24 hours in pictures : May 7 2007

Paris, France: French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy celebrates victory at a party rally. Photograph: Eric Bouvet/Getty

Greensburg, USA: A dead fish lays on a board. At least nine people were known to have died after the Kansas town of Greensburg was flattened in minutes by a massive tornado that left nearly all its buildings destroyed. Photograph: LARRY W. SMITH/EPA

Lone Pine, USA: High winds blow sand over the original north shore of Owens Lake, California, now miles from water. The Los Angeles water department is trying to reverse the desertification of the lake that was dried up with the construction of the Los Angeles aqueduct in 1913. Photograph: David McNew/Getty

Salamanca, USA: Participants finishing the annual Great Valley Fireman's Regatta in Salamanca, New York, climb over canoes to exit the water. Photograph: Lauren Long/AP

Panchimalco, El Salvador: Salvadorean Indians carry a statue of Virgin Mary during the Flowers and Palms festival. Photograph: ROBERTO ESCOBAR/EPA

London, UK: Young children are left more than a little bemused by a street performer playing a dog in need of a home. Photograph: ANDY RAIN/EPA

Mt. Meron, Israel: An ultra-orthodox Jewish man leaps from one rooftop dome to another on top of the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai during Lag Ba-Omer celebrations. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Mexico City, Mexico: Thousands of people pose in the nude for an installation by US photographer Spencer Tunick. According to the organizers, almost 20 thousand people took off their clothes. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP

Havana, Cuba: A man sells oranges in a small farmer's market. Though over 90% of the economy is controlled by the government, some small markets still exist. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Hamarweyn, Somalia: A Somali man carries dead sharks to the market as Somali citizens take advantage of an uneasy lull in the fighting to resume normalcy. Photograph: STR/AFP

Sofia, Bulgaria: A man wearing a T-shirt reading "Justice for our medics in Lybia" and an Orthodox priest attend an open air mass in support of the Bulgarian nurses jailed in Libya. Photograph: BORYANA KATSAROVA/AFP

Jenin, West Bank: Palestinian school children walk causiously with hands raised following clashes between stone-throwing Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers. Photograph: SAIF DAHLAH/AFP

Lille, France: Two French policemen arrest a protestor during a demonstration in the northern French city of Lille after the victory of rightwinger Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election. Photograph: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP