24 hours in pictures : May 9 2007

Belfast, Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness; Britain's Northern Ireland minister Peter Hain; Northern Ireland's first minister, Ian Paisley; Tony Blair and the Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern (l to r) stand outside the Stormont parliament building. Photograph: Niall Carson/AP

Ternje, Kosovo: Kosovo Albanian children dancing during the opening of a school built with the help of funds raised by German Nato soldiers. Photograph: VALDRIN XHEMAJ/EPA

Travemuende, Germany: Two walkers with umbrellas make their way along the beach. Photograph: Wolfgang Langenstrassen/EPA

Moscow, Russia: A couple walks on Poklonnaya hill, as Russia celebrates Victory Day over the Nazis in the second world war. Photograph: ALEXANDER TITORENKO/AFP

Greenbelt, USA: People strain to get a view of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the Goddard space flight centre. Photograph: Larry Downing/AFP

Allahabad, India: Children carry water to irrigate their cucumber field. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Great Falls, USA: A male red-winged blackbird perches in reeds in a wetland area near the Sun river Photograph: Robin Loznak/AP

Irbil, Kurdistan: Iraqi police evacuate a casualty of a truck bomb which exploded in front of the interior ministry in the capital of Iraq's normally calm Kurdish autonomous region. Photograph: SAFIN HAMED/AFP

Guatemala City, Guatemala: A worker passes an exhumed body at the city's main cemetery, where fornesic anthropologists are studying skeletons to create a database of information on the physical characteristics of the Guatemalan population. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Manila, Philippines: Filipino children play in front of a wall covered in election campaign posters. Photograph: DENNIS M. SABANGAN/EPA

Los Angeles, USA: Smoke from a wildfire in the Griffith Park area rises behind the city centre, triggering evacuations of neighbourhoods near the blaze. Photograph: Jeff Gritchen/AP

Djenne, Mali: A herdsman walks his cattle past a village on a dry plain. Photograph: NIC BOTHMA/EPA