24 hours in pictures

Guatemala City: A man waits for customers in a butcher's shop in La Terminal market
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: The bodies of anti-government protesters lie in a temple
Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Islamabad, Pakistan: Police officers try to prevent students reaching a diplomatic enclave to demonstrate against a Facebook page. A Pakistani court ordered the government to block Facebook temporarily because of a page that encourages uses to submit images of the Prophet Muhammad
Photograph: B.K.Bangash/AP

Besançon, France: A Hapalemur Simus lemur, called Sorja, carries her one-month-old baby at Besançon Zoo
Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images

Beijing, China: PLA (People's Liberation Army) members of a waist drum band prepare to perform before the 'Baizhifang Cup' waist drum tournament
Photograph: Diego Azubel/EPA

Guatemala City: A worker grabs a pig by its ears in a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of the city
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Louisiana, US: Boat captain Preston Morris shows the oil on his hands while collecting surface samples from the oil impacted marsh of Pass a Loutre from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Moscow: Ballerina Lucia Lacarra of the Bavarian State Ballet backstage before her turn during a gala show of the Benois de la Danse Award nominees at the Bolshoi Theatre
Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Athens: Tourists visit the Acropolis archaeological site
Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Caxias do Sul, Brazil: Dogs wander around their houses at the NGO Sociedade Amiga dos Animais (Friend of Animals Society) Photograph: Bruno Domingos/Reuters

Ramallah, West Bank: Palestinian girls look at toys for sale at a market in the West Bank city. [This caption was corrected on 24 May 2010. The original was datelined Ramallah, Israel]
Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Athens: A seagull stands on a mooring rope surrounded by the reflection of a red boat in the water in the port of Piraeus
Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Baengnyeong Island, South Korea: North Korean defectors and South Korean activists release balloons carrying leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
Photograph: Kim Ju-sung/AP

Mumbai, India: Indian children enjoy playing at the Juhu beach
Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA

Phezulu, South Africa: Zulu dancers get ready in a hut to perform a traditional Zulu dance as part of the entertainment programme at Phezulu Safari Lodge
Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images