24 hours in pictures : April 26 2007

Uong Bi, Vietnam: A miner takes a short break from sorting through coal at a mine. Vietnam has an estimated 30bn tonnes of coal reserves in the northern Red river delta north and east of Hanoi. Photograph: JULIAN ABRAM WAINWRIGHT/EPA

Pyongyang, North Korea: Soldiers carry a portrait of the late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung during a grand military parade to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army. Photograph: KCNA/AFP

Washington, USA: President Bush plays drums and dances with Assan Ronte, second from right, of the Kankouran west African dance company during a ceremony for Malaria Awareness Day in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Hong Kong, China: Dancers of the Taiwan's famed Cloud Gate modern dance troupe take part in a rehearsal. Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Rome, Italy: A monument commemorating those who fought and died against Nazi and fascist forces on the 62nd anniversary of Italy's Liberation Day. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Mosul, Iraq: A US army medic applies sodium chloride as he prepares a thermal blanket for a seriously wounded Iraqi soldier. Photograph: MAURICIO LIMA/AFP

Paris, France: Francois Bayrou, who came in third in the first round of the French presidential elections gives a news conference where he refused to endorse either the Socialist candidate Ségòlene Royal or the rightwinger Nicolas Sarkozy in the May 6 run-off. Photograph: MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Brazilian retired people march in protests against the government's decision to readjust their pensions. Photograph: FILIPE ARAUJO/AFP

Space: This image acquired by the Envisat satellite in 2004 shows the southern tip of the Florida and the Keys down to the southern coast of Cuba, with the islands of the Bahamas and the shallow blue waters around them. Scientists from around the world gathered at the Envisat Symposium n Montreux to share results of project activities on the European Space Agency’s Earth Observation satellites. Photograph: ESA/AFP

Baghdad, Iraq: An Iraqi schoolboy peers through a gap in the concrete wall the US military plan to use to enclose Adhamiya district, where tit-for-tat sectarian violence is threatening to spiral out of control. Photograph: ALI HAIDER/EPA

Moscow, Russia: A man cleans a window as a TV set shows the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, delivering the state of the nation address. Photograph: VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP

New Orleans, USA: Frank Sams, 13, plays basketball in the courtyard of the BW Cooper housing development. If the US department of housing and urban development gets its way, BW Cooper and other major New Orleans housing projects will be torn down. In a billion-dollar plan, the HUD wants to replace them with developments of mixed architectural styles, for people of various incomes. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Tokyo, Japan: An illumination lit by some 100,000 light-emitting diodes in Shiodome business district. The illumination will be lit until the end of August to promote the Broadway musical The Wicked, which will be played by a Japanese theatrical company from June in Tokyo. Photograph: TORU YAMANAKA/AFP

Madrid, Spain: A 3rd century BC gold fibula, owned by the British Museum, represents the fight between a naked warrior and a monster and has given its title to an exhibition, the Hero and the Monster. Photograph: J.L. PINO/EPA