CANADA - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - A military couple sneak a kiss under
the bow of HMCS Preserver before it and crew departed Halifax, October
17,2001. Three Canadian warships, including the Preserver, left Halifax
to join a U.S.-led coalition fighting Afghanistan's Taliban regime.

REUTERS/Shaun Best REUTERS 

A Hazara girl covers her face as she holds a child in a cave in Bamiyan
December 15, 2001. The destruction of the 2,000-year-old Buddhas, among
the great wonders of the ancient world, was the first many people
outside Afghanistan had heard of the Taliban or Bamiyan. But a story of
human horror also unfolded in the town and the surrounding area as
forces of the Sunni Muslim Taliban, fired by a perverse interpretation
of Islam, forced tens of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims to flee into the
mountains. HIGH RES. IMAGE. REUTERS/Peter Andrews

PA/PN 

Chinese policemen detain an NBA basketball fan who became rowdy after
Los Angeles Lakers' player Kobe Bryant failed to show up for a
Streetball Challenge event at the Millennium Monument in Beijing August
12, 2001. Bryant was in town to promote "Kobe" sports shoes and
clothing for Adidas. After waiting for more than three hours, the fans
were notified by authorities that the event was cancelled. Some of the
hundreds of fans began throwing water bottles, shouting and refusing to
leave the arena. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Guang Niu

GN/CP 

Afghan traders count money in their market in central Kabul November
29, 2001. Kabul's foreign exchange traders, more used to setting rates
according to where the front lines stood, are hoping that talks underway in Germany among rival Afghan factions on a post Taliban political arrangement will bring better times. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

AS 

An Afghan girl reads from the board in a home-based school in Kabul December
2, 2001. The school, operating secretly for a year under the strict Taliban
regime, has now opened its doors for all children ready to pay a small
monthly fee. PP03070097 REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

DS/GB 

Afghan men attend a cockfighting match in a back street of Kabul's
bazaar November 30, 2001. Cockfighting, a sport very popular with
gamblers in the war-torn country, was forbidden during the years of
strict Taliban rule. Dozens of Afghans have been gathering again to bet
on fights in dusty corners of the capital. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

DS/AA 

Afghan men pray during Friday prayers in Pul-i-Khishti mosque in Kabul
November 30, 2001. A deal was finally reached in Bonn, Germany, to form a
post-Taliban government, December 5, 2001. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

DS/AA 

An Afghan man carries a bag with coal to be distributed to poor people
in Kabul November 28, 2001. The ruling Northern Alliance and three
exile groups met in Bonn, Germany, and immediately agreed on the broad outline
for the U.N.-sponsored talks and the need for a temporary interim
cabinet. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

AS 

Armed Muslim guerillas use bound Filipino hostages as human shields
after seizing them in Zamboanga November 27, 2001. Muslim gunmen loyal
to a rebellious governor took scores of civilians hostage in the
southern Philippines on Tuesday after they were pounded by helicopter
gunships and bomber planes. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Erik de
Castro

EDC/PB 

Afghan refugee children look through a broken window of the main
entrance of the former Soviet embassy, a huge compound amid the
destruction of west Kabul, November 27, 2001. The area was turned into
a "moonscape" of pulverised buildings by civil war in the early 1990s
and the gunshot-riddled old compound now provides shelter to thousands
of people made homeless by two decades of war. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

DS 

Cambodian children run past burning squatter shacks in Phnom Penh on
November 26, 2001. Hundreds of dwellings were destroyed in the fire but
no information is yet available on the number of casualities. YEAREND
PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

CS/PB 

CANADA - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - Calgary Stampeders quarterback Marcus
Crandell hoists the Grey Cup following their 27-19 victory over the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 89th edition of the CFL Grey Cup final in
Montreal, November 25, 2001. Crandell was the game's MVP. REUTERS/Fred
Greenslade

SB/SV 

Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 (L) flies toward the World Trade Center
shortly before slamming into the south tower as the north tower burns
following an earlier attack by a hijacked airliner in New York, September
11, 2001. REUTERS/Sean Adair PP03080044 GAC BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE 

Bayern Munich's (L-R) Paulo Sergio, Hasan Salihamidciz, team captain
Stefan Effenberg, Gerhard Mayer Vorfelder, president of the German
soccer association (DFB), goalkeeper Oliver Kahn and Patrick Andersson
display the trophy for the German soccer championship in Hamburg, May
19, 2001. The last match of the season ended in a 1-1 draw against
Hamburger SV and Bayern won the championship one point ahead of Schalke
04. REUTERS/ Kai Pfaffenbach

KP 

The buildings of the World Financial Center catch the last rays of the
setting sun as the site of the World Trade Center tragedy is floodlit
to allow rescue workers to work through the night in this view of
Manhattan from across the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey, Sept
16, 2001. 5,097 people remain missing from the September 11 terror
attack on this site. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine

