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

Curated By: Forbes India Photo Team

Published: Nov 17, 2014

French National Centre for Space Studies president Jean-Yves Le Gall (left), French President Franco

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French National Centre for Space Studies president Jean-Yves Le Gall (left), French President Francois Hollande (centre) and former French astronaut Claudie Haignere follow the successful landing of the Philae lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at the Cite des Sciences at La Villette in Paris on November 12. The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet, a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long mission to get samples from what are the remnants of the birth of Earth's solar system

Doctors tend to a woman who underwent surgery during a government-organised mass sterilisation camp

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Doctors tend to a woman who underwent surgery during a government-organised mass sterilisation camp at the Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences in Bilaspur on November 13. The alleged use of sub-standard drugs resulted in the deaths of 15 women who underwent sterilisation surgery at the camp

Protesters, dressed as Australian surf lifesavers and wearing masks depicting some G20 leaders, call

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Protesters, dressed as Australian surf lifesavers and wearing masks depicting some G20 leaders, call for global equality among nations outside the site of the venue of the annual G20 Summit in Brisbane on November 14

Workers look at a broken scaffolding on which two window-washers were left stranded on the 69th floo

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Workers look at a broken scaffolding on which two window-washers were left stranded on the 69th floor of New York City’s One World Trade Center on November 12. They were later pulled to safety through a window cut

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two rocket explodes mid-air during a test flight above the Mojave Dese

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The Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two rocket explodes mid-air during a test flight above the Mojave Desert in California on October 31. The mishap involving the passenger spaceship, developed by Richard Branson's company, left one pilot dead while another was seriously injured

Palestinian youths throw stones towards the Israeli border police during clashes at a checkpoint bet

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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

A man looks into a newly-built giant trash can, partially buried underground, next to a street in Ta

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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

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) helps put a blanket on Peng Liyuan (second from right), wi

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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

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