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President of World Bank Ajay Banga, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and US President Joe Biden pose for photos before a meeting. IMAGES
President Donald Trump taps World Bank critic David Malpass to lead one of the world's primary development lending institutions, calling him an "extraordinary man." SOUNDBITE
A makeshift aid bank has been set up in a supermarket car park in Chico, California, providing clothing and supplies to those who had to flee their homes as deadly wildfire devastated the region. IMAGES
The World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction from 2019, Jim Yong Kim announced Tuesday at a climate summit seeking to boost the global economy's shift to clean energy. SOUNDBITE
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée on Tuesday, as world leaders gathered in Paris to talk about climate finance, two years to the day since the Paris agreement. IMAGES
IMF boss Christine Lagarde was in a Paris court on Tuesday for the second day of her trial for negligence over a state payout to a tycoon made while she was French finance minister. IMAGES