UN bid gets help from US Congress
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Demonstrators demanding Taiwan's participation in the UN march near Times Square in New York on Tuesday as the UN General Assembly opened its 58th session.
PHOTO: CNA
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Families of snakeheads' victims demand money
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Yang Defeng, mother of Wang Li, one of the four Chinese women who drowned off the Taiwan coast, wails after identifying her daughter's body yesterday.
PHOTO: LIAO YAO-TUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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FARC rebels deny kidnapping foreign tourists
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A soldier runs as helicopters maneuver to land troops on Tuesday in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia to search for eight abducted tourists, who were kidnapped before dawn on Friday from cabins in the archaeological ruins of Ciudad Perdida, or the Lost City.
PHOTO: AP
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Citizens revel in bloodless coup
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Children play across the street from the presidency in Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau, on Tuesday. In a break with similar events in the region, two days after former President Kumba Yala was toppled in a coup without a shot fired, there has been no bloody fighting, no humanitarian crisis and no looting sprees.
PHOTO: AP
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Desperate US music industry cracks down
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GE says it will win engine order
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A visitor looks at models of Boeing aircraft in Beijing yesterday.
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'Getting beautiful is getting easier and easier'
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Corina van Leeuwen of the Nethelands poses in Malaysia's island state of Penang, six months after having breast enlargement surgery while on holiday there. Corina, 25, had the operation through a Penang-based company called Beautiful Holidays, who combine plastic and cosmetic surgery with luxury holidays. Corina is back in Penang for a follow-up to the surgery.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Corina van Leeuwen before, and after having breast enlargement surgery in Penang.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Oracle continues to win against Alinghi on short race course
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American team Oracle BMW Racing crew prepare to hoist their spinnaker while making the turn at the mark during the second day of the Moet Cup race against the Swiss team Alinghi in San Francisco, California, Tuesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Ronaldo strikes twice for Real Madrid
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Real Madrid's Ronaldo, left, is challenged by Olympique de Marseille's Habib Beye during their Group F match at the Santiagio Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Tuesday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Tsao gets rocked on first day back at work
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Kazuhisa Ishii of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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