24 hours in pictures

Kiev, Ukraine: a protester holds a picture of Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko during an opposition rally in front of the central election commission
Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

Glasgow, Scotland: Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is photographed outside the Barony Hall, after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Strathclyde Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

London, UK: guests attend the lord mayor's banquet in the Guildhall. David Cameron and the archbishop of Canterbury made speeches Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Brooklyn, New York: people sit in the sun on the beach boardwalk in the Brighton Beach neighbourhood, which was affected by hurricane Sandy Photograph: Andrew Burton/Reuters

Tachiliek, Burma: a woman fixes her hair inside a shop selling counterfeit Chinese made luxury brand handbags at a market Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Tripoli, Libya: a team of Libyan experts and military engineers dismantle a rocket under the supervision of the UN. Experts were assigned to dump the toxic chemicals left over from the former Gaddafi regime Photograph: Hamza Turkia/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Punta del Este, Uruguay: firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out in the Biarritz building, one of the oldest buildings in the seaside resort Photograph: Reuters

Mandalay, Burma: a victim of the recent earthquake rests at a temporary relief camp in Thabeik Kyin township. Aid agencies said the earthquake had killed at least 13, injured dozens and caused a bridge and mine to collapse Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images

Mumbai, India: boys line up before performing Mallakhamb at the Shree Samartha Vyayam Mandir. Mallakhamb is an ancient Indian sport which originated as an exercise for wrestling, but is now practised as a sport in itself Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

Chester, UK: one of Chester zoo's first ever giant otter pups born in September take their first swimming lessons from mum Icana and dad Xingu Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Guatemala City: the body of Jorge Giancarlo Morales in La Vervena cemetery. According to local media, Morales, 13, disappeared during a landslide at a ravine on the outskirts of the cemetery on 9 November, while looking for materials to recycle with his younger brother Photograph: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia: newly crowned Miss Colombia 2012, Lucia Aldana, right, receives her crown from her predecessor in 2011, Daniella Alvarez Photograph: Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EPA

Shanghai, China: a man eating and wearing pyjamas in the street. Wearing pyjamas in public has long been a common sight in Shanghai - and it's a practice that shows no sign of going despite repeated official attempts to stop it Photograph: Jonathan Browning/Rex Features

Guangdong Province, China: members of Breitling Wingwalkers, a European aerobatic team, perform during a test flight in Zhuhai Photograph: Yang Guang/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Chandigarh, India: a girl lights earthenware lamps in a formation to form the shape of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, on the eve of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters