24 hours in pictures: November 20 2007

A selection of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

Tue 20 Nov 2007 06.06 EST First published on Tue 20 Nov 2007 06.06 EST

  • Baghdad, Iraq: A detained man stands blindfolded after he was arrested for allegedly attacking a family member

  • Los Cristianos, Tenerife: Some of 104 would-be migrants picked up at sea off the Spanish Canary Islands

  • Barisal, Bangladesh: A doctor treats patients at a temporary clinic set up after devastating floods

  • Hollywood, US: A clown from Le Cirque du Soleil during a press conference

  • Mingora, Pakistan: Displaced children carry blankets after fleeing their home. Villagers left the area after fighting intensified between Pakistani forces and pro-Taliban militants

  • Bolivia: Indigenous followers of President Evo Morales on a rally from Caracollo to La Paz, organised to put pressure on the opposition-controlled senate

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dolls at the newly opened Barbie store

  • Great Falls, US: A bird forages for food in deep snow

  • Beijing, China: A woman cuts vegetables at her house

  • Santo Tirso, Portugal: A priest looks at the Tintoretto painting The Worship of the Magi

  • Beijing, China: Guards of honour open a curtain just before the welcoming ceremony for the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, at the Great Hall of the People

  • Sarajevo, Bosnia: French engineers disassemble a US army air force Douglas C-47 at Rajlovac airbase

  • London, UK: The Tales of Beedle the Bard, created, handwritten and illustrated by JK Rowling, is displayed at Sotheby's

  • London, UK: A student watches bubbles move at the Launchpad exhibition at the Science Museum

  • Lyon, France: A man holds a banner reading 'I demonstrate, you demonstrate, he demonstrates, we demonstrate, you demonstrate, they will lose' as part of a nationwide day of protest

  • Algiers City, Algeria: Men fish near Bab el-Ouad coast

  • Amsterdam, Netherlands: A tree expert sits in the chestnut tree in the garden of the house where Anne Frank and her family hid during the second world war. Activists are fighting to save the diseased tree from being felled; the owner has put it up for sale on eBay
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