BAGHDAD - IRAQIS voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country's fragile security gains and which may ease lingering sectarian resentment still fuelling violence.
Iraq's first election since 2005 will pick local councils in 14 of its 18 provinces and show whether Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining peace as US troops begin to pull back, almost six years after the invasion to unseat Saddam Hussein.
BERLIN - GERMAN conservative Angela Merkel promised on Saturday to cut taxes should she be re-elected as chancellor in a federal election this year.
SINGAPORE'S top male and female triathletes have been slapped with a competition ban for being caught alone in a hotel room at the Asian Beach Games in Bali last October.
Mr Mok Ying Ren, 20, and Ms Dinah Chan, 22, were told of their punishment late last week following an investigation into the incident by an inquiry panel, a Triathlon Association of Singapore (TAS) spokesman said on Saturday.
THERE were tears and protests when over 100 people turned up to claim their ancestral tablets from the San Bao Jing She temple on Saturday.
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