24 hours in pictures

Kandahar, Afghanistan: US troops prepare to cut a patriotic cake during a 4 July barbecue
Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Netherlands: The peloton heads toward Brussels from Rotterdam during the first stage of this year's Tour de France
Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

Daying County, China: People crowd a swimming pool to escape the summer heat in Sichuan province
Photograph: /Reuters

Srinagar, India: Boys ride through a deserted market during a curfew
Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

Tel Aviv, Israel: People take part on day nine of a 12-day march calling for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 by Palestinian militants
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Portadown, Northern Ireland: Members of the Orange Order parade from the city centre to Drumcree parish church
Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images

Toronto, Canada: Men hold hands while taking part in the city's annual Gay Pride parade
Photograph: Chris Roussakis/Reuters

Mumbai, India: Police officers stand guard outside a railway station during a national strike over rising fuel prices
Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

Los Angeles, US: A visitor to Anime Expo 2010 poses for the camera
Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Budapest, Hungary: The mouth and gill-openings of a clearnose guitarfish (Rhinobatos armatus) at an aquarium in the city's Tropicarium zoo
Photograph: Gyula Czimbal/EPA

Table Mountain National Park, South Africa: Children play by the sea
Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images

Combat Outpost Ware, Afghanistan: A US soldier from the 82nd Airborne stands guard in the Arghandab valley, outside Kandahar city
Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Kudus, Indonesia: A man demonstrates his martial arts skills by biting through a neon light tube
Photograph: Adi Weda/EPA

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: A woman visits the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, once the notorious security prison S-21 in which thousands of people were tortured
Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters