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This is Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's first official visit to Singapore as the seventh prime minister of Malaysia.
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Actor Gerard Butler shares photo of Malibu home destroyed by California wildfire

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  • A model of a proposed Ram temple which Hindus want to build on the site of the demolished Babri Mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya. Hindu mobs demolished the mosque in 1992, sparking communal riots.

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  • Raja Leopold Nicolaas Nisnoni, the fourth king of Kupang, believes strongly in egalitarianism.

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  • Writer-actress Sharul Channa (left) will play various female characters in one-woman show Disco Sheela And Other Indian Superwomen, in which she addresses the pressures women face in trying to fulfil their various roles in society.

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  • (From left) Senior air safety investigator Bryan Siow, air safety investigator Alexander Leong, senior air safety investigator Steven Teo and senior air safety investigator Ng Junsheng. The first three were sent by Singapore's TSIB to join Indonesia'

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  • Indonesian rescue personnel unloading a recovered engine yesterday from the ill-fated Lion Air Flight JT610 at a port in Jakarta. As of yesterday, a total of 105 body bags had been recovered and handed to police for forensic identification.

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