Kabul falls to Northern Alliance troops
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Residents of Kabul celebrate and escort Northern Alliance troops entering the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday. Reports from across the country yesterday pointed to a collapse of Taliban rule.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Children surround a dead Taliban fighter, killed yesterday in central Kabul.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Voice recorder suggests accident
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Relatives arrive for a service for families of the victims.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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MRT slowly gets back on track
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Workers repair the Hsimen station on the Panchiao-Nankang MRT line yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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DPP turns focus to women voters
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DPP workers perform at a campaign event held by the party's department of women's development yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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DPP coordinates its voters' choices
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DPP legislative candidates yesterday held a press conference where they asked voters to vote for them according to the last digits of voters' ID cards.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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US aims to sway Pashtun leaders in country's south
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Northern Alliance fighters walk through the front-line village of Rabat, near Bagram, 50km from the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday before attacking Taliban positions.
PHOTO: AP
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Kabul men dig out their tapes, razors
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Residents of Kabul gather around Noor Mohammed yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan to listen to a music tape which had been banned by the Taliban.
PHOTO: AP
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Horror drops out of sky into safe haven
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Emergency personnel gather near a destroyed house at the crash site in the Rockaway section of Queens, New York, where American Airlines flight 587 headed for the Dominican Republic crashed minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Rockaway residents grieve near where flight 587 crashed on Monday.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Heavy loss of life devastates Dominicans
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Elvira Rodriquez comforts her daughter at a vigil for the victims of Monday's crash.
PHOTO: AP
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Taiwan stands up and delivers in World Cup
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Players from the Dominican Republic bow their heads out of respect for those who died in the plane crash yesterday morning in New York. Taiwan won the match in Chaiyi 5-1.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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City decides to give Shihlin night market a face-lift
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A vendor works to draw customers to his stall in the Shihlin night market on Sunday night. The Taipei City Government will refurbish the market next year.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Towbin banks on his name
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Investment banker Robert Towbin speaks at the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan. Towbin, 66, made an unexpected career move after Sept. 11 by joining Stephens Inc as a managing director and lending his name to one of the biggest investment banks in the South.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Visitors at Comdex will find security
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Working his bomb dog Amy, security officer Kevin Kirkland searches packages arriving for Comdex 2001 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Sunday. Hightened security concerns are also spawning new products by exhibitors at this year's show.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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S Korean farmers fight WTO policyon Seoul streets
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Farmers clash with riot policemen during an anti-WTO rally near the National Assembly in Seoul yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Espresso revolution hits Nebraskan town
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``Our mission statement is to rid the world of bad coffee,'' said Theresa Corns, 32, who along with her husband Greg, opened the Java Junction coffee shop in North Platte, Nebraska.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Photo of the Java Junction coffee shop.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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