So far, 2011 has included tsunamis, tornados, and a Norwegian mass murder. We also witnessed the killing of Osama bin Laden, commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and said goodbye to Amy Winehouse and Steve Jobs. These 45 images from around the world manages to capture the past year in a way words won’t be able to.

The picture at the top of this post is of Australian Scott Jones. He kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer’s riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.

This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan.

A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an “Occupy UCD” demonstration in Davis, California.

A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan.

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in Cairo, Egypt.

See the rest of the images below. To read more about the stories behind each of them, click here.

[Source: Buzz Feed]