Yangmingshan festival gets underway
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A man takes a picture of flowers in bloom on Taipei's Yangmingshan yesterday, the first day of the annual Yangmingshan flower festival.
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Movie star cleared of tax fraud, but still faces jail
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Wesley Snipes smiles as he leaves the US federal courthouse in Ocala, Florida on Friday where he was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.
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Ma still mum on wife's stock transactions
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, center, beats a drum at a campaign rally in Yuanlin Township, Changhua County, yesterday.
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Inventors display wares in Bangkok
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Taiwanese inventors show off their new jam spreader at the first International Inventor's Day in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday.
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Flooding in Jakarta forces 90,000 to evacuate
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Residents carry their belongings through flood water in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Heavy rains in Jakarta killed at least three people as a second day of flooding in the Indonesian capital caused thousands of residents to evacuate.
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Pakistani police raid suspected hide-out
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Family members visit an unidentified injured man following a suicide attack on a military checkpost, at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan, on Friday. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a military checkpoint about 3km from the house which was hit by the US missile that killed a top al-Qaeda commander.
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Possible Putin successor introduced to the Cossacks
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Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting in Novocherkassk outside Rostov-on-Don, about 1,000km south of Moscow, Russia, on Friday.
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UN report exposes extent of Saudi discrimination
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An unidentified Saudi doctor is pictured at a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 23. Some Saudi women are frustrated with the kingdom's judicial system -- one based on Islamic law in which judges have broad discretion and that many say ignores women's interests.
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The heat is on as Brazil carnival gets moving
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Dancers of the Brazilian school of Samba United Special Group of Tom Maior perform during a carnival parade at the Sambodromo Anhembi in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday.
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FEATURE: Hundreds of Puerto Rican albinos live in fear of deadly pulmonary fibrosis
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Puerto Ricans Mayra Nieve, right, and her father, Miguel, who suffer from albinism, stand on the porch of their family home near Aguadilla, in western Puerto Rico, on Dec. 19.
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The currency traitors
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NYSE: Wall Street gains fresh vigor after Fed's pick-me-up
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A wet, gloomy morning greeted traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 4.39 percent for the week, closing 12,743.19 on Friday.
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Exxon Mobil profits hit record high
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Marcos Moran delivers gasoline to an Exxon gas station in Burbank, California, yesterday. Exxon Mobil Corp posted an annual profit of US$40.6 billion for last year, the largest ever by a US company.
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Yahoo sale could be bad for the minnows
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Slide chief executive Max Levchin, 32, sits outside the company's office in San Francisco, on June 22, last year. Levchin says that the US is on the road to recession and that Silicon Valley start-ups could be headed for a venture capital-mandated round of belt tightening. So Levchin, who co-founded PayPal, a company that successfully weathered the dot-com crash, decided to take the money while the going was good: He recently raised US$55 million in additional financing for Slide, a company that makes video and photo-sharing tools.
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Video games all the rage among retired US seniors
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Jeanne Gildea,right, 81, reacts to a shot as she plays in a bowling tournament against fellow community members, including Elaine Fowler, 82, left, on the Nintendo Wii game system at the Riderwood Retirement Community in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Jan. 16.
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Bayern survive Hansa fightback
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Hansa Rostock's Enrico Kern, front, and Bayern Munich's Ze Roberto challenge for the ball during their German Bundesliga first division match in Rostock, Germany, on Friday.
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SBL: The 'Beast' back on form as Beer down the Leopards
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Pure Youth's Hsu Shih-ching, right, goes up to score a basket in their SBL match with Bank of Taiwan at the Taipei County Sports Complex on Friday.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Nigeria relishing playing the role of party wreckers
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Ghana's Haminu Draman warms up during a training session in Accra on Friday ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match against Nigeria.
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More than victory at stake for favorites Ivory Coast
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Ivory Coast's Salomon Kalou takes part in a training session in Sekondi, Ghana, on Friday ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match against Guinea.
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NBA: Lakers beat Raptors after Gasol trade
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The Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant controls the ball as he tries to drive past the Toronto Raptors' Anthony Parker in the first half of their NBA game in Toronto, Canada, on Friday.
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NHL: Lundqvist saves 33, Rangers beat Devils 3-1
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Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, right, of the New York Rangers shoots the puck away from Zach Parise, left, of the New Jersey Devils on Friday at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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MAJOR LEAGUES: NY Mets acquire Santana from Twins for US$137m
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The Minnesota Twins' Johan Santana pitches to the Cleveland Indians' Grady Sizemore on Aug. 29, last year, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Cuevas ousts Acasuso to advance at the ATP Open
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Pablo Cuevas hits a return to Jose Acasuso during their Vina del Mar ATP Open quarter-final match in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Friday.
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China set up a 2-0 Fed Cup lead against France
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China's Li Na hits a forehand return against Alize Cornet of France during a their Fed Cup World Group first-round match in Beijing yesterday.
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Sunday Science 週日科學
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照片︰MICHAEL KEARNEY
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Hidden by the law
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Roger Coutts, one of the bank robbers against whom Michelle Hogg testified.
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Stuart Royle, one of the bank robbers against whom Michelle Hogg testified.
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Jetmir Bucapa, one of the bank robbers against whom Michelle Hogg testified.
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Lea Rusha, one of the bank robbers against whom Michelle Hogg testified.
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Emir Hysenaj, one of the bank robbers against whom Michelle Hogg testified.
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Above and below: Photographs taken from closed-circuit television showing some of the gang of masked and armed robbers in the Securitas robbery, which took place two years ago.
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[SUNDAY PROFILE] National Palace Museum finds a new direction
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The museum's famous Qing Dynasty jadeite cabbage.
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National Palace Museum Director Lin Mun-lee has instituted many popular changes.
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[BOOK REVIEW] 'Paper Families' shines light on US immigration policy
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PAPER FAMILIES
By Estelle T. Lau
214 pages
Duke
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[ENVIRONMENT] France abuzz with bee deaths
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French beekeeper and honey producer Franck Aletru shows two jars of honey from his 2,200 hives.
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[MOTORING] Once a classic, always a classic
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The 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air Impala Sport Coupe.
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[BOOK REVIEW] Think Hemingway, a crazy femme fatale and a macho man
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THE RESERVE
By Russell Banks
287 pages
Harper/HarperCollins
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