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People arrive at the farewell ceremony and lay flowers for Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR. Gorbachev -- affectionately known in the West as Gorby -- died on Tuesday at the age of 91 following a "serious and long illness", the hospital where he was treated said. IMAGES
Images of the arrival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and of people paying their respects at the farewell ceremony of Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, an event with little fanfare and with President Vladimir Putin notably absent. IMAGES
Images of the Gorbachev's coffin being loaded into a car and taken to the cemetery after his funeral ceremony in Moscow. Gorbachev died on 30 August at the age of 91, following a "long and serious illness", said the hospital where he was being treated. IMAGES
Mourners attend a farewell ceremony for Daria Dugina, daughter of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, after she was killed in a car bombing on August 21. Russia's FSB security services blame Ukraine for the attack, which is thought to have been targeted at Dugin, an outspoken ultranationalist intellectual and a vocal supporter of the Kremlin's offensive in Ukraine. A Ukrainian presidential adviser has denied that the Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing. IMAGES
People queue outside of a supermarket as 80 to 90 per cent of the grocery distribution network in New Caledonia's Noumea had been "wiped out", according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), following the four nights of violent clashes that have left five dead and hundreds wounded. IMAGES