24 hours in pictures

Mejicanos, El Salvador: A police investigator takes a picture of a bus that was set alight by Mara 18 gang members, killing 11 passengers
Photograph: Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images

Bogotá, Colombia: Antanas Mockus, presidential candidate for the Green Party, makes his concession speech after losing the presidential election runoff to Juan Manuel Santos
Photograph: William Fernando Martinez/AP

Venice, Italy: Two rowers in a Venetian Puparino struggle to reach the shore of the lagoon as they pass Burano Island in heavy wind and rain
Photograph: Andrea Merola/EPA

Johannesburg: A Brazil fan poses for the camera at the World Cup football match against Ivory Coast at Soccer City
Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

Allahabad, India: Hindus bathe in the river Ganges while celebrating Ganga Dussehra, devoted to the worship of the river Ganges
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Schleife, Germany: A girl wears traditional Sorbian costume at the International Sorbian Bagpipe Festival
Photograph: Carsten Koall/Getty Images

Bay Jimmy, Louisiana, US: Poggy fish lie dead in oil from the BP spill which has been called one of the largest environmental disasters in US history
Photograph: Sean Gardner/Reuters

Pasadena, US: A chalk artist works on a chalk drawing as artists attempt to set a Guinness World Record of the largest display of chalk on pavement during the 18th annual Pasadena Chalk Festival
Photograph: Jae C. Hong/AP

Singapore: Lesser Flamingos in their enclosure at Jurong Bird Park
Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

Inanda, South Africa: An unmarried Zulu girl dances during an engagement ceremony in KwaZulu-Natal province
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Salisbury Plain, UK: People raise their hands as the sun rises over Stonehenge as part of Summer solstice celebrations
Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

Johannesburg, South Africa: A boy stands in goal while his friends play football
Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Istanbul, Turkey: Nationalists chant slogans against PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) during a protest at Taksim Square
Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Lisbon, Portugal: The coffin of writer Jose Saramago arrives at the crematorium of the Alto de Sao Joao
Photograph: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images