Japanese `princess' to orbit moon
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Japan Exploration Agency's (JAXA) H-2A rocket, carrying a lunar orbiter, soars away from the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima island yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP/ JIJI PRESS
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`Huakang Wolf' to be paroled soon
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Minister of Justice Morley Shih walks in front of a huge banner saying ``No bribes'' in Taipei yesterday. He said yesterday that the serial rapist known as the ``Huakang Wolf'' would be paroled from prison later this month.
PHOTO: CNA
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`Next' faces water lawsuit
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A woman looks at bottles of deep-sea water outside the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office yesterday, where water vendors pressed charges against the Chinese-language Next Magazine for publishing a report that the products were ''possibly carcinogenic'' and ''simply a racket.''
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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UN MEMBERSHIP: Taiwan belongs in UN, experts say
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Taitung residents hold umbrellas spelling out the phrase ``Taiwan is home'' in Taitung City yesterday. They plan to travel to Kaohsiung today to promote the country's bid to join the UN.
PHOTO: HUANG MING-TANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lawmakers approve Chen's Ministry of Audit nominee
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Vice Auditor-General Lin Ching-lung, right, President Chen Shui-bian's candidate for auditor-general at the Ministry of Audit, walks outside the Legislative Yuan yesterday. He is to assume office on Oct. 1.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hurricane Humberto belts Texas, Louisiana
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Jack Payton, 72, sits in front of his home that was damaged by high winds from Hurricane Humberto as his wife Connie removes a wreath from the front door on Thursday in High Island, Texas. The Paytons plan to stay with relatives until their home can be rebuilt.
PHOTO: AP
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Eat yourself fit
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Google offers reward for best Moon shots
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Buzz Aldrin, right, an Apollo Astronaut, responds to a question while Bob Weiss, left, vice chairman of X Prize Foundation, Larry Page, second from left, co-founder and president of products at Google, and Peter Diamondis, chairman and CEO of X Prize, listen on Thursday in Los Angeles, California.
PHOTO: AP
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Government pushes biotech industry
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Taiwanese-American AIDS treatment expert David Ho, left, TaiMed Biologics CEO Tsai Ying-wen, second left, Academia Sinica President Wong Chi-huey, second right, and Council for Economic Planning and Development Chairwoman Ho Mei-yueh hold hands at a press conference promoting the biotech industry in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Russia, Spain reach semis
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France's Joseph Gomis, left, tries to score against Russia's Victor Khryapa during their FIBA Europe Basketball Championship quarter-final match at the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid on Thursday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Clark leads rain-delayed Tour Championship
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Tiger Woods hits from a green side bunker on the ninth hole during the first round of The Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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England bring Zimbabwe back to earth
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A fan of the Indian cricket team holds a national flag as she waits in vain for their match against Scotland to start in Durban, South Africa, on Thursday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Zimbabwe's Brendan Taylor, left, watches England's Kevin Pietersen hit a four during their ICC World Twenty20 Championship game in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Portuguese minnows hope to give All Blacks a shock
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Wambach's brace sets up US victor
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Japan's Yuki Nagasato, right, fights for the ball with Argentina's Florencia Mandrile, second left, and Mariela Coronel during their Women's World Cup Group A matvh at the Hongkou stadium in Shanghai yesterday
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Sri Lanka hit record total, advance to Super Eights
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Sri Lanka batsman Gayan Wijekoon plays a shot as Kenya wicketkeeper Maurice Ouma watches during their Twenty20 World Championships match at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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PHOTO: AFP
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Trinidad and Tobago 千里達及托貝哥
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A woman in a traditional costume in Port of Spain, March 17, 2007.
今年三月十七日，一名婦人身著千里達傳統服飾於西班牙港。
PHOTO: AFP 法新社
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Trinidad and Tobago native and cricket legend Brian Lara in Kingston, Jamaica, March 19, 2007.
千里達扥貝哥國內板球傳奇布萊恩.勞拉今年三月十九日攝於牙買加京斯敦。
PHOTO: AFP 法新社
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Let the games begin
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Participants of the 2007 IWAS World Wheelchair and Amputee Games. The Chinese Taipei Paralympic Committee has been championing disabled sports since 1984 and hopes the games will boost the profile of disabled sports in Taiwan.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CTPC
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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CTPC
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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CTPC
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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CTPC
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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CTPC
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Alex the parrot: prodigy or bird brain?
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Irene Pepperberg asks Alex, a grey parrot, to identify a green key.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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