The Most Influential News Photographs of October 2011

Week on week, month on month news photographers from different corners of the world work tirelessly to bring their stories to the public eye. They do so through news papers, magazines and more recently the internet. To select one image for a day from all the tens of thousands that made it to front pages, is no easy task. But we have tried to do so. Do keep in mind that our collection of images is never about the best news stories. We may have omitted the Gadaffi images altogether simply because of the lack of the visual appeal on those images. So, every image that we select is based on visual impact alone, not so much their story telling value.

October 1 – Comedy dog show at Barcelona.

October 2 – World’s oldest twins turn 101.

October 3 – Amanda Know acquitted of the murder of her room mate Meredith Kercher, after 4 years in custody.

October 4 – Worst floods ever in Cambodia.

October 5 – THAAD weapon systems interception test at Hawaii

October 6 – The world pays tribute to Steve Jobs. This image from Seoul Korea

October 7 – Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.

October 8 – ‘The Diver’ statue at Gorky Park, Moscow with a garland of fall leaves.

October 9 – Paul McCartney marries Nancy Shevell at the Old Marylebone Town Hall London.

October 10 – Anti government demonstrators wave flags at Cairo’s Tahrir square.

October 11 – Welcome ceremony for the Russian prime minister at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

October 12 – The 47 thousand tonne Rena rests near the east coast of New Zealand after it ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef.

October 13 – Bhutan’s Royal Wedding at Bhutan’s ancient capital Punakha.

October 14 – A man rides his elephant on a flooded street in Ayutthaya Thailand.

October 15 – A member of the ‘Indignant’ group protests against banking and finance in Rome.

October 16 – A young cadet at an educational training camp near Stavropol in Russia.

October 17 – Libyan National Transitional Council forces fire at Gaddafi loyalists.

October 18 – Novice Bhutanese monks rest at the Dechen Phodrang monastery.

October 19 – A father and son watch the Breitling Jet Team conducting aerobatics at Athens.

October 20 – A cranberry harvester at Selishche village near Minsk.

October 21 – A view of the area where Gaddafi was hiding out, in Sirte.

October 22 – A contender crosses a ‘blood pit’, one of the obstacles in the first ever ‘zombie 5k race’ at Darlington Maryland.

October 23 – Thai monks fortify flood gates at Klong Rapi Pat.

October 24 – A Srilankan woman is a part of protests against rising costs of living, Colombo.

October 25 – Turkish rescuers tend to a 2 week old baby girl, after a high magnitude earthquake stuck the country.

October 26 – Preparations continue at the Buddh international circuit near Delhi, as India gears to host it’s first ever F1 championships.

October 27 – A baby and father participate in an underwater nerve therapy program at Budapest.

October 28 – A Delta 2 Rocket takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

October 29 – The site of a suicide attack in Kabul

October 30 – Russia’s unmanned M-31 space craft takes off with supplies for the International space station.

October 31 – Seventh billionth baby born in India.