24 hours in pictures

An Afghan soldier whose leg has been injured by an IED explosion is cared for in a helicopter by US forces in Kandahar province, Afghanistan Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Soldiers march during Indian Air Force Day celebrations at their station near Delhi Photograph: Parivartan Sharma/Reuters

Ayaz, 8, who has been displaced by floods, cleans his net after fishing in flood waters while staying with his family on an embankment near Kari Mori, Pakistan Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Baseball player Ben Francisco of the Philadelphia Phillies reacts after being hit in the head with a pitch from a player with the Cincinnati Reds Photograph: Tim Shaffer/Reuters

A hot dog vendor waits for customers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

One of the newborn twin panda cubs in its incubator at Madrid zoo. They are the first giant panda twins to be conceived via artificial insemination outside of China Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images

A truck driver sits next to his fuel tanker, which had been destined for Nato troops but was set on fire by gunmen in Nowshera, Pakistan Photograph: Fayaz Aziz/Reuters

Scottish swimmer Hannah Miley competes in the women's 400 metre individual medley at the Commonwealth Games Photograph: Francois Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images

Ethnic Uzbek children sit by their destroyed house in Osh, Kyrgyzstan Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Football fans dance before the start of a college football game in Lafayette, Louisiana Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Homeless Filipino children sleep at the side of a road in Pasay city, Philippines Photograph: Francis R. Malasig/EPA

An aerial view of the broken dyke of a reservoir containing toxic red sludge from an alumina factory near Ajka, Hungary Photograph: Balazs Mohai/AP