24 hours in pictures

Hong Kong, China: A police officer stands on a balcony during a flag-raising ceremony as part of China's National Day celebrations. China was celebrating the regime's 62nd anniversary with a variety of government-organised festivities Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

Masaya, Nicaragua: children look through the window of their house Photograph: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters

Taree, Australia: children are trapped on a ferris wheel after an ultra-light plane crashed into it at a fair Photograph: Reuters

Calcutta, India: an artist works on a wooden pandal before the Hindu Durga Puja festival, which is celebrated in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Orissa and Tripura Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

Paris, France: a "Hyber-Heros" character takes part in an art installation by the French artist Fabrice Hyber in the Batignolles park at the start of Paris's Nuit Blanche event Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images

Oaxtepec, Mexico: a rodeo guard waits for the escaramuzas teams – groups of eight women or girls who perform tricky formations on galloping horses, riding sidesaddle, wearing cowboy hats and 19th-century full-skirted costumes Photograph: Omar Torres/AFP/Getty Images

Lima, Peru: piglets feed at a small farm in the Pamplona Alta shantytown Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

Sana'a, Yemen: protesters pray on a disused billboard during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh Photograph: Hani Mohammed/AP

Sirte, Libya: revolutionary fighters fire a weapon Photograph: Manu Brabo/AP

Acapulco, Mexico: The body of a man lies face down next to a stream after he was believed to have been killed by gunmen in the Pacific resort Photograph: Bernandino Hernandez/AP

Mandalay, Burma: female labourers cross the Irrawaddy river while loading buckets of pebbles on to a transport ship Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

Calumpit, Philippines: a man has his hair trimmed outside his flooded house as typhoon Nalgae continues to bring heavy downpours Photograph: Dennis M. Sabangan/EPA

Paris, France: a model at the Lanvin ready-to-wear spring/summer 2012 show during Paris fashion week at the Jardin des Tuileries Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images