24 hours in pictures

Mount Gerizim, West Bank: Members of the Samaritan community gather for Passover prayers
Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Almedia, US: A firefighter leans into a drain as he attempts to rescue a duckling that fell throught the grate
Photograph: Jimmy May/AP

Athens, Greece: A protester shouts anti-government slogans in front of the parliament building during a nationwide general strike
Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/AP

Travemuende, Germany: Traditonal deckchairs are laid out on a beach
Photograph: Marcus Brandt/EPA

Kabul, Afghanistan: A schoolboy plays on a swing
Photograph: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

Jerusalem: An orthodox nun walks inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

Mexico City, Mexico: A protester brandishes a machete during as he demands the release of peasants arrested in 2006
Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP

Noville, Switzerland: Mud is sifted after going through a derrick during exploration drilling for natural gas deposits under Lake Geneva
Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Kiryat Gat, Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Jews harvest wheat with sickles
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

Quito, Ecuador: A student throws a teargas canister back at riot police during a demonstration against the increase of milk prices by the government
Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

Breton Island, US: Oil booms are seen in the background as nesting terns land in the Gulf of Mexico
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Moscow, Russia: A couple kiss as weapons are deriven along Tverskaya Street during rehearsals for the Victory Day parade
Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA