McCullum sparks a NZ revival against England
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New Zealand's Brendon McCullum is bowled by England's Monty Panesar, not pictured, for 97 during the first day of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's cricket ground in London on Thursday.
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Lin Dan loses, but China make Thomas Cup final
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Lin Dan of China returns the shuttlecock against Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia during their semi-final match at the Thomas Cup badminton tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Lee won 21-12, 21-14.
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Schumacher enters IDM superbike race under a false name
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Michael Schumacher, riding for Team Holzhauer, puts his Honda through its paces yesterday at a practice session for the superbike motorcycle championship race which takes place in Oschersleben, Germany, tomorrow.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE: Yankees slump into last place as Rays stay on top
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Los Angeles Angels left-fielder Reggie Willits makes a catch as he hits the wall on a fly ball hit by the Chciago White Sox's Carlos Quentin during the ninth inning in Anaheim, California, on Thursday.
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Nadal spoils Murray's birthday
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Britain's Andy Murray returns a shot to Rafael Nadal at the ATP Masters in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday. Nadal won 6-3, 6-2.
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Sharapova rallies to reach quarter-finals in Rome
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French tennis player Alize Cornet vies with Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Italian Open in Rome on Thursday. Cornet won 6-2, 6-4.
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Not the 9 o'clock news
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Tim Hetherington, UK, for Vanity Fair, World Press Photo of the Year 2007. A US soldier of 2nd Platoon, Battle Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), sinks onto an embankment at a bunker in the Korengal Valley, in eastern Afghanistan.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION
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Justin Maxon, US, Aurora Photos, 1st Prize Daily Life Singles. Ly Thi Mui, 34, and her son Trun Van Pha, 5, help each other bathe in the Red River in Hanoi, Vietnam. They have been homeless for five years, but Mui finds comfort in her Buddhist beliefs and tries to teach Pha that living simply offers a form of freedom.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION
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Paul Nicklen, Canada, National Geographic magazine, 2nd Prize Nature Stories. Narwhals, whose ivory can fetch large sums, must be killed as they surface for air. Hunters have to get near enough to the edge of the ice to retrieve the narwhal with a grappling hook. The replacement of traditional weapons by rifles means that many more narwhals are killed or wounded than are retrieved.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION
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Erik Refner, Denmark, Berlingske Tidende, 1st Prize Sports Features Stories. Competitors in the Copenhagen Marathon at the finish line.
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Brent Stirton, South Africa, reportage by Getty Images for Newsweek, 1st Prize Contemporary Issues Singles. Rangers evacuate the bodies of four mountain gorillas found shot in the forest in Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION
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CPBL: Bailey shows old club no mercy as T-Rex top Bears
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Cory Bailey of the dmedia T-Rex pitches in Thursday's Chinese Professional Baseball League game against the La New Bears at Sinjhuang Stadium in Taipei County. Bailey was named the MVP of the game, which the T-Rex won 1-0.
PHOTO: LO PEI-DER, TAIPEI TIMES
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CUP: Redknapp looking for moment of glory
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Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, right, speaks to assistant manager Tony Adams during training in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, on Tuesday. Portsmouth will play in the FA Cup final against Cardiff City today.
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Indonesia confident they can win Cup
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Indonesia's Adriyanti Firdasari returns the shuttlecock to Germany's Julianne Schenk during their Uber Cup semi-final match in Jakarta on Thursday.
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Koo’s aide tries to turn election into a factional fight
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Outgoing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Frank Hsieh, center, yesterday signs a doll for a DPP official as he says goodbye at the party’s headquarters.
PHOTO: LO PEI-DER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Room woes hurt tourism hopes
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Tourism industry employees work at the Taiwan Tourism Exposition in Hall 3 of the Taipei World Trade Center yesterday. The show closes on Monday.
PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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China tallies quake's cost to businesses
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Earthquake survivors use running machines for beds yesterday in the gymnasium of a sports stadium in Mianyang City where more than 10,000 people have taken refuge since Monday's massive earthquake in Sichuan Province.
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Australian pensioners strip down to protest budget
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Two women take off their tops as hundreds of pensioners disrupt traffic in Melbourne’s city center yesterday in a protest against the government’s lack of support for seniors in the recently handed-down federal budget.
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One Laptop Per Child project to use Windows
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Renzo, 8, reads on his XO laptop in Arahuay, an Andean hilltop village in Peru, on Dec. 12 last year. The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft said on Thursday that the XO computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface.
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Sudanese officials arrest 80 children
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Amulets worn by rebel soldiers and that are believed to provide protection are displayed following an attempt by rebels from Darfur to topple the Sudanese government in Khartoum, Sudan, on Thursday.
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California court overturns gay marriage ban
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Jennifer Pizer, right, and her partner, Doreena Wong, cut a wedding cake during a street celebration on Thursday of the California Supreme Court ruling that gay couples in the nation’s biggest state can marry.
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Japan fears marginalization as US turns to China
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IELTS》IELTS speaking: multi-word verbs
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