Actor Stephen Hair, who has played Scrooge for 17 years in a row at Theatre Calgary's A Christmas Carol, wears 3D glasses at the Scotiabank Theatre in Calgary on November 20, just before going into see Jim Carrey play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: The Movie.
Talie Salzl keeps an eye on traffic in a mirror that fits on her helmet while biking home on February 6 in Saskatoon. Salzl has been riding to work daily for more than a decade.
Deepanshu Sharma, 12, submits to the tunnel of a simulated MRI (magnetic resonance imager) brain scan on March 22 during a demonstration for Brain Awareness Week at Saskatoon's City Hospital called "Brain Blast."
Paulina Twardzik, 3, examines a Painted Lady Butterfly in a field in southeast Edmonton on June 9.
Bengal Tiger Kingda Ka smashes pumpkins during Fall at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey on November 8. According to Six Flags, Ka loves to swim as he dives down under the water line, across or to the bottom of the pool for the things he wants.
A domestic short-haired kitten stalks Fantail goldfish through aquarium glass at PJ's Pets in Edmonton on August 17.
A pigeon flies over New York on March 3.
A biker performs in front of the Great Giza pyramids during Red Bull Fighters International Freestyle Motocross 2009 Exhibition Tour on the outskirts of Cairo on April 10.
An athlete performs tricks on a trampoline as Air Canada unveils their new Boeing 777 painted in a 2010 Olympic Winter Games scheme in Vancouver on July 8.
A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, on October 7. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity.
A man enjoys a walk on top of the Mount Saentis (2,502 metres above sea level) near Schwaegalp in the eastern Swiss Alps on October 15. A large part of Switzerland was hit by a cold wave in the last days with snowfalls and below-zero temperatures.
The main stage collapsed trapping people under the stage as mass panic ensued during a serve storm that blew in at the Big Valley Jamboree festival in Camrose, Alberta on August 1.
Smoke is seen after an underwater volcano erupted in Hunga Ha'apai, Tonga on March 18. The eruption is only 34 nautical miles off the coast of Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa.
Cape Town residents watch as a plume of sea spray blows out of a stormwater drain on the city's Sea Point beachfront May 17. The geyser-like effect was created by large waves pushing the spray up the pipe, as the city experienced the first of the winter storms.
Maldivian Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Ibrahim Didi signs a declaration calling on countries to cut down carbon dioxide emissions ahead of a major U.N. climate change conference in December, in the Maldives, on October 17. The Maldivian president and ministers held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting.
A television sits at the water's edge at the tsunami destroyed village of Saleapaga on Samoa's southern coast on October 2.
A man on a partially submerged bus waits to be evacuated on a highway in Istanbul on September 9. At least 23 people were killed when floods swept the Turkish city of Istanbul, swamping houses, turning highways into fast-flowing rivers and drowning seven women in a minibus that was taking them to work.
Passengers are rescued after a U.S. Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in New York on January 15. A U.S. Airways jet with more than 150 people on board came down into the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday and officials said everyone was rescued.
Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui, China on June 1.
A Muslim woman prays beside the coffin of her relative among 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre lined up for a joint burial in Potocari on July 10.
Female members of a Chinese militia march in formation during a training session for the 60th National Day Parade Village on the outskirts of Beijing on September 15.
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers perform during a rehearsal of a musical drama entitled "The Road of Revival" at a gymnasium in Beijing on August 19. The musical drama is part of celebrations for October's 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China.
Workers harvest soybeans at a farm in Tangara da Serra, Mato Grosso state in western Brazil on March 5. Brazil's 2008/2009 soybean production is estimated to be 57.2 million tonnes.
Sailing boats gather at the start of the Barcolana regatta in front of Trieste harbour on October 11.
Sri Lankan fishermen wait to catch fish as they sit atop stilts in Ahangama, 180 kilometres south of Colombo on October 8. Stilt fishing is a traditional means of earning a livelihood in the area and each stilt is a prized possession handed down from generation to generation.
A group of Common Cranes gathers in dawn light, on their night-roost on a lake in the German state of Brandenburg, close to Berlin on September 26.
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 3rd brigade of 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, New York, prepare for an overnight protection of a convoy at the mountain road connecting Altimur and Kerwar in Logar province September 29.
A hand rickshaw puller passes in front of the unfinished idols of Hindu goddess Kali outside a workshop in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on October 14.
Canada's players celebrate after beating Sweden in the the gold medal game at the 2009 IIHF U20 World Junior Hockey Championships in Ottawa on January 5.
Anwar Stewart of the Montreal Alouettes and teammates Anthony Calvillo and Avon Cobourne hold the cup aloft, celebrating their victory in the 2009 Grey Cup final between the Montreal Alouettes and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Calgary on November 29.
Los Angeles Angels players celebrate with the jersey of their late teammate Nick Adenhart, who died in a car crash, after defeating the Texas Rangers in their MLB game to clinch the American League West title in Anaheim, California on September 28.
Vancouver Whitecap #29 Carmelina Moscato gets tackled by Colorado Force #15 Jestina Orlando on June 28, during first half action at Mercer Stadium in New Westminster, B.C.
Theoren Fleury celebrates his storybook ending to his first comeback game with the Calgary Flames by scoring the winning goal in a shootout against the New York Islanders in pre-season action on September 17 at the Saddledome in Calgary.
Windsor Walker Homesites Hawks Kameron Stewart, 12, hits the ground while diving for a line drive shot during 2nd inning OBA Peewee Minor baseball championships action in Windsor, Ontario, on September 6.
This combination photo shows (top) Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia reacting after failing to clear the bar during the women's pole vault final at the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin August 17; (middle) Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya falling after winning the men's 3,000-metre steeplechase final during the world athletics championships on August 18; (bottom) Sanya Richards (centre) of the U.S. celebrating as she finishes to win ahead of Shericka Williams (left) of Jamaica and Anastasiya Kapachinskaya of Russia in the women's 400-metre final during the world athletics championships, also on August 18.
Sean Lucas of the Saskatchewan Roughriders ponders his team's loss in the 2009 Grey Cup final between the Montreal Alouettes and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Calgary on November 29.
Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic watches a shot during Game 1 of their NBA Finals basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles on June 4.
Champion yoyo-er Jensen Kimmitt returns to Edmonton after winning the major Clash 44 yoyo competition in Japan. Kimmitt poses for a photo in downtown Edmonton on September 23.
This combination photo shows (top) a skier falls during an attempt to cross a 24-metre long pool of water at the foot of a ski slope at a ski resort near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on April 19; (bottom) Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer taking off the ski jump during the third event of the four-hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck on January 4. (Hit 'Back' on your browser to link to part II of our photos of 2009 gallery.)
