NANJING- MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Sunday urged Jiangsu provincial leaders to build a long-term relationship with their young Singapore counterparts.
'Our relationship is not just to last a year or two. It is for decades,' he told Jiangsu party boss Liang Baohua on Sunday in Mandarin.
MONACO - BRAWN GP's Jenson Button won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday, capturing his fifth victory in six races to extend his Formula One championship lead.
Button finished 7.6 seconds ahead of teammate Rubens Barrichello at the famed street circuit race for his fourth start-to-finish victory of the season.
Button leads with 51 points. Barrichello has 35 and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull, who crashed out after 16 laps, is third with 23 points.
MADRID - WORLD economic recovery will be slow and rising unemployment could bring the threat of social crisis and protectionism, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in an interview with Spanish Sunday newspaper El Pais.
'What began as a great financial crisis and became a great economic crisis is now becoming a great crisis of unemployment, and if we don't take measures there is a risk of a great human and social crisis, with major political implications,' he said.
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) - RAIN or shine, the crew of the US space shuttle Atlantis will have to attempt to land on Sunday after bad weather forced delays in their return to Earth for two consecutive days.
Nasa officials may have to land the orbiter in California, on the other side of the country from Florida where touchdown was initially planned.
