24 hours in pictures

West Champaran, India: Oil containers ablaze after Naxal rebels derailed a freight train
Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features

Jerusalem: Ultra Orthodox Jews protest against the relocation of tombs in Ashkelon
Photograph: Abir Sultan/Epa

Iraq: A donkey transports bricks through a factory
Photograph: Alaa Al-Marjani/AP

Tokyo: Pedestrians reflected in a stock index board
Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Florence: Regional and town mayors of Italy in a lie-down protest against the rigidity of the EU stability pact, designed to control European budgets
Photograph: Fabio Muzzi/AFP/Getty

Bangkok: One of the bodies of six redshirt protesters killed inside a temple
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Montevideo, Uruguay: Relatives demand justice for the 'disappeared' who went missing during the 1973-85 dictatorship
Photograph: Matilde Campodonico/AP

Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A doctor carries out a cataract operation
Photograph: Dwi Oblo/Reuters

Villamanrique, Spain: Pilgrims cross the Guadiamar river
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Venice, US: A tricolored heron catches a fish
Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Prisdorf, Germany: Dandelionsin in bloom
Photograph: Philipp Guelland/AFP/Getty Images

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A woman rests in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake
Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP