Rain dampens enthusiasm for protest
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A participant in the Million Voices Against Corruption demonstration against President Chen Shui-bian sleeps in his raincoat on Taipei's Ketagalan Boulevard yesterday after having spent the night at the rally.
PHOTO: CNA
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A protesters participating in the anti-Chen sit-in sporting a warrior costume made out of balloons, brandishes his inflated sword and shield during the second day of the anti-Chen rally in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Other demonstrators hold up protest signs.
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Americans prepare to mark Sept. 11 anniversary
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Jacob Campbell, 5, left, and his aunt Linda Maurer, both from the Queens, New York, look at an an image of Jacob's mother, Jill Marie Maurer-Campbell, who was killed during the World Trade Center attacks, among other Sept. 11 victims on America's 9-11 Victims' Memorial Quilt on Saturday in New York.
PHOTO: AP
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Su, Ma join forces against suicide at Buddhist event
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Master Sheng Yen, center, from the Buddhist Dharma Drum Mountain Foundation is accompanied by Premier Su Tseng-chang, left, and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou at an event to mark World Suicide Prevention Day in Taipei yesterday.
HOTO: CNA
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Taiwan Quick Take: COA urges anti-flu netting
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DPP urges anti-Chen protesters to quit
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Police yesterday block protesters from the Million Voices Against Corruption demonstration using wire barricades at the intersection of Zhongshan S Rd and Aiguo E Rd, just 50m away from the Presidential Office in Taipei.
PHOTO: CHANG WEN-CHUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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NATO focuses on Afghan fight
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Soldiers of the 1st Battallion, 180th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Brigade of National Guard, attached to 10th Mountain Division, fire a mortar round at suspected Taliban fighters at night in Kandagal, Afghanistan, on Saturday .
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`Crocodile hunter' gets private funeral
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Surfers hold hands yesterday off Australia's eastern coast to cast flowers into the Pacific Ocean in honor of TV conservationist Steve Irwin, who died earlier this month in a stingray accident.
PHOTO: AP
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Pope returns to visit his roots in Bavaria
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims as he arrives in the popemobile for a public mass in Munich yesterday morning. The German-born pope is paying a six-day visit to his his Bavarian homeland this week.
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Tutu criticizes African politicians
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu, center right, joined Rita Marley, wife of legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, last month to meet 20 young people from the Cape Town area for his leadership program.
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Pentagon opens for memorial tours
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Army Sergeant Matt Gordon, right, leads members of the public on a tour of the crash site at the Pentagon in Washington on Saturday.
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Curator of nascent Sept. 11 museum has eye for detail
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A view of the site of the World Trade Center tower on Aug. 15. Jan Seidler Ramirez, curator of the nascent memorial museum at Ground Zero, is putting together a collection of artefacts that will eventually include 30,000 articles from the site.
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The bungled `war on terror'
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Bill Ford seeks to fashion new role
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Alan Mulally, former Boeing executive vice president, left, takes over as the president and CEO of Ford Motors as Bill Ford steps down at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, last Tuesday.
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Springboks overcome Wallabies
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South African center Jean de Villiers looks back at Australian lock Nathan Sharpe after South Africa scored a try during their Tri-Nations rugby union game at Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday.
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Fourie du Preez breaks through the Australian defense during their Tri-Nations game at Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday.
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News Ltd wants cash back if All Blacks skip Super 14
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The All Blacks perform the ``Haka'' on Sept. 2 before the Tri-Nations rugby match against South Africa at the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa.
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Maria Sharapova strikes US Open gold
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Maria Sharapova waves to the crowd as she walks around the court with the US Open Championship trophy after she defeated Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium to win the US Open Championship on the 13th day of the 2006 US Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, on Saturday.
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Maria Sharapova reacts after defeating Justine Henin-Hardenne in the women's finals of the US Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, on Saturday.
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Andy Roddick reacts after defeating Mikhail Youzhny during their US Open semi-final round match in Flushing Meadows, New York, on Saturday.
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Stewart endures awful Chevy Rock & Roll 400
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Defending series champion Tony Stewart talks to reporters after finishing 18th in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Chevy Rock & Roll auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday.
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Schumacher announces his retirement
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Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher, left, of Germany, reacts on the podium after winning the Formula One Grand Prix of Italy, at the Monza racetrack, near Milan, Italy, yesterday. Behind him is McLaren-Mercedes driver Kimi Raikkonen, of Finland, who finished in second place. Seven-time world champion Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula One yesterday after the race.
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Sean Combs reinvents himself with new album
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Sean Combs shows off his Sean John fashion line.
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