24 hours in pictures : June 1 2007

Calcutta, India: Local firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a shop Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

Jackson, US: Reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale is helped out of a van at the federal courthouse Photograph: Rogelio V Solis/AP

Petah Tikva, Israel: An illegal Palestinian worker lowers himself down through a small hole in an unfinished building where he sleeps Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Agri Mountain, Turkey: Greenpeace recreate Noah's Ark ias part of the Save the Climate Now campaign Photograph: Greenpeace/EPA

New York, US: 250 photographs of smiling New Yorkers adorn the facade of the Rockefeller Centre. The work, by artist Agnes Winter, is titled Monument Smile Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty

Budapest, Hungary: An employee pushes back a bale of plastic bottles at the Metaloglobus Plastic Recycling Company Photograph: Ferenc Isza/AFP

Rishikesh, India: Children participate in a classroom activity at Ramana's Garden, built and run by former Hollywood actor Maggie O'Hara. It is home and school for about 200 children from the lowest rungs of Indian society Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP

Calcutta, India: A taxi driver takes an afternoon nap Photograph: Bikas Das/AP

Magelang, Central Java: Buddhist monks prepare for commemoration of the Buddha's birthday at Mendut temple Photograph: Ali Lutfi/AP

Tokyo, Japan: A man walks past barrels of Japanese rice wine at the Meiji shrine Photograph: Robert Gilhooly/EPA

Edinburgh, Scotland: One of the 22 Gentoo penguin chicks that have hatched over the last few weeks at the zoo Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

Islamabad, Pakistan: A woman prays next to the shrine of Bari Imam Abdul Latif Kazmi, paying homage during the annual Bari Imam festival Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty

Ruicheng, China: Students at a rural primary school take a nap during lunch time. Children in some of China's impoverished regions still face inadequate transport facilities and local availability of schools. Many of them have to walk miles to school every day Photograph: Eye Press/AP

Baghdad, Iraq: Displaced women carry containers with water in the neighborhood of al-Fudheliyah Photograph: Ali Abbas/EPA