Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world during the past 24 hours.
Vocalist Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction performs during CBGB Music & Film Festival in New York's Times Square.
Workers from six trade unions took part in a four-hour NHS strike, involving nurses, midwives and ambulance staff in England. Trade unions want an across-the-board pay rise of 1% but the government says the proposal would cost too much.
Models present creations by Serbian designer Lidija Kolovrat at Moda Lisboa Fashion Week in Lisbon, Portugal.
A street performer looks on as a Greenpeace activist dressed like a polar bear poses in front of the National Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. Greenpeace activists have campaigned against experimental research oil drilling by the Shell Oil Company in the Arctic.
Children play football on Copacabana Beach in the fog in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A major new installation titled I Don't Know, or The Weave of Textile Language by Richard Tuttle is unveiled in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, London.
Competitors in the Men's World Cup Triathlon Series take part in the penultimate stage in Cartagena, Spain.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone shake hands during the inaugural Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Sochi.
