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MADISON,
Wis. - The University of North Carolina cross country teams are set
for the 2012 Wisconsin adidas Invitational which has come to be regarded as one
of the most elite collegiate regular season races in the country. This year
should prove no different, as a total 38 ranked teams will be in attendance
alongside the Tar Heels at Friday's race.

The Carolina women are among 49 teams, of which 20 are
ranked including three top-five teams. Atlantic Coast rivals No. 21 Boston
College, Duke, No. 26 NC State and Virginia will also be racing at the Thomas Zimmer
Championship Cross Country Course. The women's 6K Championships Race kicks
off at noon central (1 p.m. EDT).

The Carolina men are racing amid 46 teams, 18 being ranked
including four in the top five in the USTFCCCA polls. No. 29Africa's top shots: 24-30 November 2017 Published duration 1 December 2017

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.

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Dancers perform on the streets of Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, as the Europe-Africa summit opens on Thursday. ''Investing in youth" was to be the focus of the event, but it has instead been dominated by talk of the migrant crisis.

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Six-year-old Habiba hugs her toy dolls made of sugar, known as Aroset El Moulid (Bride of Mawlid) on Friday in Tanta, north of Egypt's capital, Cairo. The figurines are made each year for the Mawlid festival which marks the Prophet Muhammad's birthday.

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On Sunday, Miss South Africa, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, won the Miss Universe title at a