Lin shakes hands with Hu at APEC
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Taiwan's APEC representative, Lin Hsin-Yi, center, and his wife, right, yesterday ``accidentally'' meet Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, at an information-technology show being held in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the APEC summit.
PHOTO: THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION OFFICE
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Deal reached on holiday charters
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Mainland Affairs Council Vice Chairman Johnnason Liu yesterday announces that Taipei and Beijing have come to terms on cross-strait charter flights for Taiwanese during the Chinese New Year holiday.
PHOTO: CNA
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Chen gives POWs warm welcome on their return
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President Chen Shui-bian, center, shakes hands yesterday with allied soldiers who were imprisoned by the Japanese on Taiwan. He is accompanied by Yu Shyi-kun, secretary-general of the Presidential Office, right.
PHOTO: CNA
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Thailand's private eye blows alibis
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Amnoyporn Maneewan, Thailand's foremost female private eye at work in one of Bangkok's notorious ``girlie bar'' areas in Bangkok, on Thursday. Earlier this year she published a book, ``They Had Me to Spy on Cheating Husbands,'' about her 10-year career as a private eye, specializing in cases involving infidelity.
PHOTO: EPA
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Jordan beefs up security after attacks
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Jordanian King Abdullah, center, and Abu Dhabi Prince Apparent Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, right, visit victims of the terrorist hotel bombings, in Amman, on Wednesday. Sixty-two people were killed last week by Iraqi suicide bombers belonging to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
PHOTO: EPA
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Blasts at mosques kill at least 65
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An injured Iraqi resident stands amid the ruins of a destroyed apartment building at the scene of a massive car bomb, close to the al-Hamarra hotel in Baghdad yesterday. Two car bombs exploded near the interior ministry building in central Baghdad, killing six people and wounding at least 43, reports said.
PHOTO: EPA
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Medieval `eighth wonder' to go on display in Prague
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A visitor to the National Library of Stockholm looks at the biggest medieval manuscript in the world, the ``Codex Gigas'' or Devil's Bible, on Tuesday. The book was written at the beginning of the 13th century, and taken to Sweden at the end of the Thirty Years War when Swedish soldiers captured Prague.
PHOTO: AFP
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Giving cash to fight hunger
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A lot of little art
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PHOTO: EPA
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Scenic surroundings attract pot growers
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PHOTOS: NY TIMES
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Yosemite National Park is popular with hikers because it's full of nature's treasure. Drug producers, however, are taking advantage of the area's remoteness and laying down fields of marijuana which are protected by gangs.
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Fishing for answers in seas of trouble
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The corals of Australia's Great Barrier reef have experienced bleaching from an increase in sea temperatures.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Violence starts to tarnish World Cup
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Phillipe Senderos, right, and Velon Behrami of Switzerland, and Tuncay Sanli, rear, and Tumer Metin of Turkey, fight for the ball during the World Cup second-leg qualifier at Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Maple Leafs win 3 in row
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Bruins defenseman Andrew Alberts, left, flattens Maple Leafs center Alex Steen during the third period in Boston, Thursday. Toronto defeated Boston 4-1.
PHOTO: AP
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Boeheim shows Knight zone defense
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Syracuse's Terrence Roberts dunks the ball against Texas Tech during the second half at Madison Square Garden in New York on Thursday. The Orange won 81-46.
PHOTO: AP
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