Downpour floods parts of Taipei
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Bicycles lie on the ground next to the area where the founding ceremony for the Taipei City river park bicycle police force was held yesterday. The bicycles were toppled by strong wind that accompanied the thunderstorm that hit the city and Taipei County in the afternoon.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Children with liver disease await life-saving transplant
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A man surnamed Lin holds his eight-month-old daughter at an event held by the Children's Liver Foundation yesterday to increase awareness about biliary atresia, a rare congenital liver disease that affects two out of 10,000 infants.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Actor Sean Penn visits Venezuela
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, right, speaks with US actor Sean Penn, both seen through the windshield of a vehicle, as they ride together near La Grita, Venezuela, on Friday. Penn was welcomed to Venezuela by Chavez, who shares the US actor's strong criticism of US President George W. Bush's foreign policy.
PHOTO: AP
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Aztec tomb discovered beneath Mexico City
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A stone monolith carved with a representation of Tlaltechutli, the Aztec god of the earth, is seen in Mexico City on Nov. 16 last year. Mexican archeologists, using ground-penetrating radar, have detected underground chambers directly below the monolith that they believe contain the remains of Emperor Ahuizotl.
PHOTO: AP
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Oil gush will be hard to cap
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US markets take heavy beating
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News of the day's activity at the New York Stock Exchange crawls across a digital news reader on a Times Square building in New York as pedestrians walk the sidewalk below on Friday. Wall Street plunged anew on Friday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 280 points to 13,181.91.
PHOTO: AP
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Tiny cars eating up Japanese auto market
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Japanese minicars pass by the Kabuki Theater in downtown Tokyo on Monday, June 25, 2007. Japanese car makers are once again proving that smaller sells big. After pioneering first the compact, then the subcompact, the country's auto companies have now gone to the next step with so-called ``minicars,'' a new breed basically putting a motorcycle-sized engine on four wheels.
PHOTO: AP
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Text me a pizza: Restaurants offer online ordering
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Kwany Spinks, with his son Chance, 5, in the backseat, checks inside the paper bag after an employee at Outback Steakhouse in Manhattan carried food to his car outside the restaurant on July 27.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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World's richest man? Carlos Slim doesn't care
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PHOTO: AP
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Sabbatini takes two shot lead in Akron
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South African Rory Sabbatini hits from the sand to the seventh hole during the second round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Asashoryu unstable, stable master says
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Sumo grand champion Asashoryu waits at the edge of the ring at an exhibition sumo wrestling match outside Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine on April 13.
PHOTO: AP
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England likely to name same squad
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England bowler Chris Tremlett, right, celebrates taking a wicket against India during the second Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, England, on July 31.
PHOTO: AFP
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Chakvetadze beats Venus Williams
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Anna Chakvetadze of Russia reaches out for a backhand shot during her quarter-final match against Venus Williams at the Acura Classic on Friday in Carlsbad, California. Chakvetadze won the match.
PHOTO: AP
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Andy Roddick returns a shot to Lee Hyung-taik of South Korea at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic on Friday. Roddick won the match.
PHOTO: AP
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West Ham settle dispute, free Tevez to join United
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Argentine forward Carlos Tevez jumps during a training session before the Copa America tournament in Buenos Aires on June 19.
PHOTO: EPA
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Iraq's soccer team return to Baghdad
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PHOTO: REUTERS
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Sunday Science: The Magic Balloon ¯«©_ªº®ð²y
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The Magic Balloon
PHOTO: CATHERINE THOMAS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Though the roots of language remain buried, theories abound
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THE FIRST WORD: The Search for the Origins of Language
By Christine Kenneally
357 pages
VIKING
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Would you walk by on the other side?
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Martin Nowak, director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Brazil's colossus of concrete
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World famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer of Brasilia, will turn 100 on Dec. 15.
PHOTO: AFP
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Take a ride on the roller coaster of Chinese capitalism
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INSIDE THE RED MANSION: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man
By Oliver August
268 pages
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
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For Taiwanese lesbians, out is in
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Thursday night at Mango nightclub.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF LEZ'S MEETING
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Flyers for parties organized by Lez's Meeting.
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