RFS 

A policeman points a gun at a protester Carlo Giuliani as he tries to hurl a fire
extinquisher into their vehicle during rioting in central Genoa July
20, 2001. The protestor Giuliani died after being shot twice and then run over
by the policeman. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

DM/CRB 

New York Firefighter John Cleary wipes the soot from his face while taking a
break from rescue work at the World Trade Center in New York on September
12, 2001. John Clearly helped in the rescue of two trapped Port Authority
workers, pulling the first from the rubble at one in the morning and helping
the second to safety about four hours later. REUTERS/Brad Rickerby
PP03080044

AS 

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder shoots a penalty in Potsdam June
20, 2001. Schroeder visited an Olympic training center. REUTERS/Arnd
Wiegmann

AS 

CANADA - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - Former South African President Nelson
Mandela (R) dances to choir music beside Canadian Prime Minister Jean
Chretien during a ceremony to make Mandela an honorary Canadian citizen
at the Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec, November 19, 2001.
Mandela, who was jailed for 27 years by South Africa's apartheid
rulers, is only the second foreigner to receive the distinction.
REUTERS/Shaun Best

JY/SV 

Turkey named "Liberty" surprises President George W. Bush at the annual
turkey pardoning event at the White House, three days ahead of Thanksgiving,
November 19, 2001. The fortunate bird will spend the rest of his days on a
farm in Virginia. With the president are turkey industry representatives
Jeff Radford (L) and Stuart Proctor. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque PP03110073
USELN

KL/HB 

POY - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - Indian soldiers discover a survivor amid
the rubble of a collapsed building after she had been trapped inside
from more than 72 hours in the western Indian city of Bhuj on January
29, 2001. The devastating earthquake, which hit the rich industrial and
agricultural state, killed an estimated 20,000 people and injured tens
of thousands more. Around 400 experts from countries such as
Switzerland, Turkey, Britain and Russia arrived in the state to help
the Indian army and civilian rescue teams. REUTERS/Jason Reed

PK/JD 

POY - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - Dead sheep lie in a field in Cumbria
awaiting incineration 26 March, 2001. Thousands of apparantly healthy
sheep were slaughtered in an attempt to prevent the spread of Foot and
Mouth disease. REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell

DC 

Hasim Rahman lies on the canvas after being knocked out by Lennox Lewis
(L) in the fourth round of their WBC/IBF world heavyweight championship
fight at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, November 17,
2001. Lewis reclaimed his title with this knockout punch. REUTERS/Rick
Wilking

RTW/HK 

Afghan refugee Shear Jaan prays after breaking fast on the first day of
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, November 17, 2001 near the Pakistani
border town of Chaman. Muslims, who go by a lunar calender, start the
month of Ramadan after observing the new moon. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

AL 

YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - THE RISING GRAPH OF THE BOMBAY STOCK INDEX IS
REFLECTED IN THE GLASSES OF A BROKER IN BOMBAY.


The rising graph of the Bombay Stock Index is reflected in the glasses
of Senior broker and Assistant Vice President of Motilal Oswal
Securities Limited, Jitendra Prasad, as he looks into a computer in his
firm in Bombay November 15, 2001. India's key share index finished up
more than two percent on Thursday to its highest level since September
11, as investors bet on a recovery in global equity sentiment. The
30-share Bombay Sensitive Index closed up a provisional 2.65 percent at
3,195.52 points. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Arko Datta 

POY05D - YEAREND PICTURES - Sadhus, Hindu holy men, run in to India's
holiest river, the Ganges during the "Maha Kumbh Mela", or Great
Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on January
14, 2001. The "Royal Bath" day began about one hour before dawn, with
elite holy men, or sadhus, taking turns to immerse themselves in Ganges
at the confluence point known as the "sangam". The organisers of the
festival, which takes place in Allahabad every 12 years, believe that
up to 70 million people could take part over its six weeks.
REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

AS 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Afghan women, without their burqas, wash clothes in Kabul river
November 14, 2001. Under its strict interpretation of Islam, the
Taliban banned music, ordered all adult men to wear a beard long enough
to be clutched in a fist and women, hidden behind head-to-toe burqas,
were forbidden to work or study. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis REUTERS

YB/FMS 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after
5 years of Taliban Sharia law as she waits at a food distribution
centre in central Kabul November 14, 2001. Under its strict
interpretation of Islam, the Taliban ordered all women hidden behind
head-to-toe burqas. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

