24 hours in pictures

Gifu, Japan: Fishermen control their trained cormorants from traditional wooden boats on the opening day of the fishing season. Cormorant fishing has been the traditional way of catching sweetfish in Japan for 1,300 years Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters

Vinca, Serbia: A voter takes a close look at his ballot before casting his vote in the Serbian parliamentary elections Photograph: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP

Valais, Switzerland: Two cows fight during the annual Combats des Reines (Battle of the Queens) Photograph: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA

Shanghai, China: A senior citizen plays the accordion in a park Photograph: China Photos/Getty

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A child walks past a hardware store at the Cite Soleil slum Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Cocoa, Florida, US: Smoke billows behind homes on Long Leaf Road as a 100-acre brush fire rages Photograph: Amanda Stratford/AP

Shenyang, China: Visitors check out the ancient sex artifacts on display at an exhibition Photograph: stringer/AFP

Manila, Philippines: A worker arranges crates of beer before loading them on a truck inside a San Miguel beer warehouse Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

Irrawaddy, Burma: A man finds the body of a child that lies in a field after cyclone Nargis Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

Ohrid, Macedonia: Supporters cheer the prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, before his speech at the first electoral rally ahead of the parliamentary vote on June 1 Photograph: Robert Atanasovski/AFP

Melbourne, Australia: Residents at the Corpus Christi Catholic home embrace the physical and mental sides of swordplay in an effort to stay healthy Photograph: William West/AFP

Jakarta, Indonesia: A student steps on burning posters of the president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, during a protest in front of the presidential palace Photograph: Jurnasyanto Sukarno/EPA

Labutta, Burma: A young survivor sits in a temple that has been turned into a makeshift refugee centre Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

Koetzting, Germany: A man dressed in traditional Bavarian costume rides a horse and holds a wooden cross as he leads a Whit Monday procession Photograph: Alexandra Beier/Reuters

Shwayfat, Lebanon: Pigeons fly over the town, which has seen fighting between Hizbullah and pro-government forces in recent days Photograph: Ramzi Haidar/AFP

Shwayfat, Lebanon: Bloodstains cover the wall where, according to witnesses, Druze activists loyal to the anti-Syrian leader Walid Jumblatt were executed by Hizbullah gunmen Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP