24 hours in pictures

Rangoon, Burma: A woman exercises in a public park near the Shwedagon pagoda Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

New Delhi, India: A homeless youth pets a stray dog as he rests, wrapped in a blanket, on a rented bed near the Jama Masjid (mosque) Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Police officers shave the heads of punk music fans after they were arrested in a raid on a concert. A total of 65 punks were subsequently sent to the police school to get 'mental and spiritual guidance' for 10 days before being released Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA

Lalitpur, Nepal: A man offering morning prayers is seen through the doors of a temple Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Peñuelas, Puerto Rico: Relatives and friends pay their respects in front of the coffin containing the body of seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who was abducted and murdered in Georgia Photograph: Ricardo Arduengo/AP

Dhaka, Bangladesh: A police officer looks out of the window of a police van as people queue to pay tribute at the Martyred Intellectuals' Memorial to figures killed during the independence war in 1971 Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Tbilisi, Georgia: Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons on his body during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most spoons on a human body Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

Bern, Switzerland: Christian Democrat national councillor Christian Lohr casts a vote with his foot in parliament Photograph: Michael Buholzer/Reuters

Karachi, Pakistan: Copies of the Qur'an placed on a bench at the Zakariya madrasa. Police rescued 54 students from the basement of the Islamic seminary where they said they were kept in chains by clerics, beaten and barely fed Photograph: Athar Hussain/Reuters

Kiev, Ukraine: Nikolay Siry, the lawyer of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, gets over a fence blocked by interior ministry officers and supporters, to attend Tymoshenko's appeal hearing against her seven-year jail sentence Photograph: Reuters

Incheon, South Korea: Police officers observe a moment of silence during a funeral ceremony for coastguard officer Lee Cheong-ho, who was allegedly stabbed by the captain of a Chinese fishing boat he was trying to seize Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP

Kumreut, Germany: A view of the German alps in Lower Bayern Photograph: Armin Weigel/EPA

Jerusalem: An Israeli border police officer stands guard as a small group of tourists walk on the wooden access ramp to the al-Aqsa mosque compound Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA