24 hours in pictures

Kiev, Ukraine: Women cry as they stand in front of a monument on the the 21st anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Marjah, Afghanistan: US marines are seen during a heavy gun battle in Helmand province as part of the anti-Taliban Operation Moshtarak offensive
Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Karachi, Pakistan: A lawyer shouts towards journalists covering a rally in support of the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, outside the Karachi Bar Association
Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Istanbul, Turkey: Kurdish demonstrators throw petrol bombs at police on the 11th anniversary of the capture of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Beijing, China: A perfomer pulls a tricycle loaded with five people with his lower eyelids during a performance at the Lianhuachi Temple to mark the Chinese new year
Photograph: Christina Hu/Reuters

Jerusalem: A woman looks through a fence at the men's section of the Western Wall
Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Berlin, Germany: Rhys Ifans poses on the red carpet before the screening of Greenberg at the Berlin International film festival
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A man stands on a flooded and devastated street
Photograph: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Teenagers hug after a mass for students killed by gunmen in a raid on a party in January
Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP

Majdal Shams: Druze residents of the Golan Heights are seen through a picture of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, during a demonstration against Israeli occupation
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

Tel Aviv, Israel: A man walks on the Mediterranean coast
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Astronaut Robert Behnken, from the space shuttle Endeavour, works outside the International Space Station
Photograph: NASA/Reuters