24 hours in pictures

Najaf, Iraq: A woman prays during her son's funeral at the holy shrine of Imam Ali
Photograph: Alaa al-Marjani/AP

Mexico City, Mexico: A policeman directs traffic in a flooded street
Photograph: Daniel Aguilar/Reuters

Srinagar, India: A protester carrying a petrol bomb runs towards police during protests fuelled by the killing of a teenager by police
Photograph: Reinhard Krause/Reuters

Port-au-prince, Haiti: Boys fly kites in a tent city constructed by those who lost their homes in the earthquake
Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hefei, China: A father sees his seven-year-old son off at a railway station
Photograph: Jianan Yu/Reuters

New Delhi, India: The fingers of a woman in a state of trance poke through a lattice wall at the shrine of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya
Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Nagoya, Japan: The Toyota Motor Corp president, Akio Toyoda, bows at the start of a news conference
Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: A forensic police officer takes a photograph of a bin containing the body of a dead man
Photograph: Alejandro Bringas/Reuters

Candaba, Philippines: Residents take part in a parade during the Birds and Eggs festival
Photograph: Erik De Castro/Reuters

Iqaluit, Canada: Inuit dogs pull a sledge using a traditional harness
Photograph: Rob Gillies/AP

Pokhara, Nepal: Rescue workers search Lake Phewa for a German tourist who went missing after a paragliding flight
Photograph: EPA

Forward Operating Base Price, Afghanistan: A US soldier from Task Force Stryker walks ahead of an armoured vehicle
Photograph: Pier Paolo Cito/AP