24 hours in pictures

Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand: A boy uses binoculars to follow the path of a homemade rocket, at a rocket festival in a rice field Photograph: Matthew Richards/Demotix/Corbis

Slavutich, Ukraine: Flowers placed at the monument to Chernobyl victims, on the 27th anniversary of the disaster Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Houses in Jalousie de Petionville have been painted as a tribute to the Haitian painter Prefete Duffaut, who died last year Photograph: Orlando Barr a/EPA

New York: People watch the full moon rise over the Manhattan skyline Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters

Dhaka, Bangladesh: A woman shows a portrait of her missing twin sister, believed still to be trapped in the rubble 48 hours after an eight-storey building collapsed Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

New Delhi, India: A participant in a religious procession during Hanuman Jayanti, which celebrates the birth of the Hindu god Hanuman Photograph: Tsering Topgyal/AP

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Rescue work at the scene of a building collapse Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Buddhists offer incense sticks at a temple in Kelaniya Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

New York: People walk on portraits pasted on the ground at Times Square. The Inside Out New York City project invited people to take self-portraits in a photo booth stationed in Times Square, the site of the world's first photo booth almost 100 years ago. The portraits are printed on posters and pasted on the ground Photograph: Xinhua /Landov/Barcroft Media

Kiev, Ukraine: People honour the victims of the Chernobyl disaster Photograph: Stas Kozlyuk/ Stas Kozlyuk/Demotix/Corbis

New Delhi, India: A woman holds her child as she watches a religious procession during Hanuman Jayanti Photograph: Tsering Topgyal/AP

Dallas, Texas: Fireworks light up the sky during the opening of the George W Bush presidential library. The library will house more than 70m pages of paper records, 43,000 artifacts, 200m emails and 4m digital photographs, and will open to the public on 1 May Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images