24 Hours In Pictures

Gyegu, China: A Tibetan monk gestures during a mass cremation of earthquake victims in Yushu county, Qinghai province
Photograph: Alfred Jin/REUTERS

Osh, Kyrgyzstan: A Kyrgyz man saying Friday noon prayers
Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Myrdalssandur, Iceland: Volcano scientists collect samples of ash from the Eyjafjallajokull eruption for analysis
Photograph: Omar Oskarsson/AFP/Getty Images

Edinburgh, Scotland: Sunset over Edinburgh as the flight ban caused by the Iceland volcano continues
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Jerusalem, Israel: Ultra-orthodox Jews walk past a Palestinian girl holding a picture of a relative held in an Israeli jail during a protest to mark Prisoner Day at Damascus gate outside Jerusalem's Old City
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Jakarta, Indonesia: Kristanto, 10, covered with grease and dirt, gathers scrap metal from a burnt bulldozer following bloody clashes between security forces and religious followers in the port district of Tanjung Priok
Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

Fort Portal, Uganda: Residents gather to watch ceremonial drums and spears being offered to King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. The teenage Oyo rules over more than 2 million people in the Tooro kingdom, one of four kingdoms that the Ugandan government allows to exist
Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Warsaw, Poland: Children climb a tree to watch the public memorial service on Pilsudski square for the 96 victims of last week's air crash in Smolensk that killed Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 others including much of the country's political and military elite
Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

Kathmandu, Nepal: Locals try to extinguish a fire at Nepal Bank, the country's oldest and largest private sector financial institution
Photograph: STR/NEPAL/REUTERS

Kandahar, Afghanistan: Women do their daily shopping in the women's section of a bazaar. Kandahar was rocked by two large suicide bombings on Thursday that killed three Afghan soldiers and wounded 26 others
Photograph: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

Arghandab river valley, Kandahar province, Afghanistan: An American soldier looks into a small window in the side of a rural building during an operation
Photograph: Tim Wimborne/REUTERS