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Engineer’s death inquiry opens
A US high-tech researcher whose family says he was murdered in Singapore was under treatment for depression and left suicide notes before he was found hanged, a public inquiry was told yesterday. Senior state counsel Tai Wei Shyong, opening a coroner’s inquest into the death ofFULL STORY
Branson upbeat on carbon impact
British billionaire Richard Branson said yesterday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have only a minor impact on climate change. More than 500 people have already reserved seats — and paid deposits on the US$200,000 ticket price — for a minutes-longFULL STORY
FEATURE: Rumors, grief, questions: virus ravages family
On the third day after his father’s death from a respiratory infection, Hussein al-Sheikh began to feel feverish. Shortly afterwards, says the 27-year-old Saudi, “I was almost dead.” Hussein, who had often visited his father’s bedside in his last days, was admitted to intensive care in aFULL STORY
Transsexual in HK triumphs in appeal to marry boyfriend
A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal yesterday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the territory’s marriage laws. The woman in her 30s, known in the Court of Final Appeal as “W” under anonymity rules, successfullyFULL STORY
Christian leaders speak out on police action in Jerusalem
The heads of Jerusalem’s churches on Sunday spoke out against the “brutal treatment” meted out by Israeli police to both priests and pilgrims during an ancient Easter ritual in the Old City. The incident occurred during the centuries-old sacred Holy Fire rite, which takes place theFULL STORY
Nineteen hurt in New Orleans shooting
Unknown gunmen opened fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding 19 people in an incident the FBI attributed to “street violence.” Seventeen adults and two 10-year-olds were wounded when gunfire erupted in the early afternoon attack, the local police department saidFULL STORY
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