First lady receives wife of SARS discoverer
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First lady Wu Shu-chen, left, receives Guiliana Urbani, wife of the late Dr. Carlo Urbani, who identified SARS as a unique disease and later lost his life in the battle against the deadly virus.
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Opera maven receives award
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Gu Cheng-chiou, above, explained to the ``Taipei Times'' that highly specific gestures serve to express emotion and meaning in the absence of the large number of props evident in other dramatic forms of artistic expression.
TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
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Campaigning ministers criticized
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Minister of the Interior Yu Cheng-hsien, standing, speaks at a seminar held at a police station in Hualien yesterday. Yu said the county police bureau has formed a 150-member team to deal with vote-buying or violence in the Hualien County commissioner by-election.
PHOTO: YANG YI-CHUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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First lady wins hearts and minds
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First lady Wu Shu-chen presents a letter from President Chen Shui-bian congratulating the pontiff on the 25th anniversary of his ascension during a general audience at Castelgandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, on Sunday. The letter also asks the pope to pray for cross-strait peace.
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Pyongyang calls on US to sign pact
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao make a toast beneath a painting of the Great Wall during a signing ceremony of a joint-venture agreement between British company P&O and Qingdao Port at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. As crisis swirls at home, Blair met China's new leaders yesterday, promising enhanced trade ties in talks that may also yield a renewed push for a diplomatic solution on North Korea.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Hope for the future as summit ends
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, meets Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, right, at Arafat's office in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday. Prior to his meeting with Arafat, Abbas met for two hours with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
PHOTO: AP
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Texan old-pals act strictly for the cameras
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US President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush welcome Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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US deploys more troops to Monrovia
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A refugee walks among washed clothes laid out to dry on the pitch at the Samuel K. Doe Stadium in the Liberian capital Monrovia last week. The stadium is now home to more than 30,000 refugees who have fled fighting in the war-torn West-African nation.
PHOTO: AP
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Mass graves giving up the secrets of Argentina's past
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Members of the Argentine Forensic Anthropologists Team work on the biggest dictatorship-era mass grave discovered so far, where around 40 suspected victims of the 1976-1983 military junta were buried in a local cemetery in Cordoba, 800km northwest of Buenos Aires.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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When the US gets cold, the world pays more for oil
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Singapore welcomes cruise ship's return
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A man looks at the cruise ship `SuperStar Virgo' berthed at the harbor front while fishing in Singapore on Sunday. Efforts to revive Asia's tourism industry received a confidence boostt when the luxury cruise ship returned to its homeport from Australia, where it was deployed during the height of the SARS epidemic.
PHOTO: AFP
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The end of the world as we know it?
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It's not enough that by burning fossil fuels we are heating up the earth's atmosphere at an alarming rate, but that also, in destroying vast stretches of tropical rainforests such as shown here in the Amazon region, we are also destroying nature's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide and return oxygen to the air.
PHOTO: DPA
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Twins sweep series with the A's
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Jay Payton of the Colorado Rockies dodges an inside pitch while batting against the San Francisco Giants, in San Francisco on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Rookie takes British Open
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Ben Curtis of the US celebrates after winning the British Open golf championship at Royal St. George's golf course in Sandwich, England, on Sunday3. Curtis won the event after shooting a final round 69 for a 1-under par four round total of 283.
PHOTO: AP
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There's a `Thorpedo' in the water
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Australia's Ian Thorpe swims during a men's 200m freestyle in Barcelona, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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