24 hours in pictures

Beijing, China: Ushers adjust their hats at Tiananmen Square during the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images

Cologne, Germany: The collapsed six-storey city archive building which collapsed on Tuesday as seen through the open window of a fire engine. Three people were feared missing in other nearby damaged buildings nearby Photograph: Oliver Berg/EPA

Beijing, China: The National People's Congress spokesman and former foreign minister Li Zhaoxing briefs the media Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty

Paris, France: The National Assembly pictured during the weekly government questions session Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty

Bogota, Colombia: A dog barks though a hole in the wall of a hardware store Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP

Denny, UK: Cows stand in a snow-covered field as winter weather returned to northern parts of the UK Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Hyderabad, India: Graduation day at the elite Central Industrial Security Force, a paramilitary group under the command of the interior ministry which guards sites such as nuclear power plants, oilfields and major ports Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty

San Francisco, US: Sean Penn arrives at a press conference announcing legislation to create a Harvey Milk Day in California Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Jerusalem, Israel: A man walks through the old city, past a shop selling traditional headscarves Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA

Jakarta, Indonesia: Anti-riot police put through a drill Photograph: Enny Nuraheni/Reuters

Hanover, Germany: A girl walks up stairs at the CeBIT computer fair Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

London, UK: Graves are marked for possible reclamation Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Kakanj, Bosnia Herzegovina: Ferid Sinan at his coalmine. Sinan, a former soldier, illegally lives and works in the mine, which he excavated himself Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Manila, Philippines: A Philippine Long-Tailed Macaque in a wildlife rescue centre. The Macaque is endemic to the Philippines and an endangered species Photograph: Alanah M Torralba/EPA