2013 was a year filled with triumph, drama, disasters, and successes. Since we are rapidly approaching the end of 2013, we decided to take a look back at some of the most dramatic photographs of the year. Pictures snapped by a variety of photographers that embody the drama of 2013. We see the horror of a tornado in Moore Oklahoma, wildfires in Dunalley Australia, flood in Manila and Athens, and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. We see the drama of war and conflict in Rio De Janeiro, Bangkok, Cairo, Pakistan, and other corners of the world.

We look back and see the drama of Nik Wallenda’s amazing cable walk in Arizona. The thrill of Superman visiting children in Sao Paulo Brazil. We see the courage of Garrett McNamara surfing the massive waves of Portugal to break a world record. We see the joy of a new Pope leading the Catholic Church.

2013 was a year of amazing stories and amazing work by the world’s photographers and we thank you.

Hasan Jamali / AP / Bahraini anti-government protester getting engulfed in flames after riot police blow up his gasoline bomb.

Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters / Young couple at Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sept. 7 before a soccer match between Brazil and Australia.

Samantha Sais /The New York Times / Redux Pictures / Emotional photo of Renata Teodoro, 25, right, holds hands with her mother, Gorete Borges Teodoro, who was deported six years ago from the U.S., through the bars of a border fence in Nogales, Ariz.

Sanjay Kanojia / AFP / Getty Images / Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad in August.

John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe / AP / Bill Iffrig, 78, lies on the ground during the Boston marathon bombing.

Tó Mané / Barcroft Media / Landov / The brave Garrett McNamara attempting to break the Guinness World Record for largest wave ever surfed on in Nazare, Portugal.

Evan Vucci / AP Photo / President Obama standing at the “Door of No Return” on Goree Island off the Senegalese coast, which was the last stop for millions of slaves sent to the New World. Truly emotional.

Osman Orsal / Reuters / A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas against a woman in Taksim Square in central Istanbul.

Philippe Lopez / AFP / Getty Images / Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which left 1.9 million homeless, take part in a religious procession in Tolosa on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte.

Christophe Simon / AFP / Getty Images / A demonstrator being shot by rubber bullets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / AP Photo / George Zimmerman winks at his lawyer at the start of his trial in Seminole Circuit Court.

Nacho Doce / Reuters / A window cleaner dressed as Superman smiles at patient Joao Bertola, 2, and his father at the Hospital Infantil Sabara in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Truly incredible.

Goran Tomasevic / Reuters / Women tightly gripping her child as she runs for safety during a shooting spree in a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya that left 67 dead.

STR / AFP / Getty Images / A young man commits suicide minutes after a first individual commits suicide on the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan, China.

Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP / Capt. Michael Potoczniak marries his partner Todd Saunders, in a ceremony in San Francisco on June 29.

Tim Holmes / AP / Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages in the Australian town of Dunalley.

China Stringer Network / Reuters / People watch water gushing from a section of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on China’s Yellow River during a July 6 operation to remove built-up silt.

Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports / Air Force sergeant surprises his wife and daughter during the second quarter of a game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers.

AP Photos/Discovery Channel, Tiffany Brown / Aerialist Nik Wallenda walks a 2-inch-thick, quarter mile long steel cable over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona in June. Absolutely insane!

Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP / Thania Sayne leans on the headstone marking the grave of her husband, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011, at Arlington National Cemetery.

ADREES LATIF / Reuters / A couple stands on top of their once standing home in Moore, Oklahoma.

John Kolesidis / Reuters / A heroic man rescues a woman from her car on a flooded road in the Athens suburb of Chalandri in February.

Fred Dufour / AFP / Getty Images / Man kicking a topless activist of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen as she raises her fist to protest against Islamists in front of the Great Mosque of Paris.

Reuters/Romeo Ranoco /  Boy carries his dog through floodwaters brought by the monsoon rain in Manila, Philippines.

Jonathan Palmer / Herald-Leader / Figo, a Kentucky police dog, pays his last respects to his human partner, Officer Jason Ellis.

Parwiz / Reuters / Afghan boys play with toy guns on the first day of Eid al-Adha.

Superbonnie via Reddt / Via reddit.com / Adorable little boy climbing and looking into the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., which was temporarily closed due to the government shutdown.

Roni Bintang / Reuters / Indonesian child watches as ash spews out of Mt. Sinabung.

Claudio Peri / EPA / Landov / Pope Francis blesses and prays with a severely disfigured man.

AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn, File / Anti-government protester gives a rose to a Thai soldier at the Defense Ministry during a rally in Bangkok.

Jae C. Hong / AP Photo / Firefighters prepare to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., in August.

Jason Lee / Reuters / Boy holds his mother’s leg as he cries in front of their damaged house after a strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake at Longmen village, Lushan county in Ya’an, Sichuan province.

AP Photo / Rescuers pull out a female survivor, Reshma, alive miraculously 16 days after a garment factory building collapsed in Bangladesh.

Luke Macgregor / Reuters / Runners incredibly observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings before the start of the London Marathon in Greenwich, southeast London.

Reuters / Rescue workers carry a child who was rescued from the rubble at the site of a collapsed residential building in Mumbai, India, in September.

Michael Sohn / AP / Sea of phones, Catholics take photos with their phones and tablets of the newly-elected Pope Francis as he speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. A truly incredible photo.

Mohammad Sajjad / AP / Pakistani man running for his life while carrying a child rushing away from the site of a car bombing in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan.

Make-A-Wish Bay Area / sf.wish.org / Via Twitter: @SFWish / Miles, the incredible five-year-old battling leukemia, dressed as “Batkid” as part of a day arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco on Nov. 15. Probably one of our favorite stories of the year.

Mike Blake / Reuters / It’s Superman over California

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela / A South African revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. / Tumblr

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Winter has crashed down upon us and settled in for a long stay, but that does not mean nature’s beauty has faded away. As you can see in this series of winter landscape photographs, nature plays no favorites with beauty. She is just as cunning of an artist with ice and snow as she is with green grass. flowers, and trees. She paints the trees with a dusting of frost. She creates icy mirrors from the still lakes to reflect the beauty of her creations. She creates sculptures with her icicles and snow drifts. She intermixes snow covered trees and ground with open waters filled with wild geese. She floats snow through the nighttime air creating twinkling flakes reflecting lights. Nature’s elegance stretches through the seasons. We are thrilled that some photographer dare the cold to capture some of nature’s most dramatic scenes.

Photo above by EarthPix

Photo by Lake Baikal

Photo by Hideyuki Katagiri

Photo by Marcin Ryczek

Photo by Kent Shiraishi

Photo by Jan Machata

Photo by Dmitry Dubikovskiy

Photo by Norbert Maier

Photo by deep21

Photo by Friðþjófur M

Photo by Lars van der Goor

Photo by Thomas Zakowski

Photo by Edwin van Nuil

Photo by Evgeni Dinev

Photo by Mark Geistweite

Photo by Emmanuel Coupe

Photo by Peter From

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Basket, 2008

Leaves, 2008

Balloons, 2008

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Traffic Light, 2007

Ramp, 2007

For over two decades street artist SpY has been creating humorous and thought-provoking interventions in urban spaces. Already established as a graffiti artist in the 1980s, SpY next turned his attention to the endless palette of objects and materials available in public places to create clever, non-destructive installations. From his website:

SpY’s pieces want to be a parenthesis in the automated inertia of the urban dweller. They are pinches of intention, hidden in a corner for whoever wants to let himself be surprised. Filled with equal parts of irony and positive humor, they appear to raise a smile, incite reflection, and to favor an enlightened conscience.

The artist was extremely active this year with new works popping up in his native Spain, Switzerland, France, Italy and Germany. Above is just a quick glimpse of his well-documented interventions, you can see much more on his website. (via Lustik)

having stayed up late watching ‘scrooged’, we slept in, made coffee, lounged about and finally rolled outta bed around 3 to get some tapas at the mercado de san miguel (open every day of the year).

the mercado is a magical, food-filled heaven where you walk around with a glass of wine, pointing and por favoring at fresh snacks to sample, one after the other. they’re typically a euro a piece and all of them have been delicious.

when i am back home, in the middle of a work day and feeling stressed - i will remember that the mercado exists, and that at that moment there are people drinking wine and eating tapas and that all is actually right with the world.

christmas eve art

spent several hours at the prado museum, but as you’re not allowed to take any photographs inside, i’ve included some wikicommons images of the represented masterpieces that we were able to see in person.

the other snaps are some street scene pics as we walked back along the gran via. it was a rainy day and the light was oddly bright and filtered.

the prado, by the way, is awesome. as expected.

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A waterfall dramatically plunging from the wide chasm in the Jurassic limestone cavern roof, down to the moss green rocks and valley below: a scene so breathtakingly fantastic and beautiful you’d expect to ride a Chocobo there. A garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

But this is not CG or a fantasy, this is a real place. This is the Baatara gorge waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon. Dropping 255 metres into the Baatara pothole or “Cave of the Three Bridges”, this seasonal waterfall is famed as one of the most beautiful in the world. Recently this natural wonder sparked interest in Japan as a waterfall “from the world of Final Fantasy”, the wildly popular video game franchise.

Some compared its beauty to Pinnacle Rocks of Final Fantasy IX, mentioning that it should be a great place to bump into an Eidolon.

▼See the tiny person standing on the rock bridge? Probably waiting for a Moogle.

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About 75 km north of capital city Beirut, the dizzying Baatara sinkhole can be found by the village of Balaa. The 90m waterfall is created in spring by the snow melt.

“Discovered” in 1952 by French bio-speleologist Henri Coiffait and fully mapped by the Spéléo club du Liban in the 1980s, in drier seasons without the spectacular waterfall and abundant greenery it appears a lot less romantic and more like… a huge hole in the ground ready to swallow us up.

▼I feel a base jump coming on…

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▼The view from above…

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▼Uh-oh, it seems to have sprung a leak. Don’t worry, it happens every spring!

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Inspired to visit Lebanon? Sadly, this is a region which has been wracked with turmoil. If you’re in the area, make sure you avoid the border with Syria, the southern suburbs of Beirut and Tripoli. Travel safe… as beautiful as this area is, don’t make it your final “Final Fantasy”!

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LG really, really wants you to have a good chat with your washer/dryer and robotic vacuum cleaner. It just announced you'll soon be able to use the Line messaging app and a new service called HomeChat to give natural language commands to its 2014 Smart Appliance lineup. If you tell the system "I'm going on vacation," for instance, it'll put your refrigerator into power-savings mode and program the robotic vacuum cleaner. The app will also update you as to what's in the fridge, show a history of your robotic vacuum's cleaning trips and recommend recipes via the smart oven, to name a few other features. LG also announced NFC tagging and smart diagnoses for its upcoming smart appliance lineup, a scheme that'll help you avoid unnecessary repair visits, download new washing machine cycles and more. All of this will arrive in the flesh at CES 2014, but if you're interested, maybe avoid seeing Maximum Overdrive in the meantime.

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With an adept understanding of ceramics and anatomy, Hong-Kong based artist Johnson Tsang (previously here and here) creates strange and unexpected anthropomorphic sculptures where human forms seem to splash effortlessly through functional objects like bowls, plates, and cups. While the works shown here are mostly innocent and comical in nature the artist is unafraid of veering into more macabre subject matter in other artworks that grapple with war and violence.

Tsang recently opened a solo show, Living Clay, at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan that runs through January 19, 2014. You can see many more pieces from the exhibition over on his blog where you can also catch a glimpse of works in progress.

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Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection mission compiled by the British Antarctic Survey, Bedmap2 by NASA Goddard is a construction of what Antarctica looks like underneath the giant sheet of ice. This iteration of the map used 25 million more observations than the original Bedmap1, which was released in 2001, and provides a more granular view.