AS 

A model presents a creation of German hair designer Klaus Peter Ochs
during a hair show in Cosmoprof Asia 2001 in Hong Kong November 14,
2001. The exhibition, the largest international beauty trade event in
the Asia Pacific region, attracts 700 exhibitors from 33 countries and
regions offering trade buyers products and services from every aspect
of the beauty trade. REUTERS/Kin Cheung

CP 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Northern Alliance fighters ride on a T-62 tank past a dead body on the
motorway 3 km north of Kabul, November 13, 2001. Forces of the
anti-Taliban Northern Alliance entered Kabul on Tuesday after Taliban
forces fled the capital. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

AS 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Afghan civilians observe dead Taliban fighters on the motorway three kilometres north of Kabul, November 13, 2001. Forces of the Northern Alliance entered Kabul on Tuesday after defeating Taliban forces north of the capital, civilians greeted opposition fighters and celebrated in the streets. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis PP05080084 AS 

An Afghan refugee girl in the Kili Faizu UNHCR Camp in Chaman, Pakistan
reacts after spotting a jet flying overhead, November 10, 2001.
Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance said they swept into four
more provinces in the north on Saturday, a day after the capture of
Mazar-i-Sharif, despite fierce Taliban resistance in some places.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif

AS 

New Zealand bowler Chris Cairns goes airborne as he celebrates the
taking of a wicket during play on the first day of the first cricket
test against Australia in Brisbane November 8, 2001. YEAREND PICTURES
2001 REUTERS/Mark Baker

MDB/RCS 

Chinese students perform a dance during the opening ceremony of Tianjin
International Comic Arts Festival in Tianjin November 7, 2001. The
six-day festival has attracted some 50 entertainers from around the
world who will bring the audiences their latest shows. REUTERS/Guang
Niu

AS 

A British Airways Concorde departs from London's Heathrow Airport to make
its first scheduled flight to New York's JFK Airport, November 7, 2001. New
safety measures have been introduced to the jet since an Air France Concorde
crashed outside Paris killing 113 people. REUTERS/Ferran Paredes
PP03100103

DCS 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Afghan opposition Northern Alliance troops wait for their President
Burhanuddin Rabbani at a training camp in the outskirts of Jabal us
Seraj, some 60km north of the Afghan capital Kabul, November 5, 2001.
Thousands of Afghan opposition troops paraded before their leaders on
Monday in a symbolic sign that their army was ready to take on the
Taliban and push to the gates of Kabul. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

AS 

A military cook for the opposition Northern Alliance prepares tea on
the frontline near Deshitiqala in northern Afghanistan November 3,
2001. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

AS 

An Afghan refugee begs while sitting outside a hospital in Quetta,
Pakistan on November 1, 2001. Pakistan hosts over 2.5 million displaced
Afghans. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

AL/RCS 

POY - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - A young Afghan rests his hand on a barbed
wire fence at the Chaman border crossing, October 31, 2001. Thousands
of refugees have flooded into the country in the last month fearing US
reprisals for the September 11 attacks in New York REUTERS/Adrees
Latif

AS 

India's Kaur Sukhbir performs on the parallel bars during the women's
qualifying round at the World Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Ghent
October 30, 2001. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

AS 

HRH Prince Charles is reflected in a glass exhibit case on a visit to
open the Tate Britain Centenary Development October 30, 2001. His tour
included the viewing of a Cornelia Parker installation and a talk with
the architect John Miller. REUTERS/Dan Chung

DC 

YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - INDONESIAN POLICEMEN CARRY A MIDDLE EASTERN
ASYLUM SEEKER OUT FROM UNHCR IN JAKARTA.


Indonesian policemen carry one of over a hundred Middle Eastern asylum
seekers out of the office of the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR) in Jakarta October 29, 2001, after they had protested
for over three days at the office. Thousands of Middle East and Afghan
immigrants go to Indonesia every year and wait for years to get on a
boat or try to get refugee status from the UNHCR, which will resettle
them - but only if a nation agrees to take them. YEAREND PICTURES 2001
REUTERS/Darren Whiteside 

An Afghan man cries over the body of his child who he said was killed
along with 9 other civilians by U.S. air raids in the capital Kabul on
October 28, 2001. Two more civilians were killed when another bomb hit
a mini bus in the middle of a main road, witnesses said. YEAREND
PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Sayed Salahuddin

CLH/ 

A man cries over the body of his son and neighbours who died in U.S.
raids in the Afghan capital Kabul on October 28, 2001. Ten civilians,
eight of them belonging to one family, perished in one bomb attack while two
more were killed in a mini bus when another bomb landed in the middle
of a main road. REUTERS/Sayed Salahuddin

AS 

AS Roma's captain Francesco Totti (R) sends Lucas Castroman of Lazio
airborne as they challenge for the ball during their Serie A clash at
Rome's Olympic Stadium October 27, 2001. Totti scored as AS Roman won
2-0. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

