24 hours in pictures

Sarai Khuja, Afghanistan: Cameramen film a scene for an Afghan feature film in this village north of Kabul. Film, music and TV were banned during the rule of the Taliban in 1996-2001 Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters Manesar, India: An employee draws a line with chalk powder to demarcate an area out of bounds to the media outside the Maruti Suzuki India Limited plant during a strike Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Blackpool, England: Two Asian women take advantage of a warm spell to paddle in the sea Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Singapore: Workers are framed in the grid structure of a building under construction in the island state, where unemployment has fallen to 1.9%, its lowest in three years Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP Berlin, Germany: A street performer in a Darth Vader costume waits to be photographed by tourists in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a thunderstorm Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP Motril, Spain: Barefoot would-be immigrants wait to be transferred to the southern Spanish port. An inflatable vessel carrying 40 African immigrants, two of them women, was rescued by the Spanish coastguard 35 miles off the Spanish coast Photograph: Lucia Rivas/AFP Ascot, England: A rose-trimmed hat sits on a car roof on the first day of this year's Royal Ascot horse race meeting Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP Buenos Aires, Argentina: A passenger leans on a windowsill at the airport, as the volcano in the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle chain in Chile forced officials in Argentina to suspend most national and international flights Photograph: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters Mumbai, India: A five-year-old boy collects recyclables for resale at a residential area Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters Berlin, Germany: A baboon yawns in its enclosure at the zoo Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP Kathmandu, Nepal: Children watch as a worker digs a well for water Photograph: Laxmi Prasad Nagakhusi/AP Bethesda, Maryland, USA: Fans show off their autographed caps during a practice round for the 2011 US Open golf tournament Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Islamabad, Pakistan: A horse up for rent, with a local Pakistani mobile number painted on it, grazes on the roadside Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP Paju, Korea: A woman waves a unification flag as she takes part in a rally commemorating the 11th anniversary of the first inter-Korean summit in front of Tongil bridge, near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas Photograph: Jo Yong-hak/Reuters Anquan, China: A Chinese boy swims in the polluted sea by a rubbish-strewn beach in the village in south China's Hainan province Photograph: Str/AFP