24 hours: Free Syrian Army launch homemade missiles towards military airport

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare a homemade missile before they launch it towards the military airport in north Aleppo on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Women look at carpets during a public auction of the abandoned belongings of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family in Tunis on Dec 23, 2012. Items including luxury cars and jewellery that once belonged to Ben Ali, the veteran autocrat brought down in the first Arab Spring uprising in Jan 2011, have been put up on auction which will last for a month, according to local media. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Demonstrators hold candles as they walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest against gun violence in the United States, in New York on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Britain's Queen Elizabeth (left) watches a preview of her Christmas message with a pair of 3D glasses, studded with Swarovski crystals in the form of a "Q", with producer John McAndrew and director John Bennett (right), at Buckingham Palace in central London in a photo released on Dec 24, 2012. The Christmas message to the Commonwealth is to be broadcast in 3D for the first time. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Houston Texans fan Chris Lockwood buries his head in his hands as the Texans lose to the Minnesota Vikings during the fourth quarter of their NFL football game in Houston on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Guatemalan Firefighter Hector Chacon, dressed as Santa Claus, stands before rappelling down from the Belize bridge to give toys to children living in the area under the bridge, Guatemala City on Dec 23, 2012. According the Guatemalan firefighters, they have been giving toys to the children living in the neighborhoods under the Belize bridge, a very poor area of the city, dressed as Santa Claus for 15 years. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Christmas decorations are seen in front of a pond ahead of Christmas day celebrations in Colombo on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A worker climbs a ladder as he prepares to decorate a Catholic church for the upcoming Christmas Mass in Wufuying village near the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi province on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A demonstrator lies beneath a bus, carrying her fellow protesters after they were detained by police, to stop it from moving in front of the India Gate during a protest in New Delhi on Dec 23, 2012. The Indian government moved on Sunday to stamp out protests that have swelled in New Delhi since the gang-rape of a young woman, banning gatherings of more than five people, but still thousands poured into the heart of the capital to vent their anger. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks past as Israeli-Arab Issa Kassissieh, dressed in a Santa Claus costume, rings a bell outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during a Christmas tree distribution by Jerusalem's municipality on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Well-wishers wave Japanese national flags to celebrate Japan's Emperor Akihito's 79th birthday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Tourists gather to watch and take pictures of Cambodia's world famous Angkor Wat temple during sunrise in Siem Reap on Dec 22, 2012. Picture taken on Dec 22, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS