Su celebrates festival with foreign students
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Minister of Foreign Affairs James Huang, right, Premier Su Tseng-chang, center, and International Cooperation and Development Fund Secretary-General Chen Cheng-chung pose with foreign students as part of an event held at the Executive Yuan yesterday to make the students feel welcome during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
PHOTO: CNA
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Chen Shui-bian tours military facilities
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President Chen Shui-bian is welcomed by military police while inspecting a military base in Linko, Taipei County, yesterday.
PHOTO: SAM YEH, AFP
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DPP legislators call for Hau Pei-tsun to be investigated
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Democratic Progressive Party legislators Kuan Bi-ling, left, and Hsu Kuo-yung hold a press conference yesterday to demand that former chief of the general staff Hau Pei-tsun take responsibility for the high-profile Lafayette scandal.
PHOTO: CNA
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Kim Jong-il rallies military
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South Korean protesters burn a picture of North Korean leaders Kim Jong-il and the late Kim Il-sung during an anti-North Korea rally in downtown Seoul on Wednesday. North Korea's threat to conduct a nuclear test that has raised regional tension to new heights. The text on the sign reads 'Overthrow Kim Jong-il.'
PHOTO: AP
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Religious police crack down in Aceh
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An Aceh Sharia policewoman, center, records names of women who were arrested in Banda Aceh last month for not using veils.
PHOTO: AFP
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Georgian president claims victory
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili casts his ballot as he holds his son Nikoloz and first lady Sandra Roelofs looks on during local self-rule elections in Tbilisi on Thursday. According the Central Election Commission, 3,033 polling stations were opened.
PHOTO: AFP
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Morocco changing W Sahara view
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Aminatou Haidar talks about Western Sahara during an interview in Washington last month. It came as something as a surprise to Haidar when Moroccan authorities finally relented and filled her request for a passport after 17 years.
PHOTO: AP
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Pyongyang's saber-rattling making life easier for Abe, analysts say
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Goodyear working to minimize strike impact in US and Canadian plants
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Goodyear worker Dale Chason waves a US flag on a picket line outside a Goodyear tire plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Thursday. Workers at 16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co plants in 10 US states and Canada went on strike on Thursday after the world's third largest tire maker and the steelworkers union failed to agree on a new labor contract.
PHOTO: AP
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Jagr spurs Rangers to opening victory
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Minnesota Wild right wing Mattias Weinhandl, right, of Sweden, swats away the puck and trips over Colorado Avalanche center Brett McLean as they battle for the puck during the second period of their NHL game in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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Nash and Suns players do what the Romans do
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Phoenix Suns NBA basketball team point guard Steve Nash, left, and AS Roma soccer player Francesco Totti attend a promotional event in Rome on Friday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Strikers have something to prove
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Lyon's midfielder Tiago controls a ball during a training session with Portugal's national soccer team on Thursday at the National stadium in Oeiras, outside Lisbon. Portugal will play Azerbaijan in a Euro 2008 qualifier today.
PHOTO: AP
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Evans throws three as Pack top Florida
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Florida State's Lorenzo Booker, 28, gets wrapped up by North Carolina State's DeMarcus Tyler, 72, Garland Heath, 19, and Miguel Scott, 25, with teammate Jacky Claude nearby during the first half of their college football game in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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Gargantuan champ Valuev wows Chicago
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World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev, left, of Russia, pumps his fist as boxing promoter Don King, center, and challenger Monte Barrett, right, look on after the boxers' weigh-in on Thursday in Chicago. Barrett will challenge Valuev for his WBA title tonight in Rosemont, Illinois.
PHOTO: AP
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Schumacher claims early edge over Alonso in Japan
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Renault Formula One drivers Fernando Alonso, back, third right, of Spain, Giancarlo Fisichella, back, third left, of Italy and Heikki Kovalainen, back, center, of Finland pose with Japanese promotional girls in front of the team garage at the Suzuka circuit in central Japan yesterday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Federer survives Suzuki scare in Japan
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Roger Federer of Switzerland bows before the Japanese crowd after his quarter-final match against Takao Suzuki of Japan at the Japan Open at Ariake tennis court in Tokyo yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Japan's Takao Suzuki returns the ball against world No. 1 ranked Rodger Federer of Switzerland during the quarter-finals of the Japan Open tournament in Tokyo yesterday.
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Great outdoors not so great among teens
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Lindsay Holmes, center, 16, and her friend, Caitlin Stritar, 16, talk about some of their “friends?on MySpace.com. The two spend time almost every day on MySpace finding out information about their friends and sending messages.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Hundreds of cafes and lounges around the US are offering teens and young adults access to video games, mostly on the X-Box and Playstation platforms. Modeled on Internet cafes - with couches and sodas and coffee - the lounges are a new kind of homey hang-out replacing old-style video arcades.
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Andrew Lopez, 13, skates at a park in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Children play in the swimming pool at the Salvation Army’s Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center in San Diego.
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Miles Schneberger, six, plays in his backyard.
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