Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world during the past 24 hours.
Cats crowd the wharf on Aoshima Island, in southern Japan, where they outnumber humans six to one.
Riot police confront students protesting against a bill they say curbs academic freedom, in Letpadan, north of Yangon, also known as Rangoon, in Myanmar, also known as Burma. The authorities have promised changes to the bill.
A bride photographs her groom before a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, at Cheongshim Peace World Centre, in Gapyeong, South Korea.
The Villarrica volcano in southern Chile erupted in the early hours of Tuesday morning, spewing ash and lava up to 1,000m (3,300ft) into the air. According to Chile's Ministry of Mining, its last major eruption was in 1985.
Actors George Clooney (left) and Tom Hanks talk off-stage during a performance at An Evening of Serious Fun Celebrating the Legacy of Paul Newman, in New York.
Mexican police are seen at one of the ranches belonging to leader of the Knights Templar drugs cartel Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, arrested last week in Morelia, Michoacan state, without a shot being fired.
People dressed as soldiers of Napoleon I are seen in south-eastern France on the road to Grenoble as part of a re-enactment to commemorate the emperor's return from exile on the island of Elba in 1815.
People wait for the Duke of Cambridge at the Shanghai Film Museum. Prince William is the most senior British royal to visit China since the Queen's tour of the country in 1986.
