`Min Sheng Daily' to be closed today
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A woman thumbs through one of the last issues of ``Min Sheng Daily'' at a convenience store in Taipei yesterday. The United Daily News group announced yesterday that it was shutting down the entertainment newspaper after 28 years.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, AP
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Chiu Yi claims president's son plans to acquire green card, emigrate to US
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Hsu Ming-shui, attorney for President Chen Shui-bian's son Chen Chih-chung, yesterday speaks with reporters after filing a lawsuit at the Taipei District Court against Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiu Yi for slander.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chadian aircraft downed
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Young refugees from Sudan's Darfur ethnic conflict who have fled to Chad laugh in Djabal Refugee Camp in the eastern town of Goz Beida, Chad, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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US military mulls moving troops to Baghdad
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Henry Benton walks along a hillside in Lafayette, California, on Tuesday as he paints wooden crosses at a roadside memorial honoring US troops that have died in Iraq. The Lafayette city council is deciding whether or not it will force a property owner to remove the memorial, which features more than 400 wooden crosses and the sign that says ``In Memory of 2,867 US Troops Killed in Iraq,'' a statement that has offended many local residents who see the display as anti-patriotic.
PHOTO: AFP
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Morales signs controversial land reform bill into law
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Bolivian President Evo Morales shakes hands with one of the nation's Indigenous people during the signing of a new Land Reform Bill at the parliament building in La Paz minutes before midnight on Tuesday.
PHOTO: EPA
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How mirrors can light up the world
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S Korean police ready for FTA protests
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A farmer shouts slogans after riot police blocked him from holding a street demonstratio at a major railway station in Seoul yesterday. About 50,000 police were mobilized across South Korea to enforce a ban on protests against a proposed free trade agreement with the US.
PHOTO: AFP
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THSRC to delay launch
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Two Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp trains sit on the tracks at Tsoying Station in Kaohsiung yesterday. The official launch has been postponed until next year after inspectors on Tuesday outlined a number of conditions that needed to be met before the system can become fully operational.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Giant jackpots planned by new lottery operator
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Taiwan Lottery Co president Chang Ruu-tian yesterday demonstrates a new game the company will introduce next year as part of a series of new rules and games that will increase players' chances of winning and boost prize amounts.
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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S Korea off to solid Doha soccer start
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Ilhomjon Suyunov of Uzbekistan, left, and the United Arab Emirates' Abdulla Mansour fight for the ball during their Asian Games soccer second-round match in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday. Uzbekistan won the game 2-1.
PHOTO: AP
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Pakistan tightens grip with Hafeez's dogged half-century
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West Indies cricketer Denesh Ramdin waves his bat after scoring a half-century as Pakistani skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq walks by during the third day of the third and final Test match between Pakistan and the West Indies at the National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday. Wicket-keeper Ramdin hit a gritty half-century to help the West Indies reduce Pakistan's lead on the third day.
PHOTO: AFP
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What a rockin' wardrobe
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Band Born Ruffians, from left, Mitch DeRosier, Steve Hamelin and Luke Lalonde, outside the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood. The days of the rock show as spectacle and the rock star as circus star are coming to an end.
PHOTOS: AGENCIES
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Mick Jagger is a rock god and style icon, continually invoked when designers like Roberto Cavalli and Tommy Hilfiger want to inject their collections with some raw rebel style.
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From left to right: Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ron Wood.
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'Tis the season for art
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Tania Nyberg's Mama's Boy.
PHOTO: SUSAN KENDZULAK
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Peng Hung-chih's Beware of God.
PHOTO COURTESY OF IT PARK
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Chang Chien-chi's London, 22 June, 2006.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHIENCHI CHANG/MAGNUM PHOTOS, CHI-WEN GALLERY
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Louis Tiffany's eclecticism a harbingerof Art Nouveau
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A window from Louis Comfort Tiffany's home in the Bella Apartments in New York.
PHOTS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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A favrile-glass vase, part of the exhibition.
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Down by the sea, rules are watered down 深海捕魚規定 歐盟鬆綁
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People fish in all kinds of places, like in this picture from Indonesia.
人們在各地釣魚，就像印尼這張照片。 (照片：法新社)
PHOTO: AP
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