Best photos Agency France-Presse 2012

• The best pictures France-Presse Agency in 2012, the

We continue to wrap up in 2012. In this set - favorite photos news agency France-Presse, made in 2012.

The first British Paralympic champion Margaret Mogan lights the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games in 2012.

The police fold their arms while capturing militants M23 Goma, North Kivu, Congo.

The Belarusian athlete Vyacheslav Modzel during the Summer Olympic Games in 2012.

coot standing on one leg next to a bronze statue of "El Niño" German sculpture Ubbo Eninngi on the flooded banks of Lake Constance, Radolfzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

A gust of wind blows the collar on the head of the reader to Pope Benedict XVI during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

The administrator of the zoo La Buasser du Dore Sebastien Laurent sends birthday cake with berry Majoor - Orang oldest in the world, who turned 50 years old, Nantes, France.

rescue workers in New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province, Philippines, carry the baby to the mother's madness after typhoon "Bofa".

Barack Obama hugs his wife Michelle during the campaign for the US presidency.

Analysis of beached ship in 40 kilometers from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Pelican named Mahruma, which translates from Arabic as "deprivation of property", waiting for feeding from fishermen in Sidon, Lebanon.

A general view of the construction of the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia.

A girl sits in a skeleton costume at the altar during the dead of the Day, Mexico City, Mexico. This festival and its rituals - an important part of the commemoration of the dead relatives in Latin America.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, shows a victory sign at the final press conference after the end of the 2012 Olympics, in imitation of the British champion Mo Farah. On the left is the Minister of Culture and Sport Jeremy Hunt of Great Britain, on the right - LOCOG chairman Sebastian Coe.

David Monkuti French, Japanese Yukiya Arasiro and Frenchman Anthony Delaplas pedal during the fourth stage of cycling "Tour de France" of Abbeville-les-Conflans in Rouen, France.

The man floats away from the bright red algae, attacking the coast of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

A fight between the Ukrainian deputies during the first meeting of the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

An elderly woman walking on the road along which posted a black cloth to protect against snipers, Homs, Syria.

Orang thoughtfully looks at visitors of a zoo in Rostock, Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania, Germany.

Forest fire in Tabuyo del Monte, near Leon, Spain. The country was on the verge of despair - a serious forest fires broke out from early spring until the autumn.

The Japanese macaque bask in the hot springs Dzigokudani, Yamanouchi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

The soldiers of special purpose show their proficiency at a ceremony in honor of the 64th Day of the armed forces, Keron, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

Machinery swim in slush flooded the entrance to the parking lot the Financial District, Manhattan, New York, United States, after the hurricane "Sandy."

The Swiss fighter F / A-18 "Hornet" shoot LTC during a demonstration flight in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.

The man tries not to wet the luggage during a record "high water" in Venice, Italy.

A security officer keeps order from the balcony before the XVIII National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Medical worker conducting the vaccination of children against polio in Herat, Afghanistan.

The premiere of a new production of "Swan Lake" by Stephen Baines in Melbourne, Australia. From this immortal Tchaikovsky Australian Ballet began its history in 1962.