We bring you the best photographs in the last 48 hours from around the world.

Members of the pre-swimmers synchronised team perform before the start of the team's free routine competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.

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Paramilitary policemen in charge of guarding the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge along the Yangtze River perform a handover ceremony in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province in China. The ceremony symbolises the annual changing of the guard with new personnel taking over the duties of the retiring personnel, reported local media.

Tourists ride camels near the Great Pyramid of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.

A woman crosses a polluted gutter in the main outdoor food market in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti . The United Nations-led international response to Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic is 'inadequate' and woefully short of funding, aid groups, including the UN humanitarian agency, have said.

A man walks in the rain with three girls in the Casco Viejo (old town centre) of Bilbao, Spain.

Police block a group of demonstrators during an anti-NATO march in downtown Lisbon.

Dr.Karmele Llano Sanchez from International Animal Rescue checks Monte, a 13-year-old pet orangutan, after members of the West Kalimantan Conservation and Natural Resources Boardseized him from a residence in Bengkayang in West Kalimantan province. Orangutans are a protected species and it is illegal to possess them in Indonesia.

A Haitian with symptoms of cholera is transported in a wheelbarrow at the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince.

A protester holding an umbrella takes part in a peaceful demonstration against the NATO summit in downtown Lisbon.

A man selling sweets walks along the shoreline near an old castle in the port city of Alexandria, Egypt.