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March 21, 2009 Saturday

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Full recovery at least 2 to 3 years away

IMH to better track outpatients

More Singaporeans applying to be bus drivers

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New F1 title rules could leave Singapore fans cold

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Small, open economies most badly hit

Woman left her child unattended at taxi stand

Civil servants' annual pay to shrink

Ex-Cortina man brings back 230 watches worth $4.6m

Pacific isle's black ash of death

Obama offers Iran new beginning

A Spur to hire local drivers

SMRT proposes Circle Line fares

Ex-HR exec who forged payslips escapes jail term

Babies, women and foreigners

NUS alumni's $62m complex

Pairing of hospitals cuts bill size; more will follow, says minister

Ren Ci volunteers come in for praise

US lawmakers vote to tax AIG bonuses

A classic 'talk and die' case: Doctors

SAF honours troops who served in Iraq **

Family at Richardson wake

NEW YORK - LIAM Neeson looked distraught on Friday as he greeted grieving family members and friends who attended a private viewing for his wife, actress Natasha Richardson, who died after falling on a ski slope.

Neeson and sons - Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12 - attended the Upper East Side's American Irish Historical Society, along with Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and sister, Joely Richardson.

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Christie's sued over low price

NEW YORK - THE owner of a painting by Francis Bacon sued Christie's auction house on Friday for not living up to a guaranteed US$40 million (S$60.6 million) minimum selling price for the Irish-born artist's piece Study for Self Portrait.

Weiss Family Art LLC, which owns the 1964 self-portrait, sued Christie's for breach of contract in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, seeking damages in an amount to be determined at trial.

Hero pilot in book deals

NEW YORK - CHESLEY 'Sully' Sullenberger, who brought a crippled US Airways jet to a textbook emergency landing on New York City's Hudson River, will write a book about his life, but he won't give up flying.

Publisher William Morrow said on Friday the pilot would work with a writer to produce two books.

Obama inspires kids books

Dinosaur, mammoth for sale