24 hours in pictures

Zugspitze, Germany: Workers fix canvas on the glacier at Germany's highest mountain, to prevent it from melting during the summer. At a height of 2,700 meters, the workers will cover approximately 10,000 square meters of the glacier's surface Photograph: Philippe Guelland/AFP/Getty

Changzhi, Shanxi province, China: A worker smokes after searching for usable coal at a cinder dump site. With oil prices at historic highs, China is moving full steam ahead with a controversial process to turn its vast coal reserves into barrels of oil Photograph: STR/Reuters

Kathmandu, Nepal: A worker closes the door of Nagarjun Forest, where ex-king Gyanendra s future palace is situated. Nepal's cabinet today formally decided to provide Nagarjun palace to the ex-king Gyanendr and his mother for stay after leaving Naryanhiti palace. Nepal has become a Federal Democratic Republic from 28th May after the Constituent Assembly overwhelmingly voted for abolition of the country's 240-year-old monarchy Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA

Bangkok, Thailand: Visitors look at a giant map of the planet displayed during an environment exhibition at a shopping mall. The environment exhibition is part of a campaign to preserve the heritage of natural abundance Photograph: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP

Yingxiu, Sichuan province, China: A framed photograph of a newly-wed couple hanging tilted on a cracked wall in an apartment building heavily damaged by the 12 May 2008 earthquake. Premier of China, Wen Jiabao has urged the local governments to resume economic production as soon as possible in areas affected by the earthquake. The earthquake is the worst to hit China in over three decades with an official death toll of about 70,000 people and millions of refugees Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Hue, Vietnam: A kite flies over the royal Citadel grounds as part of the nine-day kite-flying festival. The Hue festival, Vietnam's premier cultural event, has been held every two years since 2000 in the former royal capital of Hue and this year brought artists and performers from a record 23 nations to the central city on the Perfume River Photograph: Frank Zeller/AFP/Getty

Minnesota, USA: An overall view of the South Dakota and Montana presidential primary election night rally for US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul Photograph: Jeff Haynes/Reuters

Sichuan, China: Patients are received medical treatment at a temporary hospital in Jiulong township of Mianzhu county, in China's southwestern province. Up to 30,000 people must abandon their homes in a remote part of southwestern China after last month's earthquake left the mountainous area uninhabitable, state media reported Photograph: Liu Jin/AFP/Getty

Beverley Hills, USA: Don "Magic" Juan arrives at the Hollywood Black Film Festival opening night event featuring the premiere of "Two Turntables and a Microphone" Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP

Kosi Bay, South Africa: Local fishermen return to shore carrying their catch of fish they speared. A U.N. summit on skyrocketing food prices opened with criticism of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, whose lengthy rule has overseen the deterioration of what was once a rare African breadbasket state Photograph: Schalk van Zuydam/AP

Jakarta, Indonesia: Members of hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) are taken into a police truck after police arrest them from their headquarters. Indonesian police said they had detained 57 members of hardline Islamic group for questioning on Wednesday morning following an attack on an interfaith rally in Jakarta on Sunday Photograph: Dadrang Tri/Reuters

Sydney, Australia: A woman attends an event marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. People gathered in Martin Place and laid roses on the ground in the shape of a candle, beneath a banner which read "Remembering Tiananmen Square" Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters