Day in pictures: 24 November

1 of 10 A huge Christmas tree is framed against skyscrapers in Hong Kong.

2 of 10 Skates at the ready in London as the ice rink opens for the festive season at Somerset House.

3 of 10 Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz offers flowers at the Nizamuddin Dargah, a shrine to a Sufi saint in Delhi, during a visit to India.

4 of 10 Pedestrian crossing signals featuring female, rather than male, figures, are launched in Zwickau in Germany on a three-month trial.

5 of 10 A Chinese construction worker drinks baijiu, an alcoholic spirit distilled from sorghum, during his lunch break.

6 of 10 The ruins of a truck which drove off a bridge after a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad.

7 of 10 About 2,000 volunteers in Seoul make kimchi, Korea's traditional spicy, pickled and fermented vegetables, to donate to needy neighbours.

8 of 10 A Thai Muslim schoolgirl and her brother look at a school building burned down in Pattani province, southern Thailand, by suspected Islamic militants.

9 of 10 A policeman inspects a collapsed section of highway in the American state of Georgia.

10 of 10 Some of the hundreds of paramilitaries who are laying down their arms in Colombia get a lesson in brushing their teeth.