24 hours in pictures : June 6 2007

Srinagar India: A sparrow flies over a polluted lake on World Environment Day. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Bangalore, India: A worker at an e-waste recycling unit sorts through components taken from dismantled computers. Photograph: MANJUNATH KIRAN/EPA

Mont Blanc, France: A police helicopter leaves carrying the Danish artist Marco Evaristti, who was arrested for fear that he might colour the peak red. Some of his previous works involve changing the colour of large areas of other natural locations. Photograph: Lars Nyboell/AP

Kerang, Australia: A carriage from a train involved in a fatal collision with a truck in which ten people died. Photograph: Lucas Dawson/Getty

Taipei, Taiwan: A woman points to a fan with a digital display of the room temperature at the Taipei international information technology show. Photograph: SAM YEH/AFP

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox church attend the opening of the new millenium festival. Ethiopia uses the Julian calender, which runs around seven years behind the more widely-used Gregorian calender. Photograph: JOSE CENDON/AFP

Berlin, Germany: Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe, Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and the EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso give a press conference after EU-Japan talks. Photograph: CLEMENS BILAN/AFP

Pyongyang, North Korea: A poster urges armed resistance to the US military threat. Photograph: ADRIAN BRADSHAW/EPA

Ghazni Province, Afghanistan: Afghan boys watch as US soldiers search for Taliban rebels in their village. Photograph: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP

Mount Bental, Golan Heights: Israeli tourists take photos at an abandoned Syrian army post from the 1967 six-day war. Photograph: Yaron Kaminsky/AP

Valencia, Spain: Italy's Luna Rossa Challenge (below) suffers her fourth defeat at the hands of Emirates Team New Zealand in the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty

London, UK: Soldiers relax before taking part in rehearsals for the trooping of the colour. Photograph: Bruno Vincent/Getty

Sikasso, Mali: Women prepare food ahead of a forum organised to coincide with the G8 summit in Germany which will discuss debt, food security, immigration and the creation of an alternative to the World Bank. Photograph: GEORGES GOBET/AFP

Amritsar, India: Sikhs gather at the Golden Temple on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of Operation Bluestar, which included an assault on the holy site. Photograph: NARINDER NANU/AFP

Monteverde, Costa Rica: An endangered red eyed tree frog. Photograph: Kent Gilbert/AP