DAMASCUS, Oct. 26, 2011 (Xinhua) — Tens of thousands of Syrian people rally in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Umayyad Square in Damascus on Oct. 26, 2011. The demonstrators swarmed into Umayyad Square in the center of Damascus to stage a protest hours ahead of the visit to Syria of an Arab League ministerial committee to oversee the Syrian crisis and discuss ways of conducting dialogue between the regime and the opposition.(Photo via Xinhua/Bassim)

HONG KONG, Oct. 26, 2011 (Xinhua) — Members of British music band STOMP perform in Hong Kong, south China, Oct. 26, 2011. (Photo by Xinhua/Wong Pun Keung)

WEIHAI, Oct. 26, 2011 (Xinhua) — A vet looks after the newborn sika deer in the Liugongdao National Forest Park in Weihai, east China’s Shandong Province. Diandian, a Taiwan-born female sika deer presented to the Chinese mainland, gave birth to a baby deer in Weihai on Wednesday morning. (Photo by Xinhua)

TOKYO, Oct. 20, 2011 (Xinhua) — Visitors make noodles at a cup noodles museum in Yokohama, Japan, on Oct. 20, 2011. This museum was built by Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd, in a memory of the designer of cup noodles, Mr Momofuku Ando. Visitors can get to know the history of Nissin Food company, visit cup noodles on display and experience the process of making a cup noodles by themselves in the museum. (Photo by Xinhua/Kenichiro Seki)

GUADALAJARA, Oct. 20, 2011 (Xinhua) — Athletes of Argentina compete in the preliminary synchronized swimming technical team routine during the Pan American Games Guadalajara 2011, Mexico, on Oct. 19, 2011. (Photo by Xinhua/Guillermo Arias)

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, 2011 (Xinhua) — “Occupy San Francisco” members resume their campaign in protest in front of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. (Photo by Xinhua/Liu Yilin)

SHANGHAI, Oct. 12, 2011 (Xinhua) — U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke (C) works the garden with young students during his visit in Jinzhou Primary School of east China’s Shanghai Municipality. (Photo by Xinhua/Liu Ying

TOKYO, Oct. 12, 2011 (Xinhua) — Teng Haibin of China performs on the parallel bars during the men’s team final at the 43rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo. Team China won the title of the men’s team event with 275.161 points. (Photo by Xinhua/Chen Xiaowei)

CHANGCHUN, Oct. 3, 2011 (Xinhua) — A clown performs with a visitor during an amusing carnival at a movie theme park in Changchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province. (Photo by Xinhua/Wang Haofei)

CAIRO, Sept. 24, 2011 (Xinhua) — The Cairo Criminal Court was to summon The chairman of Egyptian Supreme Council (SCAF) of the Armed Forces Hussein Tantawi on Sept. 11, and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Sami Anan on Sept. 12 on the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But the hearings were postponed to Sept. 24 and Sept. 25 due to the country’s security situation after the storming of Israeli embassy by Egyptian protestors. (Photo by Xinhua/Ayman Mose)

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2011 (Xinhua) — Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (L) hands the application letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a bid to seek the UN recognition of Palestine as a full member state, at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, on Sept. 23, 2011. (Photo by Xinhua/Shen Hong)

ATHENS, Sept. 19, 2011 (Xinhua) — Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks at an Economist forum in Athens, Greece, Sept. 19, 2011. Greece needs additional fiscal measures to slash budget deficits, Venizelos and International Monetary Fund senior representative in Greece Bob Traa said on Monday.(Photo byXinhua/Marios Lolos)