24 hours in pictures

Coban, Guatemala: Policemen put on synthetic gloves before conducting a raid on a house. The Guatemalan military declared a month-long state of siege in Alta Verapaz on Sunday in the hope of reclaiming cities that have been taken over by Mexico's Zetas drug gang Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Damxung County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China: Tibetans onboard a train at the Damxung railway station on their way back from Lhasa to Nakqu Photograph: China Photos/Getty Images

Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan national army non-commissioned officers dance during a graduation ceremony. 376 Afghan NCOs graduated at a ceremony at Camp Ghazi Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Children take a bath at the Complexo do Alemao favela as the summer arrives in the southern hemisphere Photograph: Antonio Lacerda/EPA

New York, USA: A woman waits in line for holiday food distribution at the Food Bank For New York City Community Kitchen & Food Pantry of West Harlem Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Greetsiel, Germany: An illuminated Christmas tree stands on ice at the harbour of the northern German port Photograph: Ingo Wagner/EPA

Islamabad, Pakistan: A Pakistani man buys a postcard of Jesus for upcoming Christmas celebrations from a stall in a Christian colony Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A volunteer holds a child who is waiting for adoption by parents and who will return with them to France. France sent an aircraft to Haiti on Tuesday to fetch a group of Haitian children adopted by French families, almost a year after an earthquake devastated the island Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Kampala, Uganda: Soldiers from the Uganda people's defence forces (UPDF) display their martial-arts skills during their pass-out ceremony Photograph: Marc Hoofer/AFP/Getty Images

Devecser, Hungary: Peter Pallanki, a victim of October's flood of toxic red sludge, which killed 10 people and left hundreds injured and homeless, walks out of his damaged house carrying a symbolic cheque for 1.1 m forint (£.3.3m) Photograph: Bela Szandelszky/AP

Vienna, Austria: People inside an illuminated Punsch Hütte (hot punch kiosk) in Museumsquartier Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Salteras, Spain: Felipe, 24, who is deaf and blind, swims in a heated swimming pool at the Santa Angela de la Cruz centre, set up to house visually and hearing impaired adults and to enrich their lives Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters