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Civil services aspirants protest outside Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday against the new examination pattern of the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC). (BCCL)

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A Greenpeace activist is detained by gendarmes, after the group protested against a Canadian company's plan to set up Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in Romania by digging up the front yard of Romania's parliament, in Bucharest December 9, 2013. (BCCL)

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The South African flag flies at half-mast outside the Union Buildings, the official seat of the South African government, on December 9, 2013 ahead of Nelson Mandela's lying in state in Pretoria. (BCCL)

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