24 hours in pictures

A Palestinian man prepares for possible clashes with Israeli security forces during a protest against Israel's storming of the aid flotilla bound for Gaza
Photograph: Nir Elias/Reuters

A sun bear is fed an orange by a zookeeper, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska
Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

A nun peers from behind the curtain at St Kiriaki church in Kato Paphos, where she is recording a service to mark Pope Benedict's first visit to Cyprus
Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

Contestants parade during the Miss World contest in Rust, western Germany. Argentina's Jennifer Schermann won the beauty competition
Photograph: Johanna Leguerre/AFP/Getty Images

A brown pelican is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island on the Louisiana coast
Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Children play with enormous soap bubbles at a park in Wuhan, Hubei province, China
Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

A man looks at the erupting Pacaya volcano in Villa Canales, Guatemala
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

An inmate kicks a football at Boksburg prison in Johannesburg. The jail is staging its own soccer tournament to coincide with the World Cup
Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

A boy goes for a swim in the heavily polluted River Yamuna in New Delhi, India
Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Colombia's Orlando Duque dives from a 27 metre platform as he trains for the 2010 Red Bull Cliff Diving competition at Cenote Ik Kil, Mexico
Photograph: Vincent Curuchet/Red Bull/AP

People pray in front of the coffin of Cevdet Kiliclar during a funeral service in Istanbul. He was one of eight Turks killed on 31 May when Israeli security forces stormed an aid flotilla bound for Gaza
Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Police patrol along Clifton Beach in Karachi to prevent people going out to sea as Cyclone Phet approaches Pakistan
Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin is seen inside the Soyuz capsule at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Yurchikhin and US astronauts Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker are due to to fly to the International Space Station on 15 June
Photograph: Sergei Remezov/Reuters