Floods kill three, destroy crops
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A resident from Meinung Township rides a scooter through floodwaters to check on his delivery van, which had been swept into a drainage channel after torrential rains in central and southern Taiwan over the past few days.
PHOTO: HSU PAI-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Aboriginal protesters travel to Japan
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An Aboriginal protest group displays placards and banners during a ceremony outside CKS International Airport in Taoyuan yesterday, before the group flew to Tokyo, Japan. The group is demanding that the names of Aboriginal Taiwanese forced to fight in World War II be removed from the controversial Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo.
PHOTO: AFP
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Activists hail High Court ruling
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DPP Legislator Lin Shu-fen, second right, holds a press conference yesterday with Sister Radio chairwoman and founder Wang Li-ping, third left, Wang Ping, secretary general of the Gender/Sexuality Rights Association in Taiwan, second left, and Chen Yi-chien, a professor at Taipei's Shih Hsin University, left. The group hailed the Taiwan High Court's ruling in favor of the radio station.
PHOTO: LUO PEI-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lawmakers have a cow over US beef
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Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Lai Shin-yuan, first right, demands that the Department of Health immediately suspend beef imports from the US at a press conference yesterday.
PHOTO: LUO PEI-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ex-Philippine official in standoff
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Young children touch a soldier's machine gun yesterday as six truckloads of troops are dispatched to a Philippine Catholic seminary where a former intelligence officer was holed up in defiance of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
PHOTO: AFP
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Six more bodies found in Baghdad
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Iraqis say the final prayers over the body of a victim from a car bombing as it is made ready for burial at a mosque in the Al-Shula district of Baghdad on Saturday. The car bomb, parked close to the busy Nur marketplace detonated killing seven men, three women and a child, and wounding 28 others according to hospital sources.
PHOTO: AFP
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Christian Aoun wins key Lebanese poll
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A supporter of Lebanese Christian leader Michel Aoun, wearing the orange of Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, casts her ballot in Baabda, a suburb of Beirut, on Sunday, in the third stage of the staggered parliamentary elections.
PHOTO: AP
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Orphans make historic trip back to Vietnam
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Tiana Mykkeltvedt, left, Ron Honeycutt, second left, Audrey Cannon, center, Wendy Greene, second right, and Tanya Bakal, pose for a photo as they begin their journey from Atlanta to Vietnam on board a World Airways jet on Sunday. Mykkeltvedt, Greene and Bakal left as infants during the original Operation Babylift on a World Airways aircraft 30 years ago and are now returning for the 30th anniversary. Cannon was a flight attendant on the first Babylift flight and Honeycutt was an attendant on the second.
PHOTO: AP
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UMC investors endorse share purchase
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UMC chairman Robert Tsao answers questions during a shareholders meeting yesterday.
PHOTO: HONG YOU-FANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Unicredito to take over HVB Group
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Alessandro Profumo, chief executive officer (CEO) of Unicredito SpA, left, and HVB's CEO Dieter Rampl leave the Italian bank's headquarters in Milan, Italy yesterday. Unicredito and HVB agreed to Europe's largest ever cross-border banking deal on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Prehistoric crocodile on display
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A model of a Baurusuchus salgadoensis is displayed at the University of Rio in Brazil. Scientists unveiled 11 skeletons of prehistoric crocodiles.
PHOTO: AP
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Battle over treatment pits parents against doctors
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Above, Edward and Michele Wernecke reunite with their children, Jonathan, Joshua and James, at their ranch in Agua Dulce, Texas. Below, an undated photo of Katie Wernecke, who was caught in the middle of a bitter standoff between her parents and doctors over her radiation treatment.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Cobras slither into lead
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Closer Rene Miniel of the Macoto Cobras pitches against the Whales on Sunday. The Cobras defeated the Whales 4-3 to complete a three-game series sweep.
PHOTO: MACOTO COBRAS
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Kimi Raikkonen wins Canadian GP
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Carl Edwards, winner of the NASCAR Pocono 500, rounds turn three in the 99 car, with Jeff Gordon in the 24 car and Casey Mears in the 41 car close behind during the NASCAR Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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