Day in pictures: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 (Provided by BBC)

Boys cool off in the River Ganges in Calcutta as a heat wave grips much of northern India.

A fisherman in Indian-administered Kashmir throws his net in Lake Dal in Srinagar.

A family returns to the shell of their home in Quezon City, Philippines, a day after it was destroyed by a fire.

One of only 100 South China tigers remaining in the world is transported to a reserve in South Africa from Suzhou Zoo in eastern China.

A traditional dance is performed outside a court in Menado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to protest against Newmont Mining. The court acquitted the company of pollution charges.

Iraqi soldiers celebrate the handover of al-Shuaiba military base in Basra from British and Danish forces to Iraqi control.

A still from the only footage ever taken of the Sumatran rhinoceros in the wild, taken by conservation group WWF in the jungles of Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo.
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