Reuters Best Photos of 2010

Out of the half-million photos that Reuters photographers produce each here, Reuters has selected 55 as the Best Photos of 2010.  These photographs capture the human spirit at play and in turmoil within the natural world around us.  The Pakistani floods, the Gulf oil spill, the Shanghai World Expo, the Haitian earthquakes and more are all represented here with stunning symbolism.  These photographs are a visual record of the world in 2010, where human culture made its movement into yet another decade.  See all 55 at the Reuters Blog.

A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010.
REUTERS/Lee Celano

A woman puts her hand near a crack on a wall as she waits for food distribution in Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 27, 2010.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A statue and a torn Thai national flag remain in front of Bangkok's Central World shopping mall, which was gutted by fire after army soldiers advanced towards an encampment of thousands of anti-government "red shirt" protesters, May 19, 2010.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama have burgers for lunch at Ray's Hell Burger restaurant in Arlington, Virginia June 24, 2010.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Tibetan monks walk amid sandstorms as they attend a mass prayer for the earthquake victims in the quake-hit Gyegu town of Yushu county, Qinghai province April 19, 2010.
REUTERS/Kevin Zhao

Somalis drag the body of a government soldier killed during fighting between Islamist and government forces along a street in Hodan district, Mogadishu August 30, 2010.
REUTERS/Feisal Omar

A dog guards his owner's Saab car at a parking lot in Muiden, near Amsterdam, January 17, 2010. Several hundred Saab owners drove their cars from Soesterberg to Muiden to protest General Motors' intention to shut down SAAB.
REUTERS/Michael Kooren

A reflection can be seen on a glass barrier in the Top Of The Rock observation deck in front of the Tribute in Light memorial shining behind the Empire State Building marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York September 11, 2010.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Joie Gregory and her daughter Catherine, 4, (R) walk down the street at the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York April 4, 2010.
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

Children with cerebral palsy attend a training session at the Palsigunung rehabilitation homestay in Jakarta June 1, 2010. Palsigunung homestay, founded in 1975 by Sophie Sarwono, can house about 30 patients. It treats children with cerebral palsy, a physical and mental disability, by providing them with sensory-motor therapy, and physical and speech trainings five days a week. Physical training is important as patients have limited body movements, and it could be fatal if they were to remain inactive.
REUTERS/Beawiharta

A seagull flies in front of a mural which shows a group of men, led by a Catholic priest, carrying the body of shooting victim Jackie Duddy during 1972's Bloody Sunday, in the bogside area of Londonderry June 10, 2010. Relatives of 14 people shot dead by British troops in Northern Ireland in 1972 hope the release of an inquiry into the killings next week will lead to the prosecutions of soldiers and their political masters.
REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

An Italian couple sits during lunch as Steve Black of Australia dives past their balcony in the lead up round four of the 2010 Red Bull Cliff Diving world series in Polignano a Mare August 5, 2010.
REUTERS/Dean Treml/Red Bull Photof

International Space Station (ISS) crew members Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka (R) and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly prepare for an examination session at the Star City space centre outside Moscow, September 15, 2010. Skripochka and Kelly are due to travel by Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station in October.
REUTERS/Sergei Remezov

A gold miner smiles as he climbs down into a mine shaft in Manica Province, near the Zimbabwe border, September 18, 2010. Hundreds of miners work in individual claims rented from local landowners.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif