24 hours: Students return to school after gunman's shooting rampage
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Children look out through condensation in the windows of school bus number 26 as it pulls into Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 18, 2012. Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday, accompanied by police and counsellors to help them cope with grief and fear after a gunman's shooting rampage killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School and altered attitudes about gun control in Washington. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Mr Yoo Bok-yeob (centre), 72, a village schoolmaster, casts his ballot with his family members in the presidential election at a polling station in Nonsan, about 190km south of Seoul, on Dec 19, 2012. More than 40 million people are eligible to vote in the presidential election of the country on Wednesday to elect a winner who will take office in Feb for the mandatory five year single term. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Easton police officer J. Sollazzo hugs a woman at school in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 18, 2012. The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of their own, will again ring with the sounds of students and teachers on Tuesday as the bucolic Connecticut town struggles to return to normal. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Free Syrian Army fighters from Al-Farooq battalion remove a poster of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad from a military hospital after the fighters said they fought and defeated government troops in Halfaya, near Hama on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A restorer works on a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a laboratory in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Dec 18, 2012. Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, and Google Israel launched on Tuesday a website featuring an online archive of high-resolution images of the 2,000-year-old scrolls. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Names of the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School are seen on crosses at a memorial in Sandy Hook Village in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec 18, 2012. Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday for the first time since gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 6- and 7-year-olds and six adults in a rampage at the elementary school on Dec 14. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Mr Patrick Carroll holds stuffed animals as he looks at a memorial for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 18, 2012. US authorities continue to investigate the Dec 14 massacre in Connecticut in which a heavily armed gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary school and shot and killed 20 children and six adults. The incident, resulting in 28 deaths, including the gunman and his mother, has prompted a fresh debate on US gun control. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Hooded workers protest against Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica's job cuts in Barcelona, on Dec 18, 2012. The hood reads "Yes, I'm profitable. 6,000 layoff". -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A woman sitting on an art installation threatens to kill herself at central Omonia square in Athens on Dec 18, 2012. The mother of two climbed onto the installation on Tuesday and threatened to kill herself because she was unemployed and her disability benefits had been cut, police officials said. She was finally brought down from the installation in the pouring rain with a fire brigade crane after her parents and friends arrived at the scene and convinced her to come down. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A man is lowered from a building by rescue workers during a flood caused by a broken water main pipe in Lima's southern district of Villa Maria del Triunfo, on Dec 18, 2012. At least 300 families have been affected by the flood, according to a press release by Sedapal, the state water company. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A clown dressed as policeman rides his mini bicycle during a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Dec 18, 2012. Hundreds of clowns made their annual pilgrimage on Tuesday to the Basilica of Our Lady Guadalupe to pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Villagers stand around an ancestral tomb which is being relocated from a construction site of a residential compound in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Dec 18, 2012. The tomb, measuring 10m high with a surface area of 10 sq m, has been left in the middle of the construction site for about 7 months after the building project started. The family of the tomb, with the help of some villagers, relocated on Tuesday morning four coffins containing the remains of the deceased. According to local reports, the family did not fulfil their agreement with village officers which requires them to move the tomb before Dec 15. The family said they were waiting for an auspicious date for relocation. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye (bottom, centre) of conservative and right wing ruling Saenuri Party waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in front of a railway station in Busan, about 420km south-east of Seoul, on Dec 18, 2012. Park is the daughter of late South Korean military dictator Park Chung-hee who took power in a military coup in 1961 and ruled until his assassination in 1979. The country's presidential election will be held on Wednesday. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Female Afghan National Police (ANP) trainees fire their weapons at the shooting range at a training centre near the German Bundeswehr army camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan on Dec 18, 2012. German police is mentoring the training program for ANP, as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth tours the Foreign and Commonwealth Office during a visit to mark her Diamond Jubilee, London on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A woman holds a child in Marka's main hospital on Dec 18, 2012. Responding to several reported cases of cholera and dengue fever, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sent medical personnel to Marka to assess the main hospital's facilities and general health needs. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Police officers participate in a parade during the celebration of the 183rd anniversary of the Uruguayan Police Force in downtown Montevideo, on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A fisherman carries a swordfish on his back from the Indian Ocean waters to the market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Children look out through condensation in the windows of school bus number 26 as it pulls into Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 18, 2012. Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday, accompanied by police and counsellors to help them cope with grief and fear after a gunman's shooting rampage killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School and altered attitudes about gun control in Washington. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Mr Yoo Bok-yeob (centre), 72, a village schoolmaster, casts his ballot with his family members in the presidential election at a polling station in Nonsan, about 190km south of Seoul, on Dec 19, 2012. More than 40 million people are eligible to vote in the presidential election of the country on Wednesday to elect a winner who will take office in Feb for the mandatory five year single term. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Easton police officer J. Sollazzo hugs a woman at school in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 18, 2012. The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of their own, will again ring with the sounds of students and teachers on Tuesday as the bucolic Connecticut town struggles to return to normal. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Free Syrian Army fighters from Al-Farooq battalion remove a poster of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad from a military hospital after the fighters said they fought and defeated government troops in Halfaya, near Hama on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A restorer works on a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a laboratory in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Dec 18, 2012. Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, and Google Israel launched on Tuesday a website featuring an online archive of high-resolution images of the 2,000-year-old scrolls. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Names of the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School are seen on crosses at a memorial in Sandy Hook Village in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec 18, 2012. Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday for the first time since gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 6- and 7-year-olds and six adults in a rampage at the elementary school on Dec 14. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Mr Patrick Carroll holds stuffed animals as he looks at a memorial for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 18, 2012. US authorities continue to investigate the Dec 14 massacre in Connecticut in which a heavily armed gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary school and shot and killed 20 children and six adults. The incident, resulting in 28 deaths, including the gunman and his mother, has prompted a fresh debate on US gun control. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Hooded workers protest against Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica's job cuts in Barcelona, on Dec 18, 2012. The hood reads "Yes, I'm profitable. 6,000 layoff". -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A woman sitting on an art installation threatens to kill herself at central Omonia square in Athens on Dec 18, 2012. The mother of two climbed onto the installation on Tuesday and threatened to kill herself because she was unemployed and her disability benefits had been cut, police officials said. She was finally brought down from the installation in the pouring rain with a fire brigade crane after her parents and friends arrived at the scene and convinced her to come down. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A man is lowered from a building by rescue workers during a flood caused by a broken water main pipe in Lima's southern district of Villa Maria del Triunfo, on Dec 18, 2012. At least 300 families have been affected by the flood, according to a press release by Sedapal, the state water company. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A clown dressed as policeman rides his mini bicycle during a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Dec 18, 2012. Hundreds of clowns made their annual pilgrimage on Tuesday to the Basilica of Our Lady Guadalupe to pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Villagers stand around an ancestral tomb which is being relocated from a construction site of a residential compound in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Dec 18, 2012. The tomb, measuring 10m high with a surface area of 10 sq m, has been left in the middle of the construction site for about 7 months after the building project started. The family of the tomb, with the help of some villagers, relocated on Tuesday morning four coffins containing the remains of the deceased. According to local reports, the family did not fulfil their agreement with village officers which requires them to move the tomb before Dec 15. The family said they were waiting for an auspicious date for relocation. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye (bottom, centre) of conservative and right wing ruling Saenuri Party waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in front of a railway station in Busan, about 420km south-east of Seoul, on Dec 18, 2012. Park is the daughter of late South Korean military dictator Park Chung-hee who took power in a military coup in 1961 and ruled until his assassination in 1979. The country's presidential election will be held on Wednesday. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Female Afghan National Police (ANP) trainees fire their weapons at the shooting range at a training centre near the German Bundeswehr army camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan on Dec 18, 2012. German police is mentoring the training program for ANP, as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Britain's Queen Elizabeth tours the Foreign and Commonwealth Office during a visit to mark her Diamond Jubilee, London on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A woman holds a child in Marka's main hospital on Dec 18, 2012. Responding to several reported cases of cholera and dengue fever, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sent medical personnel to Marka to assess the main hospital's facilities and general health needs. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Police officers participate in a parade during the celebration of the 183rd anniversary of the Uruguayan Police Force in downtown Montevideo, on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A fisherman carries a swordfish on his back from the Indian Ocean waters to the market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Dec 18, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
From students returning to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown to hooded workers protesting against Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica's job cuts in Barcelona, here's a selection of the best photos from Reuters news agency over the last 24 hours.
