24 hours in pictures

Tattapani, India: Hindu devotees bathe in a hot-water spring near the Sutlej river during the festival of Makar Sankranti
Photograph: Anil Dayal/AP

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A man walks in front of a cemetery destroyed by the recent earthquake
Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters

Waldkirch, Germany: A woman walks in the snow on Mount Kandel as fog carpets the Upper Rhine Plain
Photograph: Rolf Haid/EPA

Kunming, China: People watch the annular solar eclipse, which will be the longest of this millennium
Photograph: AFP /Getty Images

Jakarta, Indonesia: A street trader displays her toys at a market
Photograph: Beawiharta/Reuters

Mumbai, India: People fly kites by the sea
Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

Belgrade, Serbia: Pigeons take flight from a rooftop
Photograph: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: A man has his leg tattooed during the Bangkok international tattoo convention
Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

Najaf, Iraq: A man cries out as he is taken in a police truck from the scene of a bomb attack
Photograph: Alaa al-Marjani/AP

Stockholm, Sweden: A boat sails through a frozen sea
Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images

New York, US: An American prepares for the start of the LG Mobile world championship of text messaging. A Korean team won the top prize, based on speed and accuracy
Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

Istanbul, Turkey: He Pingping, the world's smallest man, holds the finger of Sultan Kosen, the world's tallest man
Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters