Israel levels empty Hamas Interior Ministry building
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Palestinians gather to inspect the damage caused by an Israeli air strike on Hamas-run interior ministry offices in Gaza City on Friday. The derelict local offices of the ministry had been vacant since the building was severely damaged in a July 2006 air strike, but it is situated in the heart of a residential neighborhood.
PHOTO: AP
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Forests expand in Hualien, Penghu
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A footpath in Hualien County's Shoufeng Township is seen in this photo taken on Monday. Yesterday, the path was lined with cherry blossoms, a sight that is normally only seen at around the Lunar New Year.
PHOTO: CHIEN CHUN-YU, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ma supports plan to yield seats
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, left, holds up a pair of jogging shoes given to him by former Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee chairman Chang Feng-hsu, second right, during a campaign rally in Keelung yesterday.
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Achy-joint fever spreading, WHO warns
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Patients suffering from chikungunya, a severe achy-joint fever, lie on hospital beds at Vadilal Sarabhai Hospital in Ahmadabad, India, on Aug. 25, 2006.
PHOTO: AP
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Fifty dead after attacks on Ashoura worshipers
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An actor on horseback performs Tazieh, a traditional theater scene about Imam Hussein, in Tehran, Iran, yesterday, during rituals on the holy day of Ashoura, which marks the death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, who was killed in a battle in 680AD against the leader of what became the Sunni branch of Islam. The battle took place in Karbala, which is located in present-day Iraq. The actor represents Imam Hussein's enemy.
PHOTO: AP
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Kenyan cops on alert as protests end
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A woman screams in front of a barricade in Kisumu, Kenya, on Friday.
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Face to face with Generation Me
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ANALYSIS: Analysts divided over Bush's tax relief plan
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US President George W. Bush is shown addressing the country's economic woes on a bank of televisions at J&R Music and Computer World in New York on Friday. Bush, acknowledging the risk of recession, proposed about US$145 billion in tax relief.
PHOTO: AP
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Saudi Arabia thinking big and building for the future
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A detail from a rendering of the King Abdullah Economic City on the Red Sea. It is one of six new cities planned by Saudi Arabia as it works to diversify its economy beyond oil exports.
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Venezuela's fuel subsidies pollute, paralyze its cities
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A woman embraces Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, left, as his Honduran counterpart Manuel Zelaya, right, delivers a speech near Government House in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday. Chavez was in Honduras on an official visit to sign a subsidized oil supply agreement.
PHOTO: AFP
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Ghana all set for big tournament
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Hamilton signs new five-year McLaren deal
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Lewis Hamilton, right, McLaren team principal Ron Dennis, center, and chief operating officer Martin Whitmarsh pose at McLaren Technology in Woking, England, in a picture released by McLaren on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Icy Patriots, Packers to turn up the heat
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New England Patriots linebackers Tedy Bruschi, left, and Mike Vrabel, right, stretch before practice begins at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Friday. The Patriots will play the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game at Foxborough today.
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NBA: Miami Heat loses 12th straight against Trail Blazers
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Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal, front, eyes the basket as Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng, right, defends during the first quarter of their NBA game in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday. O'Neal is back in the lineup after missing eight games with a hip injury.
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Former 49er becomes first NFL BALCO steroid culprit
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Former NFL football player Dana Stubblefield, front, leaves a federal courthouse with his attorney Mike Armstrong in San Francisco on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Tipsarevic gives Federer almighty scare
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Svetlana Kuznetsova reacts during her match with Agnieszka Radwanska at the Austalian Open in Melbouren yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Janko Tipsarevic watches his racquet fly through the air during his match against Roger Federer at the Australian Open in Melbourne yesterday.
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Malaysian star Lee comes from behind to defeat Yu Chen
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Lee Chong Wei hits a return against Chen Yu during their match at the Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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India put an end to Aussies' hopes of record victory
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India's Anil Kumble, left, hugs Rahul Dravid, second left, as Sachin Tendulkar, second right, celebrates victory with RP Singh in Perth, Australia, yesterday.
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[SUNDAY PROFILE] Catwalk, stage and now... the Elysee Palace?
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Some say Carla Bruni, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's girlfriend, resembles his ex-wife.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, with Carla Bruni at the Jordanian ruins of Petra.
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The couple at the Great Pyramids of Giza
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[BOOK REVIEW] 'Notes From the Other China' stirs emotions
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NOTES FROM THE OTHER CHINA
By Troy Parfitt
202 pages
Algora Publishing
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Taiwan's steadfast Saisiat
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Top, center, bottom left: Stills of the Saisiat's harvest ceremony taken from a documentary filmed 70 years ago by Japanese anthropologist Nobuto Miyamoto.
Far right: Elders from the Saisiat tribe make a ritual offering to the legendary Short Black People.
Photos courtesy of the Department of Anthropology, NTU,Noah Buchan, Taipei Times
Photos courtesy of the Department of Anthropology, NTU
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Shots from 1968 ricochet in the US election
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, bearded at center, and Martin Luther King Jr, right, in a 1968 antiwar protest.
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Martin Luther King Jr, second right, is flanked by his wife, Coretta, right, and his secretary, Dora McDonald, center, as he is welcomed by Baptist youths on arrival in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 8, 1964
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Martin Luther King Jr with his family in December 1966, a little more than a year before he was assassinated
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[BOOK REVIEW] Neologisms combat extremism in 'The Second Plane'
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The Second Plane
By Martin Amis
214 pages
Jonathan Cape
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Sunday Science
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