24 hours in pictures: September 24 2007 | World news

Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22BST First published on Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22BST Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Photograph: STR/AFP Photograph: Hiroko Masuike/Getty Photograph: Claude Paris/AP Photograph: Larry Steagall/AP

24 hours in pictures: September 24 2007

Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22 BST First published on Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22 BST

  • Luton, UK: A full moon next to a floodlight prior to the Carling Cup third-round match between Luton Town and Charlton Athletic

  • Rangoon, Burma: A protesting Buddhist monk sheds tears for other monks arrested by police

  • New York, US: Mercy Venvalck at an anti-war rally outside the UN in protest at President Bush's speech there

  • Marseille, France: The El Gusto orchestra performing at the Theatre du Gymnase. The 40 Jewish and Muslim musicians are together, on a European tour, for the first time in almost 50 years

  • Bremerton, US: Scott Fallows, from Hansville, Washington, swings his son at Silverdale Waterfront park. The stripes seen in the background are ridges on a restroom roof

  • Tel Aviv, Israel: A two-day-old male black rhinoceros baby stands next to his mother, Tanda, 14, at the Ramat Gan safari park

  • Berlin, Germany: Banners showing people from all over the world advertise a conference of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  • Janesville, US: United Auto Workers members picket a General Motors assembly plant where Tahoes, Suburbans, and Yukons are built

  • Al-Duwanem, Iraq: Former Iraqi insurgents, Iraqi police commandos and US troops guard a meeting between Sunni and Shia tribal leaders and clerics

  • Shenzhen, China: A sky lantern, or kongming lantern, marks the mid-autumn festival (aka moon festival)

  • New York, US: The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is surrounded by aides before a security council meeting on Africa during the UN general assembly

  • Vinh Long province, Vietnam: Rescue workers search the site of the collapse of the Can Tho bridge, which was under construction. At least 18 people died and 60 others were injured in the accident

  • Jerusalem, Israel: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds a lulav, or palm frond, as he lines up with others to have the item checked for imperfections in preparation for the approaching, week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot

  • Milan, Italy: A model in the Missoni spring/summer 2008 collection

  • Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Russia: The Sukhoi Superjet-100 civil passenger plane is shown to the public for the first time today

  • Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand: The eastern face of the volcano after a sudden eruption last night spewed mud down its slopes, and flying rock seriously injured a climber

  • Loch Lomond, UK: A shepherd brings a flock of sheep in from Glen Finlas. Restrictions on animal movements in Scotland enforced after the recent foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey have been significantly eased
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