Today in Pictures, March 14, 2018

Para-paddler Jason Chee is the The Straits Times Athlete of the Year, memorial to children killed by gun violence held in Washington DC, US, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Mar 14, 2018, 12:56 PM

Para-paddler Jason Chee holding The Straits Times Athlete of the Year trophy at the Mandarin Orchard Singapore hotel yesterday. With him are (from left) ST sports editor Lee Yulin, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu and general manager of F&N Foods Jennifer See. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/ONG WEE JIN

Approximately seven thousand shoes representing lost children to guns since the 14 December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, are seen on the East Front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, March 13, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A photo released on March 14, 2018 shows Professor Stephen Hawking delivering a speech at the The George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, April 21, 2008. British renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, according to media reports citing a spokesperson for his family. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A handout picture received on March 13, 2018 from New Zealand based aviation company Zephyr Airworks shows a "Cora" electric powered air taxi in flight. PHOTO: ZEPHYR AIRWORKS VIA AFP

People sled on the Boston Common as Winter Storm Skylar bears down on March 13, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the third nor'easter to hit the area in less than two weeks. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/AFP

French paleontologist Ronan Allain stands by the skeleton of an edmontosaurus regalis -a species of comb-crested hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur- being assembled to be displayed as part of the "A T-REX in Paris" exhibition at the paleontology gallery of the French museum of Natural History in Paris on March 12, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

A photo released on March 14, 2018 shows Myrtille Heissat from France riding a SUP (Stand Upp Paddle) under Northern Lights, on March 8, 2018 in Unstad northern Norway, Lofoten islands, within the Arctic Circle. PHOTO: AFP

A photo released on March 14, 2018 shows members of a local indigenous community gathering near a broadsheet with information about presidential candidates inside a yurt tent during the early voting in remote areas ahead of the presidential election at a reindeer camping ground in Nenets Autonomous District, Russia March 1, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

General view of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council during the presentation of report by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, on March 13, 2018 in Geneva. PHOTO: AFP

Ed Polite Jr. #24 of the Radford Highlanders and Julian Batts #1 of the Long Island Blackbirds battle for the ball during the second half of the First Four game in the 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at UD Arena on March 13, 2018 in Dayton, Ohio. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/AFP

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