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The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the world's leading advocates of nonviolence, said in an interview that it might be necessary to fight terrorists with violence, and that it was "too early to say" whether the Iraq war is a mistake.

During the Dalai Lama's recent visit here, an encounter took place that could open the way to a mutual resolution of the tragedy Tibetans have suffered under Chinese rule. In an icebreaking dialogue at Harvard University Monday morning

The European Commission has said that ensuring genuine autonomy to Tibet by encouraging China and the Dalai Lama to strengthen their ongoing contact through mutually acceptable solution would be one of their political priorities.

A renovation project to repair a collapsed wall at the famed Potala Palace in Tibet finally started yesterday. Part of the front wall at the Potala Palace in Lhasa collapsed in August 2001 after rain water caused severe erosion at the site.

Karen McLinton, from Jersey, is visiting Montreal during her cycling tour around the world. She undertook the trip to fight chronic fatigue syndrome, and also is drawing attention to plight of Tibetans. (MARCOS TOWNSEND, GAZETTE)

She suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, but Karen McLinton isn't letting it dash her dream of bicycling around the world. And since embarking on her trip two years ago, the native of the British isle of Jersey has added a mission to her journey - raising awareness of human rights abuses in Tibet.

Clad in a traditional dress and striped apron, a Tibetan woman stirs stewing coils of wool with a pole then hoists them from the steel vat in which they have been dyed a deep red.

China is said to be spending billions of dollars to modernize Tibet. (AFP Photo)

Tightening bolts one by one, Chinese workers build a bridge to span the Lhasa River -- just north of the famed Potala Palace. It is part of the Tibet to Qinghai Railway that will link Tibet's isolated hinterland with China's booming heartland.

The Dalai Lama, center, is joined by actor Richard Gere, left, and composer Philip Glass at a news coference at New York's Guggenheim Museum, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2003. The exiled Tibetan leader will teach for four days in New York, including a free lecture in Central Park. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)