AP - President Barack Obama says Washington for too long has accepted billions of dollars in health care fraud and abuse as simply the cost of doing business. He says that must end.
AP - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal.
AP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.
AP - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
SINGAPORE : The Mufti of Singapore, Syed Isa Mohd Semait, has expressed his condolences over the death of the Grand Imam of Al—Azhar, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi.
SINGAPORE: Social workers will see their salaries go up by 14 to 16 per cent from 1 April. The pay hike is part of measures to attract and retain dedicated professionals in the sector. The revision will cost the government an additional S$3.9 million per year.
