KOTA BAHARU - ALTHOUGH Kelantan continued to experience moderate to heavy rain, more flood evacuees returned to their homes this evening, leaving only 42 people at relief centres in two districts.
As at 8.30pm, there were 26 evacuees in the Kota Baharu district and 16 in the Pasir Puteh district, said a spokesman of the state flood operations control room.
NEW DELHI - THE World Bank has agreed to loan India US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also one of the most polluted rivers in the world.
'The bank would be honoured to help and support India's renewed endeavor to revitalise this uniquely important river,' World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.
WASHINGTON - SENIOR officials in President Barack Obama's administration have told US legislators that a July 2011 target date to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan was not set in stone.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and the top uniformed US military officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, trooped to Capitol Hill on Wednesday and told members of Congress that any timetable for an eventual pullout was still flexible.
SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA'S Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned there was no 'magic pudding' solution to climate change on Thursday as he lashed out over the defeat of his flagship carbon-trading scheme.
He mocked the opposition Liberal Party's reported plan to slash pollution with energy efficiency measures as a 'bit of fairy dust' and called for 'wiser heads' to pass the bill at the third attempt.
