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Yearender 2009 – The Year in Pictures

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US President Barack Obama (L) and First Lady Michelle Obama walk past the reviewing stand set up near the White House for the inaugural parade after being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2009. Obama defeated Republican candidate John McCain on Election Day 04 November 2008 to become the next US President. EPA/PETER FOLEY

January

Iranian female students waving national flags during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Tehran, Iran on 10 February 2009. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he would welcome talks with the US as long as they were based on "mutual respect". Speaking on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, he said Iran would welcome change from the US as long as it was "fundamental". EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

February

Financier Bernard Madoff (R) exits Federal Court in New York USA, 10 March 2009. Madoff, disgraced trader is expected to plead guilty this week to the largest fraud in US history. Madoff faces 11 criminal charges including securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, three counts of money laundering and filing false statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission, said US assistant attorney general Marc Litt. EPA/PETER FOLEY

March

Police confront anti-capitalist and climate change activists staging a protest march outside the Bank of England, in the City of London, Britain, 01 April 2009. Protesters are holding a series of marches throughout the capital's financial district, coinciding with the G20 summit April 02. Police are mounting a huge security operation and businesses have also prepared for the demonstrations, with some boarding up premises. EPA/IAN LANGSDON

April

Spanish actress Rossy de Palma and Spanish director Pedro Almodovar arrive for the gala screening of the film 'Broken Embraces' by Pedro Almodovar running in competition in the 62nd edition of the Cannes film festival in Cannes, France, 19 May 2009. EPA/CHRISTOPHE KARABA

May

Michael Jackson fans leave flowers and pictures of Michael Jackson at a vigil for the 'King of Pop' in London, Britain, 26 June 2009. Pop star Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles, on 25 June 2009 aged 50. Paramedics were called to the singer's Beverly Hills home at about midday 25 June after he stopped breathing. He was pronounced dead two hours later at the UCLA medical centre. Jackson's brother, Jermaine, said he was believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest. Jackson, who had a history of health problems

June

An angry crowd belonging to the Chinese Uigur Moslem miniority try to grab hold of a police officer during new protests in Urumqi, China, 07 July 2009. Authorities said at least 140 people were killed and over 800 injured when Muslim Uighurs rioted in its restive Xinjiang region in some of the deadliest ethnic unrest to have hit the country for decades. The violence in the regional capital Urumqi on July 5 involved thousands of people, and triggered an enormous security crackdown across Xinjiang where tensi

July

Human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva (C) attends an opposition march in central Moscow, Russia 31 August 2009. About 20 people were arrested in Moscow shortly before the start of an unauthorized demonstration against the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Among the protesters arrested was opposition politician Eduard Limonov, the Interfax news agency reported, citing official sources. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY

August

Martin, seven-year-old son of Lieutenant Antonio Fortunato, touches his father's coffin, draped in the Italian flag, in Saint Paul Outdoor the Wall's Basilica, in Rome, Italy on 21 September 2009, during the State funeral of the six Italian paratroopers killed by the 17 September suicide car bomber targeting NATO troops in central Kabul, Afghanistan. It is the same Basilica where the funeral of Italian soldiers in Nassiriya in Iraq took place. The service was officiated by the military ordinary for Italy, M

September

People rush injured victims to hospitals, at the scene of a powerful bomb blast in Peshawar the capital of militancy-hit North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) Pakistan on 28 October 2009. At least 70 people, mostly women and children were killed and some 150 people injured, on October 28 in Peshawar when a powerful bomb ripped through a busy market. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB

October

Fireworks illuminate the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on 09 November 2009, during celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. EPA/WOLFGANG RATTAY / POOL

November

Delegates are pictured sleeping in the early hours of 19 December 2009, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. The UN climate talks fell into crisis after some developing nations angrily rejected a plan worked out by US President Barack Obama and leaders of other major economies for fighting global warming. EPA/KAY NIETFELD

December