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Riot police detain a woman as anti-government protesters gather on September 25 at Sha Tin Mass Transit Railway station in Hong Kong.

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The race car of driver Will Power goes airborne during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Nevada, this on October 16.

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for a family photo during the European Union leaders' informal summit on September 20 in Salzburg, Austria. Top of the agenda? Brexit!

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Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, watched by bridesmaids Grace van Cutsem, Margarita Armstrong-Jones, and pageboy Tom Pettifer, this after their April 29 wedding at Westminster Abbey in London.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on April 11, after being evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy. 

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An aerial view taken on August 26 shows the cruise ship Costa Concordia as it lies on its side next to Giglio Island in Italy.

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Smoke billows as fire engulfs the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15. The historic landmark suffered significant damage.

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Lone activist Ieshia Evans stands her ground while offering her hands for arrest as she is charged by riot police during a protest against police brutality outside the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana on July 9.

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US President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 30 at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea.

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A woman holds her son, who is four-months-old and was born with microcephaly, in front of their house near Recife, Brazil, on February 11. Zika virus infection during pregnancy is one cause of the distressing medical condition.

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This November 18 aerial view of the Atibainha dam during a drought in Nazaré Paulista, in Brazil's São Paulo state, appears like an abstract work of art. 

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Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius walks across the courtroom without his prosthetic legs during the third day of the re-sentencing hearing on June 15 for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at Pretoria High Court in South Africa.

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Otherworldly aurora borealis, or northern lights, are seen dancing above the ash plume of a volcano in Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland on April 22.

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., this on May 1. Also pictured are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

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France's Gaël Monfils dives for a shot during his fourth round match against Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park on January 25.

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The remains of a coastal town devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan in Samar province in the Philippines is seen from the air on November 11.

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Kandy Freeman participates in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of Trump Tower in New York City on January 14.

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An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore on September 11 after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal.

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A full moon on August 3 rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Lynn and Christopher McDonnell, the parents of seven-year-old Grace McDonnell, are seen grieving on December 14 near Sandy Hook Elementary after learning their daughter was one of 20 school children and six adults killed after a gunman opened fire inside the school at Newtown in Connecticut.

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Cats crowd the harbor on Aoshima Island, also known as Cat Island, in Japan's Ehime prefecture. This fabulous feline photo was taken on February 25.

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US President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, this on June 17. Their glum expressions speak volumes.

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Prince Harry gestures next to his wife Meghan as they ride a horse-drawn carriage after their May 19 wedding ceremony at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England.

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Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives handcuffed at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on May 25 to answer charges of alleged sexual assault and other offenses.

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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One in New Jersey for an August 4 flight to Ohio.

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A lone tree stands near a water trough in a drought-affected paddock located on the outskirts of Walgett, in New South Wales, Australia. The photo, taken on July 20, became an ominous harbinger of the terrible bush fires and searing temperatures to come.

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A British comedian known as Lee Nelson (unseen) throws banknotes at FIFA President Sepp Blatter as he arrives for a July 20 news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Blatter was later suspended from his position amid allegations of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation. 

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Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, signs a copy of her book before an event on October 20 launching her memoir, 'I Am Malala,' at London's Southbank Centre.

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A demonstrator in Santiago, Chile stares in defiance at a riot policeman during a September 11 protest marking the country's 1973 military coup.

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Under a dramatic setting sun, a dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees drifts in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece on August 11, this after its motor broke down off the Greek island of Kos.

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2012 -

This November 28 aerial view shows a house pushed into marshland almost a month after the Oakwood neighborhood in the Staten Island borough of New York was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

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A plane arrows its way through the Tribute in Lights marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Usain Bolt of Jamaica peers back at "stragglers" as they compete in the Men's 100 m Semifinals at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 14.

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A huge wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Japan's Iwate prefecture after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the country's Miyako area on March 11.

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Tributes to singer George Michael are displayed outside of his home in north London on December 27. The year also saw the passing of two other influential music stars: David Bowie and Prince.

See also: Famous celebrities who died in the last decade.

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