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Images: National And International Photos Of The Year

Tiny desserts, bacon backlash shape 2011

In memoriam — 2011 We pay our respects to the notable passings of the past year

The Northwest suburbs lost many notables in 2011

Sports deaths of 2011: Dan Wheldon, Joe Frazier, Harmon Killebrew

Notable deaths in 2011: bin Laden, Steve Jobs, Liz Taylor, Moammar Gadhafi

Roll call of some who died in 2011

Images: 2011 Notable Deaths

Northwest suburban mayors look back at the best of 2011

Your most-viewed photo galleries in 2011

Chicago sees fewer homicides in 2011

A look back at 2011's top Lake County stories

Fox Valley's top stories from 2011

Images: Suburban Photos Of The Year

In this March 11, 2011 file photo, an earthquake-triggered tsunami approaches the shore of Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan. Associated Press
In this July 21, 2011 file photo, William Dyer, Jr., of Gortham, Maine stays cool seated on his beach chair waist-deep in Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine. Associated Press
In this Aug. 13, 2011 file photo, the overhead stage rigging collapses into the crowd in front of the stage at the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. Associated Press
In this Oct. 16, 2011 file photo, Drivers crash during a wreck that involved 15 cars during the IndyCar Series’ auto race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. Driver Dan Wheldon was airlifted to a hospital. Will Power (12), of Australia, is airborne at left. Wheldon later died from his injuries. Associated Press
In this May 21, 2011 file photo, an Ultraorthodox Jewish boy runs next to bonfires during Lag Ba’Omer celebrations to commemorate the end of a plague said to have decimated Jews in Roman times in Bnei Brak, Israel. Associated Press
In this May 16, 2011 file citizen journalism photo taken with a cellphone by Stefanie Gordon aboard a passenger flight from New York to Palm Beach, Fla. the space shuttle Endeavor is shown as it streaks toward orbit shortly after liftoff. Gordon says she had just awakened from a nap on the flight when the pilot announced the shuttle might come into view. Associated Press
In this Jan. 27, 2011 file photo, a flag pokes above the snow around mounds of covered grave markers in Veterans Memorial Field in East Hartford, Conn., after another winter storm. Associated Press
In this Nov. 11, 2011 file photo, North Carolina forward John Henson (31) tries to block a shot by Michigan State center Adreian Payne (5) during the first half of the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game aboard the USS Carl Vinson in Coronado, Calif. Associated Press
In this Oct. 28, 2011 file photo, the St. Louis Cardinals celebrate after Texas Rangers’ David Murphy flies out to end Game 7 of baseball’s World Series in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 6-2 to win the series. Associated Press
In this July 11, 2011 file photo, Staff Sgt. Rulberto Qjendismiranda, 20, of Seaside, Calif, with the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment based in Hawaii, looks at a photo of his son Marciano, 11 months, on his mobile phone aboard a military transport flight out of Forward Operating Base Fenty in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Associated Press
In this Sept. 16, 2011 file photo, a P-51 Mustang airplane approaches the ground right before crashing during an air show in Reno, Nev. The vintage World War II-era fighter plane piloted by Jimmy Leeward plunged into the grandstands during the popular annual air show. Associated Press
In this June 6, 2011 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is shown during a keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Associated Press
In this July 14, 2011 file photo, a military honor guard carries the casket bearing the body of former first lady Betty Ford as they pass a statue of the former President at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., prior to funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church. Associated Press
In this May 1, 2011 file image released by the White House and digitally altered by the source to diffuse the paper in front of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington. Associated Press
In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, House Speaker-designate John Boehner of Ohio wipes away tears as he waits to receive the gavel from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Associated Press
In this July 22, 2011 file photo, three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain hits a spectator as he climbs Alpe d’Huez during the 19th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 109.5 kilometers (86 miles) starting in Modane Valfrejus and finishing on Alpe d’Huez, Alps region, France. Associated Press
In this April, 29, 2011 file photo, Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge stand outside of Westminster Abbey after their Royal Wedding in London. Associated Press
In this May 24, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron play table tennis with students during a visit to the Globe Academy in London. Associated Press
In this June 6, 2011 file photo, lightning strikes over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile. Associated Press
In this June 14, 2011 file photo, a Darth Vader actor waits for tourists who want to be photographed together with him, in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a thunderstorm in Berlin, Germany. Associated Press
In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, a giant American flag is held by first responders, police officers and firefighters before an NFL football game between the Chicago Bears and Atlanta Falcons in Chicago. The day marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Associated Press
In this Oct. 6, 2011 file photo released by the White House, Navy Capt. Mark Kelly hugs his wife Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., after he received the Legion of Merit from Vice President Joe Biden during Kelly’s retirement ceremony in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Associated Press
In this May 10, 2011 file photo, community health volunteers Hilaire Etienne, center, and Michel Raphael, right, weigh and examine a child for signs of malnutrition in the rural Kenscoff area, Haiti. Associated Press
In this July 19, 2011 file photo, a leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. The forest guard being attacked was injured. Associated Press
In this May 23, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama drinks Guinness beer as he meets with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather. Associated Press
In this May 28, 2011 file photo, the Barcelona team throws coach Pep Guardiola in the air after winning the Champions League final soccer match against Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, London. Associated Press
In this Sept. 22, 2011 file photo, a dew-laden spider web adorns a fence as a horse grazes in a pasture near Glencoe, Ky. Associated Press
In this Aug. 28, 2011 file photo, officials survey the damage to route 12 on Hatteras Island, NC. Hurricane Irene swept through the area cutting the roadway in five locations. Irene caused more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast to reportedly lose power over the weekend, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm. Associated Press
In this Oct. 3, 2011 file photo, Amanda Knox breaks in tears after hearing the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, central Italy. Italian appeals court threw out Amanda Knox’s murder conviction and ordered the young American freed after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. Associated Press
In this March 22, 2011 file photo, a boat sits atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated a vast area of northeastern Pacific coast of Japan. Associated Press
In this March 11, 2011 file photo, waves of a tsunami hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan. The largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history slammed the eastern coast. Associated Press
In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt. Associated Press
In this Sept. 21, 2011 file photo, Freed American Shane Bauer, center is welcomed upon his arrival from Iran, in Muscat, Oman. After more than two years in Iranian custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their first steps toward home as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman. Associated Press
In this March 4, 2011 file photo, men from Bangladesh, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, walk with their belongings alongside a road, as they head to a refugee camp after crossing the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia. Associated Press
In this Dec. 2, 2011 file photo, Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton react after speaking to the press at Suu Kyi’s residence in Yangon, Myanmar. Associated Press
In this May 23, 2011 file photo, Meghan Miller stands in the middle of a destroyed neighborhood as she checks on her sister-in-law’s home in Joplin, Mo. Associated Press
In this June 24, 2011 file photo, a Conoco gas station is surrounded by sand bags, the floodwaters of the Souris River, and an oil slick in Minot, N.D. Associated Press
In this July 25, 2011 file photo, people gather outside Oslo City Hall to participate in a “rose march” in memory of the victims of a bomb attack and shooting massacre in Norway. Associated Press
In this July 12, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes the prosthetic hand of U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Arthur Petry of Santa Fe, N.M., who received the Medal of Honor for his valor in Afghanistan, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Petry lost his right hand as he tossed aside a live grenade during a 2008 firefight in Afghanistan, sparing the lives of his fellow Army Rangers. Associated Press
In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school’s quad in Davis, Calif. Pike, the riot-clad police officer who pepper sprayed a row of peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters at a California university, is a retired U.S. Marine sergeant twice honored for his police work on campus. Associated Press
In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, Nurunnaha Miah touches her son Nurul H. Miah’s name, engraved on the north pool at the National September 11 Memorial, during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks at the World Trade Center, in New York. Associated Press
In this Aug. 3, 3011 file photo, the remains of a carp is seen on the dried out lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. Associated Press
In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hundreds of drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city’s showcase lakeshore thoroughfare and giving many city schoolchildren their first snow day. Associated Press
In this Feb. 22, 2011 file photo, opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget bill sleep in the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Associated Press
In this Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, a man affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests tackles a police officer during a march toward Wall Street in New York. Associated Press
In this Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, Anti-government protesters hold candles as they walk surrounding an Egyptian Army tank at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Associated Press
In this June 24, 2011 file photo, Canadian Forces soldier, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue, plays on a drum kit on Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Associated Press
In this undated file image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released by the U.S. Department of Defense, a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches television, showing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama. Associated Press
In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo, an activist holds up a cross for the media, in front of a burning barricade during evictions at the Dale Farm travelers site, near Basildon England, 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of London. Police in riot gear used sledgehammers to clear the way for the eviction of a community of Irish Travellers from a site where they have lived illegally for a decade. Associated Press
In this Oct. 17, 2011 file photo, a businessman sticks his tongue out in jest as he walks past tents erected by protesters from the Occupy London Stock Exchange group, as they continue their demonstration outside St Paul’s Cathedral, near the London Stock Exchange in London. Associated Press
In this Feb. 23, 2011 file photo, a motorcycle policeman burns as his colleague, left, tries to help him after protesters threw a petrol bomb in Athens. Scores of youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at riot police after clashes broke out during a mass rally taking place as part of a general strike. Associated Press
In this July 21, 2011 file photo, Franklin Mayor, Fred Paris, pours one of the 250 bags of ice into the Franklin Memorial Swimming Pool in Franklin, Ind. Temperatures are expected to climb into the high 90s with heat index well over 100. Associated Press
In this March 15, 2011 file photo, a Japanese survivor of the earthquake and tsunami rides his bicycle through the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan. Associated Press
In this March 11, 2011 file photo, a tsunami floods over the breakwater protecting the coastal city of Miyako at Heigawa estuary area after northeastern Japan was hit by a powerful earthquake. Associated Press
In this Oct. 6, 2011 file photo, Apple computer fans hold their iPhones and iPads displaying candle graphics during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Apple announced Jobs’ death without giving a specific cause. He died at the age of 56. Associated Press
In this Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, Joseph Mwangi, 34, sits in a state of shock after discovering the charred remains of two of his children, one aged 6 the other of unknown age, at the scene of a fuel explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. A leaking gasoline pipeline in Kenya’s capital exploded, turning part of a slum into an inferno in which scores of people were killed and more than 100 hurt. Associated Press
In this Aug. 22, 2011 file photo, people view the new Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington. Associated Press
In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, pro-government demonstrators, below, clash with anti-government demonstrators, above, as an Egyptian Army soldier on the rooftop of the Egyptian Museum observes the scene in Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt. Associated Press
In this Nov. 29, 2011 file photo, two Egyptian women are seen in voting booths cast their votes on the second day of parliamentary elections in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Polls opened for a second day of voting in Egypt’s landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year. Associated Press
In this Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, rebel fighters stomp on the head of a Moammar Gadhafi statue inside his compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya. Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Gadhafi’s compound charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. Associated Press
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