24 hours in pictures : September 12 2007

Middletown Township, USA : An ornament left on one of the stone markers in the Middletown World Trade Centre memorial gardens. The stones are carved with the names of the town's residents who died in the September 11 2001 attacks Photograph: Mel Evans/AP

Baghdad, Iraq : An woman holds her daughter as US soldiers search her home during a patrol Photograph: DAVID FURST/AFP

London, UK : The Lockheed Martin stand at the Defence Systems and Equipment International exhibition at the Excel Centre Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty

Mae Sot, Thailand : Karen refugee Myat Win, 29, rests on a bed next to her artificial legs in the Mae Tao clinic on the Thai-Burma border. She lost both her legs six years ago when she stepped on a landmine Photograph: RUNGROJ YONGRIT/EPA

Basel, Switzerland : 'Self portrait' dated 1938, by artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) is shown in the Tinguely museum . The exhibition 'Max Ernst - In The Garden Of Nymph Ancolie' runs from today until January 27 2008 Photograph: Georgios Kefalas/AP

New York, USA : Alice+Olivia's 2008 spring/summer collection is shown at New York Fashion Week Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Gaza City, Gaza Strip : A man sells bananas at the Alzaoya market ahead of the Muslim fasting holy month of Ramadan Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Havana, Cuba : People play dominos in the old sector of the city Photograph: Victor R. Caivano/AP

Santiago, Chile : A woman holds a picture of a missing relative and places red carnations at the Morande door of the La Moneda presidential palace the anniversary of the 1973 coup by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973 against Salvador Allende Photograph: IAN SALAS/EPA

Brasilia, Brazil : The president of the country's senate, Renan Calheiros, is surrounded by journalists as he arrives for a plenary session to decide whether his parliamentary privileges will be withdrawn following an investigation that concluded he had accepted bribes from a lobbyist Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP

Frankfurt, Germany : Journalists surround the CEO of DaimlerChrysler, Dieter Zetsche (l), and the British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton (c) as they stand next to a Mercedes C 300 T Bluetech hybrid car on press day at the 62nd international motor show. Photograph: SASCHA SCHUERMANN/AFP

Rayagada district, India : A suspected cholera patient is treated in a hospital in the village of Tikiri Photograph: MANPREET ROMANA/AFP

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Women greet each other outside a church following a millennium eve mass Photograph: Roberto SCHMIDT/AFP

Rome, Italy : Viewers are silhouetted by some of the 10,000 lights that make up the installation 'Maximum Silence' by the Italian artist Giancarlo Neri Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP