Reuters: the world in pictures

Heavy fog rolls by early in the morning near the Dubai Marina, United Arab Emirates Photograph: Steve Crisp/Reuters

Somali refugees run from the dust at Ifo refugee camp near Dadaab in northeastern Kenya, on the border with Somalia Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters

US soldiers push the car of an Iraqi man to start the engine at a checkpoint in north Baghdad Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Graffiti adorns an empty villa in the south of France that formerly belonged to Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and intelligence chief Barzan al-Tikrit Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

Climate change activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell ‘sunbathe’ on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

An Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, prepares to land at Mumbai airport Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters

Tourists photograph each other near a temple at Nanshan Cultural Centre in south China’s Hainan Island province Photograph: Nir Elias/Reuters

Kate McCann, mother of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, holds a soft toy as silhouettes of her and her husband, Gerry, are seen on a wall in Lagos, Portugal Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai, 50, falls to the ground fatally wounded as soldiers and police fire upon and then charge at protesters in Yangon Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

A Hamas fighter takes position inside a scanning machine in the customs hall of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, after its capture by Hamas forces Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

A boy plays in a water fountain in southern Indian city of Hyderabad Photograph: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters

Sheep and goats gather in a field in front of the German RWE AG energy company's coal power plant in Grosskrotzenburg, as water vapour rises from its cooling tower Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

A girl looks at her mobile phone outside Tokyo’s Harajuku Station Photograph: Kevin Coombs/Reuters

A monk leaves morning prayers at St George, one of 11 rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters

Barack Obama stands in front of Hillary Clinton as they arrive for US President George W Bush’s annual State of the Union Speech to Congress in Washington DC Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters

Commuters crowd into the metro at Chatelet station in Paris during a nationwide strike by French SNCF railway workers in protest against pension reform Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Paris Hilton leaves the Los Angeles Municipal Court where she was ordered to spend 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation for alcohol-related reckless driving Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Models display Cartier High Jewellery during a private gala dinner in Shanghai at which the total value of goods presented was over $32m Photograph: Nir Elias/Reuters

Parents of freshmen sleep on mats on the floor of a gymnasium inside a university campus in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province Photograph: Chen Zhuo/Reuters

Cover of the Reuters - Our World Now book, published by Thames & Hudson (£10) Photograph: Various/Reuters