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Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Oscar Pistorius walks across the courtroom without his prosthetic legs during the third day of Oscar's hearing for a resentence at Pretoria High Court on June 15, 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa. Having had his conviction upgraded to murder in December 2015, Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius is attending his sentencing hearing and will be returned to jail for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on February 14th 2013. The hearing is expected to last five days. Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko - Pool/Getty Images
1/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Oscar Pistorius walks across the courtroom without his prosthetic legs during the third day of Oscar's hearing for a resentence at Pretoria High Court on June 15, 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa. Having had his conviction upgraded to murder in December 2015, Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius is attending his sentencing hearing and will be returned to jail for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on February 14th 2013. The hearing is expected to last five days. Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko - Pool/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: 5-year-old wounded Syrian kid Omran Daqneesh sits alone in the back of the ambulance after he got injured during Russian or Assad regime forces air strike targeting the Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo on August 17, 2016. Photo by Mahmud Rslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
2/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: 5-year-old wounded Syrian kid Omran Daqneesh sits alone in the back of the ambulance after he got injured during Russian or Assad regime forces air strike targeting the Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo on August 17, 2016. Photo by Mahmud Rslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the Men's 100 meter semifinal on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
3/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the Men's 100 meter semifinal on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Flight attendant Nidhi Chaphekar (R) reacts in the moments following a suicide bombing at Brussels Zaventem airport on March 22, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. Georgian journalist Ketevan Kardava, special correspondent for the Georgian Public Broadcaster, was travelling to Geneva when the attack took place, she was knocked to the floor and began to take photographs in the moments that followed. At least 31 people were killed and more than 260 injured in a twin suicide blast at Zaventem Airport and a further bomb attack at Maelbeek Metro Station. Two brothers are thought to have carried out the attacks and a manhunt is underway for a third suspect. Photo by Ketevan Kardava/Getty Images
4/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Flight attendant Nidhi Chaphekar (R) reacts in the moments following a suicide bombing at Brussels Zaventem airport on March 22, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. Georgian journalist Ketevan Kardava, special correspondent for the Georgian Public Broadcaster, was travelling to Geneva when the attack took place, she was knocked to the floor and began to take photographs in the moments that followed. At least 31 people were killed and more than 260 injured in a twin suicide blast at Zaventem Airport and a further bomb attack at Maelbeek Metro Station. Two brothers are thought to have carried out the attacks and a manhunt is underway for a third suspect. Photo by Ketevan Kardava/Getty Images
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 People gather at a makeshift memorial on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on July 17, 2016, in tribute to the victims of the Bastille Day attack that left 84 dead. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the truck attack that killed 84 people in Nice on France's national holiday, a news service affiliated with the jihadists said on July 16. Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, smashed a 19-tonne truck into a packed crowd of people in the Riviera city celebrating Bastille Day -- France's national day. / AFP PHOTO / Valery HACHE
5/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 People gather at a makeshift memorial on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on July 17, 2016, in tribute to the victims of the Bastille Day attack that left 84 dead. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the truck attack that killed 84 people in Nice on France's national holiday, a news service affiliated with the jihadists said on July 16. Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, smashed a 19-tonne truck into a packed crowd of people in the Riviera city celebrating Bastille Day -- France's national day. / AFP PHOTO / Valery HACHE
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking during a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Hyatt hotel on October 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
6/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking during a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Hyatt hotel on October 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Indian bystanders watch as a wild elephant with a tranquillizer dart in its back side walks along a street in Siliguri on February 10, 2016. The adult male elephant was tranquilised and captured by wildlife officials and transported to a nearby forest. Photo: Diptendu DUTTA / AFP PHOTO / DIPTENDU DUTTA
7/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Indian bystanders watch as a wild elephant with a tranquillizer dart in its back side walks along a street in Siliguri on February 10, 2016. The adult male elephant was tranquilised and captured by wildlife officials and transported to a nearby forest. Photo: Diptendu DUTTA / AFP PHOTO / DIPTENDU DUTTA
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Turkish Coast Guard personnel help refugees as they swim with buoys, after they toppled over a fishermen dinghy en route to Greece on January 22, 2016 in Didim district of Aydin, Turkey. 4 refugees body including 3 children pulled out of the water as Turkish coast guard personnel rescued 43 others. Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
8/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Turkish Coast Guard personnel help refugees as they swim with buoys, after they toppled over a fishermen dinghy en route to Greece on January 22, 2016 in Didim district of Aydin, Turkey. 4 refugees body including 3 children pulled out of the water as Turkish coast guard personnel rescued 43 others. Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
President Barack Obama, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and First Lady Michelle Obama talks with Prince George at Kensington Palace on April 22, 2016 in London, England. The President and his wife are currently on a brief visit to the UK where they attended lunch with HM Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle and later dinner with Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace. Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images
9/24President Barack Obama, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and First Lady Michelle Obama talks with Prince George at Kensington Palace on April 22, 2016 in London, England. The President and his wife are currently on a brief visit to the UK where they attended lunch with HM Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle and later dinner with Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace. Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Firefighters continue removing rubble near the bell tower in Amatrice, central Italy on August 30, 2016 Italy. Italy was struck by a powerful, 6.2-magnitude earthquake in the night of August 24, 2016, which has killed at least 293 people and devastated dozens of houses in the Lazio village of Pescara del Tronto, Accumoli and Amatrice. Photo by Stefano Montesi/Corbis via Getty Images
10/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Firefighters continue removing rubble near the bell tower in Amatrice, central Italy on August 30, 2016 Italy. Italy was struck by a powerful, 6.2-magnitude earthquake in the night of August 24, 2016, which has killed at least 293 people and devastated dozens of houses in the Lazio village of Pescara del Tronto, Accumoli and Amatrice. Photo by Stefano Montesi/Corbis via Getty Images
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 A specialist fumigates the Nueva Esperanza graveyard in the outskirts of Lima on January 15, 2016. Health officials fumigated the largest cementery in Peru and second largest in the world to prevent Chikunguya and Zika virus, which affect several South American countries. Photo: ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP PHOTO / ERNESTO BENAVIDES
11/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 A specialist fumigates the Nueva Esperanza graveyard in the outskirts of Lima on January 15, 2016. Health officials fumigated the largest cementery in Peru and second largest in the world to prevent Chikunguya and Zika virus, which affect several South American countries. Photo: ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP PHOTO / ERNESTO BENAVIDES
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Blake Lively attends the 'Slack Bay (Ma Loute)' premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 13, 2016 in Cannes, France. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
12/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Blake Lively attends the 'Slack Bay (Ma Loute)' premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 13, 2016 in Cannes, France. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo, on September 11, 2016. Air strikes have killed dozens in rebel-held parts of Syria as the opposition considers whether to join a US-Russia truce deal due to take effect on September 12. Photo: AFP/ AMEER ALHALBI
13/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo, on September 11, 2016. Air strikes have killed dozens in rebel-held parts of Syria as the opposition considers whether to join a US-Russia truce deal due to take effect on September 12. Photo: AFP/ AMEER ALHALBI
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Police officers face off with protesters on the I-85 (Interstate 85) during protests in the early hours of September 21, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The protests began last night, following the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte. Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images
14/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Police officers face off with protesters on the I-85 (Interstate 85) during protests in the early hours of September 21, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The protests began last night, following the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte. Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives for a campaign rally at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on October 24, 2016 in Tampa, Florida. There are 14 days until the the presidential election. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
15/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives for a campaign rally at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on October 24, 2016 in Tampa, Florida. There are 14 days until the the presidential election. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, rescue a boy from the rubble following a reported barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nairab neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 24, 2016.Photo: AFP/ AMEER ALHALBI
16/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, rescue a boy from the rubble following a reported barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nairab neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 24, 2016.Photo: AFP/ AMEER ALHALBI
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016: Men look at a destroyed building in the town of Portoviejo, Ecuador, on April 21, 2016 almost a week after a powerful quake hit the country. With hope of finding survivors fading Thursday, Ecuador began shouldering the cost of its devastating earthquake, announcing drastic economic measures to clean up the ruins of a tragedy that killed at least 570 people, with 5,733 injured. Scores of people are still missing. Photo: AFP/Juan Cevallos
17/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016: Men look at a destroyed building in the town of Portoviejo, Ecuador, on April 21, 2016 almost a week after a powerful quake hit the country. With hope of finding survivors fading Thursday, Ecuador began shouldering the cost of its devastating earthquake, announcing drastic economic measures to clean up the ruins of a tragedy that killed at least 570 people, with 5,733 injured. Scores of people are still missing. Photo: AFP/Juan Cevallos
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Rapper Kanye West performs at the Forum on October 25, 2016 in Inglewood, California. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
18/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Rapper Kanye West performs at the Forum on October 25, 2016 in Inglewood, California. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: A boy pauses on his bike as he passes an oil field that was set on fire by retreating ISIS fighters ahead of the Mosul offensive, on October 21, 2016 in Qayyarah, Iraq. Several hundred Iraqi families have been made to leave their homes for Mosul by Islamic State fighters as the UN warns they could be used as human shields. ISIS have attacked Kirkuk today as Kurdish and Iraqi forces, backed by a coalition including Britain and the U.S.A continue their offensive to retake Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images
19/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: A boy pauses on his bike as he passes an oil field that was set on fire by retreating ISIS fighters ahead of the Mosul offensive, on October 21, 2016 in Qayyarah, Iraq. Several hundred Iraqi families have been made to leave their homes for Mosul by Islamic State fighters as the UN warns they could be used as human shields. ISIS have attacked Kirkuk today as Kurdish and Iraqi forces, backed by a coalition including Britain and the U.S.A continue their offensive to retake Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Fireworks explode over Maracana stadium with the Mangueira 'favela' community in the foreground during opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 5, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Rio 2016 Olympic Games commenced tonight at the iconic stadium. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
20/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Fireworks explode over Maracana stadium with the Mangueira 'favela' community in the foreground during opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 5, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Rio 2016 Olympic Games commenced tonight at the iconic stadium. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet attend the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images
21/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet attend the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump waves as he steps out of his plane for a rally at the JetCenters of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado on September 17, 2016. Photo: Mandel Ngan
22/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump waves as he steps out of his plane for a rally at the JetCenters of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado on September 17, 2016. Photo: Mandel Ngan
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage poses for photographers as he leaves a polling station south of London on June 23, 2016, as Britain holds a referendum to vote on whether to remain in, or to leave the European Union (EU). Millions of Britons began voting Thursday in a bitterly-fought, knife-edge referendum that could tear up the island nation’s EU membership and spark the greatest emergency of the bloc’s 60-year history. Photo: AFP/BEN STANSALL
23/24AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage poses for photographers as he leaves a polling station south of London on June 23, 2016, as Britain holds a referendum to vote on whether to remain in, or to leave the European Union (EU). Millions of Britons began voting Thursday in a bitterly-fought, knife-edge referendum that could tear up the island nation’s EU membership and spark the greatest emergency of the bloc’s 60-year history. Photo: AFP/BEN STANSALL
Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wave flags as they capture anTurkish Army APC after soldiers involved in the coup surrendered on Bosphorus bridge on July 16, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus, the strait separating the European and Asian sides of the city, have been closed to traffic. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced an army coup attempt, that has left atleast 90 dead 1154 injured in overnight clashes in Istanbul and Ankara. Photo by Stringer/Getty Images
24/24Getty Images Year in Focus 2016: Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wave flags as they capture anTurkish Army APC after soldiers involved in the coup surrendered on Bosphorus bridge on July 16, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus, the strait separating the European and Asian sides of the city, have been closed to traffic. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced an army coup attempt, that has left atleast 90 dead 1154 injured in overnight clashes in Istanbul and Ankara. Photo by Stringer/Getty Images
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