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A boy's body being loaded into a police van at 12.42am on Aug 31, after being recovered from the waters off East Coast Park.
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Body of boy found in waters off East Coast Park
The body of a boy was recovered from the waters off East Coast Park on Aug 30.
The police said they were alerted at 9.55pm, and on arrival, found the boy floating in the sea.
He was brought ashore by Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers and pronounced dead at the scene.
Preliminary investigations do not suggest foul play, said the police.
Indonesian president cancels China trip amid protests
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Aug 30 cancelled a planned trip to China as days of protests spread further outside the capital Jakarta, with several regional parliament buildings set ablaze.
Mr Prabowo had been due to attend a “Victory Day” parade in China on Sept 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II following Japan’s formal surrender.
The protests, the first major test for Mr Prabowo’s nearly year-old government, began in Jakarta this week over lawmakers’ pay and worsened after a police vehicle hit and killed a motorcycle rider.
Norway sinkhole swallows road, railway; kills one
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An enormous sinkhole in Norway engulfed a portion of motorway and railway tracks, killing one person, authorities said on Aug 30.
The hole, spanning several dozen metres, affected both lanes of the E6 motorway and the tracks running alongside the road in the town of Levanger, some 500km north of Oslo, according to photos by Norwegian media.
A Danish worker who was onsite and went missing has been presumed dead, the police said in a statement.
US airline flies first plane with second cockpit barrier
Southwest Airlines on Aug 30 began flying its first jet with a secondary barrier to the flight deck designed to prevent intrusions.
The plane - a Boeing 737 Max 8 which was delivered in recent days - took off on the afternoon of Aug 29 from Phoenix to Denver, the airline said.
Secondary barriers – long sought after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks that exposed the risks of inadequate flight deck protection – are crucial to aviation safety, pilots unions have argued.
Del Toro delivers his monster, Frankenstein
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Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gave birth to another monster on Aug 30, his big-budget Frankenstein movie, joking that the effort had left him worn out as his creation got its world premiere in Venice.
The last creature he delivered here, the aquatic being in The Shape Of Water, swam off with the festival’s top prize in 2017 before going on to triumph at the Oscars.
This latest version of the Mary Shelley masterpiece is also among the 21 films in competition for the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion.
