Manchester United pip Chelsea to title
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Fulham’s Diomansy Kamara, front, celebrates with team-mates after Danny Murphy scored against Portsmouth during their match at Fratton Park, Portsmouth, England, on Sunday.
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[ HEALTH ] Politics clouds debate over health risk to cousins who marry
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Worshippers leave the Alum Rock Islamic center in Birmingham, England. Muslim doctors in the UK dispute claims that first-cousin marriages have led to a significant increase in rare genetic disorders.
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‘Stupid’ beaver bites girl, but next time she’ll have her sword ready 瑞典女孩遭海狸咬傷 誓言下次會拔劍戰鬥
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A duck looks at a beaver rat in the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam on July 25, 2007.
去年七月二十五日，在阿姆斯特丹的阿提茲動物園裡，一隻鴨子望著一隻河狸鼠。 照片：歐新社
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Angels grounded by Tampa Bay 8-5
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The Los Angeles Angels’ Vladimir Guerrero, center, looks up for the call from home plate umpire Jim Reynolds, left, after being tagged out by Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro, right, on a throw from right fielder Gabe Gross during the fifth inning of their baseball game on Sunday in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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US prison finds a new way to deter would-be escapees: a bear 警衛熊巡邏 要命勿逃
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Forest Service Interpreter Larry Rickards watches a black bear walk past the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau, Alaska, US, on Sept. 6, 2007.
去年九月六日，美國阿拉斯加首府朱諾的林業局解說員賴瑞．瑞克茲望著一頭黑熊走過曼德荷冰河遊客中心。 照片：美聯社
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Garcia makes clutch putt, takes playoff victory in Players
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Sergio Garcia of Spain plays a shot on the 2nd hole during the final round of The Players Championship on The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
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Postgame slugfest mars Finland’s US win at ice hockey world championship
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Anssi Salmela, left, of Finland bleeds after a fight with David Backes, rear right, of the US during the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championship qualification round at the Halifax Metro Centre on Sunday in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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NHL: With Talbot back on ice, Penguins beat the Flyers
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Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jordan Staal, right, skates past Philadelphia Flyers forward Mike Richards, No. 18, to score an empty-net goal during the third period in Game 2 of the NHL Eastern Conference finals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
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Djokovic wins Rome Masters
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia smiles with the trophy after winning the final of the ATP Rome Masters men’s singles at Rome’s ForAo Italico on Sunday. Djokovic beat Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
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LFP: Atletico guarantee Champions League spot
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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi shakes hand with coach Frank Rijkaard after being substituted against Mallorca during a Spanish league soccer match at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday.
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Junta ignores devastation to force vote
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7.8-magnitude quake rocks China
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Rescuers try to get a boy, right, out from the rubble of a collapsed Juyuan middle school where six children died in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China, yesterday after an earthquake measuring 7.8 rocked the area. Thousands have been killed by the powerful earthquake that struck 92km northwest of Chengdu and was felt as far away as Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan and the Thai capital Bangkok, where office buildings swayed.
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US delivers first relief supplies to Myanmar
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A Myanmar child walks under his house damaged by destructive Cyclone Nargis on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, yesterday.
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KMT caucus says no deal with DPP on amendment
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chiu Yi-ying, left, tells a press conference at the legislature yesterday that a DPP proposal to amend the Accounting Act to limit top government officials’ legal liability was an attempt to settle a long-standing dispute with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
PHOTO: LIN CHEN-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Rail administration sets new timetable
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A train approaches a station in Ilan County yesterday. The Taiwan Railway Administration has announced that its older trains will be replaced by the new EMU700 commuter trains, starting on Thursday, when a new timetable is to be implemented.
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