Kangaroo `saves' farmer who rescued it
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Len Richards poses with a kangaroo named Lulu who has been declared a hero after saving Richards' life by alerting his family that he lay unconscious nearby on his farm near Morwell in eastern Victoria yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bomber targets UN in Iraq
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Iraqi police officers carry an unidentified body past a destroyed car at the scene where a suicide car bomber killed an Iraqi policeman and himself yesterday at a road checkpoint behind the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
PHOTO: AP
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Lawmakers flexible with union
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Lee Ying-yuan, right, deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party, meets with representatives of Chunghwa Telecom's labor union outside the party headquarters yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Mayor Ma balks at referendum request
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Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, left, examines a poster at Taipei City Council yesterday. Ma rejected councilors' request to present a draft initiative and referendum bylaw to the council .
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Families talk of Korean reunification
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North Koreans from inside a bus bid goodbye to their South Korean relatives after a family reunion at Mount Kumgang, North Korea, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sept. 11 plot originally had 10 planes
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed shortly after his capture in Pakistan on March 1.
PHOTO: AP
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Galileo probe goes out in a blaze of glory
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Scientists bid a tearful farewell to the Galileo spaceraft on Sunday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Claudia Alexander, center, facing camera, current project manager for Galileo, embraced engineer Duane Bindschadler moments after the spacecraft took its final plunge.
PHOTO: AP
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Tech giants pin hopes on convergence
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A visitor checks out high-tech products on display duirng the first day of the Computex Taipei 2003, at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall yesterday. Asia's largest tech show will run through Friday. PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Takenaka vows to clear bad loans
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Japanese Economics and Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka, who retained both his key posts in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet shake-up, arrives at the premier's official residence in Tokyo yesterday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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An American in Venice
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US gondola maker Thom Price works in his canal-side squero, in Venice. In 1996 Price, a university graduate from North Carolina, made it his unlikely mission to save the dying craft of gondola-making. Price worked first as an apprentice, then as an experienced hand-for-hire and now as a gondola builder in his own squero, which opened at the end of last year.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Green Bay wilts in Arizona heat wave
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Outside linebacker Ray Thompson, right, of the Arizona Cardinals dives to recover a fumble against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
PHOTO: AFP
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Tempers flare as Arsenal, Man U draw
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Arsenal's Patrick Vieira, left, is held away from Manchester United's Ruud Van Nistelrooy, center, after Vieria was sent off for aiming a kick at the striker during their FA Barclaycard Premiership soccer match at Old Trafford on Sunday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Martin Keown mocks Ruud Van Nistelrooy after his penalty miss on Sunday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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