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James Holmes makes his first court appearance at the Arapahoe county courthouse in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others during a shooting rampage at a cinema in Aurora Photograph: Getty Images

Sir Chris Hoy has been announced as the Team GB Olympic flagbearer and is seen here having a practice wave of the flag at Celtic Manor resort in Newport, Wales Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

John Lewis has caught Olympic fever and wrapped its Oxford Street store, among others, in a great big union flag Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

Residents await rescue following heavy flooding in China's Chongqing region. More than 40,000 residents have been evacuated and in all the flood has affected some 300,000 Photograph: Li Jian/ Li Jian/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Britain basks in a rare bit of sunshine as people sit in deck chairs facing the seas as visitors to Weymouth beach. After weeks of wet weather parts of the UK are finally enjoying fine summer weather Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Female army personnel arrive to patrol the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, as preparations continue for the Olympics Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

People in Croydon, south London, swamp the streets to see Olympic torchbearer Abbe Stapleton carry the flame Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Performers welcome members of the Brazilian Olympic squad during a ceremony at the athletes' village in London. The performers appear to have raided a dressing up box without any clear indication of what they are meant to be Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

What do you have to do to get issued with a raincoat? Policemen form a barricade during a demonstration against the state of the nation address of the Philippines's President Benigno Aquino near the legislature building in Manila. Aquino urged all Filipinos to unite in sending a message to China over a territorial row, insisting his country would not give in to its more powerful neighbour Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

Meanwhile other policemen hide under their shields during the protests in Manila Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

Women cry as they stand by a roadblock where Kurdish civil guard Rad Mecid Sexmus was shot by Syrian soldiers during a night-time attack. The past few nights have seen clashes between the Kurdish militia YPG and Syrian forces in the north-east of Syria, while the Kurdish movement took over several cities from Assad Photograph: Benjamin Hiller/Corbis

Stephanie Davies gets a hug from President Obama as she tells him how she helped keep her friend Allie Young alive after she was hit in the cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado
Photograph: Rex Features

At last a spot of sunshine falls on the Olympic Stadium as the countdown continues to the start of the London 2012 Games. The question on everyone's mind is, will it last? The fine weather, that is Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

The Venezuela Olympic team appear perplexed as they enter the athlete's village during a welcome ceremony that includes a performance by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images

Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, carries the Olympic torch towards the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust centre for the hand over to Kieran Lang, the 'young mayor of Lewisham' Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Moving scenes from Aurora, Colorado, as Titia Stillwell and Lori Meade embrace during a prayer vigil for the victims of Friday's cinema shooting. James Holmes, who has been arrested over the mass killing, is due to make his first appearance in court on Monday Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

And a candelit vigil is held for the 12 people killed during the cinema shooting at the fountain of Aurora municipal centre Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

A family makes their way across a flooded road in the outskirts of Chongqing, China. More torrential rain is forecast in north-east and south-west China. Over the weekend the heaviest rain storm in six decades to hit Beijing killed at least 10 people and caused widespread chaos Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Ller near La Junquera in Girona province. Three people were killed as winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in north-east Spain, forcing thousands of people to take refuge Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinian refugee children play in between makeshift tents in the al-Zaiton neighbourhood in Gaza before breaking fast on the third day of Ramadan Photograph: ALI ALI/EPA

A man prepares cookies in Kabul, Afghanistan, to be eaten when breaking fasting during Ramadan Photograph: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

Santas from all parts of the world take part in the traditional foot bath at Bellevue Beach north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The bath marks the beginning of the annual World Santa Claus Congress. Ruldoph, back left, looks like he's missing the snow Photograph: Casper Christoffersen/AFP/Getty Images