24 hours in pictures

New Delhi, India: A worker's child is tied to a pole by a road for safety, with Shera, the Commonwealth Games mascot, seen in the background Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP

Kabul, Afghanistan: A US soldier holds a machine gun as he sits on board a Chinook helicopter while flying over Kabul Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP

Milan, Italy: A model wears a coat from the Gianfranco Ferre spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear collection at Women's Fashion Week Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP

La Ceiba, Honduras: A man fishes while tropical storm Matthew picks up speed as it heads for Nicaragua and Honduras Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters

Sindh Province, Pakistan: A survivor sits on a dinosaur model in an area devastated by recent floods Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Manila, Philippines: A boy watches a woman cleaning her home in a shanty settlement beneath a bridge, where a long-awaited sewage system has been delayed Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP

Kabul, Afghanistan: A homeless Afghan boy looks on at the abandoned Soviet-era factory of Jangalak Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP

Marina Bay, Singapore: Germany's Sebastian Vettel prepares to drive during a practice for the Formula One Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty

Space: This composite image made from data obtained by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the glow of auroras streaking out about 1,000km from the cloud tops of Saturn's south polar region
Photograph: Nasa

Arkalyk, Kazakhstan: Expedition 24 flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson, left, commander Alexander Skvortsov, centre, and Mikhail Kornienko sit outside the Soyuz Capsule minutes after landing Photograph: Bill Ingalls/AP

Moscow, Russia: Ulyana Trofimova from Uzbekistan performs with the hoop at the individual all-around competition final at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Photograph: Grigory Dukor/Reuters

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Workers hang from ropes on the side of a building as they set up a huge installation by an undentified artist Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP

Cadiz, Spain: Soldiers parade during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Cadiz's two-chamber parliament Photograph: Miguel Gomez/AP