As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the most touching, impactful and shocking pictures of the year for 2013:
Just outside of the Gran Mosque in Paris, a man kicks an activist from the FEMEN feminist movement while raising fist in protest against the Islamists.
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a protester takes a rubber bullet fired by riot police during the unrest that erupted in the face the countries of rising prices and corruption.
One protester was engulfed in flames when Bahraini riot police fired a shot that hit him in his hand which was carrying a bottle with gasoline he was ready to launch.
Fleeing from the devastating wildfires Dunalley, Australia, Tammy Holmes and grandchildren take refuge under a pier.
A day after the tornado that swept through Moore, Oklahoma, a couple searched for their belongings in the wreckage of what was their home.
A young Indian man hanging from a power line before finally falling into the flooding waters of the River Ganges in Allahabad.
Hundreds of Catholics use their smartphones and tablets to take pictures of the newly elected Pope Francisco as he first appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
The aerialist Nik Wallenda walks along a steel cable over 400 meters above the Little Colorado River in Arizona.
Trying to break the Guinness World Record, Garrett McNamara surfs on one of the biggest waves of Portugal’s Nazare coast.