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| Obama moves quickly to fill Cabinet positions
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|  AP - President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday.
| | Carter, Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe
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|  AP - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in Zimbabwe had been refused entry to the impoverished African country.
| | Is Alaska big enough for celebrity Palin?
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|  AP - Oprah wants her, and so do Letterman and Leno. Fresh from her political defeat, Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate that would be astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.
| | Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience
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| AP - A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home a scene also captured on the Internet it was too late. | | Astronauts face hardest spacewalk to finish repair
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|  AP - Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint.
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Singapore Headlines
| Downturn will not affect planning of S'pore's policies on ageing | SINGAPORE: Minister-in-Charge of Aging Issues, Lim Boon Heng said Singapore's policies on active ageing are long term. So he said he does not see the current downturn affecting the planning process. | | Australia, Peru to join in trans-pacific FTA talks with member countries | SINgAPORE : Singapore, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and the US have warmly welcomed the announcement by Australia and Peru that they intend to join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP). | | Changing demography of NSmen poses new challenges for SAF | SINGAPORE : Permanent residents (PRs) will make up 12 per cent of the total number of people enlisting for national service (NS) in 2020, said Second Minister of Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen. | | APEC grows stronger, more relevant with each crisis, says George Yeo | SINGAPORE : Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said while APEC economies are facing a deepening crisis in view of the current global financial situation, APEC had demonstrated in the past that it will only grew stronger and more relevant after each crisis. | | Singapore, China signs MOU on aviation security cooperation | SINGAPORE : Singapore and China have inked an agreement on aviation security cooperation. |
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