Photos of the Year 2016 - Top News

His cheek wet with tears, President Barack Obama recalls the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 5, 2016, about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence.

A 4-month-old baby born with microcephaly is held by his mother in front of their house in Olinda, near Recife, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2016.

An injured woman looks on as another speaks on her mobile phone following twin blasts at Brussels airport in Zaventem, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Islamic State group (IS) millitants launched attacks at the city's airport and in a Metro train, killing more than 30 people and injuring more than 200 people.

Infant Udai Faisal, who suffered from acute malnutrition, is hospitalized at Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen, March 22, 2016. Udai died on March 24. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade a year ago.

A man is seen trapped amid the debris of an under-construction flyover after it collapsed in Kolkata, India, March 31, 2016.

A Kenyan riot policeman repeatedly kicks a protester in downtown Nairobi, May 16, 2016. Police tear-gassed and beat opposition supporters during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption.

A NASA super pressure balloon is prepared for launch from Wanaka Airport on New Zealand's South Island, May 17, 2016.

A police officer's hand is bloodied as he blocks protesters with disabilities from reaching Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, May 25, 2016. Protesters marched to the National Palace to demand an increase in government disability compensation.

Wrecked cars burn at the scene of a terror attack at the Ambassador Hotel, after a car bomb exploded, June 1, 2016, at a top Mogadishu hotel that houses several MPs, killing several people, and followed by a gun battle.

A man writes a tribute on a message board erected in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, at Parliament Square in London, Britain, June 20, 2016.

Passengers embrace each other as they wait outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport, June 29, 2016, following their evacuation after a blast. Suspected Islamic State group extremists hit the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said.

A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 9, 2016.

This handout photo released by Solar Impulse 2 shows the solar powered plane, piloted by Swiss pioneer André Borschberg, during the flyover of the pyramids of Giza, July 13, 2016 prior to landing in Cairo, Egypt.

Bodies are seen on the ground after a truck ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday in Nice, France, July 14, 2016.

Tanks move into position as Turkish people attempt to stop them, in Ankara, Turkey, July 16, 2016. Turkey's armed forces said they "fully seized control" of the country and its president responded by calling on Turks to take to the streets in a show of support for the government.

A woman cradles the body of her husband who was killed on a street by a vigilante group, according to police, in a spate of drug related killings in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 23, 2016.

In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out of a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Aug. 17, 2016.

Embers from a wildfire smolder along Lytle Creek Road near Keenbrook, California, Aug. 17, 2016.

This aerial photo shows damaged buildings in the town of Amatrice, central Italy, after an earthquake, Aug. 24, 2016. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks.

A demonstrator looks at a riot policeman during a protest marking the country's 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2016.

A demonstrator with the face painted in green, sits on a traffic light as French riot police secure the area during a protest against the controversial labor reforms of the French government in Paris, Sept.15, 2016.

The flash of an exploding stun grenade is seen as a student from the University of Witwatersrand jumps on a falling policeman while another policeman fires rubber bullets from his rifle during a mass demonstration on campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 4, 2016. Authorities tried to re-open the prestigious Wits University after weeks of demonstrations.

Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, Oct. 4, 2016.

Cleanup from Hurricane Matthew continues in Jeremie, Haiti, Oct. 6, 2016.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speak during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 9, 2016.

Smoke rises from oil wells set ablaze by Islamic State militants before fleeing the oil-producing region of Qayyara, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2016.

Protesters chant and hold signs during a protest against the election of President-elect Donald Trump, Nov. 9, 2016, in downtown Seattle, Washington.

Rescue workers carry the bodies of victims of an airplane that crashed in La Union, a mountainous area outside Medellin, Colombia, Nov. 29, 2016. The plane carrying the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense team was on it's way for a Copa Sudamericana final match against Colombia's Atletico Nacional when it crashed.

The urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is driven through the streets of Havana starting a final four-day journey across Cuba, Nov. 30, 2016.

People clash with Venezuelan National Guards as they try to cross the border to Colombia over the Francisco de Paula Santander international bridge in Urena, Venezuela, Dec. 18, 2016.

People light candles at a makeshift memorial, Dec. 20, 2016, in front of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) in Berlin, where a truck crashed the day before into a Christmas market. Twelve people were killed and almost 50 wounded, when the truck tore through the crowd, smashing wooden stalls and crushing victims.