24 hours in pictures

Beijing, China: A worker carrying a sledgehammer walks past a demolished wall, after being hired by local residents claiming the land belonged to their community and was illegally built upon by a property company
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Depok, Indonesia: People hang on to a door on a commuter train for Jakarta. In 2007, as many as 26 people were killed from electric shocks and from falling off the roofs of trains
Photograph: Crack Palinggi/Reuters

Lahore, Pakistan: Candles lit by members of a civil society for the victims of recent militant attacks, outside a mosque of the Ahmadiyya sect
Photograph: KM Chaudary/AP

Sydney, Australia: A surfer wipes out at a break known as Fairy Bower
Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

Mons, Belgium: Spectators try to get the so-called "crin" (thread of the dragon) during the Doudou feast – a procession that has taken place in the town every year since the 14th century
Photograph: John Thys/EPA

Amritsar, India: Indian men cool off at a bath house
Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/EPA

Nairobi, Kenya: A boy juggles the ball during football practice at a community field in the Mathare slum
Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Kabul, Afghanistan: A man gets a haircut as the day ends
Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP

Louisiana, USA: A worker leaves the beach as storm clouds approach in Grand Isle, after the Gulf oil spill
Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

Palin, Guatemala: A man talks on the phone after the first tropical storm of the season left at least 18 people dead in Guatemala and El Salvador
Photograph: Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images

Hyderabad, India: A female labourer works at a road construction site on the outskirts of the southern Indian city
Photograph: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters

Kingston, Jamaica: Girls walk next to barbed wire at a military checkpoint in the Tivoli Gardens neighbourhood
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Manila, Philippines: Filipino children swim in a road construction site in the Tondo slum area
Photograph: Dennis M Sabangan/EPA