24 hours in pictures

Severodvinsk, Russia: A ceremony to launch the nuclear submarine Severodvinsk at the Sevmash shipyard
Photograph: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images

Pensacola, US: Barack Obama greets troops during a rally at Pensacola naval air station
Photograph: Michael Spooneybarger/AP

São Paulo, Brazil: Shoeshiners near the stock exchange watch the World Cup match between Brazil and North Korea
Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty

Ascot, UK: Racegoers attend the first day of racing
Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

Beijing, China: Performers wait for their turn at the opening of the China farmer arts festival
Photograph: Andy Wong/AP

London, UK: Actors dressed in mankinis float on rubber rings on the Serpentine in Hyde Park, central London, during a photocall for new 'community-led' mobile phone company giffgaff
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Berlin, Germany: A secretary bird at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo
Photograph: Barbara Sax/AFP/Getty

Basel, Switzerland: A visitor walks inside a polytunnel during the press day of the Art 41 fair
Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty

Islamabad, Pakistan: A girl at the window of a mud house
Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images

Rock Canal, US: Brown pelicans fly off rocks in an area where oil continues to wash ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill
Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP

Berlin, Germany: Soldiers during a military tattoo in the courtyard of Bellevue Palace
Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty

Gaza City: Palestinian children peek through a fence at a summer camp run by Hamas
Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP