Bush, Sharon Meet Amid Fresh Mideast Violence US President George W. Bush (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shake hands at the start of their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House December 2, 2001. The meeting comes in the wake of deadly Palestinian bombings in Haifa and Jerusalem that threatened to wreck a US Middle East peace mission.  |  |
Chinese Girl Improves 50m Backstroke World Record in World Cup SwimmingChina's Li Hui set a new world record of 26.83 seconds in the women's 50m backstroke of the World Cup Short-course Swimming Meet Sunday evening in Shanghai. |  |
Peking Opera Art Festival Opens in Nanjing Li Jie of Peking Opera Troupe of Jiangsu performs the cadenza of the Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers, a traditional Peking opera at the opening ceremony of the 3rd Peking Opera Art Festival which is held in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province December 2, 2001. |  |
Group Wedding Ceremony Held for Handicapped Huang Yuqing smiles while her groom holds a bundle of flowers in wheelchair when they enter the wedding hall in Fuzhou December 2, 2001, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province. Twenty couples attended the group wedding for the handicapped youth organized by the local government today. |  |
Tibetan Women Active in Business A man plays billiards in a billiards lounge while its owner Cairang Cao looks on in Nyima village of Gannan Tibetan Prefecture, northwest China's Gansu Province. More Tibetan women here play an increasingly important role in the local commercial activities. |  |
Anti-Pirate Movement Launched Nationwide in China A road roller grinds thousands of pirated discs and tape cassettes in Tianjin, a north China's coastal city, December 2, 2001. A great-scale anti-pirate movement was launched nationwide with more than 18.29 million illegal audio and visual products destroyed. |  |
Over One Million TEU Containers Handled at Ningbo Port A 100,000-ton freighter berths at the wharf of Ningbo Port December 2, 2001. Situated at the middle of the coastline of mainland China, the port joins the north-south shipping line and the Yangtze River, the long famed golden waterway. From January to November this year, over one million TEU of cargo in containers have been handled at the port, increasing by 32% comparing with the same period of last year. The increase rate for container takes the first place among the major ports of Mainland China. |  |
Chinese Basic Level Election Xiao Yuehua (C), 85, studies the candidates list for village head and deputy of legislature on township level with her family members at Laishan Village, Pengshan County, China's southwest Sichuan Province, December 02, 2001. More than 2,800 farmers of this village casted ballots to elect the village administrative head and local legislative deputies Sunday. |  |
Tai Chi Enthusiasts Participate in Extravaganza More than 10,000 enthusiasts participate in a Tai Chi extravaganza at Hong Kong's Happy Valley horse racing course December 02, 2001. Participants showed up in a bid to make a Guinness record attempt performing Tai Chi exercises for a period of 30 minutes. |  |
Three Russian Political Movements Merge into Single Party At the third congress of the Union of Unity and Fatherland, delegates votes unanimously to create the new party, which indicated the three major Russian political movements merged into a single centrist party --- the Unity and Fatherland party in Kremlin, Moscow, December 1 2001 . The leaders of the three groups, Sergei Shoigu, Yuri Luzhkov, and Mintimer Shaimiyev, were elected co-chairmen of the new pro-Kremlin Unity and Fatherland Party, and Shoigu would head the party's Supreme Council for the time being. |  |
British Fans Commemorate Former Beatles George Harrison (2)Flowers and pictures are layed 30 November 2001 at Abbey Roads studio in London, in memory of British former Beatle George Harrison who died Friday from cancer in Los Angeles of the United States. |  |
British Fans Commemorate Former Beatles George Harrison Fans cry 30 November 2001 at Abbey Roads studio in London, in memory of British former Beatles George Harrison who died Friday from cancer in Los Angeles of the United States. |  |
AIDS, the Other War Demonstrators and "Act-up" members march under the slogan read "AIDS, the other war, 10,000 deaths per day" in Fench December 1, 2001 in Paris on World AIDS Day. Some hundred of Paris citizens jointed the march. |  |
