Associated Press 2007 best pictures

Here are some of the best pictures from 2007 that ran on the Associated Press photo wire as picked by the AP wire service. Above, two acrobatic planes from the Zelazny group collide during a performance at an air show in Radom, Poland, Saturday, Sept. 1. Both pilots died in the crash, but there were no reports of injuries in the crowd. (AP Photo/ Darek Redos)


A worker exhumes a corpse as another stands at left in Guatemala City's main cemetery, Friday, May 25. Cemetery rules establish that six years after burial relatives must pay 180 Quetzales (around $24 U.S.) to renew the grave site for another four years. If cemetery fees are not paid, the skeletons are thrown into a collective graveyard. In 2007 more than 2000 bodies were exhumed due to failed payments. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)


A hot air balloon's basket is engulfed in flames shortly after takeoff when it was about 25 feet off the ground in Surrey, British Colombia Friday Aug. 24. Witnesses said passengers screamed and jumped to the ground. The balloon reportedly took off from a grassy field with 12 passengers. The balloon crashed in a trailer park and campground , injuring as many as 11 people, police and local reports said. Two additional people were unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Don Randall)


The severed lower left arm of a Taiwanese veterinarian is seen in the jaws of a crocodile, Wednesday, April 11 at the Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, 350 kilometers (217 miles) south west of Taipei, Taiwan. Chang Po-yu's lower left arm was bitten off by the crocodile when he tried to pull a tranquilizer dart from the reptile's body. Two bullets were shot at the crocodile but it was unharmed. Chang went through emergency surgery to have his limb reattached. (AP Photo/Steve Chen)


Seagulls perch on a giant baseball glove during a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the San Francisco Giants Monday, July 31 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)


Iranian police officers and others view the scene as five convicted criminals are hung, in a neighborhood of Mashad, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) northwest of Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday Aug. 1. In the second round of collective executions in 10 days, Iran publicly hanged 7 criminals convicted on various charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, according to reports on the official web-site of state broadcasting company. (AP Photo/Halabisaz)