The best photos of 2016 according to Reuters

As you probably know, Reuters is a huge international news agency, for which many photographers work in various parts of the world. With their lenses, they keep a historical chronicle of significant events.

The year 2016 is coming to an end, and in front of you are the brightest shots according to the Reuters agency. The Summer Olympics, the US presidential election, numerous protests — all this in wonderful photographs that can tell much more than just words. The agency has selected the best pictures, and we have prepared the best of the best for you.

(42 photos in total)

Source: Bored Panda

A giant panda cub falls from a stage where 23 giant panda cubs born in 2016 are presented at a research center in Chengdu, China, on September 29, 2016. China Daily via Reuters

New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin stopped during the race to help her rival, American athlete Abby d'Agostino, who had a spasm at the Olympic Games in Rio, on August 16. Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

A demonstrator looks at a police officer during a protest in Santiago, Chile, on September 11. Carlos Vera / Reuters

5-year-old Bjorn smiles as he poses with Kaligo at the butterfly exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, UK. Dylan Martinez / Reuters

A man throws a tear gas grenade with a tennis racket during a protest against the new reform of labor legislation. Nantes, France, June 2, 2016. Stephane Mahe / Reuters

Police spotted this sloth on a highway in Quevedo, Central Ecuador. A terrified pedestrian grabbed a road bump. After being examined by a veterinarian, he was released into the natural environment. Reuters / Ecuador’s Transit Commission

Reshima Kusheri, an Indian model who was doused with acid, prepares to show the collection of designer Arshay Koshar at New York Fashion Week, USA, September 8, 2016. Lucas Jackson / Reuters

A remote-controlled toy in the form of a witch flies to Halloween in the vicinity of Encinitas, California, USA, October 31, 2016. Mike Blake / Reuters

Horses look out the window from a stable near the village of Pontoiraklia, Greece, May 27. Marko Djurica / Reuters

Canadian Paralympic basketball team player Adam Liancia kisses his wife Jamie Jewells after her team reached the playoffs in a game with the Chinese national team. Rio de Janeiro, September 16, 2016. Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters

Egyptian Doaa Elgobashi and German Kira Valkenhorst compete during the preliminary round of beach volleyball at the Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil, August 7, 2016. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

A businessman watches cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Japan, April 1, 2016. Issei Kato / Reuters

A mongoose plays with a pumpkin on Halloween at the zoo in Chongqing, China, on October 29. Reuters / Stringer

People walk on an observation deck in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, August 1, 2016. Stringer / Reuters

Multiple Olympic champion from Jamaica Usain Bolt overtakes his rival — Canadian Andre de Grasse in the semifinals at a distance of 100 meters. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 14, 2016. Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

A man walks through an autumn park in the Indian city of Srinagar, November 15, 2016. Danish Ismail / Reuters

Police officers detain 35-year-old Leshia Evans at a protest against police violence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, July 9, 2016. Jonathan Bachman / Reuters

A wolf looks into a camera in the abandoned village of Orevichi, Belarus, on March 2. Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

A 23-day-old baboon abandoned by his mother plays with a plush toy in Mysore, India, on April 28. Abhishek N. Chinnappa / Reuters

Pope Francis walks through the gate with the inscription "Labor liberates" in the former concentration camp in Auschwitz during his visit to Poland, July 28, 2016. Filippo Monteforte / Pool / Reuters

A man carries a French baguette to his mother's flooded house after heavy rain in the town of Challet-sur-Loin in the vicinity of Orleans, France, June 1, 2016. Christian Hartmann / Reuters

Julian Assange's cat sits at the window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, while the Swedish prosecutor interrogates Assange. London, November 14, 2016. Peter Nicholls / Reuters

Husaida, a refugee girl from Syria, lies inside the Spanish rescue ship Astral after being rescued off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea on August 18, 2016. Giorgos Moutafis / Reuters

Wounded bats hang on a teddy bear at the home of Israeli woman Nora Lifshitz in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2016. Baz Ratner / Reuters

A guardsman fainted at the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony on Queen Elizabeth's birthday. London, United Kingdom, June 11, 2016. Dylan Martinez / Reuters

Screening of the film "Jaws" in public baths as part of the European Fantastic Film Festival in Strasbourg, France. Vincent Kessler / Reuters

Indian women laugh while watching the Latmar Holi religious festival as women beat men with sticks, in Barsan, Uttar Pradesh, India, March 17, 2016. Cathal McNaughton / Reuters

Light from a forest fire and the Northern lights are seen near Fort McMurray, Canada, May 7, 2016. Mark Blinch / Reuters

Female soldiers from the Democratic Forces of Syria hug each other. Manbij, Aleppo neighborhood, Syria, August 10, 2016. Rodi Said / Reuters

Chiara Micheletti helps her mother Marisa Vesco take a shower. It became difficult for the elderly woman to cope with it herself. Cossato (Piedmont region), June 7, 2015. Gaia Squarci / Reuters

A woman injured in airstrikes in the old part of Aleppo, Syria, on April 28, 2016. Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters

18-year-old Saida Ahmad, who suffers from exhaustion, sits on a bed in a hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen, October 24, 2016. Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters

Children play with a stuffed toy in a tent camp for refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 15, 2016. Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters

15-month-old Shivani, whose leg is tied with a ribbon to a heavy stone, plays in the shade of a tree on a construction site while her mother works nearby. Ahmedabad, India, May 17, 2016. The girl's mother says that she ties her daughter for safety reasons so that she does not go out on the road. So the girl spends up to nine hours a day in 40-degree heat. Amit Dave / Reuters

A Buddhist monk lights a candle at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple during the Makha Bucha festival. Surroundings of Bangkok, Thailand, February 22, 2016. Jorge Silva / Reuters

The big moon rises against the background of the Soyuz MS-03 launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, November 14, 2016. Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters

One of the victims of the terrorist attack on the Nice embankment on Bastille Day. Nice, France, July 14, 2016. Eric Gaillard / Reuters

Competitions for the construction of castels — towers of people — in Tarragona, Spain, October 2, 2016. Albert Gea / Reuters

A migrant eats cookies on a migrant maritime aid ship after he was rescued off the coast of Libya, June 23, 2016. Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

A statue of Winston Churchill at dawn outside the Parliament building the day after the UK's Brexit vote. London, July 24, 2016. Stefan Wermuth / Reuters

Volunteers pose for a photographer with dogs in a shelter for abandoned pets. Due to the economic crisis, Venezuelans refuse pets, because they cannot feed them. Caracas, Venezuela, August 25, 2016. Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

Police use water cannons to disperse people protesting against the construction of a pipeline near the Standin Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, USA, November 20, 2016. Stephanie Keith / Reuters