24 hours in pictures

Jaipur, India: Black smoke rises from a fire at an oil depot Photograph: Mustafa Quraishi/AP

South Waziristan, Afghanistan: Pakistani soldiers stand on a hill in the Sherwangi region Photograph: Reuters

Mexico City, Mexico: A model on the catwalk during fashion week Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

Herat, Afghanistan: A woman walks through the old part of the town Photograph: Jalil Rezayee/EPA

Bethlehem, West Bank: An ultra Orthodox Jewish woman prays near a concrete barrier built by Israel to secure the Tomb of Rachel Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Sydney, Australia: A visitor to the Sculptures by the Sea exhibition reaches out to Eye See You, a perspex and plaster work by Tim and Shayn Amber Wetherell Photograph: Sergio Dionisio Publicity Images/Getty Images

New South Wales, Australia: A Powerful Owl, native to Australia, ready for release after being found by a volunteer Photograph: Jim Trifyllis/Newspix/Rex Features

Hamburg, Germany: Artist Pedro Cabrita Reis poses behind one of his artworks Photograph: Marcus Brandt/EPA

Marikina City, Philippines: A man carries buckets of paint before refurbishing tombstones in a cemetery Photograph: Alanah M Torralba/EPA

Pushkar, India: Camel herders wait in an animal market Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Bromham, UK: Jonathan Seed, joint master and huntsman with the Avon Vale Hunt, exercises the hounds before the first meet of the new hunting season Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Bossier City, US: Lightning strikes as cars crawl down West Swan Lake Road Photograph: Jim Hudelson/AP

Glasgow, UK: Striking postal workers stand beside a brazier on the picket line at a Glasgow mail centre Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ljubljana, Slovenia: A swan on a lake near Brdo pri Kranju castle Photograph: Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters