Musical museum
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Soprano Hsu Yi-lin and pianist Li Kuo-yuan perform a selection of Schubert at a press conference held to announce the Viennese Art Festival musical evenings at the NPM.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE NPM
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Mark's shrinking snout 馬克的象鼻縮水記
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Home, home on the golf course
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Town homes at Bear Mountain in Victoria, British Columbia, which also sells high-rise condos in a village designed for walkers.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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A kitchen at the Gardens of Isleworth.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Kaohsiung mayoral election confirmed
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Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu speaks to supporters outside Kaohsiung City Hall yesterday after the Kaohsiung branch of the Taiwan High Court overturned a district court ruling and upheld her victory in the Dec. 9 elections last year.
PHOTO: CNA
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Pakistani authorities free
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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto addresses a news conference at her residence in Lahore yesterday after being freed from house arrest.
PHOTO: AFP
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Death toll soars to 508 in Bangladesh after cyclone
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Relatives of cyclone victims wail in Barishal, 120km south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. At least 508 people were killed by the storm.
PHOTO: AP
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`Rail murder' suspect out on bail
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Lee Tai-an smiles as his son wipes his face yesterday in Taitung. Convicted of being an accessory to the murder of his sister-in-law and sabotaging the southern link railway last year, Lee was released on bail yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN HSIEN-I, TAIPEI TIMES
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Rail workers protest over aid fund
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Taiwan Railway Administration Labor Union protesters confront riot police with water balloons and bottles yesterday outside the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taipei to demand a refund of the mutual aid fund.
PHOTO: HSU MIN-JUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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FEATURE: Boat captain recounts piracy ordeal
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A US Navy rescue and assistance boat arrives to provide humanitarian and medical assistance to the crew of the Taiwanese-flagged fishing trawler Ching Fong Hwa 168 off the coast of Somalia on Nov. 5.
PHOTOS: AP
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Some of the crew of the Ching Fong Hwa 168 wave to Mombasa residents from on board their ship soon after it docked in the Kenyan port on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
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`I know Myanmar numbers': UN envoy
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Burmese activists wearing masks of Asian leaders and one wearing a mask of Myanmar's junta leader General Than Shwe, right, protest in front of the Singaporean embassy in Bangkok yesterday. The protesters were urging ASEAN members to take urgent action against Myanmar's junta.
PHOTO: AFP
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Abbas calls for overthrow of Hamas
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Palestinians dance during a rally of the Fatah movement in the village of al-Khader near the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Thursday. The rally marked the 19th anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence signed by late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.
PHOTO: AP
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The soft power of the UN
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Starbucks' fiscal Q4 earnings rise 35%
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Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz delivers a speech during Starbucks' Ready-to-Drink Coffee product launch on Nov. 1 in Shanghai, China.
PHOTO: AP
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Rangers dish out a Flyers home loss
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New York Rangers winger Sean Avery, left, high kicks at Philadelphia Flyers goalie Martin Biron for a goaltender interference penalty during the second period of their NHL hockey game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Ochoa, Sorenstam get that sinking feeling
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Lorena Ochoa of Mexico takes a drop on the first hole during the first round of the LPGA ADT Golf Championship at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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MLB: Alex Rodriguez, Yankees agree on terms of contract
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The New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez tosses his bat after hitting a two-out, walk-off, three-run home run in the Yankees 8-6 win over the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium in New York on April 19.
PHOTO: AP
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Tendulkar knock helps clinch series
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Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf, right, plays a stroke as Indian captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni looks on during their fourth one day international match at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior on Thursday.
PHOTO: AFP
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EURO 2008: Fate of former World Cup winners is in the balance
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Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon looks at the ball during a training session at the Coverciano facility near Florence, Italy, on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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PHOTO: AP
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MLB: Bonds facing perjury charges
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The San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds prepares to bat during a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in San Francisco on Aug. 7. Bonds was charged on Thursday with perjury and obstruction of justice, the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes.
PHOTO: AP
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Unbeaten Italy win the World Cup
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Italy's Jenny Barazza, left, smashes the ball past US blocker Danielle Scott-Arruda during their match at the Women's World Cup tournament in Nagoya, Japan, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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IELTS》Speaking and Writing: Describing a Process
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