MEXICO CITY - HIGH schools and universities closed by the swine flu epidemic are reopening across Mexico, with school employees and parents carefully checking each returning student for flu symptoms.
ADDIS ABABA - FIVE new suspect cases are being tested for swine flu in the Seychelles and Benin, the World Health Organisation's Africa director said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Thursday vowed to cut 'stunning' waste in the US government budget, as he laid out details of his sweeping budget for the fiscal year 2010.
'There is a lot of money being spent inefficiently, ineffectively, and - in some cases - in ways that are actually pretty stunning,' Mr Obama said, outlining details of his US$3.4 trillion (S$4.98 trillion) spending plan at the White House.