24 hours in pictures: November 21 2007

Kolkata, India: Muslim protesters shout slogans demanding the expulsion of the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen Photograph: STRDEL/AFP

Tafalbari, Bangladesh: A woman shouts in pain as others push towards the entrance of a relief centre Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP

Islamabad, Pakistan: Riot police prepare for demonstrators rallying against the president, General Pervez Musharraf Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

Colombo, Sri Lanka: A policeman investigates the burned printing presses of the Sunday Leader newspaper group after 15 masked attackers broke in and ordered workers to kneel down outside before setting fire to the machines. The paper is critical of the government Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

A-ram, West Bank: A Palestinian boy rides his bicycle next to a section of Israel's barrier separating the outskirts of Jerusalem from the West Bank Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Cheyenne, US: A starlet sits on a power line as storm clouds roll across the sky Photograph: Michael Smith/Wyoming Tribune Eagle/AP

Tokyo, Japan: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gives a lecture Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Tripoli, Lebanon: A portrait of a Palestinian woman lies amid the rubble of a library destroyed during summer fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Chongqing, China: A worker in a pit at the Moxinpo colliery Photograph: China Photos/Getty

New York, US: Why Fear the Future? by Carlos Amorales, on display as part of the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006 Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP

Beirut, Lebanon: A motorcyclist and his colleague use an umbrella to protect themselves from pouring rain Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP

Vinica, Bulgaria: A man stirs a plum mash at a small distillery. Many country people grow their own grapes or plums and brew small quantities of the traditional drink raki Photograph: Petar Petrov/AP

Seville, Spain: Horses perform during a rehearsal at Sicab, the International horse show Photograph: Cristina Quicler/AFP

Hamburg, Germany: The exhibition Power in Death: the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China, at the Museum of Ethnology Photograph: Roland Magunia/AFP

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: A motorbike loaded with agricultural goods Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Members of the Spanish National Ballet perform at the Gran Rex theatre Photograph: Leo La Valle/EPA