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Woman jailed 5 years for robbing elderly By Kimberly Spykerman | Posted: 14 December 2012 1405 hrs SINGAPORE: A 44-year-old woman who stole gold chains from elderly women was jailed five years by a district court on Friday. Annabell Joan Garnell committed the crimes in October. Her...

Unregistered estate agent pleads guilty to 3 charges, fined $21,000 Published on Dec 12, 2012 By Elena Chong A man who passed himself off as an estate agent was fined a total of $21,000 today after pleading guilty to three charges. Lum Chap Heng, 59, could not pay the fines and will...

Egypt's Mursi leaves palace as police battle protesters By Yasmine Saleh and Marwa Awad CAIRO | Tue Dec 4, 2012 12:42pm EST (Reuters) - Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi's palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the...

India's parliament to vote on foreign supermarket investment NEW DELHI | Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:48am EST (Reuters) - India's parliament will hold a non-binding vote on one of the government's flagship economic reforms, allowing foreign direct investment in supermarkets, the Speaker said on...

Poly student gets probation for insulting girlfriend's modesty By Kimberly Spykerman | Posted: 26 November 2012 1238 hrs SINGAPORE: A 17-year-old polytechnic student was on Monday sentenced to 21 months probation, for insulting a teenage girl's modesty and other charges. These include...

Appeal for next of kin for Elang Koven S/O Govindasamy AsiaOne Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 SINGAPORE - Police are appealing for the next-of-kin of 57-year-old Mr Elang Koven S/O Govindasamy to come forward. He had passed away at Blk 621A Edgefield Walk on Nov 2. Please call the police hotline at...

Man arrested for alleged involvement in fatal hit-and-run Posted: 18 November 2012 2146 hrs SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a 36-year-old truck driver for his alleged involvement in a fatal hit-and-run accident that resulted in the death of a 46-year-old cyclist. The truck driver also...

Court sees two cases of police being kicked while on duty 16 November 2012 2:51 PM | Updated 4:07 PM In one case, a police officer was allegedly kicked in the face at the junction of Jalan Bukit Merah and Kampung Bahru Road. Picture for illustration purposes only (Photo: Wikimedia) Two cases...

CNB nab 84 offenders and some $54,000 in drugs Posted: 16 November 2012 1913 hrs Singapore: In island-wide operations mounted over five days, Central Narcotics Bureau officers seized drugs worth more than S$54,000 were seized, including more than 250 grams of heroin, 110 grams of...

Housebreaking cases see decline in 2012 Posted: 14 November 2012 1747 hrs SINGAPORE: A total of 428 housebreaking cases were reported in the first nine months of 2012 -- a 15 per cent decrease as compared to the same period last year. Among the 189 persons arrested for the cases...

59-year-old unlicensed property agent charged Published on Nov 14, 2012 By Elena Chong A 59-year-old man was charged on Wednesday with holding himself out to be a sales person without being registered with the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA). Lum Chap Heng allegedly committed the offences...

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Airboat pilot Michael Fabian displays oil on a glove near oiled marsh grass in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana. -- PHOTO: AP A Poggy fish lie dead stuck in oil in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulpher, Louisiana. The BP oil spill has been called one of the largest environmental disasters...

Planes perfom in an air show prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. -- PHOTO: AFP A plane flies with a banner stating 'Tiger: are you my daddy?' during the final round of the 110th US Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble...

A Hindu devotee worships a cow after bathing at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad, India. Hindus across the country are celebrating Ganga Dussehra, devoted to the worship of the River Ganges. -- PHOTO: AP Luke Branquinho, of Los...

A displaced Somali girl carries dishes as she walks past her makeshift shelter in Jabuti refugee camp in south Mogadishu. -- PHOTO: REUTERS Spain's Luis Salom riding a Stipa-Molenaar Racing GP 125 bike tumbles through the gravel after crashing at Woodcote corner during the 125 race at...

People cross the Tachira river into Colombia to vote in Cucuta, on Colombia's northeastern border with Venezuela. -- PHOTO: AP Chalk artist Tarrus Parker puts the finishing touches on his chalk drawing of Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant during the 18th annual Pasadena Chalk Festival in...

Three technicians stand on and near the wreckage of a bus that veered off a road and overturned on Sunday in the eastern French Pyrenees mountains. -- PHOTO: AFP Three-year-old Shakhawan Mohammed lies in a hospital in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 217 miles (350...