Picture desk live: the day's best news images

Keep building that ark: floodwaters are rising around Mill Street, Tewkesbury, as heavy rain continues to wreak havoc across England and Wales Photograph: David Jones/PA

The Labour candidate for London mayor, Ken Livingstone, and the actor Richard Wilson enjoy a cheeky dig at the Tories in south London. A campaign poster depicts David Cameron, Boris Johnson and George Osborne as aliens Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters

Ed Miliband looks a little unsure of something during a visit to Kennington business park in south London with Ken Livingstone Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Colourful scenes of celebration greet Queen Beatrix in Veenendaal, central Netherlands, on Queen's Day. The Dutch national holiday marks the birthday of the queen's mother Photograph: Robin Utrecht/AP

Looking like a bunch of golden daffodils, children recite the analects of Confucius during a spring ceremony in Tianjin, north China
Photograph: Liu Dongyue/Xinhua Press/Corbis

This photograph leaves you longing for a soundtrack. Roger Lewis, with the Treme Brass Band, performs at a sunrise concert in New Orleans marking International Jazz Day Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Jeremy Hunt may be feeling the squeeze today as he's pursued into a cab by the press. The culture secretary is under scrutiny over his contacts with News Corporation when it was bidding to buy BSkyB Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Fashion week is under way in Australia, bringing us this amazingly vivid collaboration between the design duo Romance was Born and Marvel comics. The annual event will showcase more than 75 collections by Australian and Asian designers Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images

Koalas are making the headlines today as Australia has listed them as a threatened species in some areas Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images

The spectacular Supertree aerial walkway opens for a press preview at Gardens Bay in Singapore. The vertical gardens are the latest addition to the skyline and will open to the public at the end of June ... only for the very brave Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

A scene of passionate protest by members of the Bangladesh Nationalist party outside parliament in Dhaka during a nationwide strike Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

Aung San Suu Kyi will shortly be taking her seat in Burma's parliament after backing down in a dispute over the wording of an oath for new MPs Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images

An Angry Bird takes part in the second annual demonstration held by animal rights groups in Guatemala City Photograph: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters