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![Wintry Weather Students from the Grand Valley State University campus built a snowman that looks like the character Olaf from the movie 'Frozen' in Allendale, Mich. on Nov. 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ap264391235030.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![Afghanistan agriculture Cotton harvest An Afghan girl harvests Cotton buds at a field on the outskirts of Balkh province, Afghanistan on Nov. 15, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/04490637.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![APTOPIX Mideast Iraq Dancing in Baghdad Young students practice at a dancing studio in the Baghdad School of Music and Ballet in Monsur district on, Nov. 12, 2014, in Baghdad.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/e6b65eb79e3146c1bcbe17bb7004803f-0.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Turkey Syria Syrian Kurdish refugee children from the Kobani area cover themselves in a blanket on a cold morning at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border on Nov. 16, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/c69b950a22da4528af7a41ff1b809370-0.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![INDIA-CHINA-POLITICS-DEFENCE Indian soldiers take part in a demonstration of 'fire breathing' at the start of Operation Hand in Hand - a joint training exercise between Indian and Chinese troops - at Aundh Military Camp in Pune, India, on Nov.18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/del63699791.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Baby Baboon Refused by its Mother A newborn baboon cuddles a teddy bear after its mom refused to have her at Gaziantep Zoo, in Gazitantep, Turkey on Nov. 15, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/459074080.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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![*** BESTPIX *** World Leaders Gather For G20 Summit In Brisbane Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and United States' President Barack Obama meet Jimbelung the koala before the start of the first G20 meeting on Nov. 15, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/459025352.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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