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February 16, 2009 Monday

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Straits Times Headlines

G-7 nations pledge to reject protectionism

Aussie fires: Residents to sue S'pore company

Remembering victims of the Occupation

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Lease buyback: A mindset issue

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S'pore marks 25 years of Total Defence

US army offers immigrants fast track to citizenship

Let's talk about sex, says China

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14 S'pore ships attacked by pirates off Somalia

Close Asian cooperation keeps attacks down **

Debris falling in Texas

DALLAS - THE Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision.

Some of the callers around midmorning on Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky.

File-sharing trial to start

STOCKHOLM - FILE-SHARING enthusiasts take note: A landmark trial opens on Monday in Sweden against four men behind The Pirate Bay, a popular online piracy site.

New research station opens

BRUSSELS - BELGIUM opened a new 20 million euro (S$39 million) 'zero emissions' polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the continent to study climate change 42 years after closing its first base there.

Geek chic gatherings

SAN FRANCISCO - LEATHER-CLAD, spike-heeled women with boldly colored hair and beefed-up laptop computers are getting their geek on at supportive gatherings in Silicon Valley.

A recent 'She's Geeky 3' conference in the city of Mountain View in northern California was just such an oasis for technology-loving women in a profession blatantly dominated by men.

Biofuels bad for environment?

Global warming speeding up

Space crash caused debris

Inventor of Taser dies at 88

PC security firms attacked

What's in a sloppy kiss?

Boar-croc remains unveiled