The country formally joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Newton joined Steve Smith in 2001 as being the second Panther rookie to be named to the Pro-Bowl.

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Djibouti joined the Global War on Terror, and now hosts a large military camp, home to soldiers from many countries, but primarily the U. S.

In 2000 it joined Honduras and El Salvador in signing a free trade agreement with Mexico, which went into effect in 2001.

Also in 2001, Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television movie Uprising, which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.

In Iran, the Community of Kabaddi was formed in 1996, in same year they joined the Asian Kabaddi Federation and in 2001 they joined the International Kabaddi Federation.

That meeting in 2001 also saw the successful accession to the WTO of China and Chinese Taipei, which along with Estonia, Jordan, Georgia, Albania, Oman, Croatia, Lithuania and Moldova joined during Mr Moore's term bringing in the majority of the world's population within the rules-based trading system.

Following the election of Ariel Sharon in February 2001, Ze ' evi joined the coalition and was appointed Tourism Minister of Israel.

In 2001, it also joined the World Trade Organization.

After an abortive attempt to create a version 1. 1 in 2001, the XSL working group joined forces with the XQuery working group to create XPath 2. 0, with a richer data model and type system based on XML Schema.

He was later reunited with national team-mate Laurent Blanc who joined Manchester United in 2001.

Until 1999, he was joined by Gene Sarazen, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

2001 did see the band with a stable line-up, achieved during the Aura sessions featuring Downes, Payne, guitarist Guthrie Govan and ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band / The Firm / Uriah Heep / Gary Numan / AC / DC drummer Chris Slade ( who had first joined Asia in 1999, briefly ).

STATS, Inc., the company James joined, provided data and analysis to every major media outlet before being acquired by Fox Sports in 2001.

In 2001, these frictions-combined with the prospect of a devastating defeat in the upcoming election-led to an exodus of conservative and liberal conservative members around Tusk who joined former members of the UW's senior coalition partner, the conservative Solidarity Electoral Action, to form the new party Civic Platform.

Belka, another former SLD member, had left the party in the early 1990s, but joined Leszek Miller's government as a non-party minister of economic affairs in 2001 before resigning the following year.

After Compo died in 2000, Compo's son, Tom Simmonite, filled the gap for the rest of that series, and Billy Hardcastle joined the cast as the third lead character in 2001.

In 2001, Zidane joined Real Madrid for a then world record fee of 150 billion Italian lire.

The University of Central Florida joined for football only in 2001, becoming the first football-only member in conference history.

After Eastern Illinois joined the Ohio Valley Conference for football in 1995, Youngstown State joined in 1997 and was followed by Western Kentucky in 2001.

) In 2001, American University joined as the eighth full member and Georgetown University joined as an associate member in football.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

* Chimera ( Aria album ), а 2001 album by Russian heavy metal band Aria

In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra, who had been in a legal dispute with the remaining members over royalties.

* Dark Star ( band ), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998 – 2001

In October 2001, Bowie opened The Concert for New York City, a charity event to benefit the victims of the September 11 attacks, with a minimalist performance of Simon & Garfunkel's " America ", followed by a full band performance of " Heroes ".

It features mostly new material, plus re-recordings of four very obscure Devo songs: " I Need A Chick " and " I Been Refused " ( from Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ), " Find Out " ( which appeared on the single and EP of " Peek-A-Boo " in 1982 ), and " Beehive " ( which was recorded by the band in 1974, at which point it was apparently abandoned with the exception of one appearance at a special show in 2001 ).

In October 2001, he again released two albums: Songs I Heard, featuring big band re-workings of children's show themes, and 30, featuring Connick on piano with guest appearances by several other musical artists.

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

Alt-rock band The Cooper Temple Clause formed a kabbadi team in 2001 and were, at one stage, ranked seventh in the British domestic standings.

The experiences and performances of the precocious band were documented in its first DVD, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, which debuted in November 2001.

* Mullet Fever, the fifth album by Canadian grindcore band Fuck the Facts originally released in 2001

A 2001 autobiography entitled The Dirt packaged the band as " the world's most notorious rock band ".

" Longtime fan Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins played guitar and sang back-up on the track " Turn My Way ", and in 2001 toured with the band on dates in the UK, US, and Japan for a short period of time.

In early 2001 he announced to his band mates that he was ready to once again enter the studio and get back into the business of making music.

The band released The Photograph Kills EP in 1995 as well as three full length records, Gaslight ( 1998 ), Bastard Life or Clarity ( 2001 ) and Other Ways of Speaking ( 2003 ).

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

In 2001, Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace released an album, titled Spiritual Machines, based on Kurzweil's book.

By 2001, the flat band slingshot had disappeared from commercial production in favour of the tubular band.

To date, the band has recorded seven studio albums: Tormented ( 1996 ), Dysfunction ( 1999 ), Break the Cycle ( 2001 ), 14 Shades of Grey ( 2003 ), Chapter V ( 2005 ), The Illusion of Progress ( 2008 ), and their self-titled album ( 2011 ).