24 hours in pictures

Kuwait City, Kuwait: Firefighters from the national guard, the army and the oil industry joined efforts to contain a huge fire in a dump for more than 5m used tyres Photograph: Yasser al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

Henley-on-Thames, England: A rower passes moored boats early in the morning on the river Thames Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Jalandhar, India: Rescuers work at the site of a three-storey blanket factory which collapsed with nightshift workers inside Photograph: Channi Anand/AP

Tokyo, Japan: Sorakara, the main mascot for the Tokyo Sky Tree, looks out over the view from the newly-opened tower which, at 634m in height, is now the world's tallest freestanding broadcast structure Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA

Lille, France: A young supporter of the Socialist party candidate François Hollande holds a rose, the party's symbol, during his speech at a campaign meeting Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

Seville, Spain: A sword is embedded in a bull after a bullfight in the Maestranza bullring Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters

New York, US: Protesters dressed in baseball uniforms and cheerleading outfits, calling themselves The Tax Dodgers and Corporate Loopholes, perform a skit during a tax day demonstration in front of the the city's main post office building Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Orestiada, Greece: Mohamed, 22, from Algeria, sits inside an abandoned wagon at the train station after crossing the border from Turkey. Debt-crippled Greece is the EU's main entry point for illegal immigrants, mostly from Asia and Africa Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Moscow, Russia: An environmental activist wearing a polar bear costume is detained by police officers while protesting outside the venue hosting the Russian Arctic Oil and Gas business conference Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters

Washington DC, US: On top of a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery takes its final flight over Washington DC on its way to its new home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Photograph: Rex Features

Boston, Massachusetts, US: The lights are on at Fenway Park for the MLB American League baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox. Fenway Park hosted its first major league baseball game on 20 April 1912 and is the first ever major league ballpark to reach its 100th anniversary Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

San Francisco, California, US: Winnie Hook, 106, one of the four known survivors of San Francisco's great earthquake and fire of 1906, sits for a portrait Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

Punjab, India: A farm worker drinks water while harvesting a wheat crop at a field in Jhanpur village. India's wheat harvest could touch 90m tonnes in 2012, a record output for the second straight year, after favourable weather conditions Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters

Castle Donington, England: Farmers wait for lots to come under the hammer at the UK's biggest ever construction plant sale at industrial auctioneers Ritchie Bros. Buyers from around the world bid for the 675 pieces of equipment Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images