24 hours in pictures

Madrid, Spain: A priest blesses a hamster outside San Anton church. Hundreds of pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of San Anton, Spain's patron saint of animals
Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A woman prays at the site of the collapsed National Cathedral
Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Scavengers walk over the rubble of earthquake-damaged buildings
Photograph: Ricardo Arduengo/AP

New Delhi, India: Border security force soldiers perform a motorcycle stunt during Republic Day parade rehearsals
Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Kushiro, Japan: Endangered Japanese cranes (Grus japonensis) in a snow-covered field of the Kushiro marshland
Photograph: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images

Ankara, Turkey: Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, holds up his fist as he is released from prison
Photograph: /Reuters

Santiago, Chile: Celebrating supporters of Chile's president-elect, Sebastian Pinera, with one holding a bust of the former dictator Augusto Pinochet
Photograph: Jorge Saenz/AP

Ovsyanka, Russia: Aman drives a homemade snowmobile along a highway in Siberia
Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Caquiaviri, Bolivia: A dancer dodges firecrackers during the beginning of the Andean Carnival
Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: Men prepare to go on stage during the final day of the Bangkok international tattoo convention
Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Benguela, Angola: Children play football in the street
Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Taipei, Taiwan: Legislators from the Democratic Progressive party and the Nationalist party scuffle during a session at the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament
Photograph: Nicky Loh/Reuters

Kandahar, Afghanistan: A bagpiper and officers salute at a ceremony for a Canadian soldier killed by an improvised bomb
Photograph: Colin Perkel/AP