24 hours in pictures

Blackpool, England: Fishermen brave wind-whipped waves on Blackpool promenade Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica: An Adelie penguin on the ice Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPA

Titanyen, Haiti: A woman who lost both her arms in the January 2010 earthquake attends a memorial service at a mass grave site Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Sagar Island, India: Hindu pilgrims perform rituals at the Gangasagar festival. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims arrive for the Gangasagar, which culminates in a dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images

Sagar Island, India: Workers arrange straw mats before delivering them to temporary camps for the Gangasagar pilgrimmage and festival Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images

Sagar Island, India: A Hindu pilgrim offers prayers after taking a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Islamabad, Pakistan: A worker arranges bricks at a factory Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Islamabad, Pakistan: A man combs a rubbish tip for items that can be sold to a recycling factory Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Kabul, Afghanistan: Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri, the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of the Qur'an, turns a page of the book Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP

Moscow, Russia: A soldier from the presidential regiment guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside a snow-clad Kremlin wall Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

Nairobi, Kenya: Pedestrians cross a bridge on the Nairobi-Thika highway Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Arequipa, Peru: A biker competes during the 11th stage of the Dakar rally from Arica to Arequipa Photograph: Reuters

Tauranga, New Zealand: The stern section of the container ship Rena sinks after splitting away. The ship had been wedged on a reef off the east coast of the North Island since October Photograph: Holger Bennewitz/Reuters

Beijing, China: A woman performs stretching exercises under rows of red lanterns in Ditan park Photograph: Zheyang Soohoo/Reuters