Exploring new beats
|
|
Moroccan Sufi artist Abdelfettah Bennis, right, performs at Mokri palace in Fez, Morocco, last year during a Sufi festival. Sufism, or tasawwuf, is generally understood by scholars and Sufis to be the inner, mystical or psycho-spiritual dimension of Islam.
PHOTO: AFP
|
|
The Samaa Ahl Fas Sufi band performs earlier this month as part of a Sufi festival in Fez.
PHOTO: AFP
|
|
South African artist Johnny Clegg, whose songs mix Zulu and English lyrics, performs during last year’s Fez Festival of World Sacred Music.
PHOTO: AFP
|
Joey Barton gets time for assault
|
|
Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton makes his way to Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing in Liverpool, England, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
|
Blake bounces back for US as Swedes stop the Czechs
|
|
James Blake of the US returns a ball during his match against Guillermo Canas from Argentina at the ARAG ATP tennis World Team Cup in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
|
Darcheville's title boast angers Dons
|
|
Rangers' French forward Jean-Claude Darcheville, left, fights for the ball with Zenit St Petersburg's Croatian defender Ivica Krizanac during their UEFA Cup final match at Manchester City stadium on Wednesday last week.
PHOTO: AFP
|
Bulgarian stuns Asashoryu to take lead in Tokyo
|
|
Grand champion Hakuho, center, is thrown out of the ring by sekiwake Ama at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday. At right is yokozuna Asashoryu.
PHOTO: AP
|
Chinese cop helps quake effort — by breastfeeding 中國女警「餵母乳」賑災
|
|
A woman affected by Cyclone Nargis breastfeeds her child on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on May 17, 2008. The cyclone hit Myanmar on May 2 and has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
本月十七日，一名熱帶氣旋納吉斯的受災婦女，在緬甸仰光郊區為孩子哺乳。該熱帶氣旋本月二日侵襲緬甸，造成數萬民眾喪生。 照片：法新社
PHOTO: AFP
|
Disabled cricketers make their dreams reality in Pakistan
|
|
A disabled Pakistani cricketer delivers a ball during net practice in Karachi on March 30.
PHOTO: AFP
|
FEATURE: Rare woman in sumo made Kotooshu a star
|
|
Bulgarian Sumo Federation chief Lilyana Kaneva stands next to a poster of a Sumo wrestler in Sofia, Bulgaria, last Thursday.
PHOTO: AFP
|
Penelope Cruz downplays her kiss with Scarlett Johansson 小潘潘低調回應女女吻戲
|
|
(From L) Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen and Rebecca Hall pose at the 61st Cannes International Film Festival on May 17, 2008, in Cannes, southern France.
（左起）潘妮洛普．克魯茲、伍迪．艾倫和蕾貝卡．霍爾十七日在法國南部坎城出席第六十一屆坎城國際影展。 照片：法新社
PHOTO: AFP
|
Medalists Serbia beat Thailand in Olympic qualifier
|
|
Thailand's Sittirak Onuma, left, spikes the ball over Serbian blockers Vesna Citakovic, center, and Jovana Brakocevic during a match of the final qualifying round for the Beijing Olympics women’s volleyball tournament in Tokyo yesterday.
PHOTO:AFP
|
The brighter side of high prices
|
|
ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
|
Citibank launches new co-branded card
|
|
From left, Rosy Tsai, a senior vice president at Citibank's card marketing division, Ho Pei-fen, China Metal Products Group spokeswoman, and Pradeep Pant, director of Citibank’s card business, hold placards to promote a new co-branded credit card in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: YANG YA-MIN, TAIPEI TIMES
|
Honda to raise spending on hybrids
|
|
The president of Japanese auto giant Honda Motor, Takeo Fukui, rides on the first model of the company's hit motorcycle "Cub" series after a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
|
Housing the homeless becomes priority
|
|
Medical personnel pay their condolences to earthquake victims as a collapsed school is demolished in Beichuan, Sichuan Province, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP
|
UN chief hopes Myanmar visit will sway generals
|
|
A young Burmese boy carries bamboo to rebuild his house at a cyclone-affected area in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
|
New DPP chief bothered by what Ma did not say
|
|
Flanked by former president Chen Shui-bian, fourth left, and former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairmen, Tsai Ing-wen, center, is sworn in as DPP chairwoman at the party's headquarters in Taipei.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
|
Diane Lee threatens to sue 'Next' for citizenship story
|
|
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Diane Lee tells a press conference yesterday that she had lost her US citizenship when she returned to Taiwan to serve as a public official.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
|
Six million Ethiopian children at risk: UNICEF
|
|
Ethiopian child Bizunesh Hidana, a three-year-old weighing less than 4kg, rests at an emergency feeding center in southern Ethiopia on Friday. The UN World Food Programme estimates that 2.7 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid because of late rains — nearly double the number who needed help last year. An additional 5 million of Ethiopia’s 80 million people receive aid each year because they never have enough food, whether harvests are good or not.
PHOTO: AP
|
Taipei City Government slammed for series of delayed construction projects
|
|
Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City councilors Wu Su-yao, left, and Chou Wei-yo criticize delays in major projects at a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
|
Angry Indians slash advocate of dam
|
|
Indigenous women protests against the construction of the Belo Monte hydropower dam in Altamira, Brazil, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
|
Small Mexican town loses fight against drug cartels
|
|
A bus passes a recruiting billboard for the municipal police that reads in Spanish ‘‘Juarez Needs You! Join up and become part of the city police,’’ in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
|
