24 hours in pictures

London, UK: A woman wearing union flag tights waits outside Westminster Abbey for the royal wedding Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Islamabad, Pakistan: A man grooms his moustache Photograph: Nathalie Bardou/AP

Sao Felix, Brazil: A Kayapo man carries his child to an annual mobile clinic for indigenous people in the Amazon forests Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

Tokyo, Japan: The Dalai Lama slips off his flip-flops at a news conference – while in the country he attended a public prayer session for earthquake and tsunami victims Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US: Tornado devastation Photograph: LEE CELANO/REUTERS

Krakow, Poland: A woman passes by a giant poster of the late Pope John Paul II as part of an open-air photo exhibition ahead of his beatification in Rome on Sunday Photograph: Bela Szandelszky/AP

Cape Canaveral, Florida, US: Lightning strikes in the background as the space shuttle Endeavour awaits launch for its final voyage Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

El Alto, Bolivia: A shaman prepares offerings to Mother Earth or Pachamama before an Andean indigenous mass baptism at the holy site of Apacheta Photograph: Juan Karita/AP

Misrata, Libya: A man walks past buildings destroyed in fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

Ahmadabad, India: People crowd a vegetable market amid steep food price inflation Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP

La Dolores, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia: Aerial view of a flooded farm. The country faces its worst ever natural disaster because of flooding rains. Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

Bristol, UK: Police and protesters at demonstrations around a Tesco store. Photograph: Michael Lloyd/Bristol News and M/PA

Sana'a, Yemen: A Yemeni girl shows writing on her hands saying 'go away' in Arabic during a demonstration demanding the ousting of President Ali Abdullah Saleh Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Delhi, India: A rickshaw driver rests his feet as others pass by Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP