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In response to the uprooting of Palestinian olive trees in Budros and other villages and the savage destruction of the Old City in Nablus, President Arafat and Prime Minister, Qourei, planted an olive tree in the Presidential Compound, in Ramallah yesterday (Alhayat Aljadeda, 1/7/04).


Palestinian Orthodox Christians celebrating Christmas in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, last night (Annahar, 1/7/03).


Palestinians examining the degree of destruction the Israeli occupation forces inflicted on the old city of Nablus. 18 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were injured (Assafir, 1/7/04).


The savage raid of the Israeli occupation forces on the Nablus Old city resulted in destroying a neighborhood that is hundreds or thousands years old (Al-Ayyam, 1/7/04).


British occupation soldiers during confrontations with the former Iraqi soldiers in Basra, who were demanding their salaries (Assafir, 1/7/04).


Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, and Turkish President, Ahmed Nejdet Ceazar, in Ankara Airport yesterday (Annahar, 1/7/04).


Indian Prime Minister, Vajpayee, and Pakistani Prime Minister, Jamali, in Islamabad airport yesterday (Annahar, 1/7/04).


French investigators in Sharm El-Shaikh, where the Egyptian plane crashed. (Annahar, 1/7/03).


A picture of Khaled Al-Islambuli, the Sadat's assassin, in a Tehran street that bore his name. The Iranian government has decided to change the name of the street into Muhammed Ad Durra, the Palestinian boy who was killed while his father was trying to protect him from Israeli fire. The decision came as a step towards resumption of normalization of the Egyptian-Iranian relations. (Assafir, 1/7/04)


Another view of British occupation soldiers during the Basra confrontations with former Iraqi soldiers demanding their salaries (Al-Ra'i, 1/7/04).

Martha Stewart's fans may decorate their homes with tips from her lifestyle magazine and cook her recipes, but that devotion is no guarantee they would acquit the trendsetter if picked to serve on her jury. So say legal consultants who, as jury selection for the Stewart trial got under way, predict that jurors' attitudes, personal experiences and values will play a much greater role in Stewart's fate than gender, profession or economic background. Stewart is seen leaving federal court in New York in this June 19, 2003 file photo. (Photo by Peter Morgan/Reuters, 1/7/04).


Scores of Cambodian fishing boats gather at dawn on the Mekong River for the high-point of the fishing season, January 4, 2004. Huge fish migrations every January, caused by the annual flood cycle of the mighty Mekong, provide a vital source of protein to Cambodia's 13 million people, although conservationists fear upstream damning threatens the long-term future of the delicate ecosystem. (Picture taken January 4. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea, 1/7/04).


Tulkarem: One of the three Palestinians who were executed with cold blood by Israeli occupation soldiers yesterday. The martyrs were Abdul Fattah Kharboush (21) in Tulkarem, and Ibrahim Al-Attari (32) and Abdul Afo Al-Qassas (25), in Nablus. (Alhayat Aljadedah, 1/8/04).


Nablus: Funeral of the two Palestinians who were executed with cold blood by Israeli occupation forces. The yesterday martyrs were Abdul Fattah Kharboush (21) in Tulkarem, and Ibrahim Al-Attari (32) and Abdul Afo Al-Qassas (25), in Nablus. (Al-Al-Ayyam, 1/8/04).


Families wait for news of their loved ones in front of a wire fence outside Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad on Wednesday. (EPA, Arab News, 1/8/04).


Iraqi detainees are brought to a makeshift barbed wire pen during a US army operation in Hamreen and Telog Sabee villages, 224 kilometres north of Baghdad, on Wednesday (REUTERS photo by Arko Datta, Jordan Times, 1/8/04).


President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife Assma between the Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and his wife Khair Annissa. Gul's wife put on the Islamic headscarf, which may cause a diplomatic problem if she visits France with her husband. (Alquds, 1/8/04).


Queen Ranya of Jordan visiting an earthquake survivor in the Jordanian Hospital, in the Iranian devastated city of Bam. (Annahar, 1/8/04).


Palestinian youngmen trying to prevent Israeli occupation forces from entering their village to continue uprooting olive trees in preparation for building the Sharon Land-Grab Wall in their village. (Annahar, 1/8/04).


Iraqis who became homeless as a result of the war demanding homes in front of the Coalition Headquarters in Baghdad (Assafir, 1/8/04).


Syrian Vice President, Abdul Halim Khaddam receiving an Iraqi tribal delegation: Israel is trying to help the disintegration of Iraq. (Assafir, 1/8/04).


Sudanese Vice President, Taha, and rebel leader, Garang, shaking hands in Kenya after signing an agreement to share wealth between the north and the south. (Assafir, 1/8/03).


Andrew Fastow(R), the former chief financial officer of bankrupt energy trader Enron and his wife Lea(L), are negotiating plea bargains that could send the couple to federal prison the Houston Chronicle reported January 7, 2004. Federal prosecutors are discussing a 10-year sentence for Andrew Fastow and a five-month term for Lea Fastow, the newspaper reported citing unnamed sources. The pair is seen leaving the federal courthouse in Houston, Texas in this May 1 file photo. (Photo by Jeff Mitchell/Reuters, 1/8/04).


A US helicopter lands near the crash scene of the Black Hawk helicopter in which 9 US soldiers were killed, near Fallouja yesterday. (EPA, Arab News, 1/9/04).


Funeral of the Martyr Mahmoud Ibrahim Al-Kurd, who was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in Rafah just for opening his home window. According to Islamic teachings, a person who is killed as a victim is considered as a Martyr just like a person who is killed defending his home, property, or country. (Assafir, 1/9/04).


U.S. troops secure the area outside a mosque in Baquba after a blast January 9, 2004. A bicycle bomb killed six people as they ended Friday prayers at the Shi'ite mosque in central Iraq. (Photo by Faleh Kheiber/Reuters, 1/9/04).


A former prisoner embraces his brother and another former captive on release from the US-run penitentiary at the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib on Thursday (REUTERS photo by Ali Jasim, Jordan Times, 1/9/04).


French Muslims demonstrate in protest against the government's intention to ban headscarves in its facilities. They are also planning a day of protest on January 17.. (Al-Ra'i, 1/9/04).


Chief European Commissioner, Romano Prodi, and the Chairman of the World Jewish Conference, Singer, in Brussels yesterday. Prodi announced that the EU will conduct a conference about anti-Semitism, following a poll in which most Europeans said that Israel is the greatest danger to world peace. (Annahar, 1/9/04).


French Foreign Minister, de Villepin, and the wife of the Egyptian President, Suzan Mubarak, standing in silence in front of the monument representing the victims of the Sharm El-Shaikh crashed plane. (Annaharr, 1/9/04).


The Iranian earthquake survivor, Jalil (56), was rescued from under the rubble of Bam yesterday after 13 days of the earthquake. (Annahar, 1/9/04).


Libyan Foreign Minister, Abdul Rahman Shalqam, greeted in Paris by the Chairman of the French Senate, Christian Ponsolet, as both countries agreed on the settling their dispute concerning compensation for the victims of 1989 French plane crash (Assafir, 1/9/04).


Iraqis waiting for their relatives in front of Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad hoping to see them released. The coalition said 500 Iraqis out of about 9,000 would be released. (Al-Ra'i, 1/9/04).


The Honduran Minister of Culture, Patrice, resigned in protest to excluding her from attending events in the Presidential Palace by the wife of President Ricardo Madoro. Patrice was the ex-girlfriend of the President. The President wife didn't want to allow them to meet in informal settings again (Alittihad, 1/9/04).