24 hours in pictures

Amritsar, India: A worker marks the backs of sheep with colour for identification at a wholesale market Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Elyria, Ohio, US: Jessica Lehman weeps after Republican presidential nominee John McCain signs a 1962 USS Intrepid yearbook he appears in Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

New York, US: An actor holds a knife inside the Blood Manor, a haunted attraction with 5,000 square feet of themed corridors and passageways Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Sofia, Bulgaria: A worker from Kremikovtzi steel plant attends a rally. About 1,000 workers are protesting against a feared closure and demanding payment of their salaries Photograph: Vassil Donev/EPA

Punta Lobos beach, Pichilemu, Chile: A surfer watches a wave during Chile's world tow-in surfing circuit Photograph: Martin Bernetti/ AFP/Getty

Saas-Fee, Switzerland: A tourist walks behind a fake palm tree covered with snow in the Alpine ski resort Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty

Korengal Valley, Afghanistan: Chief elder Sham Shir Khan plugs his ear as US soldiers fire mortars at a Taliban position Photograph: John Moore/Getty

Ziarat, Pakistan: A Pakistani man chooses donated clothes after an earthquake that demolished some 3,000 houses Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Nanded, India: A Sikh man ties his hair on the banks of the Godhavari river Photograph: Pal Pillai/ AFP/Getty

Berlin, Germany: A plane takes off for the last time before Tempelhof airport is closed after 85 years of service Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Virginia, US: Supporters listen in the fading afternoon sunlight as Barack Obama addresses a rally at the Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach amphitheatre Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP/Getty

Buyuni, Zambia: Electoral commission workers start counting votes in a polling station about 30km east of Lusaka in Zambia's presidential election Photograph: Alexander Joe/ AFP/Getty

New York, US: People leave work in the city's financial district Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty