24 hours in pictures

Tripoli, Libya: Burned-out cars are strewn along the wall of Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP

Sana'a, Yemen: Thousands of Yemeni anti-government protesters rally against the 33-year regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Thessaloniki, Greece: A local resident walks through the smoke as forest fires rage on the north-eastern part of the mainland. Photograph: SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP

Bernese Oberland, Switzerland: Acrobat Freddy Nock balances upon a tightrope at the Jungfraujoch mountain ridge. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

West Bank: Palestinian Muslims waving national flags protest against Israeli security forces near the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP

Kandahar, Afghanistan: US Flight Medic Brandon Lowther waits as a wounded Afghan man is brought to a helicopter to be airlifted to Kandahar Hospital. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP

New York, US: A man walks along Rockaway Beach as Hurricane Irene approaches. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Reuters

Daegu, South Korea: Mihail Dudas of Serbia competes in the long jump section of the men's decathlon at the IAAF World Athletics Championships. Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters

Karzakan, Bahrain: Masked Bahraini youths gesture and shout anti-government slogans. Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP

Istanbul, Turkey: Muslim women wait in front of a poster of the city before the start of a protest expressing solidarity with Palestine. Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP

New York, US: People at Coney Island experience sunny weather while Hurricane Irene bears down on the eastern seaboard further south. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP

New Delhi, India: Police arrest supporters of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare during a protest. Photograph: Raveendran/AFP

Guantanamo, Cuba: Six-fingered man Yoandri Hernandez Garrido drinks juice from a coconut. Also possessing six toes on each foot, he is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing. Photograph: Javier Galeano/AP