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Has Capello coached his last Real game?
MADRID - REAL Madrid have denied radio reports that their manager Fabio Capello has resigned.But the Spanish media yesterday prophesied that last night's Champions League match with Bayern Munich was his swansong. Miguel Angel Arroyo, the spokesman for the club's board... [Read more]

Valentine's Day threats and fetes
KARACHI - MANY young, urban Pakistanis ignored threats from religious conservatives and celebrated St Valentine's Day on Wednesday with gifts of red roses, heart-shaped cakes and chocolates. Some religious groups in the predominantly Muslim country have condemned the celebration of the... [Read more]

Target: 10.2m visitors and 2,000 more hotel rooms
SINGAPORE will be trying to woo visitors from the Middle East and Russia, and add 2,000 hotel rooms over the next two years.The Singapore Tourism Board (STB), gunning for another record year, has set an aggressive target of 10.2 million visitors... [Read more]

System to let docs access all patients' e-records
A NEW infrastructure will be set up soon to link all health-care practitioners' IT systems, making it possible for doctors to check their patients' medical records electronically.This will translate to fewer administrative mix-ups, such as mistakes in the prescription of medication,... [Read more]

Donors pledge $12b in aid to Lebanon
PARIS - SAUDI Arabia, the United States, France and other donors pledged about US$7.6 billion (S$12 billion) in aid to Lebanon yesterday to bolster the Western-backed government in Beirut and help the country recover from war. The pledges poured in during... [Read more]

Grounded
JAKARTA - INDONESIA has grounded all of budget airline Adam Air's Boeing 737-300s after the fuselage of one of the aircraft cracked during a hard landing. The accident on Wednesday, which occurred as the plane arrived at Surabaya's Juanda International Airport... [Read more]

Forget sex, clothes come first for US women
NEW YORK - GIVEN a choice between sex and a new wardrobe, most women will go for the clothes.In a survey spanning 10 cities in the US, women on average said that they would be willing to give up sex for... [Read more]

Thai push for satellites may hasten Shin Corp overhaul
THAILAND'S push to take over the country's satellite business controlled by Shin Corp could speed up a corporate overhaul of the conglomerate's diverse assets.For the past three months, a Temasek Holdings-led consortium that controls Shin Corp has been mulling over a... [Read more]

Phelps rewrites 200m fly world mark
NEW YORK - AMERICAN Michael Phelps broke his own 200 metres butterfly world record in Columbia last Saturday. He clocked 1 minute 53.71 seconds at the Missouri Grand Prix meet. Tam Kerekjarto was second in 1:59.79 while Juan Veloz was third... [Read more]

The heat is on
Efforts to tackle global warming pick up steam WASHINGTON - ALL of a sudden, global warming is hot. After years of languishing on Capitol Hill, efforts to curb global warming have picked up momentum, powered by a growing bipartisan belief that... [Read more]

More rail lines needed
SINGAPORE needs to double its MRT network to meet the future transportation needs of an enlarged population, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday. Mr Mah, speaking at the Urban Redevelopment Authority corporate plan seminar, laid out the daunting series... [Read more]