Images of the day- Dec 17

A combination of 12 handout pictures shows 12 of 20 young schoolchildren killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 14 in one of the worst mass shootings in US history. The children in the picture are (top row L-R) Emilie Parker, James Mattioli, Chase Kowalski and Charlotte Bacon; (middle row L-R) Olivia Engel, Grace McDonnell, Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner; (bottom row L-R) Jessica Rekos, Josephine Gay, Ana Marquez-Greene and Avielle Richman. [Photo/Agencies]

Haiti's Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (R) reviews a guard of honour with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi Dec 17, 2012. Lamothe is in Hanoi on a three-day visit from Dec 16 to 18. [Photo/Agencies]