24 hours in pictures

Netua, Israel: A firefighter works at the scene where a Katyusha rocket fired from southern Lebanon hit a gas tank Photograph: Ancho Gosh/AFP/Getty Images

Kunming, China: A man feeds blackheaded gulls at Dianchi lake. Tens of thousands of blackheaded gulls fly to Kunming from Siberia to spend the winter each year Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

Cairo, Egypt: Political activists distribute fliers to bus passengers outside a polling station as the first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak get under way Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Los Angeles, US: Police clear the street of protesters near the Occupy Los Angeles encampment at City Hall Park Photograph: David McNew/Reuters

Cotalo, Ecuador: The erupting Tungurahua volcano and the city of Banos at night Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA

New Delhi, India: Artists from the Nalanda Dance Research Centre perform the dance drama The Enlightened One – the Gautama Buddha Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA

Laase, Germany: Police mounted on horses watch over anti-nuclear protesters demonstrating against a passing convoy of trucks transporting containers with nuclear waste Photograph: Carsten Koall/Getty Images

Shanghai, China: Maddie Hooton, of Britain, and Magdalena Sera Leifsdottir, of Iceland – competitors at the Elite Models Look event – apply makeup in the back of a bus Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Police officers stand next to a crime scene where the bound body of a murdered woman was found Photograph: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters

New Delhi, India: A protester drinks water as she attends a rally near parliament for the rights of the poor Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP

Shanghai, China: A man injects himself with a syringe on a patch of waste ground Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

Monterrey, Mexico: Soldiers stand guard next to a military vehicle at the perimeter of a ranch used by hitmen to kill their rivals Photograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters