Ortega affirms Taiwan-Nicaragua ties
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President Chen Shui-bian, right, shakes hands with Nicaraguan president-elect Daniel Ortega in Managua on Tuesday.
PHOTO: CNA
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No rest for president during US stop
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Lien-fu, right, holds up two NT$1,000 bills at a press conference while accusing President Chen Shui-bian of wasting taxpayers' money by visiting Nicaragua to attend President Daniel Ortega's inauguration ceremony. Chiang is joined by KMT legislative caucus whip Tsai Chin-lung, center, and KMT First Deputy Chairman Hsu Shao-ping.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FENG, TAIPEI TIMES
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DAA's Huang announces KMT primary candidacy
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National Taiwan University professor Huang Kuang-kuo, showing his old KMT party member booklet, announces at a press conference yesterday his intention to run in the KMT primary.
PHOTO: CNA
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Russia and Belarus talks fail to end oil transit row
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A cart passes by an oil-pump station which is part of the Druzhba pipeline at Turov, 270km southwest of Minsk, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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New Orleans cracks down on crime
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, left, and Lieutenant General Russel Honore give a thumbs up to the crowd during a jazz funeral from the convention center to the Superdome in New Orleans on Aug. 29 last year.
PHOTO: AP
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The New Middle East order
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Apple unleashes iPhone
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates the new iPhone during his keynote address at the MacWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Lawmakers finger finance regulator over Rebar case
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Investigators search Rebar Group's headquarters yesterday, carting away crates of financial documents and PCs in an effort to trace the flow of financial transactions.
PHOTO: CHIANG CHIA-MING, AP
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Summer resort Sochi hopes to host Winter Olympics
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An elderly woman sits by the Black Sea in the Russian southern resort city of Sochi on Dec. 18 last year. Sochi is bidding to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bahrain buys 30 percent stake in McLaren
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Fernando Alonso enters the pits in an unbranded McLaren MP4-21 during a training session at the Jerez racetrack in Jerez, southern Spain, on Dec. 15 last year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Construction projects to continue during Games
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The sun sets over a hazy and polluted Beijing on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Third-string Arsenal shame Liverpool
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Liverpool's Steven Gerrard reacts during his side's 6-3 loss to Arsenal in an English League Cup quarter-final soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Classical DVD Reviews
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Learning for life ... style
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Xue Xue Institute's lecture hall.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF XUE XUE INSTITUTE
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Xue Xue Institute's restaurant.
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Some like it old
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Suan Hooi-wah poses in front of a manipulated print from his impression series of photos, at TIVAC, in Taipei.
PHOTO: JULES QUARTLY, TAIPEI TIMES
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Polaroids of Taipei life by Suan Hooi-wah.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIVAC
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Wu A-sheng takes a look at life outside Taipei in his gritty photographs.
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Polaroids of Taipei life by Suan Hooi-wah.
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Fashion where you least expect it
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As part of the Art Basel festivities in Miami, the Raleigh Hotel hosted a private performance by Devendra Banhart in early December, 2006. The band at the hotel in Miami.
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Signe Conway, 17, a senior at Sacred Heart High School, says her L.L. Bean version slippers are comfortable, and they're not allowed to wear Uggs to school, but that these pass the dress code.
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The cover of the album Picaresque by the Decemberists, a band that is leading street style.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Slim waists beat buttocks, boobs and thighs
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In her heyday, Marilyn Monroe was seen as the epitome of sex appeal. Today she would be seen as a candidate for Weightwatchers.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Waking up on the wrong side of the dumpster 從垃圾箱驚醒
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A man removes two mannequins from a dumpster in New York City.
紐約市一名男子從垃圾箱拿走兩具人體模特兒。 (照片：美聯社)
PHOTO: AP
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