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Israeli police clash with mourners as they carry the coffin of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, on May 13, 2022. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American reporter who covered the Mideast conflict for more than 25 years, was shot dead two days earlier during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

AP’s top 2022 photos capture a planet bursting at the seams

By The Associated PressDecember 6, 2022

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

By BERNARD McGHEEyesterday

FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at the Buckingham Palace in London, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 was arguably the most high-profile death this year. In her 70 years on the British throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals.

The Year of the Slap: Pop culture moments in 2022

By JOCELYN NOVECKDecember 27, 2022

Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Taylor Swift was up. Elon Musk was in, out, in and maybe out again. Tom Cruise was back. BTS stepped aside, and so did Serena Williams, and Tom Brady too — oops, scratch that.But the slap? The slap was everywhere.

2022 was year the horror of war returned to Europe

By JILL LAWLESSDecember 8, 2022

A Ukrainian volunteer Oleksandr Osetynskyi, 44 holds a Ukrainian flag and directs hundreds of refugees after fleeing from the Ukraine and arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Monday, March 7, 2022. This was the year war returned to Europe, and few facets of life were left untouched. Russia’s invasion of its neighbor Ukraine unleashed misery on millions of Ukrainians, shattered Europe’s sense of security, ripped up the geopolitical map and rocked the global economy. The shockwaves made life more expensive in homes across Europe, worsened a global migrant crisis and complicated the world’s response to climate change. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

LONDON (AP) — This was the year war returned to Europe, and few facets of life were left untouched.Russia’s invasion of its neighbor Ukraine unleashed misery on millions of Ukrainians, shattered Europe’s sense of security, ripped up the geopolitical map and rocked the global economy.

The pandemic, Karens, crypto craziness: We’re over you, 2022

LEANNE ITALIEDecember 2, 2022

FILE - The FTX logo appears on home plate umpire Jansen Visconti's jacket at a baseball game with the Minnesota Twins on Sept. 27, 2022, in Minneapolis. The FTX bankruptcy filing followed a bruising of crypto companies throughout 2022, due in part to rising interest rates and the broader market downturn that has many investors rethinking their lust for risk. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — The rudeness pandemic, the actual pandemic and all things gray. There’s a lot to leave behind when 2022 comes to a close as uncertainty rules around the world.The health crisis brought on the dawn of slow living, but it crushed many families forced to hustle for their lives.

2022: BEHIND THE LENS

FILE - A resident wounded after a Russian attack lies inside an ambulance to be taken to a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, late Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Behind the Lens: The human toll in Ukraine’s Kherson

2022: REPORTERS NOTEBOOK

People hold hands as they pray outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

2022 Notebook: Retrenchment in fight for racial justice

Policy, climate, war make 2022 ‘pivot year’ for clean energy

By SIBI ARASUDecember 20, 2022

FILE - Steam rises from the coal-fired power plant near wind turbines in Niederaussem, Germany, as the sun rises on Nov. 2, 2022. Germany, a strong advocate of clean energy, turned to coal and oil to address its short term power needs. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

BENGALURU, India (AP) — For renewable energy companies in India, it’s a good time to be in business.One of India’s largest renewable energy firms, Renew Power, will be among the corporations big and small hoping for a piece of a $2.6 billion government scheme that encourages the domestic manufacturing of components required to produce solar energy.

Bobby Rhinebolt, right, smokes a cigarette while sitting beside Victor Perez near a formerly sunken boat that is now above the waterline at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, near Boulder City, Nev., on June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/John Locher)

In 2022, AP photographers captured pain of a changing planet

By PETER PRENGAMANDecember 16, 2022

THE YEAR IN ENTERTAINMENT

This cover image released by Columbia Records Group shows "Renaissance" by Beyonce. (Columbia Records Group via AP)

AP’s top albums 2022: ‘Renaissance,’ ‘Motomami,’ Bad Bunny

BREAKTHROUGH ENTERTAINERS OF 2022

Sadie Sink poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in New York. Sink has been named one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2022. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Sadie Sink smiles through drama

Tina Sutej, of Slovenia, competes during the women's pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, July 17, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

AP Photos: In 2022, sports brought every imaginable emotion

By The Associated PressDecember 23, 2022

Sports unraveled, collided with politics, racism in 2022

By EDDIE PELLSDecember 22, 2022

FILE - Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder poses for photos during an event to unveil the NFL football team's new identity on Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md. Hardly a day passed in 2022 when a headline running across the ticker on ESPN would have been fitting on CNN or Fox Business. The intersection between sports and real life ranged from toxic workplace environments, alleged sexual misconduct, sportswashing, cryptocurrency, transgender sports and the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The unspoken deal between sports fans and their favorite teams and players has been, in theory: Sure, there are billions of dollars being thrown around, but at the core, sports are supposed to be fun and games, a never-ending menu of two- or three-hour escapes into a land of winners and losers where nobody really gets hurt.

Pain, few gains for investors as markets slumped in 2022

The Associated PressDecember 21, 2022

FILE - An American flag is displayed on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange on June 29, 2022, in New York. Investors had few places to hide in 2022: Stocks and bonds both nose-dived and crypto tanked. Pocketbook issues were front and center for consumers as prices for food, energy and rent jumped. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Investors found few, if any, places to safely put their money in 2022, as central banks in the U.S. and around the globe raised interest rates for the first time in years to fight surging inflation, stoking fear of a global recession.

EXPLAINER: Undoing of Roe quickly shifts abortion in states

By GEOFF MULVIHILLDecember 21, 2022

FILE - An anti-abortion supporter sits behind a sign that advises the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is still open in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Anti-abortion groups hoped and strategized for decades for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that was delivered in June, ending a court-protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years.The fallout was immediate and far-reaching — and it’s not over yet.

Brittney Griner prisoner swap AP Sports Story of the Year

By ERIC TUCKER and DOUG FEINBERGDecember 16, 2022

FILE - Brittney Griner (15) runs up court during the women's basketball gold medal game against Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. The return of Brittney Griner to the United States in a dramatic prisoner swap with Russia marked the culmination of a 10-month ordeal that captivated world attention, a saga that landed at the intersection of sports, politics, race and gender identity — and wartime diplomacy. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

The return of Brittney Griner to the United States in a dramatic prisoner swap with Russia marked the culmination of a 10-month ordeal that captivated world attention, a saga that landed at the intersection of sports, politics, race and gender identity — and wartime diplomacy.

Africa has peaceful polls in 2022 but hit by coups, droughts

By FARAI MUTSAKADecember 16, 2022

Letoyie Leroshi, a Samburu man gives cows water from a well in Kom village, Samburu County, Kenya, on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Elections, coups, disease outbreaks and extreme weather are some of the main events that occurred across Africa in 2022. Experts say the climate crisis is hitting Africa “first and hardest.” Kevin Mugenya, a senior food security advisor for Mercy Corps said the continent of 54 countries and 1.3 billion people is facing “a catastrophic global food crisis” that “will worsen if actors do not act quickly.” (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Elections, coups, disease outbreaks and extreme weather are some of the main events that occurred across Africa in 2022.Problems brewed thousands of miles away — climate change and the war in Ukraine — have been devastating to the continent, say experts.

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High inflation and efforts to tame it defined 2022 economy

By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIODecember 15, 2022

FILE - Money is exchanged at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. U.S. inflation, an economic afterthought for decades, returned in 2022 with the relentless rise in prices devouring workers' pay and putting American consumers in a foul mood. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good way.At times, it felt like the 1970s or early ’80s. Inflation running rampant. The United States and its European allies engaged in a not-so-Cold War with Russia.

People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. Political turmoil hit debt-laden Sri Lanka, where protesters broke into President Rajapaska's residence and forced him into resigning after fleeing abroad.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Relaxed COVID rules, deadly crowd crushes mark year in Asia

By The Associated PressDecember 15, 2022

Baker’s World Series title among best sports moments of 2022

By JOHN MARSHALLDecember 13, 2022

FILE - Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker Jr. watches during the second inning in Game 6 of baseball's World Series between the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies, in Houston, Nov. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Dusty Baker’s run to a World Series title win was one of the several memorable sports stories in 2022, on and off the field.One of the most respected people in baseball, the one thing missing from Baker’s resume: a World Series ring as a manager.

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