10 best photographs of the day

A glorious start to the day for the runners and riders on Middleham Gallops as the autumn dawn casts a glow across the moors above Wensleydale in North Yorkshire. Photograph: Paul Kingston/NNP/North News & Pictures Ltd

Photographers get the lowdown on an exhibition entitled When Britain Went Pop! at Christie's auction house in Mayfair, London. The exhibition explores the British pop art movement from the 1940s to the late 60s, with many works coming from international collectors. Some of the privately owned works will be for sale. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A powerful crop emphasises the gaze of this would-be immigrant as he rests after being rescued off the Spanish coast and led to Tarifa. Spanish emergency services intercepted a boat carrying 10 people from sub-Saharan Africa across the strait of Gibraltar. Photograph: Marcos Moreno/AFP/Getty Images

We've seen some dramatic images from the education protests in Rio de Janeiro overnight. Here a demonstrator jumps over a burning barricade during the protest, in support of teachers who have been on strike for almost two months demanding better pay. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP

Rob Tarr's magestic image of cape gannets in their breeding colony, on Malgas island in South Africa, has won first prize in the Oceans of Life photography competition 2013.

Rob Tarr's majestic image of cape gannets in their breeding colony, on Malgas island in South Africa, has won first prize in the Oceans of Life photography competition 2013. Photograph: Rob Tarr

Photographer Muhammed Muheisen, a regular contributor to the Guardian, is currently based in Pakistan. His pictures of daily life are always engaging. These people are baking bread outside their makeshift tents in a slum in Islamabad. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

A spectator wearing makeup to highlight breast cancer awareness makes for a vivid portrait at the NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the New York Jets in Atlanta. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

The destroyer HMS Dragon, patrolling the eastern Mediterranean, is framed by the fallout from 60 infrared flares fired from a Lynx helicopter. Photograph: L(Phot) Dave Jenkins/MoD/PA

There is something very affecting about this scene, showing Italian police photographing migrants with identifying numbers as they arrive with a group including Syrian and Palestinian refugees at Catania harbour, in Sicily. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

Sparing use of a fisheye lens can give a scene a fresh dynamic. Visitors peruse the bookshelves in the Brazilian pavilion at the Frankfurt book fair, Germany. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP