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24 hours in pictures

24 hours: Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A woman raises her arms for products as people loot
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A woman raises her arms for products as people loot a shop destroyed by the earthquake
Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters
24 hours: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine: A man votes in the presidential elections
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine: A man leaves a polling booth during the first round of presidential elections
Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
24 hours: Lanslebourg, France: Sled dogs are held ahead of the Grand Odyssee race
Lanslebourg, France: Sled dogs at the start of the Lanslebourg to Haute Maurienne Vanoise leg of the Grand Odyssee race, in which 20 teams and 350 dogs compete along a 1,000km course
Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images
24 hours: Fujisawa, Japan: Participants carry a portable shrine into the sea
Fujisawa, Japan: Participants carry a portable shrine into the sea during a winter festival at Katase Enoshima beach
Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images
24 hours: Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka: Cadets march at a ceremony for 229 new army officers
Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka: Cadets march at a graduation ceremony for 229 new army officers
Photograph: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
24 hours: Otepaa, Estonia: Boys look out from a hot water barrel
Otepaa, Estonia: Boys look out from a hot water barrel during the women's FIS World Cup cross-country skiing competition
Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters
24 hours: Manila, Philippines: A woman sleeps inside her burnt house
Manila, Philippines: A woman sleeps inside her burnt house after a fire razed the slum area of Baseco, leaving at least 4,000 people homeless
Photograph: Dennis M Sabangan/EPA
24 hours: Monte-Carlo, Monaco: Clowns at the International Circus Festival
Monte Carlo, Monaco: Clowns at the International Circus Festival
Photograph: Lionel Cironneau/AP
24 hours: Kabul, Afghanistan: An Afghan vendor sorts potatoes
Kabul, Afghanistan: An Afghan vendor sorts potatoes as local and foreign CDs and DVDs are hung for sale on a fence
Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP
24 hours: San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain: A man rides a horse through a bonfire
San Bartolomé de Pinares, Spain: A man rides a horse through a bonfire in honour of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals
Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP
24 hours: Kobe, Japan: A woman at a service in memory of the 1995 earthquake
Kobe, Japan: A woman participates in an early morning candle service in memory of victims of the 1995 earthquake, in Higashi Park
Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA
24 hours: Angola: A child is carried by his mother in the Maiombe region
Angola: A child is carried by his mother as she cuts bananas in the Maiombe region
Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters
24 hours: Madurai, India: Villagers are pinned down by a bull during a festival
Madurai, India: Villagers are trampled by a bull during a bull-taming festival, part of south India's harvest festival of Pongal
Photograph: Babu/Reuters
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