24 hours in pictures

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: French rescue workers pull a girl out alive from a building 15 days after an earthquake flattened the city
Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Supporters of ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, gather at the airport after he took off in a plane to the Dominican Republic
Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Cadets of the Francisco Morazan military academy attend the inauguration of president-elect Porfirio Lobo
Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty

New Delhi, India: People gather around the India Gate monument
Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP

Bethlehem, West Bank: A Palestinian youth holds a picture of a relative jailed in Israel
Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

Pech Valley, Afghanistan: As darkness falls a US soldier smokes a cigarette before getting into his armored vehicle for a night patrol
Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

Caracas, Venezuela: Relatives of inmates walk around a barrier of soldiers protecting the main entrance of La Planta jail. A Venezuelan top penitentiary official says a prison riot between rival gangs has left eight inmates dead and 16 wounded
Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

Davos, Switzerland: Participants of the World Economic Forum queue in heavy snowfall to get in to the conference
Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AP

Jalalabad, Afghanistan: A member of the Afghan border police's quick reaction team yawns as other team members rest in the compound
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Passengers at a subway station
Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

Nanjing, China: Local citizens enjoy an artwork at the Italian International Light Sculpture Festival
Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features

Paris, France: Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko arrives for Elie Saab's spring-summer 2010 haute couture fashion show
Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty

Medellin, Colombia: A peacock at the Santa Fe zoo
Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty