10 photo highlights of the day

These racegoers at the Melbourne Cup in Australia deserve to be in today's top 10 just for brightening the day. Photograph: Hamish Blair/AAP/Press Association Images

A great use of motion blur as the runners and riders race along the straight of the Carnival Handicap during Melbourne Cup Day. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Autumn at Westonbirt Arboretum makes a stunning photo opportunity. Photograph: Felix Clay

And a colourful view through a window in the Russell Senate Office Building at Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Idris Elba is almost in the palm of Nelson Mandela's hand during the press conference for his forthcoming film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph: Sizwe Ndingane/Rex Features

A passionate scene outside the Greek finance ministry in Athens as protesters are pushed back by riot police. Mission chiefs from the European commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank met at the ministry to begin a new round of talks with members of the Greek government over the country's financial crisis. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Children stand in a burning field that was used by fruit and vegetable sellers to store their wooden boxes on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Local reports say the Capital Development Authority burned the field because it was used by the sellers for storage illegally. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

It may be only Bonfire night but the first snow has already fallen over Teesdale in County Durham transforming the landscape into black and white. Photograph: Paul Kingston/North News & Pictures Ltd

A bird's eye view shows people gathered to pray at Shoamibag celebrating the hindu festival Rakher Upabash, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph: Mohammad Asad/Corbis

Standing out from the crowd, French consul general, Frederic Desagneaux, joins a traditional procession for the instating of the new French consul in Jerusalem. In his role he follows a centuries-old tradition, pledged today, to defend the Christians of the east. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images