Though there remain another 5 weeks in 2011, we are beginning to see retrospective looks back at the year it's been.
In this collection by Reuters, we see some shots of momentous events and others, like this one, speak to the era in which we live: a time of startling technological advances that remains hobbled, still, by ancient problems like drought & famine, faced by humans for a million years.
In this photo, an aid worker using an iPad films the rotting carcass of a cow in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 23, 2011.
Amid our squabbles over debts & budgets & other nonsense, 2011 has seen another remarkable string of events like earthquakes & revolutions that show us the more things change, the more we stay the same.
The whole collection can be seen here.
Be forewarned, some of these images are very graphic.
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