24 hours in pictures

Golan Heights, Israel: A Druze bride, Arin Safadi, cries as she leaves her family before crossing to Syria to marry her cousin Rabiee, from Damascus Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA

Srinagar, India: Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims offer prayers on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP

Kauhajoki, Finland: Candles outside the Kauhajoki vocational high school, where a masked gunman this week killed ten people before shooting himself Photograph: Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AP

Duekoue, Ivory Coast: A man at work in a traditional charcoal factory Photograph: Luc Gnago /Reuters

Yokosuka, Japan: Crew members stand on deck aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, at Yokosuka naval base Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Pocheon, South Korea: Military supply goods are dropped from a C-130 cargo plane during a live-fire demonstration Photograph: Lee Sang-hak/Yonhap/Reuters

Large numbers of the jellyfish drymonema dalmatinum have been reported in the Gulf of Mexico off south-west Florida. The exotic species has caused problems for the shrimping industry in other parts of the world Photograph: Valerie Roche/The News-Press/AP

London, UK: Leaves beginning to turn brown in Hyde Park Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty

Amman, Jordan: Lions in a zoo Photograph: Ali Jarekji/Reuters

Dublin, Ireland: Actors take part in a dress rehearsal of the play Blackwatch, at Shelbourne Hall, ahead of the Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival Photograph: Niall Carson/Press Association

Kunduz, Afghanistan: German soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) stand near to where they discovered an illegal weapons cache Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Sydney, Australia: Sara Baras performs on stage at the Sydney Opera House Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty

Jiuquan, China: The Long-March II-F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-7 spaceship blasts off at the Jiuquan satellite launch centre Photograph: Xu Haihan/ChinaFotoPress/Getty

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Dead canaries at the airport. A Portuguese man was arrested trying to smuggle 200 wild Peruvian canaries in four cages inside two suitcases. Sixty-five of the birds died due to suffocation or dehydration Photograph: Andre Penner/AP

Milan, Italy: A model presents a creation by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP

Berlin, Germany: A sculpture by Chiharu Shiota involving hundreds of shoes stuck to the outside of a building. The sculpture is part of the Torstrasse, 166 - House of Imagination exhibition Photograph: John Macdougall/AFP