Protests, world leader summits and festivities — see the images of this week's key events.
Ground support personnel are seen at the landing site of the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. November 10, 2014
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Fools dressed in colorful costumes celebrate in the streets of downtown Duesseldorf, Germany after the symbolic awakening of carnival on Tuesday. On November 11 at 11:11 a.m. local time, the carnival season traditionally starts in Germany; it ends with the street carnival parades on Rose Monday.
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A firefighter reaches through a cut-out window into a dangling work basket to rescue two window washers who were trapped for more that an hour from outside One World Trade Center in New York. November 12, 2014
Man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. Santiago, Chile.
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Fireworks display over the Beijing National Stadium, China.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin participates in a tree-planting ceremony during the APEC summit in Beijing, China.
Indian boy selling plush toys on the streets of Delhi, India.
Hockey fans during the Kontinental Hockey League's regular season match between SKA St. Petersburg and Dynamo Moscow.
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Polish photographer Jakub Polomski snaps spectacular images of the French Alps from a mountaintop.
Workers carrying bricks at a construction site in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar.
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A seal among penguins on one of the Tasman islands, Australia.
Nationalists clash with police on the streets of Warsaw, Poland.
US Air Force servicemen march on Veterans Day in New York. November 12, 2014
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The shortest man ever, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (21.5 inches) meets the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen (8 ft 3 inches) for the very first time on November 13, 2014 in London, England.
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The Philae module of the Rosetta space probe lands successfully on the surface of the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. November 13, 2014
A group of 400 activists buries their heads in the sand as part of a protest at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia.
Valerie Hernandez of Puerto Rico, the winner of the Miss International beauty pageant finals in Tokyo.
Employees of the Lloyd’s insurance market building in London. November 11, 2014
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A Syrian Kurdish refugee boy from the Kobani area, which is currently being besieged by Islamic State forces, holds a toy weapon at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. November 13, 2014
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A cyclist passes the temporary installation of the stone sculpture 'Ripped Up' from Hungarian artist Ervin Herve-Loranth near the banks of the river Danube in Ulm, Germany. November 10, 2014
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China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition on November 10, 2014 in Zhuhai,a city in China's Guangdong province.
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Children are seen through a mosquito net used as goal post net on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia. November 10, 2014
US President Barack Obama, China's President Xi Jinping, China's First Lady Peng Liyuan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a fireworks display at the APEC Summit in Beijing.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a special session of the German parliament to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall at the Bundestag in Berlin. November 7, 2014.
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Barricades erected by protesters in Hong Kong.
A woman snaps pictures of burning huts at the Taghyeer square in Sanaa, Yemen.
Miners inside the Glubokaya mine near the city of Shakhtarsk in Donetsk region.
A woman with kids outside her house, which was destroyed by a Ukrainian army artillery attack on Donetsk.
From left to right: China's Premier Li Keqiang, Myanmar's President Thein Sein, US President Barack Obama, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev hold hands as they pose at the 25th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Naypyitaw. November 12, 2014
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Walls are adorned with works of contemporary graffiti on the streets of Athens, Greece. November 6, 2014
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Delegates use their smartphones to take pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during a dialogue session with delegates at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Beijing, China. November 10, 2014
