24 hours in pictures : April 23 2007

New Delhi, India: Children take a shower under a water pipeline. Photograph: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP

Boston, USA: Kimani, a two-year-old western lowland gorilla, presses her face against the glass of the enclosure at the Franklin Park Zoo Photograph: Michael Dwyer/AP

Sheffield, England: Anthony Hamilton in action during his first round match against Marco Fu in the World Championship at the Crucible Theatre. Photograph: Anthony Hamilton/Getty

Dublin, Ireland: Children stand in front of the wall bearing the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic while holding Easter lillies. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA

Istanbul, India: Turkish supporters of the ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development party wave Turkish and party flags during a rally in support of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at a sports hall. Mr Erdogan is to announce his final decision whether to run for president in next month's elections by April 25. Photograph: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP

Paris, France: UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the campaign HQ after winning the first round of the French presidential elections. Photograph: LUCAS DOLEGA/Guardian

Baghdad, Iraq: An Iraqi boy walks near a blast wall in the Karrada neighborhood. US troops are building a wall, which the military says is for protection, around the Adhamiya Sunni neighborhood, which is surrounded by Shia areas, north of Baghdad. The wall has been criticised by some Adhamiya residents, who called it a "collective punishment". Photograph: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty

Jingzhou, China: An artificially bred Chinese sturgeon is freed to the Yangtze river during a ceremony to release two wild and 50,000 artificially cultured Chinese sturgeons. Photograph: STR/Getty

London, UK: An exhausted runner is takes a rest at a water station during the hottest-ever London Marathon. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian

Tokyo, Japan: Visitors to the Yasukuni Shrine leave after offering prayers for the country's war dead on the last day of the shrine's three-day spring festival. Photograph: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP

Blacksburg, USA: A visitor leaves a handprint on a makeshift memorial to the 33 victims of the Virginia Tech campus shooting. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty

Nablus, West Bank: Palestinian relatives of Amen Lubade mourn during his funeral. Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian militants during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. The two men, members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, were shot during a gun battle after Israeli troops surrounded the house they were in. Photograph: ALAA BADARNEH/Guardian

Berlin, Germany: Two swallows sit on a wire cable. Despite the saying 'One swallow does not make a summer', temperatures are expected to rise above 20 degrees Celsius over the next few days. Photograph: STEPAHANIE PILICK/Guardian

Wuhan, China: Chinese girls perform during the draw for the Fifa Women’s World Cup. Photograph: SHEN AO/Guardian