DNA test suggests man's innocence
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The parents of Lu Chin-kai, a man accused of raping and murdering a female student in 1993, stand outside their house in Yuli Township in Hualien County yesterday. The two have always maintained that their son was innocent.
PHOTO: CHIU HSIEN-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Presidential Office taking steps to beef up security
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A 44-year-old man accused of firing flares in front of the Presidential Office, center, is taken into custody on July 28.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Don't forget Wang, says ex-DPP chairman
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Central Standing Committee member Jason Hu, left, attacks the party for not following protocol in drafting a committee oath at a meeting at KMT headquarters yesterday. Hu sharply criticized the party for not sticking to procedure in the meeting, which was presided over by KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou, right.
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Koizumi firm on shrine promise
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Catholics pray for atomic bomb victims during a morning mass at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki on the western island of Kyushu yesterday. The city marked 61 years after the world's second and last atomic bombing with calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
PHOTO: AFP
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Lopez Obrador supporters blockade federal offices
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Supporters of Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attend a daily rally and speech in the Zocalo plaza in Mexico City, Mexico, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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ASEAN comes of age, looks for new challenges
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Fed leaves US interest rates at 5.25%
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Traders in the Eurodollar Futures Pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange wait for the US Federal Reserve's interest rate announcement on Tuesday in Chicago, Illinois. The Fed's Open Market Committee decided to leave its key interest rate at 5.25 percent.
PHOTO: AFP
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Obikwelu, Kluft shine in Sweden
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Francis Obikwelu of Portugal celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men's 100m during the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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US struggle to 90-86 win over a determined Brazil
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Brazil's Anderson Varejao, center, vies for the ball with Chris Bosh, left, Elton Brand, right, and LeBron James, blocked by Varejao, of the US, during the China Basketball Challenge in Guangzhou, China, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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StreetWars: a dangerous game
街頭大戰：危險遊戲?
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A little girl gets sprayed with a water gun while playing in Pemberton Historical Park in Salisbury, Maryland. 一名小女孩在美國馬里蘭州索爾斯堡的潘伯頓歷史公園玩耍時，被水槍噴得濕淋淋的。 (照片：美聯社)
PHOTO: AP
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Bye-bye bling?
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A display at the Swarovski store on Madison Avenue in New York.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Technology Review
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Sandisk new Sansa e200 MP3 player
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It's open season on Klimt
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Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912)
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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The absurdity of life
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Screen grabs from Tsui Kuang-yu's video installation The Shortcut to the Systematic Life - City Sprite (2005).
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHI-WEN GALLEY
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