24 hours in pictures

Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Supporters of incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo raise their hands in a show of support during a rally Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Tokyo, Japan: Young women gather before attending a ceremony marking their coming of age day, when they can also legally begin to smoke, drink and vote Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Kolkata, India: Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a cold storage unit Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Katmandu, Nepal: Homeless children warm their hands around a bonfire Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

Ahmedabad, India: Kites fly around a paper kite on the second day of the International Kite Festival Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Investors beat the driver of a car during a clash near the Dhaka Stock Exchange after share prices plummeted Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Shanghai, China: Laundry and meat are hung out to dry. Meat and fish are dried in the sun for the Chinese New Year celebrations in February Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Bentiu, Sudan: Young basketball players train in the south of the country Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Chandigarh, India: Tourists take a boat ride amid heavy fog at Sukhana Lake Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A football player belonging to Haiti's unofficial national amputee team warms up prior to a friendly match. Many of the players lost their limbs during the 2010 earthquake Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Nyiregyhaza, Hungary: A rescue diver pretends to be trapped under ice during an ice diving exercise in a frozen pond Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPA

Acapulco, Mexico: A man mourns over the body of a relative, one of the three victims found dead in the street Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images