24 hours in pictures

Quezon city, Philippines: Residents sift through the debris after a fire gutted a poor neighbourhood Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP

Qiandongnan, China: Miao ethnic villagers perform a traditional water and drum dance to pray for good weather
Photograph: AP

San Felix, Venezuela: Swimmers are driven on a boat to the start point of the swimming race across the Orinoco and the Caroni rivers
Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

Havana, Cuba: Laura Pollan, leader of the Ladies in White, a group of Cuban female dissidents who attempted to go on a blocked march
Photograph: Javier Galeano/AP

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip: Girls sift sand for gravel that they can later sell by weight
Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Women look at the artwork Witness from Baghdad by Iraqi Halim al-Karim, exhibited by Christie's
Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images

Paro, Bhutan: Buddhist monks walk past a mural at a monastery
Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Yazoo City, US: Electricity crews work late into the evening to restore power after a massive tornado hit the Mississippi area
Photograph: Sean Gardner/Getty Images

Aceh province, Indonesia: A male Sumatran tiger is kept in a cage while awaiting transfer from the Natural Resources Conservation Centre to a safari park in West Java
Photograph: Reuters

Birmingham, UK: Philipp Boy performs during the Senior Men's Final of the horizontal bar in the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

New York, US: A special performance of Beneath The Veil at the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts
Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

South China Sea: Scuba diver Charles Ang approaches a school of jack fish off the Malaysian island of Layang Layang
Photograph: David Loh/Reuters