24 hours in pictures: August 8 2007

Srinagar, India: Kashmiris remove weeds from lake Babdemb. Around 100 lakes dot the highlands and plains of Kashmir Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

New York, USA: A statue of Christopher Columbus overlooking Columbus Circle is framed in the window at the Time Warner Centre Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP

Berlin, Germany: A small crack is seen in part of the Holocaust memorial. Two years after its opening, the memorial is already in need of repairs. Small cracks have developed in 400 of the 2,711 gray slabs of the memorial Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Carmarthenshire, UK: Waxcap fungi, or Hygrocybe, are emerging from the ground four months early because of the wet summer. The autumnal weather has encouraged about 50 species to pop up in the Welsh countryside Photograph: HO/PA

Barikab, Afghanistan: An Afghan refugee pushes his wheelbarrow along the barren, dusty plains. New refugees, along with hundreds of internally displaced people, paid $90 for a plot of land to build a new home near Bagram - with no electricity, schools or market nearby Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty

Beijing, China: Boys and girls practise kicking shuttlecocks at the Hundreds of Millions of Masses Body building Photograph: Feng Li/Getty

Zagreb, Croatia: A girl feeds a bee with diluted sugar. The bees are trained to go after the scent of explosives, to see if they can be used on de-mining exercises Photograph: Hrvoje Polan/AFP

Tsar Kaloyan, Bulgaria: A Bulgarian man protects himself from rain. Flooding has killed eight people over the past two days in Bulgaria as a heatwave that ravaged the country in early summer gave way to heavy downpours and storms Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Baquba, Iraq: US soldiers try to push back Iraqis as they rush to receive humanitarian aid from the Iraqi ministry of trade Photograph: Olivier Laban-Mattei/AFP

Guatemala City, Guatemala: A man sells underwear emblazoned with slogans in support of the centre-right UNE party ahead of the general election on September 9 Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP

Kennedy Space Centre, USA: A spider walks across its web as the shuttle Endeavour readies to take off in the background Photograph: Justin Dernier/EPA

Tekirdag, Turkey: Dried-up sunflowers on a farm in eastern Thrace. Eastern Thrace, in north-western Turkey, is facing the worst drought local farmers can remember Photograph: Sezayi Erken/AFP

San Francisco, USA: Barry Bonds hits career home run number 756, surpassing Hank Aaron to become Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

Zandvoort, Denmark: A huge Lego doll of about 2.5m is seen at the beach. Owners of a beach pub discovered the toy and nobody knows it came from Photograph: Olaf Kraak/AFP

York, UK: Hoping to earn another place in the Guinness Book of Records, acrobat Henri Ayala from Colombia balances on a chair on a high wire Photograph: John Giles/PA