The Year 2014 In Pictures

President Barack Obama expresses his dismay at comments from a Republican member of Congress discussing the administration's policy in Syria (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Pakistani student, who was injured in a Taliban attack in a school, is wheeled into a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan

Riot police use pepper spray against Hong Kong Pro democracy protesters

PM Narendra Modi at the Allphones Arena

BRIC leader ahead of G20 Summit at Brisbane

President Barack Obama helps the First Lady off the stage after she thanked the White House chefs during the State Dinner for President Fran ois Hollande of France on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

U.S. President Barack Obama, fifth left, gestures near Chinese President Xi Jinping, right at Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket blast off in the air

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik applies the final touches to a sand art sculpture he created wishing for the well being of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370

Security guard keeping an eye over the MH17 crash site

I asked the President if I could ride in his vehicle as he traveled to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

The Nobel Peace Prize is being shared between Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi

October 2, 2014 PM Modi launches Clean India campaign on Gandhi Jayanti Day

O Panneerselvam takes oath as the New Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

A surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola, from a jet that brought him from Sierra Leone to a waiting ambulance in Omaha

Sahara India chief Subrata Roy arrested in a fraud case

Ebola health care workers bury the body of a person suspected of dying of Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia Liberia

September 24, 2014 India creates history as ISRO's first Mars orbiter Mangalyaan successfully enters red planet's orbit

Anandiben Patel takes oath as Gujarat's first woman CM

Congress suffers its worst election defeat on May 16, wins only 44 of 543 seats in Lok Sabha polls

Arvind kejriwal resigned after being Chief Minister of New Delhi for 49 days

Raghubar Das sworn in as the new Jharkhand Chief Minister, first non tribal to occupy the chair

Narendra Modi takes oath as 15th PM of India