24 hours in pictures

Louisiana, US: A Plaquemines parish employee lays oil absorbent boom as pelicans leave their nests on an island in Barataria Bay
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: Municipal workers and volunteers clean up the mess left by the army's assault on anti-government protesters
Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images

Buenos Aires, Argentina: People perform with balloons during a parade as part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the May revolution, which paved the way for Argentina's independence from Spain in 1816
Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Allahabad, India: An farmer pats his horse as dawn breaks
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: Buddhist monks walk past burnt shops, days after the army assault on an anti-government protest site
Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images

Brussels, Belgium: Two children poke their heads through holes as they lay in a chariot during the Zinneke parade
Photograph: Sebastien Pirlet/Reuters

Chahar Darreh, Afghanistan: A soldier from 2nd Infantary Company works out with makeshift weights at the police headquarters
Photograph: Miguel Villagran/Getty Images

California, USA: A dog competes during the 5th annual Loews Coronado bay resort surf dog competition in Imperial Beach
Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

Paranaque, Philippines: Children try to blow powder from a plastic cup at a fiesta celebratingtheir patron saint, St Rita of Cascia
Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP

West Point, New York state: Graduates fling their hats at a commencement and commissioning ceremony at the US Military Academy
Photograph: Craig Ruttle/AP

Rerik, Germany: People pass a row of closed beach chairs as they stroll along the shore in drizzling rain
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters

Karnataka, India: Relatives grieve next to the bodies of victims who died in an Air India plane crash in Mangalore
Photograph: Aijaz Rahi/AP

Nazret, Ethiopia: Women wait to cast their vote at a polling station
Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: People watch a soap opera on a giant screen in the rain at a camp for people displaced by the earthquake
Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP

Lisbon, Portugal: Leona Lewis performs on the main stage of Rock in Rio Lisboa music festival at Bela Vista Park
Photograph: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images

Huelva, Spain: Pilgrims light candles at the shrine of El Rocio
Photograph: Javier Barbancho/Reuters