YEAR 2010 IN PICTURES

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BEWARE OF CONGESTED FESTIVALS! (INCLUDING RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS).

ORGANIZERS WANT YOUR MONEY AND DONATIONS. THEY WANT HUGE CROWDS. BIG BUCKS!

BUT DO THEY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR INJURIES AND DEATHS LIKE THIS ONE IN CAMBODIA?

Denver Post Plog: The Year in Pictures | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

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The year brought stories of great tragedy both in the United States and the world. The gulf oil spill put New Orleans through devastation it had not seen since the hurricane. In Haiti, a massive earthquake made an already bad situation for those who live there even worse.

A street vendor tries to keep the crowd from stealing her goods in Port-au-Prince on January 24, 2010. Police in the Haitian capital counted their losses and gathered their forces today, preparing for a surge in crime they are certain will follow the devastating January 12 earthquake.

Pakistani flood survivors try to catch food bags from an army helicopter in Lal Pir on August 7, 2010. Pakistan raced to evacuate families threatened with fresh floods, as heavy rains worsened the disaster, with up to 15 million people affected.

Chilean miner Osman Araya is welcomed by his wife Angelica as he comes out of the Fenix capsule after been brought to the surface on October 13, 2010 following a 10-week ordeal in the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile. Araya was the sixth from the 33 trapped miners to be lifted from underground.

REVENGE OF THE BULL. INSTANT KARMA!