24 hours in pictures

Hanoi, Vietnam: A man exercises in front of a lake
Photograph: Greg Baker/AP

Mexico City, Mexico: A busker plays a trumpet in the street
Photograph: Eliana Aponte/Reuters

Nabi Samuel, West Bank: An ultra-Orthodox youth prays
Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

Bangkok, Thailand: An anti-government protester dances with his dog at the red shirts' encampment
Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Kandahar, Aghanistan: A US Chinook helicopter takes off from Camp Nathan Smith
Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters

Baghdadm, Iraq: Workers build a bridge
Photograph: Ali al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images

Manila, Philippines: An unemployed man and his family rest in the Nepomuceno street area of the city
Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

Tripoli, Libya: Rescue workers, officials and journalists gather at the scene of an Afriqiyah Airways crash
Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

Lisbon, Portugal: Nuns watch a big screen showing Pope Benedict conducting an open mass at the Terreiro do Paço square
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Kiev, Ukraine: Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko shakes the hand of a supporter as she leaves the prosecutor general's office where she was notified over a corruption probe
Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images

Dharmsala, India: Tibetan exiles observe a minute's silence during a candlelit vigil for the vicitms of the Qinghai earthquake
Photograph: Ashwini Bhatia/AP