AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 A demonstrator with the face painted in green, sits on a traffic light as French riot police secure the area during a protest against the controversial labour reforms of the French government in Paris on September 15, 2016. French riot police fired teargas and stun grenades on September 15, 2016 during clashes in Paris with opponents of labour reforms who threw molotov cocktails, the latest outbreak of violence over the controversial new laws. Twelve people were arrested in the capital, where around 13,000 people took part in the rally against measures aimed at loosening France's notoriously rigid employment laws, the 14th such demonstrations in six months. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT