24 hours in pictures

Shanghai, China: Police keep order as passengers queue to buy train tickets to travel home for the spring festival holiday
Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

Parkes, Australia: A farmer stand stands in his drought-stricken fields
Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Islamabad, Pakistan: A man working in a rubbish dump shows off baby chicks he found among waste
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Mason City, Iowa, US: A multi-vehicle pile-up on Highway 65
Photograph: Bryon Houlgrave/AP

Eyal Crossing, Israel: Palestinian workers from the West Bank warm themselves around a fire while waiting to be picked up and taken to work
Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images

Panjin, China: A man walks on the frozen sea near Liaodong Bay
Photograph: Sheng Li/Reuters

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A man covered in dust walks along a street
Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A pregnant woman lies on the ground after falling among UN soldiers during a food distribution in front of the National Palace
Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

Beirut, Lebanon: Red Cross workers carry the body of a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Bangalore, India: A student performs Malkhamb, an ancient form of Indian gymnastics, during the Indian Republic Day celebrations
Photograph: Aijaz Rahi/AP

Caracas, Venezuela: University students march in protest against Hugo Chávez's decision to force the Radio Caracas television station off the air
Photograph: Leonardo Ramirez/AP

Comayaguela, Honduras: The son of Tegucigalpa's mayor, Ricardo Alvarez, sleeps as his father is sworn in for a second term
Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images

Vavuniya, Sri Lanka: Policewomen with automatic weapons patrol the streets during voting in the presidential election
Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

Minsk, Belarus: Ducks dive for food in a pond
Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP