24 hours in pictures : October4 2007

Arusha, Tanzania: Seven-year-old Novesa (c) holds the hand of her five-year-old neighbour Delvin (l) as they and her younger brother Dixon, 6, walk to school Photograph: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP

Baghdad, Iraq: Women walk past a mural depicting a scene from old Baghdad Photograph: SABAH ARAR/AFP

Ha Tinh province, Vietnam: A motorcyclist fights against strong winds caused by Typhoon Lekima Photograph: HOANG DINH Nam/AFP

Green Bay, USA: Firefighters are silhouetted against smoke while battling a fire Photograph: Evan Siegle/AP

Buenos Aires, Argentina: A child is given some juice at a soup kitchen Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

London, UK: An exhibit from the new Polly Morgan exhibition, The Exquisite Corpse, at Trinity church Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP

New York, USA: Zemira Stevens (r) and Anuhska Mejia, both aged 4, use a magnifying lens to inspect a butterfly at the American Museum of Natural History Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP

Addis Abeba, Ethiopia: The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, sits with street children at a school funded by a German charity Photograph: AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP

Vitoria, Spain: Truck Babies by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini at the Alava Atrium contemporary art centre Photograph: DAVID AGUILAR/EPA

Budapest, Hungary: A male mandrill at the city zoo Photograph: Bela Szandelszky/AP

Zigong, China: The Shenhai salt well. Constructed 180 years ago to a depth of 1,001.42m, it was the world's first well more than 1,000m deep and is still produces salt Photograph: China Photos/Getty

London, UK: The former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto speaks to journalists outside her home Photograph: Nathan Strange/AP

Paris, France: A homeless woman among dozens of tents on Rue de la Banque set up by Rights to Housing activists Photograph: JOEL SAGET/AFP

Jakarta, Indonesia: Police mount a cordon around bottles of alcohol seized from illegal alcohol vendors during Ramadan Photograph: Bay ISMOYO/AFP

Dresden, Germany: New red roof tiles shine in the autumn sun in between small turrets on the restored roof structure of Dresden Castle. Photograph: RALF HIRSCHBERGER/EPA

Derang, India: A woman hangs up her newly-harvested corn to dry Photograph: STR/EPA