Bloomberg's Best Photos 2012: A Changing World. As another year of tumultuous events unfolded across the globe, we witnessed Greece's battle with austerity cuts, the European Union near a breaking point, devastation and destruction as Hurricane Sandy swept along the U.S. East Coast and the bleak landscapes of Japan's Fukushima province a year after the tsunami. As the stories unfolded, there to record it all was Bloomberg's team of award-winning photographers, capturing poignant and compelling imagery, see their work here in a Changing World. FILE PHOTO: 'BEST PHOTOS OF 2012' (***BESTOF2012***): People observe a moment of silence in front of a vessel swept inland by the tsunami which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the disaster at 2:46 p.m. in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The magnitude-9 earthquake last year triggered a tsunami that in just 60 minutes laid waste to entire towns, engulfed four-story hospitals, left hundreds of thousands of homeless and crippled a nuclear plant. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images