Xinhua world images of the year 2012

An Egyptian anti-Mubarak protester holds up his shoe at Cairo's Tahrir square on June 5, 2012. Thousands of Egyptians flocked to Cairo's iconic Tahrir square and other places on June 5, 2012 to protest the verdict handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak's case as well as presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who they say is from the former regime. [Photo/Xinhua]

The works series of Chinese writer Mo Yan, the winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, are displayed during a press conference at Swedish Academy in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, on Dec 6, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]