TAI NATIONS RUGBY :Wallabies down the All Blacks to go top
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New Zealand・s Mils Miliaina, right, is unable to stop Australia・s James Horwill from scoring during their Tri-Nations match at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Alfredsson shoots course record, Park leads
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Taiwan・s Candie Kung watches her drive during the second round of the Evian Masters Golf Tournament in Evian-les-Bains, France, on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Muralitharan and Mendis spin Sri Lanka to victory
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Sri Lanka・s Thilan Samaraweera dives attempting to catch a shot by India batsman Ishant Sharma during the fourth day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawarden, left, removes the bails in an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss India batsman Rahul Dravid during the fourth day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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CPBL: Elephants baffle Bears to extend winning streak
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Two members of the Chinatrust Whales cheerleading squad perform at the Chiayi Municipal Baseball Stadium on Friday night.
PHOTO: LIAO YAO-TUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kuo Ming-jen of the dmedia T-Rex dives into a base in the match against the Chinatrust Whales at the Chiayi Municipal Baseball Stadium on Friday night. The T-Rex shut out the Whales 1-0.
PHOTO: LIAO YAO-TUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Jankovic books semi-final berth, closing in on No. 1
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Nadia Petrova of Russia reacts while playing against Jelena Jankovic of Serbia at the WTA hardcourt tournament at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Wade returns to lead US in exhibition rout of Canada
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A photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau shows Warren Buffett, left, Bill Gates, center, and Ludacris at the sold-out US-Canada exhibition game at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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LE TOUR FRANCE: Sastre remains in pole position
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Children sit on a straw bail in a field and watch the racers riding past during the 165.5km 19th stage of the Tour de France between Roanne and Montlucon in France on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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A lone spectator sits on a chair by the side of the road as the pack of riders cycles past during the 19th stage of the Tour de France between Roanne and Montlucon in France on Friday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Return of the renegade children・s author
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An illustration from 1979 by French artist Tomi Ungerer. London art-book publisher Phaidon Press has acquired the rights to almost all of Ungerer・s work and will start to republish his children・s books this fall.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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[BOOK REVIEW] The ．Cost・ of resentment and addiction
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Cost
By Roxana Robinson
420 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Powell grabs another pre-Olympics win
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Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia jumps over the bar in her failed attempt to break the world record in the women・s pole vault at Crystal Palace in London on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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[BOOK REVIEW] Chasing thrills with Elvis Cole, private eye
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Chasing Darkness
By Robert Crais
273 pages
Simon and Schuster
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Female sommeliers invade the last bastions of masculinity
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ILLUSTRATION: LANCE LIU
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Thai row boosts Hun Sen
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Cambodians sit on a truck roof as they leave Phnom Penh for their home villages for voting yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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In a gasoline-powered world, ethanol is stirring up trouble
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A display at a gas station compares fuel containing ethanol with the ．．100% real・・ gasoline it sells in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, earlier this month. Along the highways of this sprawling prairie city, and in other pockets of the country, a mutiny is growing against energy policies that heavily support and subsidize the blending of ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, into gasoline.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Dog lovers travel in style on the ．pet party・ express
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Pet owners travel with their pets on the first group train trip for tourists and their dogs following the launch of a three-month trial period. The group traveled in a charter ：pet party； train car.
PHOTO: CNA
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Fung-wong approaches Taiwan
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SOURCE: CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU
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