The most impressive news photos of 2013

We present you a selection of impressive and vibrant photographs that effectively convey the essence of what is happening around the world this year. Let's watch and be amazed!

(Total 16 photos)

1. Meeting of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in the framework of the "Big Eight" in Northern Ireland. Photo Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

2. Tourists photograph a giant wave during a storm in Guangzhou province in China. Photo by Chance Chan/Reuters

3. Farmer Donald Oreilly tries to save sheep that have gone missing after a heavy snowfall. Northern Ireland.

4. A passenger plane lands at London airport during a full moon in June 2013. Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters

5. One of the participants of the religious festival in Malta runs on a slippery log. Photo Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

6. Dancing couple in a gay club in St. Petersburg during the debate in the Duma on the ban on gay propaganda as "the main threat to the state." Photo Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters

7. Rescue of a little girl during a terrorist attack at a shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

8. Dan McManus in a hang glider flight with his faithful dog Shadow. Photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters

9. Firefighters put out a burning house in California, USA.

10. North Korean female border guards on patrol.

11. A resident of Bali performs the ritual "Dance of Fire".

12. Belgian street police, which the protesting firefighters “splashed with foam”. October, Brussels

13. Children play in the capital of Somalia, Magadishu. Photo Feisal Omar / Reuters

14. Women sunbathe at the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.

15. An athlete from South Africa during a race in Latin America. Dakar Rally 2013. Photo by Jacky Naegelen / Reuters

16. Meeting of Vladimir Putin and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Kremlin. February 1, 2013.