US survives tough test against Aussies
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Patrick Mills, right, of Australia vies with Kobe Bryant, center, and Dwight Howard of the US during a warm-up match for the Beijing Olympic Games in Shanghai on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Live shark stolen from English garden 大膽偷兒綁走活鯊魚
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A mother and her children look at a shark in a fish tank displayed in Tokyo’s Ginza fashion district on July 21, 2008.
七月二十一日，一位母親帶著兒女在東京銀座商圈欣賞水族箱裡的鯊魚。照片：法新社
PHOTO: AFP
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‘Joker’ accused of trying to steal Batman items 「小丑」偷竊蝙蝠俠商品被逮
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Christian Bale as Batman, background, questions the Joker, played by Heath Ledger, in this scene from The Dark Knight.
電影《黑暗騎士》中，克里斯丁．貝爾所飾演的蝙蝠俠（後）訊問希斯•萊傑扮演的小丑的場景。照片：彭博社
PHOTO: AFP
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Spencer Taylor, 20, was arrested at a movie theater in Three Rivers, Michigan, US, on July 27, 2008.
二十歲的史賓賽．泰勒上個月二十七日在美國密西根州三河市一家戲院被捕。照片：法新社
PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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Age firestorm, fans turn up the heat on Chinese gymnasts
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Jiang Yuyuan of China performs on the vault during the World Cup gymnastics competition in Shanghai, China, on July 28 last year. According to recent reports, Jiang might be too young to participate in the Beijing Olympics.
PHOTO: AP
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Beard bares all in first Olympic athlete protest
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US swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard poses with a poster of herself from a campaign against wearing animal fur for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in front of the Olympic Village in Beijing yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Baseball gives Taiwan’s image a boost
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Cheerleaders wait for Taiwan’s 2008 Olympic baseball team to take the field in a friendly against dmedia T-Rex in Taichung on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP
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Sharpshooter hopes to win first gold for China
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China’s Du Li competes in the women’s 10m air rifle final at the Good Luck Beijing ISSF World Cup Final inside the Beijing Shooting Range Hall in Beijing on April 12.
PHOTO: AP
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NATIONAL LEAGUE: Johnson throws Marlins over Phillies
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A fan and Florida Marlins left fielder Josh Willingham both reach for a ball hit by the Philadelphia Phillies’ Pat Burrell in the sixth inning of their baseball game on Tuesday in Philadelphia. Burrell was credited with a double and the Marlins went on to win 8-2.
PHOTO: AP
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Life at Olympic Village includes loads of leisure
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A man bicycles past apartments that house the German team inside the Olympic Village in Beijing yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Safin beats Isner in Los Angeles
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Marat Safin of Russia returns the ball during his match against John Isner at the Countrywide Classic tennis tournament on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
PHOTO: AP
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Lefty has one more chance at major
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Phil Mickelson, right, and his swing coach Butch Harmon chat before practice for the 90th PGA Championship golf tournament on Tuesday at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. The championship begins today.
PHOTO: AP
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Prosecutors charge 11 in hacking ring
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Customers shop at a TJ Maxx store on Tuesday in La Canada, California. The US Justice Department has charged 11 people with stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from customers shopping at TJ Maxx and other retailers.
PHOTO: AFP
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Time is running out to stop the climate change tipping point
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Nissan unveils new electric car prototype
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Nissan Motor’s prototype full-electric car is presented at a test-drive event yesterday in Nissan Oppama Grandrive in Yokosuka, Japan. The third-largest automaker in Japan aims to start selling an electric car in the US and Japan in 2010 and the rest of the world in 2012.
PHOTO: AFP
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Texas executes Mexican despite calls for reprieve
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Death penalty supporter Fred Gavin of Beaumont, Texas, holds up a sign before the execution of Mexican-born death row inmate Jose Medellin on Tuesday in Huntsville, Texas.
PHOTO: AP
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Summit in Bolivia canceled after two killed in violence
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A bus burns during a clash between miners and police at Caihuasi Town, Bolivia, yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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German woman reunited with N Korean husband
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Renate Hong of Germany, right, is reunited with her husband Hong Ok-gun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 25.
PHOTO: AP
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Georgia and S Ossetia to hold talks
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Georgian peacekeeping soldiers are watched by local children in the village of Nuli in the breakaway South Ossetia region 130km from Tbilisi on Tuesday. Officials from Georgia and South Ossetia are scheduled to hold landmark direct talks today, a spokeswoman for Georgian Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili said on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Kuang suspended by KMT body
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Taitung County Commissioner Kuang Li-chen, center, leaves Taipei Songshan Airport yesterday. Kuang was in Taipei to explain her trips abroad to the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Integrity Committee.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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MOJ probes alleged leak to Ker
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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Ker Chien-ming, center, talks with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Lin Yi-shih, standing left, and Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, right, in the legislature on July 18.
PHOTO: CNA
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Rare salmon thrive in new homes
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A Formosan landlocked salmon is pictured in a river on Dec. 11 last year. After four years of research, it has been found that water temperatures and flow rates are the most important factors decreasing the risk of the extinction of the fish.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LIAO LIN-YAN
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