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Week in photos - Dec. 7, 2012

 

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Images from the weekend

Images from the weekend

Browse some of the most interesting photos shot from around the world over the weekend.

Massive Colorado wildfire burns out of control

Massive Colorado wildfire burns out of control

Little more than 36 hours after it started in the Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, the blaze surpassed last June's Waldo Canyon fire as the most destructive in state history. That blaze burned 347 homes and killed two people.

Notable whistleblowers and leakers

Notable whistleblowers and leakers

Here is a list of some of the more famous leakers and whistleblowers who have uncovered alleged dishonest or illegal activities.

 
  • Davidson students toss powder into the air before the tip-off of an NCAA college basketball game between Davidson and Charlotte, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Davidson, N.C. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Jeff Siner)
  • Former world heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali, center, is crowned
  • Max Fauconnier swings alone during a preview of Ann Hamilton's multimedia art installation
  • Oxen skulls representing animals killed by the drought lay at the feet of security agents outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Brazilian farmers affected by the drought brought oxen skulls to the presidential palace and are asking the president to pardon their government bank debts. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
  • A fire truck escorting the coffin containing the remains of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer drives past the Metropolitan Cathedral, on its way to the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who helped design Brazil's modernist capital, including the Metropolitan Cathedral, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried after he is honored with a service in Brasilia. (AP Photo/Cadu Gomes)
  • Britain's Prince William stands next to his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge as she leaves the King Edward VII hospital in central London, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their first child, and the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to hospital suffering from a severe form of morning sickness in the early stages of her pregnancy. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
  • The U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is seen after being lit by House Speaker John Boehner and Ryan Shuster, 17, of Colorado Spring, Colo., not pictured, on the Capitol grounds in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. The 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is an Engelmann spruce from Colorado�s White River National Forest. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
  • Transfer cases containing the remains of Army Spc. Tyler J. Orgaard, left case, and Army Sgt. 1st Class Darren M. Linde sit on a loader during a prayer Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Orgaard, 20, of Bismark, N.D., and Linde, 41, of Sidney, Mont., both died Dec. 3, 2012 in Lashkar Gah City, Helmand province, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
  • Smoke rises from a burning tyre set alight by Congolese demonstrators in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday Dec. 6, 2012. Dozens of Congolese demonstrated in the provincial capital of Goma on Thursday against what they described as the impotence of the country�s armed forces, which allowed a rebel group to overrun the city a little over two weeks ago. They also decried the passivity of United Nations peacekeepers, who did little to stop the fighters saying it was not within their mandate. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
  • In this picture released by American magician Wayne Houchin, Dominican TV presenter Franklin Barazarte, left, reacts as Houchin's head burns while taping
  • This NASA image from a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012 shows the United States at night The image was made possible by the new satellite�s �day-night band� of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. (AP Photo/NASA)
  • The traffic moves along the Champs Elysees looking towards the Place de la Concorde, Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 in Paris. Trees are lit - along with a big wheel - in the Tuileries gardens for Christmas. (AP Photo/ Jacques Brinon)
  • Gov. Chris Gregoire, left, applauds as Secretary of State Sam Reed holds up the signed certification of Referendum 74, a citizen-passed measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in the state, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Olympia, Wash. Gregoire and Reed both signed the document at the signing ceremony, which allows gay couples to marry beginning Dec. 9. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
  • A is reflected in a French Citroen concept bus at the motor show in Essen, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
  • Software company founder John McAfee lies inside an ambulance, to be transferred from an immigration detention center to a hospital, in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 . He was examined by a doctor at the detention center, who said that McAfee's heart and blood pressure were normal, but nonetheless was being moved to a hospital after McAfee was found lying on the floor in the room where he was being detained. McAfee who fled Belize was denied political asylum in Guatemala on Thursday and police in Belize said they expected him to be flown back soon for questioning about the killing of a fellow American expatriate. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
  • Retirees Barbara and Joe Napier participate in a tea party rally in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, to oppose Tennessee creating a state-run insurance exchange under the federal health care law. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has said he wants to have a more complete understanding of the costs to the states of a state-run marketplace compared with one run by the federal government. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
  • Fans greet Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant (24) as he walks off the court after an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Hornets in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Bryant became the youngest player in NBA history to surpass 30,000 points. The Lakers won 103-87. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • Allister Adams smokes marijuana, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, just after midnight at the Space Needle in Seattle. Possession of marijuana became legal in Washington state at midnight, and several hundred people gathered at the Space Needle to smoke and celebrate the occasion, even though the new law does prohibit public use of marijuana. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
  • Defendant Dorice Moore has her handcuffs removed as she enters the courtroom during Moore's murder trial on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. Moore, 40, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2009 shooting death of Abraham Shakespeare, who won the $30 million lottery three years before he was killed. (AP Photo/The Lakeland Ledger, Ernst Peters, Pool)
  • People attend the wake of Colombia's former goalkeeper Miguel Calero in Pachuca, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Calero died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke on Nov. 25. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
  • Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square as protesters gather in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. A protest by tens of thousands of Egyptians outside the presidential palace in Cairo turned violent on Tuesday as tensions grew over Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's seizure of nearly unrestricted powers Thousands of protesters also gathered in Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square, miles away from the palace, to join several hundred who have been camping out there for nearly two weeks. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
  • Lebanese clergymen pay their respects to the lifeless body of Patriarch of Antioch and the East, Ignatius Hazim IV, center, during a mass service to pray on his soul at the Saint Nicolas Church in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Dec. 6, 2012. The patriarch of a Damascus-based Eastern Orthodox Church, Ignatius Hazim, has died in a Beirut hospital. He was 92. Hazim's funeral procession will be held in Beirut on Sunday, then his remains will be taken from Lebanon to Syria for burial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
  • President Barack Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama look to the stage during the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Washington. This year's giant blue spruce is new, transplanted in October on the Ellipse, south of the White House. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
  • One-year old sea lions named Camilo, right, and Alex swim in the ocean after being released into the wild in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. The sea lions were rehabilitated by Peru's Organization for Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals, ORCA, after being found injured one month ago on a Lima beach. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
  • Residents, impacted by Tuesday's storm, line up for relief supplies at an evacuation center Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines. The powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed hundreds of people with nearly 400 missing, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
  • Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, center, is surrounded by supporters upon his arrival at the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. The former leader of a Puerto Rican militant group that has long fought for the island's independence arrived to finish serving a prison sentence for involvement in a $7 million robbery of a Wells Fargo armored depot in Connecticut in 1983. It was the biggest cash robbery in U.S. history at the time. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
  • People walk past a Christmas tree in Red Square, with the GUM State Department Store at right, in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. A heavy snow fall hit Moscow early morning but it melts in the above-zero temperature. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
  • Naeem Davis, right, stands in front of Judge Lynn Kotler during his arraignment on murder charges Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in New York. Davis was arrested Tuesday in the death of 58-year-old New York city subway rider Ki-Suck Han, who was shoved onto the tracks. (AP Photo/New York Post, William C. Lopez, Pool)
  • In this photo provided by Association of Surfing Professionals, Adrian Buchan, of Australia, competes on his way to advancing during the Vans World Cup of Surfing, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, at Sunset Beach near Haleiwa, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Association of Surfing Professionals, Kirstin Scholtz)
  • U.S. Army Sgt. Aaron Brewster is welcomed home by his parents Steve Brewster, right, and Sharon Brewster during a welcome home ceremony, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 in Fort Stewart, Ga. About 200 soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team returned home from their 9-month deployment to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
 
 

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