24 hours in pictures

Nottingham, England: Cricket spectators during the LV County Championship division one match at Trent Bridge Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

Sydney, Australia: A child runs through the fountain in the overflow car park during the 2012 Sydney Royal Easter Show at the Sydney showground. The annual event is Australia's largest, attracting around 900,000 visitors over the duration of the two-week agricultural show Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

Iztapalapa, Mexico: A penitent, dressed as the Virgin Mary, participates in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A police officer patrols past a goat at Rocinha slum, searching for a man who killed a policeman in Brazil's largest slum. He was the first policeman to be killed in Rocinha since it was taken over by police last November, displacing armed gangs who had controlled the slum for years Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP

Philadelphia, US: Abel Martinez, portraying Jesus, has fake blood applied to his head in the basement of the Annunciation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church before he and other parishioners conduct a Good Friday procession to commemorate the Stations of the Cross Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Wallers, France: The Sky Procycling team ride over the cobbles of the Arenberg forest while training for the 2012 Paris-Roubaix cycle race Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images

Anhui, China: Members of the Anhui provincial gymnastics team hold each other to balance during a training session at a sports school in Hefei Photograph: Jianan Yu/Reuters

Islamabad, Pakistan: Vendor Basheer Badoo, 40, waits on a roadside hoping to sell his chicks for 15 rupees each Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Red chairs are displayed along the main street to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war. City officials lined up 11,541 chairs in 825 rows for the Sarajevans killed during the siege Photograph: Sulejman Omerbasic/AP

Manama, Bahrain: Demonstrators run for cover from teargas fired by riot police after clashes erupted during a protest calling for the release of a jailed activist in the village of Jidhafs. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has been on hunger strike for almost two months Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

Tokyo, Japan: The 'top knot' of a sumo wrestler's hair is pictured as he attends an exhibition at Yasukuni shrine Photograph: Richard A. Brooks/Getty Images

Tel Aviv, Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn leavened items in final preparation for Passover. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the holiday Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Athens, Greece: Workers from the Athens central groceries market clash with police officers during a rally in front of the Bank of Greece. Hundreds of workers protested outside the labour ministry and the bank saying they have lost part of their savings in the national debt swap deal that formed a crucial part of Greece's bailout Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters

London, England: The Oxford University crew put their boat in the water before a training outing on the river Thames ahead of the 2012 Xchanging 158th University Boat Race Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images