Top News Photos of 2017 - Part 2

I. Rohingya refugee Azida Begum, 11, was shot twice, under her arm and on her leg. She was shot by the Burmese military when they killed her mother as she was fleeing her village in Myanmar. Azida now lives with her grandmother; her father died years ago. This photograph was taken in Palongkhali, Bangladesh, on October 10, 2017. 

II. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, and his wife Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 2017. At left is BEP Director Leonard Olijar. 

III. A woman assists an injured person after an incident on Westminster Bridge in London on March 22, 2017. Reuters photographer Toby Melville was taking pictures around Parliament for stories about Britain's exit from the European Union. Melville was standing below the bridge on the south bank of the River Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament at around 2:30 p.m. when a man fell from the bridge, landing near him. "There was a lot of blood coming from his head. I thought this must be a domestic or horrible accident," Melville said. He immediately phoned the emergency services and decided to go to nearby St. Thomas's Hospital to alert doctors about the injured man. He climbed the steps to reach the bridge above, and that's when he saw other injured women lying on the pavement. "At which point I thought this looks like it's more than someone's fallen over the wall," he said. Other bystanders were already rushing to help the victims. At the top of the bridge he began taking pictures. British police say four people were killed and at least 20 injured on Wednesday. A car hit pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, and an attacker stabbed a policeman close to parliament and was shot. "Of a dozen or so people, some of them seemed to be conscious. I didn't know there had been a vehicle involved at the time, someone said 'bus,' someone said 'car' someone said 'shooting,'" he said. "It was just surreal and it was a fairly quick computation that this was a serious incident and a lot of people injured." 

IV. The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course in North Bonneville, Washington, on September 4, 2017. A teenager was charged with reckless burning in an incident involving fireworks that is believed to have started the fire that eventually burned nearly 50,000 acres. 

V. Iraqi civilians flee the Old City district where heavy fighting was taking place in Mosul, Iraq, on July 2, 2017. Iraqi forces continued to encounter stiff resistance from Islamic State fighters with improvised explosive devices, car bombs, suicide bombers, heavy mortar fire and snipers hampering their advance 

VI. Air Force One departs Las Vegas past the broken windows on the Mandalay Bay hotel, where shooter Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip on October 4, 2017. On the night of October 1, Stephen Paddock, holed up in his hotel room with 23 guns, opened fire on fans attending a concert across the street. He fired more than 1,000 bullets from the windows in a span of 10 minutes, killing 58 people and injuring another 546 before police entered his hotel room to discover him dead on the floor. At this time, authorities believe Paddock acted on his own, and have been unable to discover any motive for the attack. 

VI. Bride Katty Malang Mikunug takes a photo with friends before her wedding in Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur, southern Philippines, on October 21, 2017. Paulo Mamayo Ambor, a resident of Marawi who was displaced by the fighting between government troops and ISIS-inspired militants, wed Mikunug, a resident of a neighboring town in Saguiaran. 

VIII. Stephanie Woodward of Rochester, New York, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, is removed from a sit-in at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office as she and other disability rights advocates protest proposed funding caps to Medicaid on June 22, 2017, on Capitol Hill. 

IX. Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, also known as Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom, listening to music on his hand-cranked gramophone in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood in Syria. Anis had recently returned to Aleppo, with plans to rebuild not only his home, but also his large collection of vintage American cars, despite everything being reduced to rubble. When reporters asked him about the gramophone, he responded, “I will play it for you, but first I have to light my pipe. Because I never listen to music without it.

X. A demonstrator catches fire during clashes with riot police during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. The photographer later said that bystanders were able to douse the flames and the man was taken to a hospital