24 hours in pictures

Berhampur, India: A village boy runs through a parched field on World Water Day. Clean Water for a Healthy World is the day's theme
Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP

Washington DC, US: Barack Obama and his vice-president, Joe Biden, walk through the Cross Hall of the White House after Obama's speech about Congress passing the health bill
Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Juarez, Mexico: Poice at an incident in the border city, which drug-related violence has made one of the most dangerous places in the world
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Rahovec, Kosovo: Dervishes – adherents of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam – hold a sword across the throat of a believer during a ceremony
Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images

Kandahar, Afghanistan: US army soldiers with the 97th military police battalion play board games at a police station in between training Iraqi recruits
Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters

Akra, Iraq: Kurds celebrate the Noruz spring festival with fireworks. The Persian new year, which coincides with the spring equinox, is a Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians in common with Kurds
Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images

Caracas, Venezuela: A forest fire burns in the Avila national park
Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters

Allahabad, India: A woman fills a copper vessel for a ritual on the banks of the Ganges
Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP

Islamabad, Pakistan: A barber gives a customer a haircut at his shop in a Christian neighbourhood
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Beijing, China: Tourists wearing masks pose for photographs on Tiananmen Square during a dust storm that covered parts of China where more than 270 million people live
Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

North Dakota, US: Buildings surrounded by floodwaters from the Red river in Fargo, which peaked at just under 37 feet, four feet below the 2009 record
Photograph: M. Spencer Green/AP

Jakarta, Indonesia: A group of boys playing football on the beach. Indonesia has been dropped from the race to host the 2022 World Cup due to a lack of government support
Photograph: Adi Weda/EPA

Tampa, Florida: Sheila Mann and Joann Preston prepare for a downpour before a spring training baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers that was eventually cancelled
Photograph: Steve Nesius/AP

Medellin, Colombia: Carolina Murillo competes in the women's 10m platform dive to win bronze for Colombia at the South American games
Photograph: Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters