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Man jailed, caned for molesting flatmate By Alvina Soh | Posted: 06 March 2012 1719 hrs SINGAPORE: A Filipino man was sentenced to 30 months' jail and six strokes of the cane for molesting his flatmate when she was taking a shower. District Judge Mr Mathew Joseph said on Tuesday that the...

Shareholders to sue Tepco executives for $67 billion By Yoko Kubota TOKYO | Mon Mar 5, 2012 5:45pm EST (Reuters) - Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc, operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan, are suing the utility's executives for a record 5.5...

Hundreds of anti-Putin protesters detained in Russia By Lidia Kelly and Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW | Mon Mar 5, 2012 4:37pm EST (Reuters) - Russian riot police detained more than 500 protesters including opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday at rallies challenging the legitimacy of...

Party for baby whose birth saved father from Japan tsunami By Antoni Slodkowski MINAMISANRIKU | Tue Mar 6, 2012 2:00am EST (Reuters) - Searching through piles of bodies after Japan's March 11 tsunami, Kenji Sato was struck by the thought -- he could easily have been one of them, had...

Monday March 5, 2012 178 opt to stay in Syria JOHOR BARU: There are 178 Malaysian students in Syria who have decided to stay on despite the situation becoming critical there, said the Higher Education Minister. Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the ministry had advised the students...

UPDATE 2 - Sixteen killed in train crash in Poland Sun Mar 4, 2012 8:21am EST Polish emergency services work at the site of a train crash near the town of Szczekociny March 4, 2012. REUTERS/Peter Andrews (Updates death toll, adds president declaring national mourning) By Janusz...

Pakistan demolishes Osama bin Laden hideout AFP 11 hours ago Pakistani security forces began demolishing the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert US raid last May in the garrison town of Abbottabad. – AFP ABBOTTABAD: Pakistani security forces were on Sunday...