24 hours in pictures

Tiahunaco, Bolivia: people raise their hands to receive the first beam of the rising sun during the winter solstice ceremony. The solstice coincides with the Aymara Indian new year Photograph: Gaston Brito/Reuters

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a 'pacified' favela, or squatter settlement, is seen on a forested mountainside in the mist. Rio's authorities have successfully 'pacified' a number of formerly crime-ridden favelas in the city, although the expansion of favelas due to a housing shortage has contributed to Rio's rainforest destruction Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: a boy gets his head shaved by his mother during an ordination ceremony to become a Buddhist novice monk at the pagoda of Kork Banteay village, Kandal province Photograph: Heng Sinith/AP

New Delhi, India: a resident tries to extinguish a fire in a slum area. Hundreds of huts were gutted in the fire but no casualties were reported and the cause of the fire was unknown Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Donetsk, Ukraine: an Ukrainian woman and her daughter await a mechanic to repair their broken down Moskvitch car Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Memphis, US: dance student Takeisha Washington, from the Alvin Ailey dance school in New York, demonstrates a pirouette for day camp kids at the Emanuel Episcopal Center. Washington, who is originally from Memphis, is visiting her former dance teacher Karen Zissoff with Dancers Inc and volunteered to talk to the kids Photograph: Jim Weber/AP

Biedermannsdorf, Austria: a bee collects pollen on a sunflower in a field about three miles south of Vienna on the first day of summer Photograph: Heinz-peter Bader/Reuters

Chongqing, China: drug addicts rehearse a short play for a performance to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on 26 June at a playground of a compulsory drug rehabilitation centre. There are about 1,000 addicts in the centre who are undergoing treatment with a strict regime of physical exercise, psychological therapies and medication Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

Manila, Philippines: children queue during a food distribution programme in a slum area Photograph: Francis R. Malasig/Epa

Hyderabad, India: Hindu devotees pull the rope of a Rath, the chariot of Lord Jagannath, during the 135th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession. The annual religious procession commemorates a journey by the Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra in specially made chariots Photograph: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters

Venice, Italy: Miami Heat fans, cruising on the Carnival Breeze ship in the Adriatic Sea off Italy, join Lebron James in celebrating during the closing moments of the fifth game of the NBA finals. About 150 fans lost some sleep to watch the game live on the ship's lido deck Photograph: Andy Newman/AP

Toronto, Canada: Queen's Plate contender Ultimate Destiny is cooled down after a workout at Woodbine racetrack. The horse race is run for the 153rd time on Sunday Photograph: Michael Burns/AP

Ascot, UK: racegoers attend a rainy Ladies' Day, the third day of racing at Royal Ascot Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Bandipora, Kashmir: farmers walk through their rice fields Photograph: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters

Duluth, Minnesota: Randy Sarvella of Moose Lake walks through flood waters after refueling water pumps at his brother's house. The waters of the Moose Horn river overflowed into parts of Moose Lake after record rainfall Photograph: Clint Austin/AP