24 hours in pictures

Jakarta, Indonesia: A man prays in his damaged house following a fire triggered by faulty electrics. About 300 houses were razed and 1,700 people were displaced Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

Tel Aviv, Israel: A bat is held in a university lab for a study examining alterations to its nose – changes that reflect the focus, direction and span of the animal's sonar beam Photograph: Nir Elias/Reuters

Berlin, Germany: Protesters backing imprisoned punk group Pussy Riot wear balaclavas, in solidarity with the trio, as German Green party activists urge the Russian embassy to release the band Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Lalitpur, Nepal: Devotees queue to enter the 17th century Krishna Mandir temple, during the festival of Krishna Janmashtami, which marks the birth of the Hindu god Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Santiago, Chile: A girl is restrained by a police officer during a student demonstration demanding free public education Photograph: Luis Hidalgo/AP

Afgoye district, Somalia: A soldier of the African Union force, which is fighting al-Shabaab militia in the country, peers through the bullet-struck windscreen of a truck in the Lower Shabelle region, about 30 miles from Mogadishu Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Scrap metal collectors, using just shovels and sacks, pick their way through rubbish and sewage-laden water at The Mine, one of the city's biggest landfill sites Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Buwri Tana, Afghanistan: An Afghan police bunk bed is aired at Combat Outpost Lakon, a military post shared with some of Nato's 130,000 troops in the country Photograph: Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images

Amritsar, India: A child dressed as the Hindu god Krishna leans out of a school bus after a religious event held on the eve of Janamashtmi celebrations Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/EPA

San Mateo, Philippines: People affected by rising river levels after torrential rain return to their home in a suburb near Manila Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

Pyongyang, North Korea: A construction worker pulls a steel rod across a building site Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

London, England: A woman wears a sculpture created by Catalonian performance artists Osadia, in tribute to the achievements of TeamGB at the 2012 Olympics Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Shanghai, China: Typhoon Haikui hovers menacingly over the Huangpu river Photograph: Reuters