Top 12 female faces of the year 2011

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BBC unveiled Wednesday some of the women who made the headlines in 2011. Most surprisingly, Sweetie the panda, who arrived along with Sunshine in Edinburgh from China, made its way onto the list. BBC also released the list of top 12 male faces of 2011, but featured 12 actual men.

BBC said in a statement, "Including Sweetie (Tian Tian) as one of the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human."

   Gabrielle Giffords, January

 

Gabrielle Giffords, one of the 'Top 12 female faces of the year 2011'.

Gabrielle Giffords, January [Reuters] 
US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was attending one of her regular open-invitation meetings in her native Tucson, Arizona, when a gunman shot her through the head. He killed six and injured 13, including Giffords who was given emergency brain surgery. Her husband, Nasa astronaut Mark Kelly, flew immediately to her bedside. By August she had recovered enough to appear in Congress to vote for the raising of the US debt limit, prompting a standing ovation. In a subsequent TV interview she said her recovery had been "difficult".

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