24 Hours In Pictures

Kamrangir Char, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi children work in a balloon factory. The children are made to work more than nine hours a day, for less than $3 a week Photograph: Abir Abdullah/EPA

Sitka, Alaska: Cellist Armen Ksajikian plays for the resident bears at the Fortress of the Bears sanctuary during Sitka's Summer Music Festival
Photograph: James Poulson/AP

Jammu, India: Police extinguish a fire after protesters burned the house of a boy's suspected kidnapper Photograph: Channi Anand/AP

Sao Paulo, Brazil: A model presents an outfit from Movimento's 2010/2011 summer collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week
Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Two children rest in the street. About 14.1 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean are trapped in child labour, according to the International Labour Organization
Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

The Gulf of Mexico: Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the coast of Louisiana. The ruptured BP Deepwater Horizon well is estimated to be leaking 40,000 barrels a day
Photograph: HO/Reuters

Kandahar City, Afghanistan: US and Canadian soldiers play hockey at Camp Nathan Smith
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

Istanbul, Turkey: A plastinated human is posed as a basketball player in German anatomist Gunther von Hagens' exhibition, Koerperwelten
Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters

Lebanon: Tourists sit in a boat as they tour the Jeita Grotto, a compound of karstic limestone caves Photograph: JAMAL SAIDI/REUTERS

Nickelsdorf, Austria: A man performs a bungee jump at the Nova Rock music festival
Photograph: Lisa Niesner/Reuters

Donington, England: Brett Makowski, of 36 Crazyfists, rocks out on the Maurice Jones stage during day one of the Download Festival
Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Getty Images

Ypetimi, Paraguay: An indigenous Ache man stands guard during a traditional wake ceremony for an Ache child captured 114 years ago in the jungles of Paraguay. Preserved at a museum in Argentina, the bones of the boy and an Ache woman have been returned by Argentine authorities in an act of historical reparation
Photograph: Jorge Saenz/AP