DJM 

Israeli soldiers move an Israeli settler as they enter a Palestinian
area of Hebron in the West Bank October 26, 2001. At least 709
Palestinians and 188 Israelis have been killed since the Palestinian
uprising against Israeli occupation erupted in September 2000.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

AJ 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. An Afghan man walks over a footbridge at sunset in the northern
Afghanistan town of Khoja Bahawuddin October 24, 2001. REUTERS/Yannis
Behrakis

AS 

U.S. President George W. Bush (R), donning a traditional Chinese coat,
talks to Chinese President Jiang Zemin as he is welcomed at the
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum for an informal gathering of
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders October 21, 2001. The
two-day APEC summit focused on measures to counter terrorism in the
wake of the attacks on the United States, and boost trade to support
the slumping global economy. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Eriko
Sugita

ASW/JIR 

YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND CHINESE
PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN HOLD BILATERAL TALKS IN SHANGHAI.


Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Jiang Zemin
prepare to hold their bilateral talks in Shanghai October 20, 2001.
Putin is in Shanghai to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) summit. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Andrew Wong 

YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - PAKISTANI WOMAN PRAYS DURING PROTEST AGAINST US
BOMBING OF AFGHANISTAN IN QUETTA.


A Pakistani woman prays as around 100 women, children and Jamiat ulma
Islaami (JUI) supporters protest against the US bombing of Afghanistan
in front of Quetta's Press Club October 20, 2001. The protest took
place prior to a press conference given by the JUI General Secretary
Maulana Ghafoor Haidri. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Jerry Lampen 

A model displays a creation by Russian designer Svetlana Tarasova
during the Russian Silhouette show in Moscow October 20, 2001. Over 80
designers from across the CIS displayed their designs at the show which
is held every year to encourage young talent in the former Soviet
countries. REUTERS/William Webster REUTERS

WAW 

Yingying, a 17-year-old panda, born in a zoo in the southwestern
province of Sichuan, lifts weights during a performance at the Chinese
Acrobats Arts Festival in Beijing late October 20, 2001. Yingying is
said to be the only member of the endangered species in the world able
to dunk a basketball, go down a slide and drive a car. YEAREND PICTURES
2001 REUTERS/Guang Niu

GN/PB 

Seoul citizens leave a building during an anti-terror exercise in
central Seoul October 19, 2001. South Korea, which has voiced support
for U.S. military strikes against Afghanistan, has tightened security
at key installations across the country. YEAREND PICTURES 2001
REUTERS/Lee Jae-won

LJW/PB 

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sits in the Knesset, or parliament,
before the opening of the winter session October 15, 2001. A vehemently
anti-Arab, far-right bloc resigned from Sharon's broad coalition,
saying it opposed lifting sanctions against the Palestinians. The
resignation of the seven-seat National Union and Yisrael Beitenu bloc
turns Sharon's government into a mostly centrist coalition with 76
seats in the 120-member Knesset. REUTERS/Natalie Behring

NB 

A Pashtun demonstrator jumps on a burning effigy of British Prime
Minister Tony Blair after a peaceful gathering in Peshawar, Pakistan,
on October 12, 2001. Pashtuns, who are close neighbors of the Afghan
people, gathered after Friday prayers to voice their opposition to the
joint U.S.-British air strikes against Afganistan. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif

AS 

A fireman holds an order of service behind his back next to his
ceremonial axe as British firemen hold a service of commemoration for
their collegues from New York who died in the World Trade Center
attacks, October 11, 2001. The service at St. Paul's Cathedral was
attended by 3,000 firefighters from all over Britain. REUTERS/Dan
Chung

DC/MC 

U.S. President George W. Bush walks through the grand foyer on his way
to a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington
October 11, 2001. Bush said the attacks on September 11 on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon were "an attack on the heart and soul of
the world". This is the first prime-time presidential press conference
to be held since 1995. REUTERS/Win McNamee

GMH 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Manchester United's David Beckham celebrates after scoring a goal
against Olympiakos in their UEFA Champions League Group G soccer match
in Athens' Olympic stadium October 10, 2001. United won 2-0.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

YK 

A Muslim student from the University of Indonesia attends an anti-U.S.
and anti-U.N. protest near the United Nations office in central Jakarta
October 10, 2001. Some 300 Indonesian students staged a rally
protesting the United Nation's support of the U.S.-led strikes of
Afghanistan. YEAREND PICTURES 2001 REUTERS/Beawiharta

EN/PB 

A mob of pro-Taliban Afghan refugees run to attack members of the
international press travelling in a convoy of 25 cars in the village of
Yarro, near Quetta, October 10, 2001. No injuries were suffered by
members of the convoy who immediately returned to the safety of their
hotel in Quetta. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

AS