24 hours in pictures

Alabama, US: revellers with the Mystic Stripers toss trinkets to the crowds gathered on Royal Street in the city of Mobile as part of a pre-lenten blowout that continues along the Gulf coast, culminating in Fat Tuesday celebrations on 21 February Photograph: G.M. Andrews/AP

Vienna, Austria: visitors to the traditional opera ball crowd the dance floor at the state opera house Photograph: Ronald Zak/AP

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: a performer waits to go on stage during the traditional mas competition in Victoria Square Photograph: Andrea De Silva/Reuters

Athens, Greece: butchers await customers in Athens's central market in the Omonia district. Finance ministers across the eurozone are calling for greater scrutiny and oversight of Greece's proposed budget cuts in order to approve the latest €130bn euro bailout package Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Benghazi, Libya: girls dressed up as angels wave the victory sign as they parade during celebrations on the eve of the anniversary of the first protest against Gaddafi's government Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images

Tel Aviv, Israel: African refugees share breakfast at a shelter. Some 50,000 Africans have entered Israel in recent years, fleeing conflict and poverty in the relatively prosperous Jewish state Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Temagara, Pakistan: a man holds on to a truck as he crosses a river outside the city of Temagara, close to the Afghan border in the Dia district Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AP

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: women wait to recover the remains of their relatives who died in the Comayagua prison fire Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Maria, 72, gestures during the annual Bloco dos Bancarios block party in the city Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

Sochi, Russia: workers build a platform at the 2014 Olympic venue in the Russian Black Sea resort. Russia faces the challenge of building much of the facilities from scratch in Sochi city and the surrounding mountains Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images

San Juan Atitán, Guatemala: a man speaks with a girl who will be weighed and measured at a health centre. Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina, has launched a nationwide campaign against malnutrition, called Zero Hunger Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Pyongyang, North Korea: fireworks explode over the heads of soldiers at Kumsusan memorial palace during a parade commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong-il Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Bansko, Bulgaria: a man snowboards down a race track at the Bulgarian ski resort Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

California, US: Kusang Tobdhen protests outside Los Angeles international airport, where China's vice-president Xi Jinping was arriving Photograph: Phil McCarten/Reuters