24 hours in pictures

Jacobabad, Pakistan: Pakistanis stand on a collapsed railway line as seen from an army helicopter in a heavily flooded area Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Ahmedabad, India: A boy swims in the polluted river Sabarmati in search of offerings thrown in by worshippers; religious customs in India have come under increasing scrutiny amid environmental concerns Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

Rajasthan, India: A man gives bread to catfish in the Gadisar Lake at Jaisalmer. The lake's catfish are often fed by worhsippers at nearby temples Photograph: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters

Taipei, Taiwan: A girl poses between the teeth of a shark painted by graffiti artists advertising the Hsin-Men-Ding street culture festival Photograph: Wu Ching-teng/AP

Jacobabad, Pakistan: People displaced by flooding queue for food at a temporary camp and aid distribution centre Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Munich, Germany: A silvery gibbon jumps through its enclosure at the zoo Hellabrunn; the gibbons are an endangered species found in tropical and subtropical rainforests Photograph: Peter Kneffel/EPA

Srinagar, India: A young worker dries a scarf outside a shrine as thousands assembled at shrines and mosques in Indian Kashmir after authorities lifted a regional curfew Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Singapore: Emily Selig of Australia competes in the women's 200-metre breaststroke swimming event at the Youth Olympic Games Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Rila Mountain, Bulgaria: Members of an international religious movement called the White Brotherhood perform a ritual dance known as Paneurhythmy Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

Jerusalem: A Palestinian woman splashes water on fellow worshippers to cool them off amid high temperatures at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Sindh Province, Pakistan: People crowd around an army helicopter as it lands during a drop of food supplies to the flood encircled village of Tul Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

This Nasa image shows the eruption of a galactic super-volcano in the massive galaxy M87; at a distance of about 50 million light years, M87 is relatively close to Earth Photograph: NASA/AFP