24 hours in pictures

Delhi, India: Bhopal gas tragedy survivors and their children chain themselves together to protest against the government's lack of action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals, and to call for the proper rehabilitation of affected people. The 1984 leak from the Bhopal pesticide plant killed at least 10,000 people and affected about 550,000 others Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP

Iowa, USA: Barack Obama addresses a rally in the state where he won his first primary in January on the day that Oregon and Kentucky held their Democratic primaries Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Sichuan province, China: A worker arranges urns filled with the remains of earthquake victims at a crematorium Photograph: STR/Reuters

Moscow, Russia: Portraits of footballers Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, John Terry and Michael Ballack adorn traditional Russian nesting dolls ahead of the the Champions League football final Photograph: Andrei Smirnov/AFP

Johannesberg, South Africa: A mob runs on the main road near the Reiger Park informal settlement. Clashes have focused attention on complaints that South Africa's post-apartheid government has failed to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

Sichuan province, China: Nurses wash a newborn baby at a field hospital. The baby, named Zhang Hongyang, was the first to be born in the hospital after the earthquake Photograph: Jiang Fan/AP

Berlin, Germany: Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in the home of the Philharmonic orchestra. Thick smoke poured from the crest of the iconic building as firefighters and musicians rushed to save instruments Photograph: Miguel Villagran/AP

Brussels, Belgium: An asylum seeker stands inside the Beguinage church which has been occupied by more than 200 hunger strikers for a fortnight after the Belgian government rejected hundreds of asylum requests Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Kathmandu, Nepal: A line of Nepalese devotees pass a bucket of coloured water up a Buddha stuppa before splashing it over the building to mark Buddha's 2,552nd birthday Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA

Budapest, Hungary: The broken tooth of anaesthetised male Bornean orang-utan Jago is drawn as he undergoes a medical check-up. He is being moved to a zoo in Bojnice, Slovakia, where is due to "marry" a female orang-utan and, keepers hope, establish a family Photograph: Istvan Kiss/EPA

Mumbai, India: An Indian child does a somersault as he leaps into the waters of the Arabian Sea to beat the afternoon heat as temperatures soared to 35 degrees Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP

London, UK: A pro-choice campaigner wears a sticker during protests outside the Houses of Parliament where MPs voted to keep the time limit for abortion at 24 weeks and made far-reaching changes to fertility laws Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Gloucester, UK: A conservation manager from the Severnside Project introduces one of 70 captivity-bred water voles into a nature reserve. The vole population has declined by 90%, but it is hoped the new influx will grow into a stable population and spread to nearby areas to replace the ones that died in last summer's floods Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty

Cannes, France: Angelina Jolie arrives for the premiere of her film Changeling at the Palais des Festivals during the 61st International Cannes film festival Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty

Wyoming, USA: Major Alan Brown, right, a single-leg amputee with the Wyoming air national guard, undertakes a tour of a C-130 aircraft with double-leg amputee Nikko Landeros Photograph: Brandon Quester/AP

Scotland, UK: Gannets look for food around Bass Rock, the largest single island gannet colony in the world. The island, off the south-east coast of Scotland, is now open to visitors with weekly boat trips provided by the Scottish Seabird Centre Photograph: David Cheskin/PA