WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama's July 2011 date for beginning to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan is not a 'drop-dead deadline' but a message to Kabul about the urgency of fielding an army to defend the country, senior US officials said on Sunday.
AFTER he went missing for a week, a six-year-old boy was found dead last month. A family friend who ferried him to and from school has since been charged with murder.
This tragedy and a few others involving young Malay children from broken homes so distress Minister Yaacob Ibrahim that over the weekend, he cried out to his community to 'be worried'.
COPENHAGEN - DANISH police this weekend spelt out a tough warning about any violent protests at the 12-day UN climate conference starting in Copenhagen on Monday.
'We are ready,' Mogens Lauridsen, head of operations at Copenhagen police, told AFP late Saturday. 'We have mobilised enough force from the entire kingdom to handle the heaviest task the modern police has ever been called upon to assume,' he said.
A MARATHON for the people. That is what Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Teo Ser Luck wants the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon to evolve into next year.
The run, which has capped its participation at 50,000 runners for logistical reasons, is now one of the biggest marathons in the world but Mr Teo hopes it can be expanded to accommodate even more runners next year.
