Pictures of the Day: Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

Security personnel guard the shipping platform during a ceremony marking the beginning of direct shipping between China and Taiwan in Shanghai's Deepwater Port December 15, 2008.
Nir Elias / Reuters

Good Neighbors

Security personnel guard a shipping platform during a ceremony marking the beginning of direct shipping between China and Taiwan for the first time since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949