24 hours in pictures : May 14 2007

Tempio Pausania, Italy: A woman selling local cheese and wine by the roadside applauds cyclists as they pass during the second stage of the Giro d'Italia. Photograph: Alessandro Trovati/AP

Nangla Bunder, India: Labourers carry loads of sand from a boat to the banks of the Ulhas river. Photograph: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP

Baghdad, Iraq: Students walk past concrete barriers put in place around the al-Mustansiriya University to prevent suicide car bombs attacks. Photograph: ALI YUSSEF/AFP

Cologne, Germany: A bumblebee flies towards a poppy. Photograph: FEDERICO GAMBARINI/EPA

Beijing, China: Men play Chinese checkers at the Temple of Heaven, a pristine example of architecture from the Ming dynasty. Photograph: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA

Karachi, Pakistan: An unidentified man carries gun during a second day of protests and violence on the streets of the capital. Photograph: Mohammad Khalil/AP

Tenerife island, Spain: One of 99 immigrants, including four women, who arrived from Africa by boat at the port of Los Cristianos. Photograph: DESIREE MARTIN/AFP

Singapore: Exhibitors put the finishing touches to a display featuring a model of an aircraft carrier before the opening of the 2007 international maritime defence exhibition and conference. Photograph: HOW HWEE YOUNG/EPA

Diamond Mountain, North Korea: A South Korean woman reaches up to the window of a carrying her North Korean relative at the end of their family reunion. Photograph: Korea Pool/AP

Belgrade, Serbia: Fans of the singer Marija Serifovic welcome the winner of the 2007 Eurovision song contest home. Photograph: ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP

Kabul, Afghanistan: Abdul Anan, 45, shows off his quails in his tent in a refugee camp. He started bird fighting when he was 13 and now trains quails for his customers. Photograph: Farzana Wahidy/AP

Aparecida do Norte, Brazil: Archbishops take part in an open-air mass conducted by Pope Benedict XVI. Photograph: MAURICIO LIMA/AFP

Manila, Philippines: Election campaign material flags and posters hang in front of a local school serving as a polling station in the country's midterm elections. Photograph: MIKE F. ALQUINTO/EPA

Izmir, Turkey: Hundreds of thousands of Turks gather for an anti Islamist rally. Photograph: KERIM OKTEN/EPA

London, UK: 'Blind Light' by Antony Gormley. This work forms part of a new exhibition of Gormley's work at the Hayward gallery. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian