24 hours in pictures

Rome, Italy: New deacons prostrate in front of the altar during their ordination mass at the Legionaries of Christ centre
Photograph: Riccardo De Luca/AP

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Protesting university students are confronted by riot police
Photograph: Ricardo Arduengo/AP

Baghdad, Iraq: A family eats dinner by torchlight during a power cut
Photograph: Ali al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images

Guatemala City, Guatemala : Protestors paste portraits of missing people during a march against Army Day
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Everglades national park, USA: A small fish is speared on the bill of an Anhinga
Photograph: J Pat Carter/AP

Xiangfan, China: Investors sleep on the chairs at a brokerage house
Photograph: Reuters

Floriana, Malta: Fans cheer DJ David Guetta's performance during the Isle of MTV concert
Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Luoyang, China: Tourists take pictures at Fengxian temple, the largest of the Longmen Grottoes
Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA

Melbourne, Australia: A boy inspects a model of a helicoprion in a museum
Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza City, Gaza: Palestinian construction workers demolish a house destroyed in Israel's December 2009 - January 2010 offensive
Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Srinagar, India: A policewoman peeps out from behind a wall during a curfew
Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

Parys, South Africa: A woman carries a child on her back
Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA