LOWER DENSITY: While traffic was heavier than on a normal day, there were 80,000 fewer vehicles between 12am and 6am yesterday than during the same period last year
By Shelley Shan
Many motorists had a smooth ride home yesterday as they packed the freeways, headed for family reunions on Lunar New Year's Eve.

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SUPER TUESDAY: Clinton won the biggest states, California and New York, but Obama won more contests, 13. McCain far outstripped his rivals
Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton traded victories in an epic coast-to-coast Super Tuesday struggle that failed to establish a clear front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Senator John McCain seized command of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, sweeping a series of delegate-rich primaries across the US.

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CIA DISCLOSURE: The Senate's No. 2 Democrat called on the Department of Justice to open a criminal inquiry into whether use of waterboarding violated any US law
Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects.

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Tornadoes and thunderstorms ravaged four states in the US south on Tuesday night, killing at least 47 people, injuring dozens and causing widespread damage, emergency services and local media said yesterday.

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By Shelley Shan
The Department of Health (DOH) urged the public to double-check the manufacturing date on Chinese-made dumplings sold by Japan's Mitsuke Co and bought at Sogo Department Stores.

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