KMT to expel renegade candidate in by-election
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Hualien County commissioner candidate Wu Kuo-tung, center, prays at a temple yesterday to show his determination to run.
PHOTO: CHIU HSIEN-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hu makes pitch for Guggenheim museum
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Architects Patrik Schumacher, left, Zaha Hadid, second left, Tseng Cheng-de, a teacher in the Department of Architecture at Tunghai University, second right, and Deputy Taichung Mayor Hsiao Chia-Chi yesterday display the model of the Guggenheim Museum Taichung during a press conference in Taipei.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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May Chin attacks quota change
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Legislator May Chin calls a press conference yesterday to lash out at the administration and some of her colleagues for trying to reduce the percentage of Aboriginal laborers to be hired in free ports.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Solomons force to hold shoot-to-kill license
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Refugees from the remote Weathercoast of Guadalcanal, who trekked for a week to escape the terror of renegade warlord Harold Keke, wander in a squalid camp on the outskirts of Honiara in the Solomon Islands yesterday. Australia is expected to lead a 2,000-strong military and police force to restore law and order to the troubled South Pacific island state.
PHOTO: AFP
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Attacks continue as Iraqi council granted power
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Former Iraqi government employees try to submit their petition to US soldiers guarding the former Presidential Palace, which now houses the US administration in Iraq, in Baghdad on Monday. The former employees, who lost their jobs following the ouster of Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, are demanding they be rehired.
PHOTO: AP
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US open to troops for Liberia
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A mother, who did not wish to give her name, stands next to her children in one of the rooms displaced Liberians have sought shelter in at the football stadium in the Liberian capital Monrovia Monday. The Red Cross estimates 33,000 displaced people are currently living in the stadium, mostly in darkened rooms and corridors under the stands.
PHOTO: AP
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The new-look Europe
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Foundation warns over gel candies
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A little girl enjoys a gel-cup candy at a press conference held yesterday by the Consumers' Foundation. The group warned parents to watch their children when eating the candy and urged the government to make manufacturers put warning labels on the sweets, which have been linked to the deaths of several children.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Overture costs Yahoo US$1.6bn
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A taxicab passes a billboard for Internet company Yahoo Inc in San Francisco on Monday, the same day Yahoo announced that it would buy Overture Services for US$1.63 billion in cash and stock to strengthen its ad business.
PHOTO: AFP
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What to do with `David'?
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Five centuries after Michelangelo's David was unveiled in Florence's Piazza della Signoria, there is a problem. Should the marble colossus be restored to its original perfection or simply cleaned of grime? Or should it learn to live with venerable old age?
PHOTO: NYT
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Earth walls itself in with space junk
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A computerized picture simulation by the European Space Agency depicts all the space junk orbiting our planet.
PHOTO: DPA
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Lance Armstrong retains the leader's yellow jersey
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Telekom team rider Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan spays water on himself after winning the 184.5km ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Bourg d'Oissans and Gap on Monday. US Postal team rider Lance Armstrong of the USA retains the overall race leader's yellow jersey.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Australia strikes gold in world meet
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Germany's Conny Schmalfuss during the final in the 1m springboard event at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Stakes raised in 2003 All-Star game
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New York Yankees' Hideki Matsui warms up in the batting cage during American League warmups on at US Cellular Field in Chicago, illinois, on Monday. The 74th All-Star Game takes place today.
PHOTO: AP
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Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, left, and St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols hold up their trophys as top All-Star vote getters for the American League and National League, respectively, at US Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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National League representative Barry Bonds of the Giants during batting practice before the Home Run Derby at US Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday.
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Angeles' Garret Anderson wins the Home Run Derby
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Garret Anderson of the Anaheim Angels holds his trophy for winning the Home Run Derby at US Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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