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Straits Times Headlines

FairPrice extends discounts to customers until December

Stepped-up drive to recruit 4,500 for health sector

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Tense times for Umno in Terengganu poll

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What it should have been

Terror suspect admits to Changi attack plan

Cold snap hits Thailand

Malaysian waitress ordered to be caned for drinking

When the high life crashes with stocks

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Osama: Jihad against Israel

CAIRO (Egypt) - AL-QAEDA chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.

Bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted on Wednesday on Islamic militant websites where Al-Qaeda usually issues its messages. It was his first tape since May and came nearly three weeks after Israel started its campaign against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.

UN chief renews ceasefire call

CAIRO - UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon called again on Wednesday for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.

British ship escapes pirates

KUALA LUMPUR - A BRITISH ship came under fire in a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden, but managed to escape after a Russian warship came to the rescue, a maritime watchdog said on Wednesday.

The British-owned and Dutch-managed container vessel was chased for half an hour by the pirates, but managed to fend them off by increasing speed and making evasive manoeuvres.

Lebanon rockets hit Israel

JERUSALEM - THREE rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Wednesday, causing no casualties, emergency services said, in the second such attack since Israeli forces launched their Gaza offensive.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Israel responded with artillery fire into south Lebanon, witnesses said.

Sons killed, family billed

'Best job' crashes website

Facebook used to nab thief

1,484 CEOs quit US firms

'Foxy Knoxy' on trial

Pilot faked death, caught

Girl 'sold' for cash, meat, beer

More heavy rains pound Fiji

30-year conviction reversed

Obama picks interior designer

Gitmo inmates return to fight

Jailed for Bush death threat

US holds drill for terror attack

Obama to lift Cuba bans?

Biden in Iraq's troubled north

Clinton vows 'smart power'

Egypt, UN pushes for truce

STD soars in US

'Sooty' friend defends Prince

Death toll nears 1,000

Europe gets little gas

stories

1	Naked photo triggers outrage
2	Fatal fall caught on TV
3	Why we need immigrants
4	Thaksin on new offensive
5	Don't panic over buying
6	Cambridge faces competition
7	'I love you': Stabbed teen
8	Teen gang attacks 3 boys
9	Dead hours after wedding
10	Man hangs from gondola, safe

commented

1	Gaza - a thorny road to peace
2	MP burnt, sent to SGH
3	Hit-and-run at church: Residents sick of rude drivers
4	S'poreans ranked lowest
5	Marginalised? Violence doesn't help
6	Start school later and let children sleep longer
7	Terror has no religion, race or colour
8	Work as long as you can
9	Unfair to expect drivers to give way at Second Link
10	PM urges no let-up in keeping seniors at work

emailed

1	Girl, 11, gives birth at wedding
2	Scholars with poor attitude
3	3 years jail for sex with horse
4	Dead hours after wedding
5	Online churches growing
6	S'pore top choice of migrants
7	ST News now on iPhone
8	Sembawang Music to close
9	Beware the 'sweat debt'
10	Roche plant to create 100 jobs

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