24 hours in pictures : June 15 2007

New Delhi, India: A family takes cover under an umbrella during a downpour. The Indian capital has received its first pre-monsoon showers, bringing respite from a scorching heatwave. Photograph: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP

Vallejo, USA: Odin, a five-year-old White Bengal Tiger, dives for a piece of meat thrown to him by a trainer during a big cat show. Photograph: ROBYN BECK/AFP

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Prostitutes buy fresh goat milk while waiting for clients outside their rented rooms on a street where dozens of women work. Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP

Kompong Thom province, Cambodia: Vendors sell deep-fried crickets at a bus station. Photograph: MAK REMISSA/EPA

Paris, France: A flash-mob dinner near the landmark arch at the city's Place de l'Etoile. Around 8,000 people turned up at the Arc de Triomphe to settle down to their three-hour candle-lit dinner. The site of the annual ‘dinner in white’ is kept secret from the Paris authorities, and the invited participants are only told where they are going when they board coaches at various meeting points in the suburbs earlier in the evening. Photograph: JEAN AYISSI/AFP

Sao Paulo, Brazil : Brazilian models wear designs by AfroReggae during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week. Photograph: SEBASTIAO MOREIRA/EPA

Fort Lauderdale, USA: A small portion of the approximately two million old tyres on the ocean floor that were dumped in the 1970s with the intention of creating an artificial reef. The state is spending $2m on a project to remove 700,000 of the tyres after the project failed. Photograph: Wilfredo Lee/AP

Mexico City, Mexico: A cat is seen in the gardens of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's former home, now the Frida Kahlo museum. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Trien Meng Hiep, 9, nearest the wall, is hugged by another boy in Tu Du hospital. Both of the boys were born with severe physical deformities that hospital officials suspect to have been caused by their parents’ exposure to dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Baghdad, Iraq: A US helicopter gunner looks over deserted streets after the Iraqi government imposed a curfew in response to the second bombing of the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra on Wednesday. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Mogadishu, Somalia: A massive cache of weapons recovered from various locations of Somalia's capital during a two-day crackdown against suspect Islamist insurgent hideouts, is displayed at a local military compound. Photograph: STRINGER /AFP

Calcutta, India: A woman, selling stacks of rupee coins counts notes at a bus stand. A mysterious coin shortage gripping the eastern Indian city of Calcutta has shopkeepers begging change from beggars and buying coins at prices above their face value. No one knows exactly why there is no change in Calcutta or why the dearth has affected only this city of 14 million, but it has spurred the Reserve Bank of India to emergency measures, distributing millions of coins to try sate the demand. Photograph: Bikas Das/AP

Guatemala City, Guatemala: A clown called Meloncito fixes his makeup while his brother Curoncito rests before performing in the streets. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

London, UK: A woman sits in the Meltdown Chair, designed by student Tom Price during the Royal College of Art Graduate Summer Show. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty

Beijing, China: A Chinese worker takes a rest in front of the National Theatre, affectionately known as the egg, as it nears completion. Photograph: TEH ENG KOON/AFP