Iraqis head to polls on constitution
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Iraqis wait their turn to vote yesterday in a referendum on a new constitution at a polling station in Al Zubayr, just outside Basra in southern Iraq.
PHOTO: AFP
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Taiwan Quick Take
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PHOTO: AP
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Constitutional reform shifts power to voters: experts
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Maysing Wang, left, chairperson of the foreign ministry's Research and Planning Committee, speaks at a forum organized by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy yesterday. Yeh Jiunn-rong, chairman of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, right, also participated in the event.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Toward a healthier, leaner NHI
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Fritz Britt making a speech on Sept. 24 at the Far Eastern Plaza Hotel in Taipei.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NOVARTIS
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Stefan Ziegler making a speech on Sept. 23 at the Far Eastern Plaza Hotel in Taipei.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NOVARTIS
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Death toll nears 40,000 in Pakistan
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An earthquake survivor shivers in the rain as he waits outside a Pakistani army aid distribution site hoping in vain for a tent or a blanket in Balakot, Pakistan, yesterday. The death toll in Pakistan from a massive quake last week neared 40,000 yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Chinese astronauts cavort in space
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In this photo from Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong, right, and Nie Haisheng work in the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou VI spacecraft in this video grab obtained by the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Africans fearful of big game project
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The sun sets behind a dead leadwood tree in the northern Kruger National Park, South Africa, earlier this month.
PHOTO: EPA
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Ecuador arrests former president
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Security forces surround the pickup truck carrying former Ecuadorian president Lucio Gutierrez on his way to Garcia Moreno Prison in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Hu asks for cooperation at G20
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World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, center, arrives for a press briefing during a break for the seventh G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in the Shenan Palace Hotel of Grand Epoch City in Xianghe, Hebei Province, yesterday. Wolfowitz said that unless the developed nations of the world make greater concessions to the Doha accords, the poorest people in the world will suffer.
PHOTO: AP
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School contacts key to success
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Brigid Merriman, left, and Colleen Ambrose, who met at their daughters' preschool and formed a dress line. The designers are pictured at Merriman's home in New York earlier this month.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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One man's success tale in mortgage banking
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Angelo Mozilo created Countrywide Financial and built it into the biggest mortgage bank in the country. This year alone, his compensation is expected to reach US$100 million, making him a good candidate for the person most richly rewarded by the boom in residential real estate.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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It's a woman's life
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Senior lecturer Chang Ya-hui answers questions from trainee baby-sitters.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHANG YA-HUI
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The PWR Foundation offers training classes for female job seekers.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHANG YA-HUI
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Marlon Brando's ghost, if not hand, looms large in Fan-Tan
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Fan-Tan
By Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell Heinemann
Knopf Publishing Group
248 pages
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A star is born in cardiff
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Parents are ditching disposable diapers
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Toilet training babies at a young age can be more time consuming for parents than using diapers.
PHOTO: AP
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Pop language is like so now
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'Slam Dunks and No-brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever'
By Leslie Savan
Alfred A. Knopf
340 pages
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Sports Briefs
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Flyers rally to win in OT
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Flyers goalie Antero Nittymaki, right, clears the puck from behind the net as Penguins John LeClair closes in during the first period in Philadelphia on Friday. Philadelphia defeated Pittsburgh 6-5 when Mike Rathje scored 3:17 into overtime.
PHOTO: AP
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Park holds lead as Wie confronts bees
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Grace Park smiles and waves after making a putt for par on the 17th hole during the second round of the LPGA Samsung Championship at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, California, on Friday. Park finished the second round with a score of 11-under-par 133.
PHOTO: AP
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Australia advances to 66 for one against World XI
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Australia's Glenn McGrath appeals for the wicket of Virender Sehwag on the 2nd ball during the Super Series Test match against the World XI in Sydney on Saturday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Alonso, Fisichella to lead pack in China
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Fernando Alonso of Renault in action during the first practice session at the Chinese F1 track near Shanghai, China, on Friday. The final race of the F1 World Championship, the Grand Prix of China is scheduled to take place in Shanghai, today.
PHOTO: EPA
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