Nobel prizewinner Yang engaged
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1957 Nobel Prize for physics winner Yang Chen-ning and his Chinese fiancee Wong Fang, this year in China.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF REVIEW OF KNOWLEDGE
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Bombs leave several dead in Najaf, Karbala
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A gunman, left, shoots and kills an electoral employee lying in Baghdad after pulling him from a car yesterday. The man at right on his knees was executed moments later, along with another man not shown in picture. About 30 gunmen ambushed a car yesterday carrying employees of the organization running next month's elections.
PHOTO: AP
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Foreign inmates get the greatest holiday gift of all
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A group of Christians prepare products and gifts for about 140 foreign inmates serving sentences in the Taipei Prison in Guishan, Taoyuan County.
PHOTO: CHANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Edgar Lin `pursuing a colorful life'
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Edgar Lin, Taiwan's new representative to the UK.
TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
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Status quo `threatened' by new law
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Bruce Herchensohn, former deputy special assistant to former US president Richard Nixon and professor at Pepperdine University in California.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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President names new leaders for Control Yuan
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Chang Chien-pang, nominated as president of the Control Yuan.
FILE PHOTO: LIBERTY TIMES
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Hsiao Hsin-huang, Control Yuan vice-president nominee.
FILE PHOTO: LIBERTY TIMES
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Aid agencies back probe into NGOs
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Twelve-year-old Afghan Gholam Rasol, left, and his younger brother carry water containers they sell to passers-by in the streets of Kabul yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Colombia threatens extradition if hostages not freed
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Members of the Calima Bloc of the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia celebrate before handing over their arms on Saturday in Bugalagrande municipality, Colombia. Some 500 fighters were demobilized as part of a peace process that is eventually to return 20,000 rightist irregulars to civilian life by next year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Shakespeare's anti-semitism nothing to laugh about
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China Airlines takes air safety to new levels
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Dean Young, chief pilot of China Airlines' Boeing 747-400 fleet.
PHOTO: JESSIE HO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Making a name pays off for BenQ
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BenQ chairman Lee Kun-yao gestures as he talks with a reporter about what his three-year old consumer-electronics company hopes to achieve next year and in 2006.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Getting your hands dirty to get ahead in New York
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Blues blank the Canaries
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Chelsea's Frank Lampard, right, goes for the ball with Norwich City's Craig Fleming during their English Premier League match at Stamford Bridge in London on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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New York learns to appreciate Giants
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Quarterback Eli Manning, center, of the Giants, battles the Steelers at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Saturday. Pittsburgh won the game 33-30.
PHOTO: AFP
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Duke rises to the occasion again
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Bobcats forward Emeka Okafor, right, tries to drive on Rockets center Yao Ming during the second half in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday. Okafor scored 23 points and pulled down 17 rebounds as Charlotte won in overtime, 101-100.
PHOTO: AP
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