2011 - the year in lego

April 2011: Well-wishers, tourists and media gather to watch the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's 'first' kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace as a married couple following their wedding at Westminster Abbey

May 2011: US president Barack Obama and his national security team in the now famous photograph of them watching the mission to kill Osama bin Laden unfold in real time

June 2011: Barack Obama appears with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, as they played down the prospect of a double-dip recession

July 2011: Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng blocks him from getting cream-pied during a hearing of a government select committee hearing on phone hacking

August 2011: Rioters clash with police in London, Birmingham and Manchester, as local businesses and buildings are looted and damaged

September 2011: Protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, sparking copycat demonstrations across the globe

October 2011: Fighting continues in Libya between anti-Gaddafi forces and loyalists, as the rebels mount a massive attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte

November 2011: A police officer pepper sprays students at a protest in California sparked a series of online memes, as Xeni Jardin explains

November 2011: 11/11/11 remembered

via the guardian