Snapshots of the Fortnight (October 29 - November 15)

From the action on the sidelines of the G20 Summit to probe Philae landing on a comet, hard-to-miss events of the past fortnight in pictures

Nov 17, 2014, 06:55 IST1 min

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Palestinian youths throw stones towards the Israeli border police during clashes at a checkpoint between the Shuafat refugee camp and Jerusalem on November 7. The clashes were the latest in a fortnight of violence over access to Jerusalem's holiest site, known as the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims and Temple Mount to Jews

Image by Forbes

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A man looks into a newly-built giant trash can, partially buried underground, next to a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, in China on November 6. The trash can, which has a diameter of 1.9 metres and a depth of 2.8 metres, can contain approximately 10 cubic metres of garbage

Image by Reuters / Stringer

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) helps put a blanket on Peng Liyuan (second from right), wife of China's President Xi Jinping (second from left) at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting at the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing on November 10

Image by Reuters / Stringer