24 hours in pictures : October 10 2007

Istalif, Afghanistan: An Afghan farmer guides his cattle as they draw a plough in a field outside the artisan's village of Istalif in the Shomali plains. Istalif, once a village famous for its pottery, lies mostly in ruins following decades of wars. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP

Chongqing, China: A black swan rests at the Changhai Wild Animal Rescue Center. Yang Changhai, a 61-year-old retired worker, founded the center in 2005 and rescued over 200 wild animals. Photograph: China Photos/Getty

Guatemala City, Guatemala: A mother with her daughter attend the burial of Aura Salazar, a member of the Guatemala's Patriotic party. Presidential candidate, Otto Perez, blamed organized crime for killing Salazar and guard Valerio Castanon on Oct. 8. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Jembrana, Indonesia: Indonesians riders wait on their motorbikes before boarding a passenger ship at Gilimanuk Port. Photograph: MADE NAGI/EPA

Algiers, Algeria: An Algerian mother comforts her baby who while a doctor circumcises him during a mass circumcision at a local hospital. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP

Nicosia, Cyprus: Kurdish protesters living in Cyprus are seen through a Kurdish flag as they demonstrate outside of the European Union house, the representation of the European Commission. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP

Denver, USA: Colorado Rockies pitcher Taylor Buchholz winds up to throw during baseball practice. Photograph: Jack Dempsey/AP

Baquba, Iraq: A US soldier from Alpha Company of 1/38 Infantry Regiment has a short rest during a clearing operation, as his colleague walks over a canal. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP

Berlin, Germany: The feet of the sculpture "Woman With Fruit" (1996) by Colombian artist Fernando Botero at the Lustgarten park. Photograph: AFP

Belgrade, Serbia: Serbian reservists rest in front of the Serbian government building during a protest. Serbian veterans from the 1990s Balkan wars stagged a protest in the Serbian capital, demanding verdue payments for time spent in the former Yugoslav army during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Warsaw, Poland: A big election campaign poster of the Law and Justice (PiS) party showing Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, center, with Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska, left, and Health Minister Zbigniew Religa, is seen. Kaczynski's party is in a tight race with its main rival, the pro-business Civic Platform, in the Oct. 21 parliamentary elections. Photograph: Czarek Sokolowski/AP

Dearborn, USA: Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., second from left, jokes with Sen. Sam Brownback R-Kan., left, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., right, before the GOP Presidential candidates debate at Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP

Space: This image shows the first high-resolution glimpse of the bright trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus taken by Cassini. Photograph: NASA/AP

La Plata, Argentina: A group of women from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo movement, with their traditonal white scarfs, embrace each other after hearing the verdict of former Provincial Police chaplain, Christian Von Wernich who was convicted to life sentence for his crimes committed during the military dictatorship in the country from 1976 to 1983 Photograph: Leo La Valle/EPA

Jerusalem, Israel: Texts are written up in both Hebrew (L) and Arabic at the Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education. The pioneering school's pupils, who are equally balanced by their background in each class, are simultaneously co-taught in both Hebrew and Arabic by Jewish and Arab teachers under the banner "Learning Together, Living Together". Photograph: David Silverman/Getty

Frankfurt, Germany: A woman walks under dangling paper folders featuring names connected to Catalan culture and literature at the Catalan culture stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Photograph: John McDougall/AFP

Wuhan, China: A broken clock features in the work by sculptor Sun Shaoqun entitled "Beyond Space Time" at the 2nd China Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts. About 80 artists are displaying their art during the event with the theme "Forms of Concepts: The Reform of Concepts of Chinese Contemporary Art 1987 - 2007". Photograph: Getty