement factory in downtown Cairo. Worker strikes have been frequent here, post-Mubarak. Ann Hermes/Staff
Fifth-grade violist Joshua Lewis heeded the conductor at a rehearsal for a holiday music performance at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, Mass.
Visitors are served "blue" or "yellow" at the Zebra Lounge during the Night Market, a flash-mob event in Somerville, Mass., that offered art and food to people alerted beforehand. Joanne Ciccarello/Staff
Debris from the postearthquake tsunami was gathered and sorted into eight categories, including wood, electronics, and metal, for recycling or incineration in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The disaster generated an estimated 6 million tons of trash. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
People listened to speeches at a service in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, to honor the 5,500 citizens confirmed dead or still missing from that city. They were victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Cabs lined up outside the central train station in Sendai, Japan. The city was damaged in the quake and its port was hit hard by the tsunami, but activity had returned to normal in its city center by late June. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Policeman enforce a 20 kilometer (about 10 miles) exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plan in Japan. Nuclear reactors started leaking radiation after being damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Ichiro Monakata tended his store, which he inherited from his grandmother, in a small village in the Okubo area of Japan. Even though he's within the 10- to 20-mile evacuation zone of the damaged nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, he says he's not afraid of radiation. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Rick Iannucci posed with a horse on his ranch in Santa Fe, N.M. He founded a Horses for Heroes program there to help injured or traumatized combat veterans. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Prison arts Inmates at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., discussed Tom Stoppard’s play ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead’ as part of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. Ann Hermes/Staff
Same-sex couples waited in line for a marriage license on an early Sunday morning in front of the Manhattan Office of the City Clerk. Clerk's offices throughout New York City held special hours to accommodate more than 800 couples who applied to be among the first to wed under New York State's Marriage Equality Act, which was signed into law in June. Ann Hermes/Staff
Members of the Sudan Social Aid and Pleasure Club lined up for a parade in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Ann Hermes/Staff
Demba brought her seven-week-old baby to a free health clinic for a checkup in Jherekhe, Tibetan Plateau, China. The clinic is funded by a US charity.
Nonagenarian Gursharan Singh has driven an auto-rickshaw in Delhi for more than 50 years, he says. He has two sons living in the United States. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
A family enjoyed playing with a yellow balloon on a Sunday afternoon at Lodi Gardens in New Delhi. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Cody Angstadt (foreground) and his friend Matthew Watson rode skateboards at the United States Gypsum Co. shipping dock in Empire, Nev. The company-owned town was shutting down because the gypsum mine was closing. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Supporters of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest filled Zuccotti Park in New York’s financial district. Protesters were camped in the park from Sept. 17 to Nov. 15, when police removed them. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Occupy protesters – part of the nationwide protest in support of Occupy Wall Street – pitched their tents in a park by government buildings in downtown Miami, Fla. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
The Family Farm Defenders and the Wisconsin Farmers Union drove a ‘tractorcade’ to the State Capitol building in Madison, Wis., in March to protest a budget bill repealing most collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. The contentious bill passed. Ann Hermes/Staff
Fish debris is thrown over the side of a ship in the Gaza City port. Fisherman in Gaza say they are regularly detained and fired upon by Israeli Naval forces if they stray outside the restricted three-mile fishing zone off the beach. Ann Hermes/Staff
A horse paraded, and men sang and danced at a traditional bedouin wedding celebration in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. The festivities continue for 10 days. Ann Hermes/Staff
Students filtered out of school at the end of the first session at the Shadia Abu Ghazala secondary school for girls in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. Ann Hermes/Staff
This summer, drug cartel violence terrorized the citizens of Veracruz, Mexico – not previously a hotbed of cartel activity. Now that the Mexican Navy has taken control of city streets, daily life here seems to be getting back to normal. The mask is to keep criminals from identifying them, which might put the soldiers or their families at risk. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
Octogenarian Ena Keogh said she was delighted to pose for this portrait. She runs The Oldest Art Gallery in Dingle, Ireland. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Michelle Obama visited with military families at a barbecue event before a NASCAR race in Homestead, Fla. Dr. Jill Biden (not shown), wife of the vice president, accompanied her. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
A construction worker stood atop scaffolding in the now-completed reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Twin pools mark the site of the World Trade Center towers. Ann Hermes/Staff
Mary Finucane and her daughter, Caoimhe, make banana bread at home in Rochester, N.Y. Ms. Finucane writes a blog about the challenges of bringing up a little girl in American society today. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Dorsey Metrology employee Vince Mitchell sized cylindrical parts for gauges in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The firm has grown from 33 to 41 employees since 2009. Small businesses – those with fewer than 500 workers – employ more than half of the US workforce. Ann Hermes/Staff
US soldiers filed aboard a C-130 plane in Baghdad in mid-December on their way home to America. Scott Peterson/The Christian Science Monitor/Getty Images
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Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the top 2012 World Press Photo prize on Friday, with his Arab Spring portrait.
A portrait of a veiled woman cradling a wounded relative in her arms, taken in Yemen by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda for The New York Times, won the top World Press Photo prize on Friday.
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