India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif (second right) in the presence of Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala (centre) during the closing session of the 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Kathmandu on November 27, 2014. A brief meeting between Modi and his Pakistani counterpart appears to have salvaged a summit of South Asian leaders, with all eight countries clinching a last-minute deal to create a regional electricity grid
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China's President Xi Jinping (right) walks with New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key, while being escorted to a lunch by a Maori warrior, in Auckland on November 21, 2014
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Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates with his team after winning the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix at the Yas Marina circuit on November 23, 2014
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Scores of tributes poured in fors Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes outside sthe Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on November 28, 2014. Flags flew at half-mast at cricket grounds around the world, and players left bats outside their doors to pay homage to the 25-year-old batsman Hughes, whose death on being hit by a bouncer in a first-class game has shaken the cricket community
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Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections at Dangarpora on November 25, 2014. The five-phased polls in Jammu and Kashmir will end on December 20 and the results would be announced on December 23
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A woman holds a sign during a rally at Union Square in New York on November 24, 2014. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon urged people in the St. Louis area to show respect and restraint following a grand jury's decision on whether to criminally charge Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in the August fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri
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Demonstrators break through barricades ats Parliament Square in front of the Houses of Parliament, as they participate in a protest against student loans and in favour of free education, in central London on November 19, 2014
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Workers use metal cutters to dismantle the parts of decommissioned Indian Navy Ship INS Vikrant at a ship breaking yard in Mumbai on November 24, 2014
