Taking in the world’s conflict zones, wonders of nature, the feats of sporting heroes and the lives of ordinary people, our collection provides you with a definitive album of the photographs behind the big news events of the past twelve months.
The Junior Up Helly procession burn their galley after marching through the streets of Lerwick in Shetland, during Up Helly Aa in January 2007. Britain's biggest fire festival and torchlight procession celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage, and features around 900 costumed "guizers", complete with flaming torches, drag a Viking longship through the streets of Lerwick, led by a horde of Vikings wearing traditional garb, including winged helmets, sheepskins and carrying axes and shields. At a designated point in the town, the torches are thrown into the ship and onlookers watch as it burns.
Beachcombers roll barrels through the village of Branscombe after the MSC Napoli ran aground a mile off the coast near Sidmouth, Devon. Police were on Branscombe Beach discouraging people from searching containers from the vessel.
Teams play the 'Bungee Rugby Game' in central Dublin, ahead of the Six Nations rugby match between Ireland and England in February.
The space shuttle Atlantis atop the crawler transporter begins its 3.4 mile trip to the launch pad after leaving the Vehicle Assembly building at the Kennedy Space Station in Cape Canaveral.
An Iraqi girl looks at a US soldier on a patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad in March.
Don Havatone, of the Hualapai tribe, watches the rollout of the Skywalk on the Hualapai Indian Reservation at Grand Canyon West, in March.
England's Kevin Pietersen celebrates his double century against the West Indies in May.
Gerry and Kate McCann, the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann, cast a shadow on the wall of the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on May 15.
Lindsey Rose Inman, 20 from Frome in Somerset, plays in the mud near the Other stage at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.
A 50-year-old female orangutan called Gypsy holds and "reads" a magazine at the Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, centre, shares a lighter moment ending his birthday celebrations with children at the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund in Johannesburg. Mandela turned 89 years old on July 18.
A view from the air of Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, following torrential rain in July.
A reveller during the annual August food fight, the Tomatina, in the small Spanish town of Bunol. Each year tens of thousands of people hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers through the small Spanish town.
The moon glows red during a lunar eclipse seen in the sky in Sydney, Australia on August 28. The Earth's shadow crept across the moon's surface slowly eclipsing it and turning it to shades of orange and red during the second total lunar eclipse of the year.
Potato farmer Antonis Lazarou, 47, checks his field during irrigation outside of Akaki village, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from capital Nicosia in Cyprus in September.
Buddhist monks march on a street in protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) in September. As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.
Members of Turkish army's Special Forces perform in the air during the celebration of the 84th anniversary of the Turkish republic in Ankara on October 29.
Princes Harry, top, and William appeal for Mark Cueto's disallowed try during England's defeat at the hands of South Africa during the Rugby World Cup final at the Stade de France in Paris.
Supporters of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto are taken away by police as they protest against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf outside of Bhutto's barricaded home in Islamabad, Pakistan in November.
Steve McClaren, the England football team’s head coach, during his final match in the job. England were beaten by Croatia, meaning that they failed to qualify for Euro 2008 and McClaren was sacked by the Football Association.
