2017 in photos

By Ainul Haque Pramanik

Published: 2nd january, 2018

2017 just came to an end, with many incidents that unfolded great tragedies, gave rise to endless debate and garnered a lot of interest from people from all walks of life across the world.

Here is a collection of photos from 2017 on different incidents that were much-talked about all the year round.

Fifteen-year old Bangladeshi girl Ontora was calling passengers to board a Mirpur-bound BRTC bus in Dhaka’s Farmgate area. She took the job of a helper around six year ago. She earns Tk 150 daily working from 8:00am to 5:00pm. Many commuters look at her in disbelief as the risky job is unusually taken by her. Photo: Anisur Rahman/The Daily Star

WARPED BY WATER... With the trackbed washed away by rushing flood water, the tracks of the Dhaka-Dinajpur railway at Kaugaon look like those of a roller-coaster. The tracks were submerged for three days since Sunday, August 13, 2017. This picture was taken on Saturday, August 19, 2017. Photo: Kongkon Karmaker/ The Daily Star

Photographers help a Rohingya to come out of Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters

Hamida, a Rohingya refugee woman, cries as she holds her 40-day-old son, who died as a boat capsized in the shore of Shah Porir Dwip, in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters

A man carries his pet cat as he walks under the cherry blossoms at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, on April 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters

The sun is obscured by the moon during a solar eclipse as seen from an Alaska Airlines commercial jet at 40,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Depoe Bay, Oregon, on August 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters

A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighborhood liberated by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, on March 19, 2017. Photo: AP

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. A total of 71 were killed in the incident, including five of a British-Bangladeshi family. Photo: Reuters

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, on April 14, 2017. All 134 sub-Saharan migrants survived and were rescued by MOAS. Photo: Reuters

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile, on September 16, 2017. Photo: KCNA via Reuters

A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq on March 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters

Men feed seagulls along the Yamuna river on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, on November 17, 2017. Photo: Reuters

A man who was set on fire by people accusing him of stealing during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro runs amidst opposition supporters in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 20, 2017. Photo: Reuters

Palestinians react following tear gas that was shot by Israeli forces after Friday prayer on a street outside Jerusalem's Old City, on July 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters

Burning forest is seen during "Operation Green Wave" conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, to combat illegal logging in Apui, in the southern region of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on August 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters

A migrant arrives at a naval base after he was rescued by Libyan coastal guards in Tripoli, Libya, on November 6, 2017. Photo: Reuters