Yu apologizes for DPP shortcomings
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Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Yu Shyi-kun, center front, along with top party figures, cheers at the party's national congress held at the Taipei International Convention Center yesterday. Yu is joined by Vice President Annette Lu, left front, Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Chen Chu, second left, Taipei mayoral candidate Frank Hsieh, second right, and Premier Su Tseng-chang, right.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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KMT holds councilor primaries
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Ma Ying-jeou casts his ballot at Chinghsin Elementary School in the primary to choose KMT candidates in the year-end Taipei city councilor elections.
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen says he'll forge on as president
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President Chen Shui-bian squeezes his way between two trees during a visit to the Anping Treehouse in Tainan yesterday.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TAINAN CITY GOVERNMENT
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NATO to expand Afghan operations
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A Dutch soldier guards NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, right, as he walks with Dutch Lieutenant Colonel Joland Dubbeldam, center, during a review of NATO preparations to expand into southern Afghanistan. NATO's commander said on Friday that it will likely take military control of all of Afghanistan by the end of this year.
PHOTO: AP
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Mourners honor `Butcher' with Buddhist ceremony
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Relatives and mourners gather around the dead body of former Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok at Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Filipinos ordered to `pack up and run'
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Rafael Apolinario holds a picture of his mother Rosalie as he waits at the overseas worker and welfare administration department in Manila, the Philippines, yesterday. Free phone calls are being offered to relatives of the estimated 30,000 Filipino workers in Lebanon who have been stranded by the fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah militia forces.
PHOTO: AFP
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Refugees forced to take shelter in Beirut parks
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Internally displaced Lebanese reach out for food and drinks distributed at the Sanayeh Gardens public park in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday. Hundreds of Lebanese from the south sleep rough in Beirut parks, with others packed into schools or staying with relatives, among more than half a million who have fled their homes to escape the Israeli onslaught.
PHOTO: AP
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Leftist duo address anti-US rally
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Cuban President Fidel Castro, left, talks with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after addressing a rally on Friday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Europe and US fry in hot weather
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People buy cold drinks on Friday in Paris as temperatures soar to 36oC.
PHOTO: AFP
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Venturing into the death zone on Mount Everest
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Microsoft to rival iPod with Zune
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Pat Baudisch, a researcher with Microsoft Research, plays with a ``Soap'' prototype handheld computer pointing device that doesn't require a flat surface during a demonstration of possible future Microsoft Corp products in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday. Microsoft has confirmed that it is working on music and entertainment products that are expected to compete with Apple Computer Inc's popular iPod and iTunes music service.
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Dream weddings: Money isn't everything
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Kathleen Schwark, a 28-year-old bartender, plans to spend US$10,000 on her wedding. She is wearing her wedding dress, which she bought for US$115, at Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa, California, where she plans to get married. The average US wedding now costs a hefty US$27,852, almost double the US$15,208 spent in 1990, according to a study by the Conde Nast Bridal Group.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Tosatto wins stage 18 for Italy
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Italy's Matteo Tosatto celebrates as he crosses the finish line of the 197km 18th stage of the Tour de France on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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PHOTO: AFP
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US three through to RCA semis
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James Blake of the US serves to Nicolas Mahut of France during their quarter-final match at the RCA Championships in Indianapolis, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Andy Roddick of the US returns a shot to Gilles Muller of Luxembourg during the RCA Championships at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Philadelphia squeezes by Atlanta 6-5
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Philadelphia Phillies David Dellucci connects to drive in the go-ahead run in the 8th inning of their game with the Atlanta Braves on Friday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PHOTO: AP
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New grand jury to take up Bonds' case
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds prepares to take batting practice before a baseball game against the San Diego Padres on Friday in San Francisco.
PHOTO: AP
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Rams' Faulk to miss season, may retire
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St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk is shown during the team's football training camp last July in St. Louis.
PHOTO: AP
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Carter stars in All Blacks victory
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New Zealand's Dan Carter, right, tackles South Africa's Juan Smith in the Tri-Nations match at the Westpac Stadium, in Wellington, New Zealand, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Percy Montgomery, left, of the Springboks is tackled by Mils Muliaina, right, of the All Blacks during the Tri-Nations match between New Zealand and South Africa at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Mils Muliaina, left, of the All Blacks runs down the line with teammate Chris Jack, right, during the Tri-Nations match against South African in Wellington yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Team USA leave it late to clinch World Softball title
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Samantha Finlay seals the win and the title for Team USA with a clutch hit in the bottom of the eighth.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CTUSF
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Shrewd Internet trades earn man a new house 精明的網路交易為男子賺德新屋
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MacDonald and his girlfriend at their new house. 麥唐納和女有現身新居。
PHOTO: AP
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Denise Minafinds something rotten in journalism
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Denise Mina, a Scotish crime writer, pictured in New York, is releasing her new novel entitled The Dead Hour.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Ice-cream makers throw out the rule book
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Nick Pappas scoops chocolate orgy ice cream at Lizzie's Homemade Ice Cream in Waltham, Massachusetts. Old favorites such as chocolate are making way for new flavors like roquefort ice cream.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Neanderthal DNA reveals its secrets
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Svante Paabo is picured at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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A composite skeleton of a Neanderthal, left is pictured next to that of a modem human.
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Neglect, tremors rock the Casbah
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The UNESCO named the Casbah a "world heritage" site in 1992.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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