FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, an elderly man tosses fallen gingko leaves into the air in a park in Beijing. China's capital has been hit with unusually cool and wet weather in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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In images from across Asia last week, Nepalis lit candles for the victims of Paris attacks, U.S. President Barack Obama visited Asia to meet with regional leaders and a darling panda cub made her public debut at a Malaysian zoo.
As temperatures fell in Beijing, an elderly man tossed golden gingko leaves into the air, while protesters in Manila clashed with riot police outside the annual APEC summit for 21 Pacific Rim leaders. At one event before the summit, President Obama exchanged views with Alibaba founder Jack Ma.
Kuala Lumpur hosted a second regional meeting last week that brought together leaders from the 10 ASEAN nations. And in India, Hindu devotees performed rituals during the Chhath festival to thank the sun god for sustaining life.
Tokyo is to choose a new stadium design by the end of this year for the 2020 Summer Olympics after the original design by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid was scrapped because its estimated to cost over $2 billion.
Cute animal alert: At Sydney's Taronga Zoo, a 1-year-old chimpanzee played with an ice cube as forecasters predicted a heat wave, while a 3-month-old female panda cub born at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur looked wide-eyed at photographers. The not-yet-named cub was conceived naturally less than a year after her parents arrived in Malaysia, making her birth the quickest in the world for China's loaned giant pandas.
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This gallery was curated by Associated Press photo editors Hiroshi Otabe and Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 file photo, Nepalese people light candles for the victims of Paris attacks in Kathmandu, Nepal. More than a hundred people were killed and hundreds more wounded in six different attacks in Paris Friday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 file photo, police fire water cannons at student activists as they clash near the venue hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Manila, Philippines. Asia-Pacific leaders called Thursday for increased international cooperation in the fight against terrorism as they held annual talks overshadowed by the Paris attacks. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, jumps into a conversation to be a "matchmaker" and encourage Alibaba founder Jack Ma, center, and Filipina scientist Aisa Mijeno to get into business together during a discussion at the CEO Summit, attended by 800 business leaders from around the region representing U.S. and Asia-Pacific companies, in Manila, Philippines. Mijeno has a startup company called Salt that sells low-cost lamps run on salt water. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 file photo, a worker is silhouetted against Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers ahead of the ASEAN summit at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit takes place in Malaysia on Nov. 18-22. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 file photo, Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals at sunset in the Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India. During Chhath, an ancient Hindu festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun god for sustaining life on earth. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 file photo, Hindu devotees offer prayers standing in the waters of the Arabian Sea at sun set during Chhath Puja festival in Mumbai, India. On Chhath, an ancient Hindu festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun god for sustaining life on earth. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2016 file photo, skyscrapers are seen above the roof of the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium as the rubble of Japan's National Stadium demolished for the renovation for the 2020 Olympic games is collected at one corner of the vacant site shown to the media for the first time after the completion of the demolition work in Tokyo. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scrapped the original plan for a new stadium to replace one used for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in July, saying it was too costly. The design by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid raised protests from many in Tokyo who objected to its massive size, cost and ultra-modern shape. The selection of a new stadium design is due by the end of this year. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, a girl wears a kimono as she participates in a ceremony at a shrine in Tokyo. Japanese families hold a special celebration called "Shichi-Go-San" (7-5-3) when girls reach the ages of three and seven, and when boys reach the age of three and five. They visit shrines to celebrate their children's growth and pray for their future well-being. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 file photo, Signmark, whose real name is Marko Vuo, in red jacket, who was born deaf, along with Olli Pekka, in blue jacket, performs with the Finnish rock band Ancara at Dingboche, a village at an altitude of 4,550 meters (14,900 feet) and a popular stop for trekkers and mountaineers heading to Everest and other peaks, Nepal. Ancara and the sign-language rapper performed in the foothills of Mount Everest over the weekend to raise funds for a music school for children with hearing disabilities. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, one-year-old Chimpanzee Liwali plays with ice blocks at Taronga Zoo where keepers filled the ice blocks with the chimpâs favorite foods in Sydney. With forecast temperatures expected to reach above 40 degrees Celcius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) zoo keepers placed the large ice blocks around the exhibit for the chimps to find when they came out for breakfast. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 file photo, a three-month-old female giant panda cub is photographed at the Giant Panda Conservation Center at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)
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