24 hours in pictures : May 01 2007

Beijing, China: Music fans wave a black flag at the Midi Music Festival. Up to 60,000 people will attend the four-day music festival, featuring 65 Chinese bands and 20 foreign acts on five different stages. Photograph: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA

Agartala, India: An Indian woman labourer prepares beedis, or leaf-made cigarettes at her workplace. A beedi factory worker earns a daily wage of $1. Photograph: PARTHAJIT DATTA/AFP

London, UK: Demonstrators’ flags and placards are silhouetted on the ground as they call for an English parliament. The Justice for England marchers are marking the 300th anniversary of the Union between England and Scotland. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

Cicmany, Slovakia: Anna Mierisova, 74, rests in front of a wooden house, adorned with unique hand-painted designs the first town in the world to be declared a Reserve of Folk Architecture Photograph: JOE KLAMAR/AFP

Mopti, Mali: Malian photographer Issa Samado (right) focuses the negative image to be exposed onto positive paper with his pinhole camera as his client Miguel Dgigiba (centre) watches. Photograph: NIC BOTHMA/EPA

Moscow, Russia: A young man practices parkour. Parkour involves finding new ways of crossing an urban landscape - vaulting, leaping and climbing, with a grace and fluidity of movement more akin to dance than sport. Photograph: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP

Prim, USA: A green snake strikes a pose at the Longbow resort. Photograph: Kaia Larsen/AP

Havana, Cuba: Two Cuban boys play baseball next to a wall painted with the colours of the Cuban flag. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Ramallah, West Bank: Palestinian security officers, right, try to prevent teachers from breaking through the gate of the council of ministers during a government cabinet meeting, at a demonstration calling for payment of their salaries and the resignation of the education minister. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Macau, China: A Macau policeman (right) fires his pistol into the air to ward off protesters as May Day protesters clash with riot police during a rally against labour shortages. Photograph: TED ALJIBE/AFP

Valencia, Spain: Two yachts in action during the Louis Vuitton Cup, the challengers' regatta for the America's Cup. Photograph: Maurizio Gambarini/EPA

Rajouri district, India: An Indian child of the Bakarwal community blows a traditional pipe while rearing cattle in the highest reaches of Rajouri district. Bakarwal (or Bakharwal) is a nomadic tribe based in the Pir Panjal range of mountains and the Himalayan mountains. Photograph: JAIPAL SINGH/EPA