24 hours in pictures : May 18 2007

Los Angeles, USA: Protesters hold a march denouncing the actions of Los Angeles riot police at a May Day immigrant rights rally at MacArthur Park. Four investigations are looking into the incident, in which riot police used batons and rubber bullets to drive demonstrators and journalists out of the park. More than 60 citizen complaints involving up to 100 LAPD officers have been filed. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP

Plovdiv, Bulgaria: A Roma boy looks at a pre-election rally of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms ahead of Bulgaria's first ever elections for members of the European parliament. Photograph: DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP

Kiev, Ukraine: A supporter of the pro-Russian parliamentary coalition looks at the sky during a mass rally on Independence Square. Ukraine's feuding president and prime minister failed on Wednesday to reach agreement on a date for snap parliamentary elections but an agreement is still expected in the near future. Photograph: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP

Lagos, Nigeria: A street vendor hawks yam in a wheelbarrow in defiance of order to sit at home in protest at the fraud that characterised the April 14 and 21 general elections. Photograph: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP

Sderot, Israel: An Israeli boy looks out the window of a bus as he waits to be evacuated. More than 50 rockets fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have been fired at the Israeli town in the last three days, forcing some of the residents to flee to safer communities. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Gaza City, Gaza Strip: Palestinians gather around a destroyed car hit in an Israeli airstrike. Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP

Paris, France: France's outgoing prime minister Dominique de Villepin's wife, Marie-Laure, wearing a personalised jacket, attends a formal handover ceremony. Photograph: OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP

Washington, USA: George Bush and Tony Blair walk away from their podiums after their joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

Huining county, China: A man leads his donkeys across a dusty road. A drought has affected 730,000 people and about 300,000 hectares of crops in north-west China's Gansu province. Photograph: EyePress/AP

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: A Cambodian seller holds a soft-shell turtle to sell at a market. Photograph: MAK REMISSA/EPA

Cannes, France: Pregnant Czech model Eva Herzigova arrives at the festival palace. Photograph: FRED DUFOUR/AFP

Dhaka, Bangladesh: A young girl rolls bangles in glue before adding colour to them. The average pay for a day's work is about Bangladeshi Taka 20, or 14 cents. Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP

Racine, USA: Wingspread, the house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for HF Johnson Jr in 1937. The house is now home to the Johnson Foundation. Photograph: Mark Hertzberg/AP