24 hours in pictures

Srinagar, India: an employee of Public Health Engineering is detained by the police during a rally demanding permanent jobs Photograph: Danish Ismail/Reuters

Rangoon, Burma: fairground workers wait for customers near the Shwedagon Pagoda during its 2,600th anniversary celebrations Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

El Refugio, Mexico: investigators and police officers at the scene of a police plane crash Photograph: Reuters

Madrid, Spain: carnival revellers dressed as mourners with a mock sardine during the 'burial of the sardine' funeral procession, which marks the end of festivities Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Mesa, Arizona, US: people gather on Main Street outside the Republican presidential debate to watch it on a large screen Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Cairo, Egypt: supporters of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak protest outside his trial Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Rawalpindi, Pakistan: a worker pulls a cart as a customer sits on top with his chickens Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Athens, Greece: employees at the state-run Workers' Housing Organisation during a protest against job cuts Photograph: Dimitri Messinis/AP

Moscow, Russia: a rally to support Vladimir Putin at the Luzhniki stadium Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Saint-Denis, Réunion: riot police at a protest about the high cost of living Photograph: Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images

London, UK: Mexico's Paola Espinosa and Alejandra Orozco in the women's synchronised 10-metre platform final during the 18th FINA Visa Diving World Cup at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Frankfurt, Germany: an employee displays a green water dragon at the airport's 'animal lounge' Photograph: Alex Domanski/Reuters