24 hours in pictures: November 8 2007

Pattan, Kashmir: Empty bullet cartridges on the ground after a 50-hour gunbattle between separatist militants and Indian army soldiers Photograph: Altaf Qadri/EPA

Tbilisi, Georgia: Security forces put on gas masks as they prepare to confront anti-government protesters Photograph: Shakh Aivazov/AP

Washington, US: Mark Rumley of Medford, Massachusetts, takes a rubbing of a name from the Vietnam veterans memorial Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Kabul, Afghanistan: Two men take the body of a suicide attack victim to be buried Photograph: EPA

Minsk, Belarus: A Communist party supporter holds the Communist flag during a rally marking the 90th anniversary of the October revolution Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP

Islamabad, Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto addresses the media at a press conference Photograph: John Moore/Getty

London, England: Thousands of wooden crosses, each decorated with a poppy and bearing the name of a fallen soldier, stand in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Villahermosa, Mexico: A woman waits for her relatives at a Red Cross camp after a mudslide struck flood-ravaged southern Mexico Photograph: Alfredo Estrella/AFP

Nairobi, Kenya: Plaster casts of skulls from the earliest humaniods to modern man (from l to r) at the National Museum of Kenya Photograph: Stephen Morrison/EPA

Fribourg, Switzerland: Hundreds of young people take part in a "flash mobbing" pillow fight Photograph: Peter Klaunzer/Keystone/AP

Reading, England: Nordman fir Christmas trees lie wrapped in plastic netting ready for distribution Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

London, England: Thomas Schutte's new sculpture unveiled in Trafalgar Square Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: A parrot in the United Nations park Photograph: Gustavo Amador/EPA

Beijing, China: A model at Beijing Fashion Week Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP

New Delhi, India: A man is shaved by a street barber ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP