NewsBites for Kidz Photos Oct 20-26 2003

newsroom

Since opening its doors for business back in March 2002, the Newsroom has attracted a huge amount of interest from schools, colleges and adult groups throughout the region, and is now almost fully booked for the entire summer term.

Purpose-built to provide the very best possible facilities for media in education, The Newsroom can accommodate a full class of up to 32 pupils from aged 8 upwards.

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0700learning/newsroom/page.cfm?objectid=12669602&method=full&siteid=50081

turtles

School children from the Playa San Diego school look at Golfina turtles before they are released onto the beach of San Diego in the port of La Libertad, located some 31 km (20 miles) south of San Salvador , El Salvador Wednesday, Oct. 22 2003. 500 Golfina turtles were released into their natural habitat Wednesday, and far 2600 turtles have been released this year. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero) (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)

AP - Oct 22 7:17 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/481/sal10410222316

palestine

Palestian children from the West Bank village of Masha play beside a newly erected concrete wall part of the controvercial Israeli security fence separating the West Bank and Israel. Israel vowed to push on with its controversial separation barrier with the West Bank despite a critical new UN resolution.(AFP/Yoav Lemmer)

AFP - Oct 22 6:27 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/241/5nc83.html

clay

Clay Aiken, runner-up on for the show 'American Idol'' meets with children at P.S. 76 in Harlem, New York, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003. Aiken read to a class of second-graders as part of Wachovia Corporation's Reading First program. Aiken recently created the Bubel/Aiken Foundation to help children with developmental disabilities. (AP Phtoo/Wachovia,Wayne Thompson)

AP - Oct 22 4:51 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/480/ny11810222050

kevin

Tennessee linebacker Kevin Burnett greets a group of kindergartners at Brickey Elementary School, Oct. 10, 2003, in Knoxville, Tenn. Burnett, a junior, graduated in May, was elected a team captain this year and spends many hours of free time visiting schools or counseling children at camps. ``You can't be bad off the field and be good on the field and expect to be successful. You have to be a good well-rounded person,'' he said. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

AP - Oct 22 2:44 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/483/tnwp10210221843

kevin

Tennessee linebacker Kevin Burnett signs Aaron Bankhead's shirt during a visit to his fifth grade class at Brickey Elementary School Friday, Oct. 10, 2003, in Knoxville, Tenn. Burnett, a junior who graduated in May, was elected a team captain this year and spends many hours of free time visiting schools or counseling children at camps.(AP Photo/Wade Payne)

AP - Oct 22 2:45 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/483/tnwp10110221844

polio

A child is given drops at a clinic in Johannesburg, during an earlier immunisation drive. International health groups launched a campaign to vaccinate in just three days 15 million children in central and western Africa against a new risk of polio .(AFP/File /Anna Ziemenski)

AFP/File - Oct 22 12:40 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/241/5n7se.html

timor

East Timorese children stand at windows of a building as they wacth other children receive measles vaccination in Dili, East Timor , Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003. About 130, 000 children in East Timor will get measles immunization provided by the United Nations . (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

AP - Oct 22 4:47 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031022/481/dil10210220846

lebron

Cleveland Cavaliers ' LeBron James, left, and Darius Miles join school children during a reading program Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003, in Cleveland. Cavaliers players and coaches read to 180 second and third graders as part of the NBA Read to Achieve program. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

AP - Oct 21 3:28 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031021/483/cd10510211927

york o:p>

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson (L), is given a flower by Gabriela Rodriguez, 2, of Los Angeles, after Ferguson read from her new children's book 'Little Red' at Storyopolis bookstore in Los Angeles, October 21, 2003. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Reuters - Oct 21 3:29 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031021/ids_photos_en/r1649172785.jpg

laura

US First Lady Laura Bush (L) plays with a child during a visit with HIV -positive mothers and their children at a US-sponsored clinic, where the developing world's first national programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission was launched(AFP/Saeed Khan)

AFP - Oct 21 10:14 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031021/241/5mrkq.html

thai

U.S. first lady Laura Bush is presented with a garland from a Thai girl dressed in a dancing costume during the first lady's visit to the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health in Bangkok Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003. The first lady met with the children who are all HIV positive and receiving medical care at the hospital. At top left is Thai Public Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

AP - Oct 21 2:55 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031021/161/5mobl.html

apec

Top view : Young children climb a statue to look over the crowd to watch a light and cultural show put on for APEC leaders in Bangkok. (AFP/Sam Yeh)

AFP - Oct 20 4:31 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031020/241/5mhyg.html

bolivia

A man walks his son to school early in the morning in downtown La Paz, Bolivia on Monday, Oct. 20, 2003. Vendors flooded the streets, restaurants reopened and children prepared to return to school Monday a day after Bolivia's new president Carlos Mesa swore in a new Cabinet. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP - Oct 20 11:59 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031020/481/lpz10510201558