24 hours in pictures

Vancouver, Canada: A girl is thrown in the air by her teammates as they prepare for the Sea-to-Sky Cheerleading Championship
Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP

Beijing, China: Visitors explore an art installation called Feelings are Facts by Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong
Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA

New York: Artist Kiki Garber gets help carrying her painting of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria as she heads home after displaying it at a mass at St Stanislaus Kostka Church in Brooklyn
Photograph: Tina Fineberg/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: The hands of a Red Shirt opposition supporter on a coffin during a memorial ceremony for the victims of clashes between protesters and Thai security forces
Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

Lampa, Chile: A priest offers the Holy Sacrament to an elderly man during the traditional Cuasimodo procession for the old and sick who could not go to church on Easter Day
Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, US: A reception commitee for Lee Myung-bak, President of the Republic of Korea as he arrives for the Nuclear Security Summit
Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Tel Aviv, Israel: People observe a two-minute silence as sirens sound across the country in memory of Holocaust victims
Photograph: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images

Ajnala, India: Punjabi Sikhs give a prayer of thanks for a good harvest during Baisakhi celebrations, marking Sikh New Year
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Marjah, Afghanistan: Local men wait to make a claim with US Marines for compensation after their homes were damaged during the US military offensive against the Taliban insurgency
Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

Manila, Philippines: Striking dock workers clash with private security guards and police as they resist the takeover of harbour operations by a new management
Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP

Bangkok, Thailand: An elephant uses its trunk to splash water on foreign tourists to celebrate the Songkran festival
Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

Tel Aviv, Israel: A child rides a bicycle
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP