GOVERNMENT REFORM: The pact provides for a president to be chosen by member states, ending the system under which the presidency was rotated every six months
EU leaders yesterday signed a new treaty they said allows them to react more promptly to global issues by changing the way their bloc is run.

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CAUGHT UNAWARES: Local media said managers of Taipei 101 did not know Baumgartner had jumped off the skyscraper until two hours after his daring feat
By Loa Iok-sin
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver who jumped from the top of Taipei 101 on Tuesday, has been barred from re-entering the country, National Immigration Agency Deputy Director Steve Wu (吳學燕) said yesterday in a news release.

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By Mo Yan-chih
The Taipei City Government warned the Taipei 101 Mall yesterday against placing "illegal" advertisements on the exterior of the building after it failed to apply to the city government in advance.

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More than 10,000 visitors to an exhibition of terracotta warriors in Hamburg are to be offered refunds after organizers admitted the figures on display were fake.

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The age-old animosity between cats and mice could be a thing of the past with genetically modified mice that Japanese scientists say show no fear, which sheds new light on mammalian behavior.

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