24 hours in pictures

Gothenburg, Sweden: A person fishes on a jetty near the harbour Photograph: Olivier Morin /AFP

Paris, France: Mime artist Julien Cottereau poses at the Bouffes Parisiens, where he will perform his one-man show Imagine Toi Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP

Buenos Aires, Argentina: The city stadium is shrouded in smoke during the Copa Sudamericana match between Argentinos Juniors and San Luis Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Seoul, South Korea: Kwon Won-tae performs during the world highwire championships Photograph: Lee Jin-man/AP

New York, USA: The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour Photograph: Timothy A. Clary /AFP

Beijing, China: A man is reflected casting his net from a footbridge over an oil slick on a river Photograph: Frederic J. Brown /AFP

London, UK: City workers make telephone calls outside the London Stock Exchange Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

St. Louis, USA: Tape on the floor shows the entrance to the stage for the first 2008 US vice-presidential debate between the Democrats' Joseph Biden and the Republicans' Sarah Palin Photograph: Carlos Barria /Reuters

al-Fuhood, Iraq: A girl stands on dry cracked earth in marshlands north of the southern city of Basra. The southern Iraqi marshes have almost entirely disappeared Photograph: Essam al-Sudani /AFP

Paris, France: Models on the catwalk at the end of the Sonia Rykiel show at Paris fashion week Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

Kalandia, West Bank: Palestinian children play with toy guns in an alley Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Moroto, Uganda: A health clinic worker gives vaccine to a child Photograph: James Akena /Reuters

New Delhi, India: Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Jama Masjid mosque to mark the end of Ramadan Photograph: Manpreet Romana/AFP

Kuyera, Ethiopia: A child peers through a hole in a fence while waiting in line for food and medicine at a clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres Photograph: Stephen Morrison /EPA