At least 622 Haitians killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne
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A Haitian boy takes his dog out on a bucket in Gonaives on Monday. Receding floodwaters raged through neighborhoods of Haiti's third largest city, dragging people from their homes and forcing survivors to spend the night in trees, atop cars and roottops following Tropical Storm Jeanne.
PHOTO: AP
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Love and Chunghwa Post overcome plot by communist China
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Acting Taipei County Commissioner Lin Si-yao, second right, and other guests congratulate Yang Chih-yuan -- a junior-high school student in Panchiao -- as the Chunghwa Post Co issued stamps featuring his painting on the International Day of Peace yesterday.
PHOTO: HO YU-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
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Wu under pressure prior to departure
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First lady Wu Shu-jen shakes hands with the president of Taiwan's Olympic committee, Thomas Huang as she is welcomed by the president, vice president and other top officials at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport yesterday.
PHOTO: TONY YAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Japan may extend its Iraq deployment
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Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces attend a flag presentation ceremony in Hokkaido, Japan, prior to their deployment to southern Iraq, in this 8 May file photo. The Japanese government has decided to extend its deployment of the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq beyond the Dec. 14 deadline by another year or so, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Brazil, France lead pledge to fight poverty
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French President Jacques Chirac gestures as he answers a reporter's question during a press conference following the World Leaders Summit entitled ``Action Against Hunger and Poverty'' at UN headquarters in New York City on Monday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Iraqi officials: more funds needed for basic services
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Iraqi boys use shovels to clean up a street filled with garbage and sewage in Baghdad on Sunday.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Reform must take context into account
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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AOL offers new gadget to improve online security
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America Online Inc became the first major US online business to offer two-layer authentication to regular customers yesterday. Subscribers get a device displaying a code that changes every minute, so even with a password scammers can't access accounts.
PHOTO: AP
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Girls are pink and boys are blue?
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Jeff and Jody Spear with their 10-month-old daughter Eliza at home in Nobleboro, Maine. For decades, parents and pediatric doctors have sought to offer children whose anatomy does not conform to strictly male or female standards a surgical fix.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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IAAF names Isinbayeva, Bekele athletes of the year
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Russian athlete Yelena Isinbayeva and Ethiopian Kennisa Bekele pose with the World Athletes of the Year 2004 trophy.
PHOTO: EPA
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Shanghai welcomes F1's 10 teams
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Visitors look at a BAR Honda team-driver model at a Formula One promotion event in Shanghai.
PHOTO: AFP
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