24 hours in pictures

Michigan, US: Danny Sullivan, eight, with his father at the annual Mud Day celebration in Westland. The event consists of 200 tonnes of topsoil mixed with 20,000 gallons of water and about 1,000 children Photograph: Bill Pugliano/Getty

Pamplona, Spain: A matador's hat, or montera, decorated with an image of the Virgin. The town's annual San Fermin festival attracts tens of thousands of visitors for nine days of revelry Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP

Beijing, China: A rubbish collector pedals his tricycle loaded with cardboard and plastic bottles to a recycling centre located near the northern outskirts of the city Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

Beijing, China: People's Liberation Army soldiers listen to a speech during a rally at the Great Hall of the People Photograph: Claro Cortes IV/Reuters

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A fisherman takes a rest on his boat at Ibo beach Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP

Helmand province, Afghanistan: A US marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit asleep on the ground in the town of Garmser Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Gaza strip: Palestinian forklift trucks on their way to the Sufa border post to unload trucks carrying goods from Israel. Supplies have been arriving after Israel and Hamas agreed a truce three weeks ago Photograph: Adel Hana/AP

California, US: Firefighters keep a look out along West Camino Cielo; homes in southern Santa Barbara county are still threatened by a fire in the Los Padres national forest. Photograph: Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara News-Press/AP Photograph: Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara News-Press/AP

Hokkaido, Japan: The French and Russian presidents Nicolas Sarkozy (l) and Dmitry Medvedev smile as they meet George W Bush before the G8 summit Photograph: Dmitry Astakhov/EPA

Hokkaido, Japan: A George Bush mask on the ground during a demonstration by members of Oxfam outside the G8 meeting Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Rangoon, Burma: Two newly made stupas, brass structures placed on the top of pagodas, on display in a workshop. Photograph: AP Photograph: AP

Tokyo, Japan: Balloon Lumpfish (Eumicrotremus pacificus) attach themselves to balloons at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium. The deep-sea fish have ventral sucker disks, which help them to cling to rocks in the water. Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty

Glasgow, UK: The scene of a fire at Christie and Son scrapyard near Glasgow, which the fire service said could burn for another day or more Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA