The 10 most surprising photos of 2013

New Delhi: 2013 was a year filled with ups and downs, controversies and above all, surprise. This year had its fair share of entertaining, surprising and, above all, shareable photo moments, ultimately the past twelve months included as many genuinely shocking as surprising pictures. The year left us in varying states of outrage, confusion, perplexity and shock. Here, we look back and presents a selection of underreported, improbable and astounding images that caught the attention of TIME's photo editors: Jan. 4, 2013. Tammy Holmes, second from left, and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, four-year-old Esther Walker, third from left, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, second from right, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, right, photographed by their grandfather as they take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia. Jan. 24, 2013. Authorities carry out the court-ordered amputation of the fingers of a convicted thief in a public square in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, Iran. The 29-year-old man was convicted for being part of a 10-member gang that carried out burglaries in the city. He was sentenced to the amputation of three fingers, the confiscation of his property and three years in prison. Jan. 24, 2013. The outfit worn by the two-year-old Princess Anne at Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on June 2, 1953, is seen during a photo opportunity at the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace in central London.Jan. 31, 2013. A woman sits prayerfully while her head is shaved to mourn the late Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk ahead of his funeral in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Feb. 15, 2013. A meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russiaís Ural Mountains causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass.April 16, 2013. With a bathtub ring marking the high water line, a recreational boat approaches Hoover Dam as it makes its way along Black Canyon on Lake Mead near Boulder City, Nevada. April 17, 2013. A young Hindu girl from Pakistan cries after being flung on the ground by her mother during a protest against alleged human rights violations in Pakistan outside the United Nations office in New Delhi, India.April 25, 2013. Two victims amid the rubble of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. May 1, 2013. Officials remove a plane part that was discovered wedged between an apartment building and a mosque in New York. Authorities believe the plane part is from one of the two hijacked airliners that brought down the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.One demonstrator locks lips with a riot officer amid a protest against the construction of a high-speed train between Lyon and Turin