REPUBLICAN RACE: John McCain, whose campaign was left for dead six months ago, beat his rivals in South Carolina, the state that quashed his chances in 2000
Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama shift their fight to South Carolina after a split result in Nevada's contest failed to yield a clear winner in the battle for the US Democratic presidential nomination.

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday made his first public appearance since the 2006 war with Israel, restating his claim that the militant group possessed the remains of several Israeli soldiers left on the battlefields of southern Lebanon.

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FIFTH NOVEL: Bitterness: Another Type of Fulfillment',Chen Hong's latest publication, chronicles his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative muscle disease
By Lin Hsiu-tzu
Ernest Hemingway had his typewriter and J.K. Rowlings has her handwritten notebooks, but for Chen Hong (陳宏), his ability to blink is the key to his thriving writing career.

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By Jerry Lin
The first shopping weekend of this year's Taipei Big Street New Year Shopping Festival saw a 30 percent and 20 percent decline in sales and the number of visitors respectively, shop owners and vendors on Dihua Street (迪化街) said yesterday.

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Spanish police have smashed a suspected Islamist terror cell, arresting 14 people and recovering bomb-making equipment in overnight raids in Barcelona, the interior minister said on Saturday.

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