24 hours in pictures

Berhampur, India: A village boy runs through a parched field on World Water Day. Clean Water for a Healthy World is the day's theme Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/AP Photograph: Biswaranjan Rout/guardian.co.uk Washington DC, US: Barack Obama and his vice-president, Joe Biden, walk through the Cross Hall of the White House after Obama's speech about Congress passing the health bill Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters Photograph: Jason Reed/guardian.co.uk Juarez, Mexico: Poice at an incident in the border city, which drug-related violence has made one of the most dangerous places in the world Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Photograph: Spencer Platt/guardian.co.uk Rahovec, Kosovo: Dervishes – adherents of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam – hold a sword across the throat of a believer during a ceremony Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Armend Nimani/guardian.co.uk Kandahar, Afghanistan: US army soldiers with the 97th military police battalion play board games at a police station in between training Iraqi recruits Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/guardian.co.uk Akra, Iraq: Kurds celebrate the Noruz spring festival with fireworks. The Persian new year, which coincides with the spring equinox, is a Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians in common with Kurds Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Safin Hamed/guardian.co.uk Caracas, Venezuela: A forest fire burns in the Avila national park Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters Photograph: Jorge Silva/guardian.co.uk Allahabad, India: A woman fills a copper vessel for a ritual on the banks of the Ganges Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP Photograph: Gurinder Osan/guardian.co.uk Islamabad, Pakistan: A barber gives a customer a haircut at his shop in a Christian neighbourhood Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/guardian.co.uk Beijing, China: Tourists wearing masks pose for photographs on Tiananmen Square during a dust storm that covered parts of China where more than 270 million people live Photograph: David Gray/Reuters Photograph: David Gray/guardian.co.uk North Dakota, US: Buildings surrounded by floodwaters from the Red river in Fargo, which peaked at just under 37 feet, four feet below the 2009 record Photograph: M. Spencer Green/AP Photograph: M. Spencer Green/guardian.co.uk Jakarta, Indonesia: A group of boys playing football on the beach. Indonesia has been dropped from the race to host the 2022 World Cup due to a lack of government support Photograph: Adi Weda/EPA Photograph: Adi Weda/guardian.co.uk Tampa, Florida: Sheila Mann and Joann Preston prepare for a downpour before a spring training baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers that was eventually cancelled Photograph: Steve Nesius/AP Photograph: Steve Nesius/guardian.co.uk Medellin, Colombia: Carolina Murillo competes in the women's 10m platform dive to win bronze for Colombia at the South American games Photograph: Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters Photograph: Jose Miguel Gomez/guardian.co.uk