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January 2, 2009 Friday

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Straits Times Headlines

New Year fire razes Bangkok nightclub; at least 60 dead

US hands Green Zone security over to Iraq

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Defiant Mumbai back on its feet

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Bright hopes amid the gloom

Shock, chaos in nightclub inferno

Flyer turning again but with no riders

Taiwan echoes China's call for new ties

S'pore hails Hu's proposal

Sleeping pills: Hard to get large doses

Clinics: The good and the bad

Sleep disorders: Proper diagnosis vital **

Gerrard to play against Preston

LIVERPOOL - STEVEN Gerrard will be in Liverpool's lineup against Preston in the FA Cup on Saturday despite facing criminal charges over a nightclub brawl.

Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez said on Friday that playing in the third-round game at Deepdale would keep his captain's mind on football rather than the court proceedings arising out of the assault and affray charges he faces.

Given to quit Magpies?

NEWCASTLE - NEWCASTLE goalkeeper Shay Given is ready to quit the struggling Premier League club, according to his lawyer.

Given has grown increasingly unhappy with Newcastle's on and off-field problems and last weekend's 5-1 defeat at home to Liverpool was the final straw.

'This is my last chance': Gazza

LONDON - ENGLAND football legend Paul Gascoigne said drink and drug addictions nearly killed him in 2008 and knows he is now on his last chance to save himself, in an interview published on Friday.

Rice will recover in time

SYDNEY - THE coach of Australia's triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice said on Friday he was confident the swimmer would recover from her post-Beijing slowdown and qualify for this year's world championships.

Hull faces Madrid for Pennant

Ronaldo 'very happy' at Man U

City to pay market value only

Pompey set to see Defoe leave

Fuller and Griffin friends again

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1	Kampung boy bitten by unprovoked dog
2	Nuclear power the best alternative for Singapore
3	Honest mistake: Bank should not penalise customer
4	Real violence: Its effect on children a worry
5	No lifts make life hell for aged mother
6	Mum left stranded on Malaysia trip
7	Boom to gloom for fresh grads
8	Stub it out, please
9	Credit card promotion: No response from OCBC
10	Beer ads promote festive drinking

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Just too much rain

$653k for 4-room HDB flat

Prices for theme park

S'pore is 3rd least corrupt

Ex-RM jailed 74 months

English at work is 'weird'

Obama attends dinner

Floods hit Bukit Timah

ST News now on iPhone

Lecturer collapses, dies

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