Το 2015 ήταν μια χρονιά γεμάτη εκπλήξεις σε σχέση με τις επιχειρήσεις, την τεχνολογία, την οικονομία και την πολιτική ανά τον κόσμο.

Ιδού οι φωτογραφίες οι οποίες απαθανάτισαν μερικές από τις πιο σημαντικές στιγμές.

H σιλουέτα του Tim Cook

The silhouette of Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple

To robot της SoftBank, Pepper

A box containing SoftBank's humanoid robot Pepper

Κορίτσια στο παρκέ της έκθεσης China International Automobile Exhibition

Exhibit hostesses using smartphones during the China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition

H Janet Yellen (πρόεδρος FED), κοιτά τον Thomas Perez, Υπουργό Εργασίας των ΗΠΑ

Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, looks toward Thomas Perez, U.S. secretary of labor, during a Labor Hall of Fame Honor induction ceremony

Εργάτης “δένει” μπάλα του αμερικανικού φούτμπολ

A worker installs laces on a football at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio

Υποστηρικτής του National League for Democracy, Μιανμάρ

A National League for Democracy party supporter looks on during celebrations of election results outside the party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar

H Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and now a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, acknowledges the crowd during introductions at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines

Άνθρωποι περπατούν υπό το φως μίας λάμπας με ηλιακό συλλέκτη, Ινδία

People walk past a light powered by energy from a solar-power microgrid at night in the village of Dharnai in Jehanabad, Bihar, India

Φουσκωτά πρέτζελ και ντόνατ

Inflatable pretzels and a doughnut float in a backyard pool at a home off Summit Drive in Los Angeles

Ελικόπτερο διάσωσης, Περού

Police officers look on as a helicopter loaded with supplies and crew flies out to raid an illegal gold mining camp inside the Amazonian National Reserve buffering zone of Tambopata in Puerto Maldonado, Peru

Ο πύθωνας-κατοικίδιο του Chow Ka-ling.

The pet python of Chow Ka-ling, owner of the Shia Wong Hip snake restaurant

Ψαροκάικα στο Rio de Janeiro

Fishing boats float in this photo taken with a tilt-shift lens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

Kεραυνοί αστράφτουν στο Βλαδιβοστόκ

Lightning strikes the city skyline at night beyond the Golden bridge on Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok, Russia

Ο πρόεδρος της Βουλής John Boehner φιλά την House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), right, kisses U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after she passed him the gavel during the first session of the 114th Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.

O δισεκατομμυριούχος Masayoshi Son της SoftBank

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank, points to a journalist during a news conference in Tokyo

Εργαζόμενος επιδεικνύει το Galaxy S6 Edge

An employee shows the curved screen of a new Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone at a Samsung Electronics news conference ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Kουφάρια πλοίων στην προβλήτα της Hyundai Heavy Industries

Ships stand under construction in this aerial photograph taken above the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea

O κυβερνήτης της ΤτΑ Mark Carney με συνεργάτη του.

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, speaks with a colleague at the Bank of England Open Forum at the Guildhall in London

Εργαζόμενοι στην Ινδονησία

Workers walk toward wooden dredging rafts on the beach off the coast of Bangka Island, Indonesia

Άντρας που τεντώνεται στο Hong Kong

A man stretches as buildings rise in the background in Hong Kong

Donald Trump VS Ted Cruz

Donald Trump talks with a fellow Republican presidential candidate, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, during a rally against President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran

Eργαζόμενος εν ώρα καθαριότητας στο σουπεργιοτ Solandge

A crew member cleans windows aboard superyacht Solandge, built by Germany’s Lürssen Werft and moored at the Monaco Yacht Show in Port Hercules, Monaco

To ρυμουλκό Lomax στέκεται δίπλα στο… γειωμένο Hoegh Osaka

The Lomax firefighting tug, operated by Solent Towage, sits alongside the Hoegh Osaka ro-ro cargo ship, operated by Hoegh Autoliners, as it sits grounded on Bramble Bank in the Solent near Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, U.K.

Eργαζόμενος της Ford στη Βραζιλία.

An employee performs a quality-control inspection on the assembly line at the Ford Motor engine manufacturing facility in Camacari, Brazil, on Monday, July 27, 2015.

Αγρότης, ΗΠΑ

Farmhands stack bales of straw in a field where soft red winter wheat had been harvested in Kirkland, Ill.

Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης, πρώην Έλληνας ΥΠΟΙΚ

Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's finance minister, speaks to a lawmaker at the Greek Parliament

Πλατφόρμα πετρελαίου, Βραζιλία

An oil platform floats near the coast of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

Πριν από την αρχή του Google I/O event

An attendee takes a photograph before the start of the Google I/O annual developers conference in San Francisco

Εργαζόμενοι επιθεωρούν ηλιακά πάνελ

Workers walk between rows of solar panels at the 2.3-megawatt floating solar power station operated by Kyocera TCL Solar

Κινέζικα μαχητικά πετούν δίπλα στο αεροσκάφος της China Airline που μεταφέρει τον πρόεδρο της Ταϊβάν

Republic of China Air Force fighter jets fly next to a chartered China Airline aircraft carrying Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan's president

Πρόβατα και κατσίκες βόσκουν, Μογγολία

Sheep and goats graze near a stream in this aerial photograph taken in Tuv province, Mongolia

Ένας πράσινος βάτραχος ρεμβάζει πάνω σε μπανάνες, Αυστραλία

A green frog sits on freshly harvested bananas moving along a conveyor at the Liverpool River Bananas farm near Tully, Queensland, Australia

Μία νομάς κουβαλά το παιδί της όσο προσέχει τις κατσίκες είδους pashmina, Ινδία

A nomadic woman carries a child on her back through a herd of pashmina goats at their settlement in the valley of Kharnak, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Καινούριο στυλ, Κούβα

A woman gets her hair styled at a salon in Santiago de Cuba

Ο Ιρανός πρόεδρος Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, speaks during a press conference at the presidential offices in Tehran

Eργαζόμενος κρατά βωξίτη, που θα γίνει αλουμίνιο, Γουινέα

A worker holds crushed bauxite in a storage building at a treatment plant operated by Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee in Kamsar, Guinea

Η πόρτα… κλείνει, Μέξικο Σίτι

The door closes on a crowded subway car at the Pantitlan Metro station in Mexico City

Xi Jinping, Barack Obama

Xi Jinping, China's president shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama following a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House

Ιαπωνικό πολεμικό πλοίο

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer ship Kurama sails as it exits the smoke of anti-IR missile flares during a review at Sagami Bay, off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Εργαζόμενοι σε αλυκές, Ν. Κορέα

Workers harvest salt from evaporation ponds in salt pans at Taepyung Salt Farm, operated by Tae Pyung Salt on Jeungdo Island, Sinan, South Korea

Νέα Audi, από την VW

New Audi automobiles, produced by Volkswagen, sit on display at an Audi showroom

Σημαίες της Σιγκαπούρης κατά τη διάρκεια εθνικής εορτής

National flags are displayed on a residential apartment block in Singapore

Εργαζόμενοι σε αλυκές, Κολομβία

Miners carry bags of salt at the pre-Columbian salt mines in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in the Cuzco region of Maras, Peru

Ένας δρόμος οδηγεί στο Super Pit, το τεράστιο ορυχείο στην Αυστραλία

A road leads to the center of a tailings dam at the Fimiston Open Pit mine, in Kalgoorlie, Australia

Πολλές, μα πολλές πάπιες

Young Rohan ducks gather in a barn where they are bred for the D'Artagnan specialty meat company in Cochecton, N.Y.

Κοντέινερ και γερανοί, Ν. Κορέα

Shipping containers sit stacked among gantry cranes at the BNCT container terminal at Busan New Port in Busan, South Korea

Ινδουιστής, Ινδία

A Hindu pilgrim poses for a photograph near a bus stop in Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Εργαζόμενος παρακολουθεί τις εργασίες σε βιομηχανία παραγωγής ατσαλιού, H.B.

An employee looks on as a ladle is emptied in a steel mill plant at the Celsa Steel UK steel mill in Cardiff, U.K.

Πλοιαράκι στην Lake Powell της Αριζόνα

A boat moves along the shore of Lake Powell in Page, Ariz.

Μηχανικός εν ώρα εργασίας, Φιλιππίνες

A mechanic works on the interior of a jeepney at the Morales Motors workshop in San Mateo, Rizal Province, the Philippines

Εκπομπές αερίων, ΗΠΑ

Emissions rise from stacks at the Duke Energy Gibson Station power plant at dusk in Owensville, Ind., U.S.

Ταμπάκο, Κούβα

Harvested tobacco leaves hang in a shed on a farm in Vinales, Cuba\

Ασημένια νομίσματα λιώνονται για επαναχρησιμοποίηση, Μεξικό

Silver coins are melted for reuse at the Mexican Mint, or Casa de Moneda, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Νέοι εργαζόμενοι παίρνουν έναν υπνάκο κατά τη διάρκεια διαλείμματος.

New Employees of Seven & I Holdings rest during an intermission of an initiation ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday, March 19, 2015.

Dieter Zetsche, CEO της Daimler

Dieter Zetsche, chief executive officer of Daimler, reacts while sitting in the audience during a Mercedes-Benz event ahead of the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit

Kαυτά εργαλεία

Red-hot wrenches after being forged on the production line at the Snap-on manufacturing facility in Elizabethton, Tenn.

Προσκοπάκια, ΗΠΑ

Boy Scouts from Troop 5 practice saluting at an event at Hempstead Hall in Hope, Ark.

“Αντίο”, Ν. Κορέα

A woman sitting inside a Korea Train Express bullet train waves her hand as the shadow of a man is cast on the side of the train at Seoul Station

Ο δισεκατομμυριούχος Li Ka-shing

Billionaire Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa, reacts while speaking to the media as he leaves a news conference in Hong Kong

Παρκαρισμένα οχήματα της Hyundai Motors, N. Kορέα

Hyundai Motor vehicles parked at a delivery center at the company's factory in this aerial photograph taken in Asan, South Korea, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

Ανατολή του ηλίου και κινεζική σημαία στη Σανγκάη

A man carrying a Chinese national flag kite walks along the Bund in Shanghai