Chen calls China an `empire'
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President Chen Shui-bian takes out from his wallet a note with his ancestral home address on it during a meeting with Ross Terrill, the author of The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States. At the press conference in the Presidential Office yesterday, Chen stressed that he always bears his origin in mind.
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Indian voters go to the polls
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A polling official marks the finger of an Indian Kashmiri voter before she casts her vote at Sheeri village in the Baramulla district of Indian-administered Kashmir, yesterday.
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Plasticized corpse exhibition opens today in Taipei
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A journalist admires a dissected camel at the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei yesterday. More than 200 pieces of human and animal bodies and organs are on display as part of Body Worlds, including 20 skinless dissected cadavers in various lifelike poses.
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Blair offers referendum on EU's proposed constitution
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to health-care professionals during a breakfast meeting at Downing Street yesterday. He later told parliament that he is willing to hold a referendum on the proposed EU constitution.
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Survivor confronts rapist in court
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Sabine Dardenne sits in the Arlon assize court beside one of her lawyers, Jean-Philippe Riviere, yesterday for a new session of the trial of Marc Dutroux.
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US, its allies to pick up slack as Spain cuts and runs
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US troops from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division walk to a meeting with their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Pete Newell, on a military base near Najaf, Iraq on Monday. The soldiers are part of the task force that conducted patrols near Najaf in an effort to influence negotiations between the coaltion and firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr. They are being replaced by elements of the 1st Armored Division and the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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Bush's dangerous arrogance
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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McDonald's CEO Cantalupo dies
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The McDonald's flag flies at half-mast next to the Australian flag, left, at a McDonald's restaurant in Sydney yesterday where newly appointed chief executive and president Charlie Bell began his career 28 years ago. The 43-year-old's elevation overnight follows the sudden death of his friend and predecessor Jim Cantalupo, 60, of a suspected heart attack. Bell is the first non-American to take up the post.
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World Business Quick Take
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Finding a mate in the dark
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The Zoological Institute in Hamburg is examining the subtleties of the fish life cycle in darkened caves. Dark-reared mollies in Dr. Ingo Schlupp and Martin Plath's lab in Hamburg.
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Dr. Ingo Schlupp and Martin Plath are studying the world's cave-dwelling fish, including the sightless mollies found in the above Mexican cave, that is tainted with the smell of hydrogen sulfide, or rotten eggs.
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Kenyan's sweep in Boston Marathon
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Timothy Cherigat of Kenya as he wins the men's division of the 108th Boston Marathon with a time of 2:10:37, Monday.
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Catherine Ndereba of Kenya receives her trophy after winning the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday.
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Canadiens stun the Boston Bruins
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Brian Rolston, left, of the Bruins, and Richard Zednick of the Canadiens battle for control of the puck during game seven of the NHL Eastern Conference quarterfinals at the Fleet Centre in Boston, Monday.
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Bryant leads LA Lakers with 36 points
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Forward Pau Gasol, center, of the Grizzlies battles for a rebound with Tony Parker, right, of the Spurs in the conference playoffs at SBC Center in San Antonio, Texas, Monday.
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Kobe Bryant of the Lakers celebrates their 98-84 win over the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals, Monday.
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