24 hours in pictures: November 8 2007

A selection of the best images from around the world.

Thu 8 Nov 2007 11.29 EST First published on Thu 8 Nov 2007 11.29 EST

Pattan, Kashmir: Empty bullet cartridges on the ground after a 50-hour gunbattle between separatist militants and Indian army soldiers
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/EPA
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Tbilisi, Georgia: Security forces put on gas masks as they prepare to confront anti-government protesters
Photograph: Shakh Aivazov/AP
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Washington, US: Mark Rumley of Medford, Massachusetts, takes a rubbing of a name from the Vietnam veterans memorial
Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
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Kabul, Afghanistan: Two men take the body of a suicide attack victim to be buried
Photograph: EPA
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Minsk, Belarus: A Communist party supporter holds the Communist flag during a rally marking the 90th anniversary of the October revolution
Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP
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Islamabad, Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto addresses the media at a press conference
Photograph: John Moore/Getty
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London, England: Thousands of wooden crosses, each decorated with a poppy and bearing the name of a fallen soldier, stand in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey
Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
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Villahermosa, Mexico: A woman waits for her relatives at a Red Cross camp after a mudslide struck flood-ravaged southern Mexico
Photograph: Alfredo Estrella/AFP
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Nairobi, Kenya: Plaster casts of skulls from the earliest humaniods to modern man (from l to r) at the National Museum of Kenya
Photograph: Stephen Morrison/EPA
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Fribourg, Switzerland: Hundreds of young people take part in a "flash mobbing" pillow fight
Photograph: Peter Klaunzer/Keystone/AP
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Reading, England: Nordman fir Christmas trees lie wrapped in plastic netting ready for distribution
Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
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London, England: Thomas Schutte's new sculpture unveiled in Trafalgar Square
Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras: A parrot in the United Nations park
Photograph: Gustavo Amador/EPA
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Beijing, China: A model at Beijing Fashion Week
Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP
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New Delhi, India: A man is shaved by a street barber ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali
Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP
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