Search begins following Flores landslides
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A worker uses a bulldozer to clear mud from a road in Ruteng, Indonesia.
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Firecracker world record broken in Yenshui Township
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A giant dragon head breathes fire at the end of the firecrackers measuring a world record length of 13km in Yenshui Township, Tainan County, yesterday.
PHOTO: HUANG CHIH-YUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Interview: Chance meeting inspires big dream
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Kevin Lin, second left, and his two running partners, Canadian Ray Zahab, left, and American Charlie Engle, second right, stand beneath a road sign with an unidentified man on Feb. 20 in Egypt after they finished their 111-day marathon trek across the Sahara Desert.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KEVIN LIN
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Kevin Lin shows his taped feet on Feb. 20 after completing the 6,500km trek across the Sahara.
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East Timor rebel hideout raided by ISF
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Major Alfredo Reinado Alves, left, talks on a mobile phone at his headquarter in Same, around 120km south of Dili, East Timor, on Tuesday.
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Russian protest ends in clashes
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A young woman shakes her fist and shouts during an opposition protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday.
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Copenhagen sees third straight night of clashes between protestors and the police
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Pink paint has been sprayed on the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday. Vandals covered the statue with paint, a police spokesman said on Saturday, but said it was not clear whether it was linked to three days of left-wing youth riots in the Danish capital.
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There's no escaping TV ads
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US to forge `ethanol alliance' with Brazil
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A man walks with his bicycle through sugar cane fields in Piracicaba, Brazil, on Friday. In the background are ethanol-filled tanks. US President George W. Bush will be in Brazil this week, where he is expected to sign an ethanol deal with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Feature: Macau turning into casino investors' dream
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The Las Vegas Sands casino sits behind the Fishermans Wharf in Macau on Feb. 7. More casinos, malls, convention centers, resorts and thousands of hotel rooms are being built in the territory.
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Feature: Advice for the rich booms in Taiwan
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A man is given wealth management advice in a Taipei bank in this file photo from Dec. 28, 2004. As competition in the banking industry is increasing pressure on banks to improve efficiency and save on costs, employee salaries are becoming more dependent on performance, with some banks contracting large numbers of sales staff to handle normal sales activities while offering high basic salaries to highly specialized wealth management staff.
PHOTO: LI CHING-HUI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Late Pierce burst lifts Celtics to victory
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Memphis Grizzlies' Pau Gasol, left, loses control of the ball while battling Detroit Pistons' Antonio McDyess during their NBA game on Saturday, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Record leap earns Hellebaut gold
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Naide Gomes of Portugal competes in the long jump final on Saturday at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England.
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Sharks win thriller after hooter
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Crusaders scrumhalf Andrew Ellis, left, is tackled by Sharks flanker AJ Venter during their Super 14 match at Absa Stadium in Durban, South Africa, on Saturday.
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Inter win 2-1 to move 16 points clear atop Serie A
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Antonio Filippini of AS Livorno, foreground, and Nicolas Andres Burdisso of Inter Milan struggle for the ball during their soccer match in Livorno, Italy, on Saturday.
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Lyon win violence-marred match
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Olympique Lyon's Kim Kallstroem, front, competes with St Etienne's Vincent Hognon during their Ligue 1 soccer match in St Etienne, France, on Saturday.
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World Cup warm-ups start today
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Students rehearse for the opening ceremony of the cricket World Cup at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday. Hosts West Indies, England, South Africa and Sri Lanka start their World Cup campaigns today with a series of warm-up matches.
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Cotto retains title after bloody battle with Urkal
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Miguel Cotto, right, exchanges punches with Oktay Urkal during their WBA welterweight boxing bout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Saturday.
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Malaysians told not to post dangerous antics on web 馬來西亞 禁網路貼危險影片
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Malaysians surf the internet at public stations in Kuala Lumpur.
馬來西亞民眾在吉隆坡公用網路室上網。 (照片：法新社)
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No cremation quite yet for Khmer Rouge victims 赤棉受難者骨骸 暫不火化
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Tourists are reflected on a stupa of Khmer Rouge victims near Choeung Ek Genocidal Center outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan. 19, 2007.
今年1月19日在柬埔寨首都金邊市郊「萬人塚大屠殺中心」附近，遊客的影像倒映在紀念赤色高棉受難者的佛塔上。 (照片：歐新社)
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Waiting for an idol
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Left: Jin, a rapper who has made a name for himself in hip-hop circles, at the Garden of Eden in Hollywood, California, earlier this month.
Right: Natalise Kalea in the Village, a recording studio in Los Angeles, earlier this month. Natalise has had songs featured on MTV.
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William Hung performs in New York in 2004. To the dismay of many aspiring Asian-American singers, Hung sang off key on American Idol and was an instant hit.
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