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Yearender – The Year in Pictures
October 2012
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This year's coverage included these topics:
- News:
e.g. presidential elections (France, Russia, USA), EU Austerity Protests, civil war in Syria, Trials (Pussy Riot, Julian Assange, Anders Breivik, Rupert Murdoch, Hosni Mubarak), Aurora Shooting, Hurricane Sandy, Costa Concordia, rover Curiosity on Mars
- Sports:
e.g. London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, UEFA EURO 2012, Dakar Rally, Formula One, Giro d’Italia, Golf Majors, Ice Hockey World Championships, MLB Baseball, MotoGP, NBA basketball, NFL Super Bowl XLVI, Skateboarding World Championships, Tennis Grand Slam Tournaments, Tour de France, UEFA Champions League, Winter Sport World Cups
- Arts, Culture and Entertainment:
e.g. Queen Elizabeth’s II Diamond Jubilee, dOCUMENTA (13), Second Mona Lisa, David Hockney and Edward Hopper exhibitions, Ai Weiwei, Premieres (James Bond, Batman), Whitney Houston, Madonna MDNA tour, Adele, fashion weeks, award ceremonies, royal wedding in Luxembourg














YEARENDER 2012 OCTOBER A Free Syrian Army fighter illuminates the body of an unknown man, killed by Syrian Army artillery shelling, in the cementery of Aleppo, Syria, 13 October 2012, before burying it in a common grave. As casualties mount, Aleppo's few operating hospitals struggled to cope with the number of victims, mostly civilians, caused by several months of fighting between the government's forces and Syrian rebels. EPA/MAYSUN

































