REWIND: The best PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

We bring you a presentation of the best photos in the last 24 hours from around the world.

A machine gunner from the First Battalion, Eighth Marines Bravo Company wears a bandolier of bullets around his neck at his base in Talibjan after a patrol in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province

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A Muslim pilgrim prays near the entrance of Hera cave on Mount Al-Noor during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca. The haj is one of the world's biggest displays of mass religious devotion and a duty for Muslims who can perform it.

Afghan labourers pose for the camera as they wait for work in Kabul

US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama tour the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta. Guiding them is Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub

A man looks at waves crashing against a lighthouse in the northern Spanish village of Viavelez

Sunderland's Danny Welbeck falls to the ground during their English Premier League soccer match against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane in London

Bill Gates speaks at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2010 Health Summit in Washington

South Korean Falun Gong members portray the torture of a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner to protest what they say is the suppression of the movement by Chinese authorities during a news conference in Seoul. South Korean authorities have received hundreds of applications to stage G20 protests, mostly by small fringe groups, with the biggest rally of unionists and anti-capitalists expected on Thursday. Some 50,000 police officers have been dispatched

A Muslim pilgrim prays atop Mount Al-Noor during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca. The haj is one of the world's biggest displays of mass religious devotion and a duty for Muslims who can perform it

An Indonesian riot policeman drinks water during a protest against US President Barack Obama's visit in Indonesia, near the University of Indonesia in Depok, near Jakarta

An Afghan boy looks out of a bakery shop as he waits for customers on a roadside in Kabul

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children sit in class at the Shomrei HaHoma Torah School for boys in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood. The Israeli government is trying to encourage ultra religious schools to teach a broader range of useful core subjects as well as religion, so that their students are equipped to contribute to Israel's economy in the future. Israel's ultra-Orthodox minority has long been at odds with the Jewish state's highest judicial authority over edicts which some devout Jews say interfere with their religious lifestyle

Members of the audience react as President Barack Obama arrives on stage to deliver a speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. Obama said on Wednesday that much more needs to be done to repair frayed US relations with the Muslim world in an acknowledgement of the difficulties in eradicating "years of mistrust."

France's junior minister for sport Rama Yade applauds Maureen Nisima after she won her final against Emese Szasz of Hungary in the epee competition at the 2010 World Fencing Championships at the Grand Palais in Paris

China's Zhang Xian jumps to return the ball against Peru during their second round match at the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship in Tokyo