24 hours in pictures

Viña del Mar, Chile: People ride on a bus during a blackout
Photograph: Eliseo Fernandez/Reuters

San Salvador, El Salvador: Supporters of Front Farabundo Marti for National Liberation (FMLN) mark the first anniversary of its election victory
Photograph: Roberto Escobar/EPA

Jakarta, Indonesia: Balinese Hindus head for the beach to celebrate the Hindu new year
Photograph: Adi Weda/EPA

Hong Kong, China: A high-rise partly obscured by heavy fog at Victoria Harbour
Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Karachi, Pakistan: Men race their donkey carts down a street
Photograph: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images

Kiev, Ukraine: People break ice on a reservoir on the Dnieper river to fish
Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images

Haridwar, India: A sadhu - Hindu mystic - on the bank of the river Ganges during the Kumbh Mela festival
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Mexico City, Mexico: People take part in a gay pride parade
Photograph: Marco Ugarte/AP

Srinagar, India: A mother cries during a protest against the arrest of her son
Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

Jerusalem: An ultra-Orthodox Jew writes some of the last words in a Torah scroll before it is taken from the Western Wall into the Hurva synagogue
Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP

Acapulco, Mexico: A policeman guards the scene of a clash between rival drug gangs
Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images

Istanbul, Turkey: A bird flies away from a window of the Kumkapi police station as illegal imigrants look at demonstrators protesting in support of them
Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Sergelen, Mongolia: A father and daughter from a family of nomadic herders stand over the carcass of a goat from their herd that died due to extreme cold. Mongolia remains gripped by one of its worst winters in 30 years
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Fishermen cast shadows over their catch at a market
Photograph: Andrew Caballero-reynolds/Reuters