Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world during the past 24 hours.
Film-makers Joe Shemesh and Doug Thost have spent months in dark, wet Tasmanian caves recording the lives of the Tasmanian cave spider.
A protester sleeps as she blocks a street near government headquarters in Hong Kong. Hong Kong leader CY Leung has urged pro-democracy protesters to stop their campaign "immediately", as huge crowds continue to bring parts of the territory to a standstill.
Mongolia's Nandintsetseg Myagmardulam (red) fights with Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova during their women's fly semi-final boxing match at Seonhak Gymnasium during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
A display of aurora borealis (Northern Lights) is seen north of the Arctic Circle, over the village of Mestervik in northern Norway.
Demonstrators stormed the congress building in the capital of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero to protest against the killing of six people during violence over the weekend.
Men inspect a site hit by what activists say was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Qadi Askar district of Aleppo.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, with their grand-daughter Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. Their daughter, Chelsea, gave birth to the baby girl at a New York hospital.
A mural by the street artist Banksy, of a woman staring at an empty plinth, is attracting attention in Folkestone, Kent, in England.
