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Two members of Berlin’s ice swimming club ‘Berliner Seehunde’ (Berlin seals) take a dip in the frozen water of the Oranke lake (Orankesee) December 25, 2003. Several members of the swimming club met on Thursday for their traditional weekly ice swimming meeting. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch 
The NBA’s tallest player China’s Yao Ming (L) of the Houston Rockets at 7 foot 6 inches tall and the NBA’s shortest player Earl Boykins of the Denver Nuggets at 5 foot 5 inches, cross paths during a brief break in the action in the first quarter in Denver December 26, 2003. Photo by Gary Caskey/Reuters
Rosa Cha Spring/Summer 2004 collection. New York, NY 09/13/03 (Gruber-FWD)
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Chinese party-goers, dressed in revolutionary ‘Red Guards’ uniforms and armed with the famous ‘Little Red Book’, pose for a photo during a party in Beijing. China is dusting off an updated version of the cult of personality for the 110th anniversary of the birth of the late revolutionary and often brutal leader, Mao Zedong, on December 26, with a new hip-hop song, films, books and concerts being prepared.(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin) 
A Holiday card made by members of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division, featuring the face of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) manipulated to look like the head of Santa Claus, is posted on the wall of army barracks in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites) December 22, 2003. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) 
Shop employees are dressed as Santa Claus to get attention of Christmas shoppers Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2003 in Shanghai, China. For members of China’s unofficial Christian congregations, this is a season of fear as communist officials crack down on unauthorized worship, detaining activists and bulldozing churches. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) 
A woman wears a protective mask as she talks on a mobile phone while waiting for her relatives from Guangzhou at Hong Kong’s train terminal December 28, 2003. Hong Kong stepped up health checks on travelers from China’s southern province after the government said a man in Guangzhou had been admitted to the hospital with symptoms of the deadly SARS (news - web sites) disease. (Bobby Yip/Reuters) 
A traveler from Guangzhou seeks advice from a customs officer wearing a protective mask at Hong Kong’s train terminal December 28, 2003. Hong Kong stepped up health checks on travelers from China’s southern Guangdong province after the Chinese government said a man in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, had been admitted to hospital with symptoms of the deadly SARS (news - web sites) disease. REUTERS/Bobby Yip 
Customs officers wear protective masks as they check the baggage of a traveler on her arrival from Guangzhou at Hong Kong’s train terminal December 28, 2003. Hong Kong stepped up health checks on travelers from China’s southern Guangdong province after the Chinese government said a man in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, had been admitted to a hospital with symptoms of the deadly SARS (news - web sites) disease. Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters 
Chinese policemen carry the body of a dead child they found after sealing off a erupted natural gas well in Kaixian county, southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, December 28, 2003. Paramilitary police buried on Sunday victims of a deadly gas leak which killed nearly, 200 people, and cleared away animals as thousands of displaced villagers began heading home. REUTERS/China Photo 
Search team members (top) find the body of a dead man after a natural gas well erupted in Gaoqiao township, Kaixian County, in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality on December 26, 2003. Nearly 200 people were killed and hundreds injured when the well burst on Tuesday and toxic fumes shot into the air. REUTERS/China Photo 
Members of Chinese girl pop band ‘12 Girls’ Band’, China’s first all-women traditional instrument orchestra, perform at Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards in Hong Kong December 19, 2003. ‘Twelve Girls’ Band’ uses traditional Chinese instruments erhu, pipa and flute to combine Chinese folk music with western pop music. Their album ‘Beautiful Energy’, first released in Japan, has ranked third in the country’s charts since it hit the country recently. REUTERS/Kin Cheung 
Members of Chinese girl pop band ‘12 Girls’ Band’, China’s first all-women traditional instrument orchestra, pose at a news conference in Hong Kong, December 15, 2003. The group was promoting their upcoming concert in the territory, scheduled for next January 16-17. The ‘Twelve Girls’ Band’ uses traditional Chinese instruments to combine Chinese folk music with western pop music. REUTERS/Kin Cheung 
Chinese prostitutes ply their trade. A trial against alleged organisers of a three-day sex romp involving hundreds of Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes in a five-star hotel has opened in Zhuhai, southern China. The incident sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin) 
A traveller walks pass a China Life Insurance advertisement. China’s biggest life insurer, China Life, leapt 31.7 percent in a blockbuster US debut following a three-billion-dollar global share issue.(AFP) 
China Life celebrates its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) with Chairman and President Xianzhang Wang (R) sharing the bell podium with NYSE interim chairman John Reed (L) December 17, 2003. China Life is the leading life insurance company in China. (Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters)
