The World in Photos This Week

North Korea launches a missile, tragedy strikes Sandy Hook, and a Chinese farmer prepares for the apocalypse.

DECEMBER 14, 2012

There are 27 reported dead -- including 18 children -- after a gunman opened fire at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Sandy Hook, Connecticut on Dec 14. In this photo taken on the same day, a woman holds a child as people line up to enter the Newtown Methodist Church near the scene of the shooting.

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