24 hours in pictures

Vancouver, Canada: A rotated image showing reflections of skaters on the roof of the GE Ice Plaza
Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty

Islamabad, Pakistan: Girls wait to get a ration of rice during a donated food distribution
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: People hold hands and wave their arms in prayer during a mass at an intersection near the presidential palace
Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty

Haridwar, India: Kanwarias prepare to take a holy dip in the river Ganges as part of the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Kolkata, India: Members of a band
Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

Beijing, China: Red lanterns hang amid other festive decorations along a tree-lined path at the Temple of the Earth (Ditan) Park
Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty

London, UK: A clown wearing a policeman's hat during a church service in memory of celebrated clown Joseph Grimaldi
Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty

New Delhi, India: A newlywed couple ride on an elephant in traffic
Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

Hanoi, Vietnam: A woman works in a garden containing blossoming peach trees on the bank of the Red river
Photograph: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty

Marjah in Nad Ali, Afghanistan: US Marines during a dust storm
Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Loi Tai Leng, Burma: Boys enjoy ab game of takraw with a soccer ball outside the orphanage
Photograph: Reuters

Gunsan, South Korea: A flight of spectacled teals fly over lake Geumgang
Photograph: Reuters

Chevy Chase, US: A woman digs her car out of the snow
Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty

Kabul, Afghanistan: Men throw snowballs as they stand on the diving board of an abandoned swimming pool
Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters