24 hours in pictures

Singapore: Children's faces are covered with foam used to simulate snow Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Pelling, India: A young Tibetan monk holds a board with carvings on it as smoke rises from ritualistic offerings during the visit of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at Pemayangtse Monastry Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

Rome, Italy: Demonstrators take cover as they face riot police Photograph: Pier Paolo Cito/AP

New Delhi, India: Police detain a Tibetan exile during a protest outside a hotel Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Srinagar, India: An Indian Kashmiri Shia Muslim bleeds after flagellating himself with a cluster of knives during a religious procession Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images

Bethlehem, West Bank: A monk and a nun pray inside the grotto where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, in the Church of the Nativity Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

Johannesburg, South Africa: President Jacob Zuma welcomes Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos at Freedom Park Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images

Islamabad, Pakistan: An Afghan man gestures to elderly Afghan men sitting against a mosque's wall in a slum area Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Shanghai, China: A hoolock gibbon sits on a wood log during a snowfall Photograph: Reuters

Florida, US: A strawberry plant covered with a layer of ice Photograph: Scott Audette/Reuters

Nairobi, Kenya: A female cheetah is pictured in its enclosure at the Nairobi animal orphanage Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Brenda Pasan watches Ludmila Romero sleep at a property alongside a closed slaughterhouse after it was occupied by squatters Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Ashulia, Bangladesh: Burnt mannequins are seen at a showroom on the 10th floor of the Hamim Group garment factory Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

Darfur, Sudan: Members of the Abu Shouk Women's Centre take classes at a camp for internally displaced people Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/EPA

Minsk, Belarus: Belarus soldiers leave polling booths to cast their ballots for the presidential elections Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images

Musa Qala, Afghanistan: US Marines from 1st Battalion 8th Marines watch a US Marine CH-53 helicopter drop flares as it leaves in Helmand province Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images