2011 Spot News
First Place - 2011 Spot News
A motorcycle policeman burns as his colleague, left, tries to help him after protesters threw a petrol bomb in Athens, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. "Caught On Fire"
Dimitri Messinis/The Associated Press
Second Place - 2011 Spot News
A warplane of Gadhafi's forces is seen being shot down over the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Explosions shook the Libyan city of Benghazi early on Saturday while a fighter jet was heard flying overhead, and residents said the eastern rebel stronghold was under attack from Muammar Gaddafi's forces. "Going Down"
Anja Niedringhaus/The Associated Press
Third Place - 2011 Spot News
A resident looks at a body left inside a supermarket cart at the Juramento slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. "Body Cart"
Felipe Dana/The Associated
Honorable Mention - 2011 Spot News
U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Jose Rivera from Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment, tends to two badly wounded Afghan national police officers aboard a medevac helicopter after they came under fire in the outskirts of Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Friday, June 3, 2011. "Wounded"
Anja Niedringhaus/The Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2011 Spot News
A demonstrator tries to stop a concrete pipe from crushing his leg during a protest against Haiti's President Rene Preval in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Feb. 7, 2011. "Protest Crush"
Ramon Espinosa/The Associated Press