The week in pictures: November 11 - 17

Disaster from the skies

More than 260 people die as a passenger jet crashes on New York in what is thought to be an accident

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Seizing Kabul

Northern Alliance troops take control of Kabul in Afghanistan amid scenes of chaos and jubilation

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Alliance advance

Opposition forces in Afghanistan make rapid advances with the Taleban in apparent disarray

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Clues emerge

A large section of crashed American Airlines Flight 587 is lifted ashore as the investigation gets underway

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Flood recovery

Authorities in Algeria say more than 700 people are now known to have died in the weekend's floods

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Best of friends

Presidents Bush and Putin build on their friendship and detail cuts in nuclear weapons

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Potter mania

Harry Potter fan Whitney Stanbra at Kings Cross station as the film opens in London

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