MRT Corp chief apologizes for New Year's Eve injuries
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MRT travelers take the escalator down to a platform yesterday.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Korean police arrest fur activists
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An animal-rights activist from the US, Lisa Franzetta, right, and Christina Cho, hold a nude protest against fur in Seoul on Thursday. The two protesters were detained by South Korean police shortly after beginning the protest and were charged with indecent exposure. they were released after about two hours.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Abbas expected to easily win Palestinian election
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A man holds a portrait of the late Yasser Arafat, right, and a holds child a Palestinian flag during a rally in support of presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas, not seen, in the village of Beir Naballah, in the outskirts of Jerusalem, Friday.
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Passenger, freight train collision kills 13
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Italian firefighters work at the site of a train crash where a passenger train and a freight train collided in the fog-shrouded countryside in northern Italy Friday. Police said 13 people were killed when the two trains travelling on the same track collided between two stations north of Bologna.
PHOTO: EPA
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KKK leader charged with 60s activist slayings
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Flanked by public defender Chris Collins, left, reputed Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen listens as Neshoba County District Attorney Mark Duncan, right, reads the indictment charging Killen with murder in the slayings of three civil rights workers more than 40 years ago, during his appearance in circuit court Friday, in Mississippi.
PHOTO: AP
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Black bears and television junkies
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Japanese way of death creates golden business opportunities
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Embalmer Kenichiro Hashizume, head of Grief Support International, Inc, speaks about his business at his embalming room in Tokyo. Hashizume, who got his degree at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, says, ``My father was a mortician. I had intended to go into a different line of work, but I realized there was a real need to be met here.''
PHOTO: AP
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Junya Matsumoto, right, his sister-in-law, second left, and her son, partially hidden, are shown a steel bowl of ashes and bone fragments of his mother by an attendant in an immaculate room not far from the crematorium at the Toda Mortuary on the outskirts of Tokyo. Seen at left is a machine, called a pulverizer, that quickly reduces the remains to a fine powder.
PHOTO: AP
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After the dog craze
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The issue of guide dogs is rarely raised, despite the recent popularity of the movie Quill.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF FLASH FORWARD ENTERTAINMENT
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Dogs at the Taipei Animal Shelter are usually given 10 days to be adopted before they are put to sleep.
PHOTO: YU SEN-LUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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A puppy awaits adoption at Taipei Animal Shelter.
PHOTO: YU SEN-LUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Detailed guidebook tracks Taipei's trails
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Taipei Day Trips 2
By Richard Saunders
266 pages
Community Services Center Taipei
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Baring it all for art
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PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
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Modeling for more than a decade, Jan Huei-ling, shown at top and above, said she has no immediate plans to give up a job she enjoys.
PHOTOS: TAIPEI TIMES
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The powerless are heard
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One of Wu Mali's participant's Queen Condom.
PHOTO: SUSAN KENDZULAK
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Chen Yung-hsien's video installation.
PHOTO: SUSAN KENDZULAK
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Kimonos reinventedfor 101 display
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Four members of The Creators Project Tokyo joined Japanese designer Shizuko Iyobe, shown at center, for a Kimono exhibition at Page One.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CREATORS PROJECT TOKYO
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2005 bound to provide plenty of surprises
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British author J. K. Rowling is a sure hit with her Harry Potter books.
PHOTO: EPA
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Sport Briefs
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Jacquemod snags first World Cup win
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Jan Mazoch of the Czech Republic flies during the final round of the Four Hills ski jumping competition in Bishchofshofen, Austria on Thursday. Martin Hoellwarth of Austria won the competition on Friday ahead of Janne Ahonen of Finland and Daiki Ito of Japan. Janne Ahonen is the overall winner at Four Hills ahead of Martin Hoellwarth and Thomas Morgenstern of Austria.
PHOTO: AFP
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Ingrid Jacquemond of France passes a gate during a World Cup downhill race in Santa Caterinta Valfurva, Italy on Friday. It was Jacquemond's first World Cup win.
PHOTO: EPA
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Slovakia wins Hopman championship
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Russian tennis sensation Maria Sharapova smiles during the sale of tennis rackets autographed by the participants of the Watsons Water Championships Challenge women's tennis exhibition in Hong Kong on Saturday. The tournament was won by Russian Elena Dementieva who beat defending champion Venus Williams of the US 3-6, 2-6.
PHOTO: AP
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Inglethorpe says he likes the odds
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Manchester United's Darren Fletcher, left, tussles with Middlesbrough's Stuart Downing during their match at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium, England on Jan. 1.
PHOTO: AP
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Singh soars in Kapalua
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Vijay Singh tees off on the second tee during the second round of the Mercedes Championships, Friday at the Kapalua Plantation Course in Maui, Hawaii.
PHOTO: AP
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John Daly works on the driving range prior to the start of the second round of the Mercedes Championships on Friday at the Kapalua Plantation Course in Maui.
PHOTO: AP
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Tiger Woods tees off on the 12th hole as Jonathan Kaye and Tiger's caddie Steve Williams look on during the Mercedes Championships in Kapalua, Hawaii on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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