Protests around the world – in pictures

An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator is arrested by New York City police during what protest organisers called a day of action in the city Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Occupy Wall Street protesters remove police barricades in Zuccotti Park in New York City Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Occupy Wall Street protester Frances Goldin, 87, from New York's Lower East Side, talks with police at the intersection of Exchange Place and Beaver Street in the financial district Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

About 100 Yemeni protesters demonstrate outside the residence of Jamal Benomar, the UN envoy to Yemen, to call for a solution to the ongoing political impasse, for educational institutions in Sana'a and for an end to military presence in the Yemeni capital Photograph: Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images

An Occupy DC protester walks his dog at McPherson Square Park in Washington DC Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Students use a banner to shield themselves from a police water cannon during a march to demand education reform in Valparaíso, Chile Photograph: Luis Hidalgo/AP

Syrians living in Jordan shout slogans against President Bashar Al-Assad at a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman Photograph: Majed Jaber/Reuters

Protesters from the Occupy San Francisco movement sit on the floor and wait to be arrested by police after the group took over a Bank of America branch in the city Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

Protesters are seen through smoke from a teargas canister thrown by riot police outside the US embassy in Athens Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

A police cordon separates demonstrators from the US embassy in Athens Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Occupy protesters hold a minute's 'silent scream' to mark the 1800 GMT deadline for their eviction outside St Paul's Cathedral in London Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Police arrest a demonstrator after a march in favour of public schools and against proposed budget cuts in public education in central Madrid Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Students clash with police during a demonstration in Milan Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP

Students and unionists demonstrate in Rome against government budget cuts Photograph: Guido Montani/EPA

A demonstrator is carried off by members of the Los Angeles police department Photograph: David Mcnew/Reuters

Demonstrators march along 5th St in downtown Los Angeles on the second month anniversary of the Occupy movement Photograph: David Mcnew/Reuters