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The Year in Review

By MiNDFOOD

December 21, 2017

December 21, 2017

The Year in Review

Powerful images of quirky and key moments in 2017.

Without doubt, 2017 has been a big year. We take a look back at some of the devastating, profound, extraordinary and beautiful moments this momentous year brought.

U.S. President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he delivers his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 10, 2017.

A woman dives and pretends to ride a bike in Underwater Park in Pula, Croatia, August 1, 2017.

A visitor wearing a T-Rex costume uses the lavatory at the London Comic Con, at the ExCel exhibition centre in east London, Britain October 27, 2017.

A passenger plane, with a full Harvest moon seen behind, makes its final landing approach towards Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, October 5, 2017. RC1CFE1838B0

A woman pushes a pram as she walks over a frozen lake during sundown at the Pajulahti sports center near Lahti, Finland, February 21, 2017.

The first wave of runners make their way across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during the start of the New York City Marathon in New York, U.S., November 5, 2017.

89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Jordan Horowitz of “La La Land” (L) holds the card announcing “Moonlight” as the winner of the Best Picture Oscar as presenter Warren Beatty (C) and show host Jimmy Kimmel stand behind.

Discarded items of clothing in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 20, 2017.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying ceremony to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in central Moscow, Russia February 23, 2017.

Attendees partake in the inauguration ceremonies to swear in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017.

Olympics – Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame Pyeongchang 2018 – Ancient Olympia, Olympia, Greece – October 24, 2017 Greek actress Katerina Lehou, playing the role of High Priestess with the flame on the torch during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives with the pageboys and flower girls for the wedding of Pippa Middleton and James Matthews at St Mark’s Church in Englefield, west of London, on May 20, 2017.

A rescue helicopter hovers in the background as an elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey while waiting to be rescued from Scarsdale Boulevard in Houston, Texas, U.S. August 27, 2017.

Five former U.S. presidents, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama attend a concert at Texas A&M University benefiting hurricane relief efforts in College Station, Texas, U.S., October 21, 2017.

Benedito, 66, smokes prawns as he checks it on a wood-fired oven in Corumbau village on the coast of Bahia state, Brazil, February 19, 2017.

Myeshia Johnson, wife of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was among four special forces soldiers killed in Niger, kisses his coffin at a graveside service in Hollywood, Florida, October 21, 2017.

Actor Rose McGowan raises her fist after addressing the audience during the opening session of the three-day Women’s Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 27, 2017.

A British Airways airplane flies near a rainbow on its way to Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, July 23, 2017.

Students of the Krasnoyarsk choreographic college Anastasia Shevtsova (R) and Yulia Lyakhovykh do leg-splits as they study for an exam and a performance by the graduates at the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, at the college’s campus in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, May 4, 2017. Picture taken May 4, 2017.

Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, also known as “Iceberg Alley”, near Ferryland Newfoundland, Canada April 16, 2017. Picture taken April 16, 2017.

Flames and smoke billow as firefighters deal with a serious fire in the Grenfell Tower apartment block at Latimer Road in West London, Britain June 14, 2017.

Cycling – The 104th Tour de France cycling race – The 216-km Stage 6 from Vesoul to Troyes, France – July 6, 2017 – A woman rides a horse as the pack of riders passes.

US singer Madonna embraces her son, David Banda ahead of the opening of the Mercy James hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, July 11,2017.

A girl reacts as coloured water is thrown on her face while celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colours, in Mumbai, India, March 13, 2017.

Migrants try to stay afloat after falling off their rubber dinghy during a rescue operation by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) ship in the central Mediterranean in international waters some 15 nautical miles off the coast of Zawiya in Libya, April 14, 2017. All 134 sub-Saharan migrants survived and were rescued by MOAS.

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