24 hours in pictures

Kabul, Afghanistan: Ahmadullaha, an Afghan boy looks on as he walks past washing hung over wire in the compound of an abandoned Russian building. Ahmadullaha and his family have there since they returned from Pakistan, where they were refugees for years Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

Kiev, Ukraine: A model displays a creation from the ready-to-wear collection by popular Ukrainian fashion designer Volodymyr Podolyan during Ukrainian fashion week Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

Ras Ajdir, Tunisia: Men from Ghana, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, warm themselves next to a fire as they wait to be repatriated from the refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Onagawa, Japan: Tayo Kitamura, 40, kneels in the street to caress and talk to the wrapped body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Malkiya, Bahrain: A Bahraini girl shouts 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great) from a window in a Shi'ite Muslim village south-west of the capital of Manama Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP

Sanaa, Yemen: Wounded anti-government protesters lay on the ground as they receive medical help at a field hospital during clashes with security forces. Yemeni security forces fired from rooftops at anti-government demonstrators killing at least 42 Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Jebel Marra, Sudan: Members of the government forces keep watch while sitting in a vehicle during a visit by Ibrahim Gambari, the civilian head of Unamid Photograph: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/REUTERS

Prestatyn, Wales: Alan Clarkson of Dirty Rose performs during the Hammerfest III pre-party day at Pontins Photograph: Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns

Sukuiso, Japan: Japanese fire trucks line a road in the devastated region Photograph: MC3 Dylan McCord / U.S. Navy HANDOUT/EPA

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A police officer rides on a vehicle carrying Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide as he arrives home. Aristide, who was forced to flee Haiti due to a rebellion in 2004, returned after seven years of exile in South Africa, days before Haiti's presidential runoff election on Sunday Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Supporters of former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide climb the wall of his residence to greet the former Catholic priest Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Tripoli, Libya: A woman attends a rally in support of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/REUTERS

Babchin, Belarus: A roe deer stands in a forest in the state radiation ecology reserve in the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin. Still inhospitable to humans, the area is now a nature reserve Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/REUTERS