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swegener:

Speaking of different body shapes. These are all basically peak human bodies. 

How come 99% of them don’t conform to what the entertainment industry tells us is the perfect body?

Time to bring back this body reference sheet!

One of the better body references I’ve ever seen.  All of these people are ridiculously fit, operating in the top echelons of their sports world-wide.  But there’s a vast array of body types, and types of fitness.

I know this is off point, but Table Tennis dude is my favorite. 

taking photos of the sidewalks of lisbon is required by law.

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As 2013 comes to an end, we asked you to share Your Best Shot 2013. We loved seeing your interesting, beautiful and thought-provoking photos!

In this edition of The Weekly Flickr, we put together some of our favorites, and we hope they inspire you to get out there and take more photos.

We can’t wait to see what’s behind your lenses in 2014!

After you watched the video, be sure to check out the photos in the Your Best Shot 2013 group and the Your Best Shot 2013 galleries curated by Yahoo Editorial.

Photos from rcrhee, whooosh., philippe julien, ~andre, Stephen Walford Photography, rafimmedia Photography, Rainer Hamburg, and New Dan. Also check out Yahoo’s 2013 Year in Review for more of this year’s highlights.

Do you want to be featured on The Weekly Flickr? We are looking for your photos that amaze, excite, delight and inspire. Share them with us in the The Weekly Flickr Group, or tweet us at @TheWeeklyFlickr.

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blvcknvy:

Licia Ronzulli, member of the European Parliament, has been taking her daughter Vittoria to the Parliament sessions for two years now.

nixie-no-pants:

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madmothmiko:

I am enamored to say the least..

Badass

still want.

Tras un breve paso por el dominio thepiratebay.pe, ahora la conocida website de contenido “de dudosa procedencia” acaba de aterrizar en la República Cooperativa de Guyana, ahora bajo el URL thepiratebay.gy, tal y como lo anunciaron en su Twitter y blog oficial.

Un rápido WHOIS nos revela que el dominio .pe, utilizado hace tan sólo una semana, nos revela que el dominio ha sido ya suspendido. Pero según revelan para Torrentfreak, ThePiratebay todavía tienen 70 dominios disponibles a los cuales mudarse. 

El salto a Perú significó la migración de PirateBay, al menos de momento, a Sudamérica. Y como revelaron hace semanas, cuando empezó este salto de dominios, la popular página está preparándose para hacer del uso de dominios, algo irrelevante, al lanzar su propio navegador que utiliza BitTorrent para almacenar y distribuir a The Pirate Bay y otros websites, sin necesidad de un hosting central. 

Así es, un “PirateBrowser”, sin una distribución central.

De igual manera que los torrents que descargamos no tienen un servidor central, sino son alojados por miles (o millones de personas en sus computadoras), lo mismo podría suceder en un futuro cercano con websites. En lugar de depender de un servidor central, la página estaría alojada en millones de computadoras, haciendo del cese de operaciones o cierre de páginas, algo prácticamente imposible. Según la información obtenida por insiders para Torrentfreak, no se tratará sólo de un navegador independiente, sino que también tendremos plugins para Firefox y Chrome.

Mientras tanto, nos queda la IP. Y TOR

Desesperados por ingresar a TPB, quizás porque éste se encuentre otra vez entre migración de servidores? Prueben entrando a través de la dirección IP, que nos dejará inmediatamente en la página:

194.71.107.80

Y si hasta la IP está bloqueada, siempre nos queda, de momento, TOR. The Onion Router (TOR) es un navegador seguro  y una red abierta con gran énfasis en el anonimato. Necesitamos descargar TOR para nuestra plataforma

Descarga TOR para Windows

Descarga TOR para Mac OS X

Descarga TOR para Linux

Y luego, para acceder a TPB, ingresan la siguiente dirección: http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/

Descarga TOR for Mac OS X
Descarga TOR for Linux

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