24 hours in pictures : December 4 2007

Jalarghat, Bangladesh: A Bangladeshi girl walks past an uprooted tree in the cyclone Sidr-hit area of south Bangladesh. The final toll from cyclone Sidr was likely to be more than 4,000 as hundreds of fishermen are still missing in Bangladesh, the army said. Photograph: Mehdi Fedouach/AFP

Great Falls, USA: A group of ducks rest on the reflective ice covering the surface of the Missouri River. Photograph: Robin Loznak/AP

Beppu, Japan: People are buried to their neck in sand bath at Beppu Seafront Sand Spa. Customers are buried in natrually heated hot sand, the heated sand encourages perspiration. Photograph: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty

Beaver Creek, USA: ouni Pellinen of Finland skis the begining of the windblown course however he did not finish in the Mens FIS Alpine World Cup Super G on the Birds of Prey at Beaver Creek. Photograph: Doug Pensinger/Getty

Ilopango, El Salvador: A member of the blind painters academy 'Tonatiu' sketchs during the Disability World Day. The academy teachs to blind people several techniques of painting and drawing in weekly meetings which help to their integral development. Photograph: Roberto Escobar/EPA

Duisburg, Germany: Visitors looks a the painting "Gelbes und weisses Baby" (Yellow and White Baby, 1967) at the Museum Kueppersmuehle during the presentation of an exhibition of the work of late German painter Joerg Immendorff who died last May. Photograph: MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK/AFP

Doha, Qatar: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) walks hand-in-hand with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (C) and Omani leader Sultan Qaboos bin Said as they arrive for the opening of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. Ahmadinejad, who accepted the first such invitation ever from the GCC to the Islamic Republic, proposed a security pact to the Gulf leaders at the opening of the summit. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP

New Orleans, USA: Pink structures resembling houses sit in the Lower Ninth ward as part of Actor Brad Pitt's "Make it Right" program in the Lower Ninth Ward. The "Make it Right" program aims to create affordable, environmentally friendly housing. Photograph: Chris Graythen/Getty

Beijing, China: People wait for the bus under a huge Chinese military poster on display along a street to promote the various defense forces cooperating with civilians building a strong and harmonious country. Photograph: TEH ENG KOON/AFP

Sioux City, USA: A supporter listens as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at a campaign event. Iowa will hold the nation's first presidential Caucus on January 3, 2008. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Getty

Washington, USA: President Bush, right, along with seven-year-old Malik Lawson, center, watch the Childrens Holiday Reception and Performance in the East Room the White House. Photograph: Ron Edmonds/AP

Tenom, Malaysia: A worker harvests oil-palm fruit bunches made up of black-orange, berry-like fruit nuts in Sabah, part of Borneo. Palm oil has long been used in a wide range of consumer products, from margarine to sweets and soaps to cosmetics, but since Europe and America have discovered palm oil as a biofuel, a cleaner-burning alternative to mineral oil, business has taken off. Photograph: Barbara Walton/EPA

Baquba, Iraq: An Iraqi child passes by as US soldiers from Bravo company, 1st Battallion, 38 regiment infantry Striker division patrol a market area. US military prisons in Iraq hold around 2,000 Al-Qaeda militants, mostly locals, detained in security operations across the battered country says US military sources. Photograph: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP

Belgrade, Serbia: A worker repairs lights on billboard showing picture of the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with Cyrillic writing, ‚ "Kosovo is Serbia‚" and the words of the prime minister ‚ "We will defend what is ours. We shall never surrender". Photograph: ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP

Jakarta, Indonesia: Indonesian women pass by the smoke from burning rubbish in slum area. Indonesia is hosting n Nusa Dua, on Bali island, a 11 days UN Climate Chang Conference held under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and attended by more than 180 nations, aims to craft a blueprint for negotiations leading to a new pact for addressing global warming. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA

Goma, DRC: A young mother carries both a huge laod of bananas and her baby in the Bulengo refugee camp. An estimated 50,000 people have swamped the four refugee camps in the area after an surge in the fighting between the government FARDC (Forces Armees de la Republic Democratic du Congo) and rebels fighters of dissident General , Laurent Nkunda. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

Baghdad, Iraq: A baby drinks milk amid luggage of Iraqi refugees arriving from Syria to Baghdad's international bus station in al-Mansur district. Between 25,000 and 28,000 Iraqi refugees have come home from Syria since mid-September, the Iraqi Red Crescent Organisation said, confirming a growing trend but casting doubts on reports of mass returns. Photograph: ALI AL-SAADI /AFP

Warsaw, Poland: In this handout photo provided by Czartoryski Foundation and Lumiere Technology, is a combination image of an unrestored, right, and restored version of Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine". Photograph: HO/AP