24 hours in pictures

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: US troops surround a man who was pulled from the rubble two weeks after an earthquake leveled the city
Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A woman covers her face as UN soldiers use pepper spray to control a crowd waiting for food rations
Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

Allahabad, India: Bholle Nath, a Hindu holy man, begs for alms on the banks of the river Ganges during the annual month-long Magh Mela fair
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Sao Paulo, Brazil: People wade down a flooded street in the Jardim Romano district
Photograph: Nelson Antoine/AP

Kabul, Afghanistan: Turkish soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force show their identity cards at the site of a bomb explosion near a US base
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Hindeloopen, Netherlands: A couple in traditional clothes take part in an old form of synchronised skating on the IJsselmeer lake
Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

Cumnock, Australia: A girl plays on a trampoline at her home, part of a scheme which allows families to rent a farmhouse in need of restoration for $1 a week
Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Caracas, Venezuela: Riot police advance towards protesting university students
Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

Jakarta, Indonesia: Children play with a map found among rubbish at the Bantar Gebang landfill site
Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

Karachi, Pakistan: A customs official shoots into the air to deter looters who charged a pile of contraband being burned to mark International Customs Day
Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Jerusalem, Israel: A visitor walks past a video installation at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum
Photograph: Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters

Rawalpindi, Pakistan: A body builder warms up during a power cut at a gym
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Rome, Italy: A performer dressed as a centurion, shelters under an umbrella outside the Colosseum
Photograph: Guido Montani/EPA