24 hours in pictures

Quezon city, Philippines: Residents sift through the debris after a fire gutted a poor neighbourhood Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP Qiandongnan, China: Miao ethnic villagers perform a traditional water and drum dance to pray for good weather Photograph: AP Photograph: guardian.co.uk San Felix, Venezuela: Swimmers are driven on a boat to the start point of the swimming race across the Orinoco and the Caroni rivers Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/guardian.co.uk Havana, Cuba: Laura Pollan, leader of the Ladies in White, a group of Cuban female dissidents who attempted to go on a blocked march Photograph: Javier Galeano/AP Photograph: Javier Galeano/guardian.co.uk Khan Younis, Gaza Strip: Girls sift sand for gravel that they can later sell by weight Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/guardian.co.uk Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Women look at the artwork Witness from Baghdad by Iraqi Halim al-Karim, exhibited by Christie's Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Karim Sahib/guardian.co.uk Paro, Bhutan: Buddhist monks walk past a mural at a monastery Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP Photograph: Manish Swarup/guardian.co.uk Yazoo City, US: Electricity crews work late into the evening to restore power after a massive tornado hit the Mississippi area Photograph: Sean Gardner/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk Aceh province, Indonesia: A male Sumatran tiger is kept in a cage while awaiting transfer from the Natural Resources Conservation Centre to a safari park in West Java Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk Birmingham, UK: Philipp Boy performs during the Senior Men's Final of the horizontal bar in the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters Photograph: Eddie Keogh/guardian.co.uk New York, US: A special performance of Beneath The Veil at the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Photograph: Neilson Barnard/guardian.co.uk South China Sea: Scuba diver Charles Ang approaches a school of jack fish off the Malaysian island of Layang Layang Photograph: David Loh/Reuters Photograph: David Loh/guardian.co.uk