24 hours in pictures : April 30 2007

Utting, Germany: Boats lie at the bank of lake Ammer. According to meteorologists, this April has been the driest, sunniest and warmest April in Germany since 1901. Photograph: PETER KNEFFEL/EPA

Istanbul, Turkey: 300,000 secularists protested in Istanbul yesterday at the ruling party’s Islamic candidate for president. Photograph: KERIM OKTEN/EPA

Kanagawa prefecture, Japan: Koinobori, or carp streamers, fly over people having a picnic on the riverbank. A total of 1,200 colorful windsocks were hung to mark Children's Day on May 5, wishing children's healthy growth like a carp that can swim up a waterfall. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/AP

Indio, USA: Spectators watch the Canadian band Arcade Fire performing on the main stage at the Coachella valley music and arts festival. Photograph: Branimir Kvartuc/AP

Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan: An Afghan policeman takes part in a poppy eradication operation. The Taliban fired rockets and small arms when US state department officials along with Afghan authorities were eradicating poppy fields in southern Afghanistan. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Farchana, Chad: Young refugees from Darfur line up for school in Farchana refugee camp. Farchana currently houses over 20,000 refugees that fled the violence in Darfur, in neighboring Sudan, four years ago. Photograph: STEPHEN MORRISON/EPA

Moscow, Russia: Posters reading ‘It's possible to destroy the monument, but never the memory’ in front of the Estonian embassy. Russia reacted furiously to Estonia's removal of a Soviet war monument from central Tallinn, with parliament calling for immediate sanctions against the Baltic state. Photograph: ALEXANDER TITORENKO/AFP

Paris, France: French conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during a campaign meeting. France's presidential race is in its final week, with Sarkozy holding a narrow but enduring lead over Socialist Ségòlene Royal. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP

Gualeguaychu, Argentina: Demonstrators march over the bridge that joins Argentina and Uruguay in protest against a paper mill that they fear will pollute the river. Photograph: CEZARO DE LUCA/EPA

Oakland, USA: Aerial view of the freeway interchange that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which collapsed onto another highway ramp at the weekend, after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP

Baghdad, Iraq: Iraqi Shias shout anti-US slogans during a demonstration in al-Kadhimiyah district. Thousands of Shias rallied today to protest against a joint US and Iraqi military operation conducted yesterday near the office of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Photograph: SABAH ARAR/AFP

Teheran, Iran: Iranian police remove satellite dishes from roofs. In a massive operation by the vice-squad, the Iranian administration is trying to remove what it calls ‘western cultural invasion’ from the country. Photograph: ABEDIN TAHERKENARAH/EPA

Valencia, Spain: The mast of the Team China yacht at the Louis Vuitton Cup, the challengers' regatta for the America's Cup. Photograph: MAURIZIO GABARINI/EPA

Donaghadee County Down, Northern Ireland: A man enjoys beer and a cigarette in the oldest bar in Ireland: Grace Neill's. Northern Ireland wakes to a smoke-free future to, as the ban on smoking in enclosed public places comes into force. Photograph: PAUL MACERLANE/EPA

Djenne, Mali: A man from Mali exits the largest mud-brick building in the world, the Grand Mosque, on his way to a polling station to vote in presidential elections. Photograph: NIC BOTHMA/EPA