Pictures of the Year 2007: People's Choice

January

From the photographer's perspective, the flight path of a jumbo jet over Berlin takes it past the moon, Jan. 27.
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February

As a dense fog envelops Beijing, a man crosses a city park bridge, Feb. 21. The fog was so severe it disrupted flights and China’s week-long Lunar New Year celebrations.

March

After heavy rains moved through eastern Pennsylvania, the sun heralds its return to the farmlands of Dover with a rainbow, Nov. 16.

April

The detached lower left arm of a Taiwanese veterinarian is clasped by a Nile crocodile's jaws at the Shoushan Zoo, southwest of Taipei, April 11. Chang Po-yu is said to be stable after emergency surgery to reattach the arm. The crocodile was thought to be asleep when Chang tried to pull out a tranquilizer dart.

May

Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, filled with sorrow and the remains of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, is where Mary McHugh weeps for her fiance, Sgt. James Regan, May 27. It was McHugh's first visit to the gravesite for Regan, a Special Forces soldier killed by an IED explosion in Iraq in February.

June

At Qingdao Polar Ocean World aquatic park in eastern China's Shandong province, a 3-year-old named Yang Yang kisses a Beluga whale in a show tank, June 2.

July

Seven-year-old Jack Baumert of Savage, Minn., cries for joy after spotting the vehicle carrying his father home from Iraq after 22 months, July 17. Chief Warrant Officer II James Baumert of the Minnesota National Guard was among the 100 or so soldiers returning to the Brooklyn Center, Minn., armory.

August

The space shuttle Endeavour begins a successful liftoff from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center Aug. 8 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Among the crew is astronaut Barbara Morgan, a teacher from Fresno, Calif., who had been the backup to Christa McAuliffe on the Challenger mission that exploded following liftoff in January 1986.

September

A grieving Iraqi mother takes her dead 6-year-old son into her arms, not long after he was slain when their family car was fired on by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, Sept. 16. The boy's 10-year old brother was injured in the attack 35 miles north of Baghdad, as the family returned from enrolling the children in school.

October

A brightly colored autumn forest is reflected on the lake of Viacha outside Minsk, Belarus, Oct. 30.

November

A polar bear cub kisses its mother in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, Nov. 4. Jonathan Hayward,

December

A boy waves in front of a Christmas tree after the lights were officially lit in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, Dec. 3.

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