<p>DRIVEN by his ravenous sexual appetite, a man posed as a police officer to intimidate a 15-year-old boy into doing his bidding, reported Harian Metro.</p><p>During the incident on Monday evening, the 'officer', in his 50s, had approached the teenager at a cybercafe in Ampang and threatened to handcuff him.</p>

'Cop' forces boy to have sex

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<p>JOHOR BARU - A TYRE shop owner has disowned her son after Ah Long harassed her over his RM60,000 (S$25,846) gambling debt.</p><p>Bong Swee Yin, 50, said although she could tolerate her son stealing from her to fuel his online gambling habit, the visit by the Ah Long (loanshark) was 'unbearable'.</p>

Mum disowns son over debt

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<p>KUCHING - VIDEO clips of students fighting in a secondary school here have made their way to the Internet. One of the clips showing a fight involving at least three female secondary students was posted on YouTube under the title 'Green Road Fights' on Thursday.</p><p>The clip shows one of the girls trying to mediate a dispute between two students but the effort turns sour and they end up chasing and beating each other along the corridor of one of the classroom blocks. A headscarf of one of the girls is even pulled by another girl.</p>

Students fight on YouTube

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<p>NEW YORK - ANDY Murray battled Hurricane Earl and a rum Jamaican on Friday to reach the third round of the US Open.</p><p>The British fourth seed was expected to sweep past the unconventional Dustin Brown with little or no effort, and in the end he did so 7-5, 6-3, 6-0.</p>

Murray stays the course

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<p>OLDER workers must not let their pride get in the way, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.</p><p>'When you reach retirement age, you have to take the job that you can do,' he said in an interview with The Straits Times.</p>

'Take job you can do'

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<p>MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew raised eyebrows at a dialogue recently when he seemed to suggest that the current retirement age of 62 should be scrapped.</p><p>In an interview with The Straits Times, he has revealed that he was not speaking lightly. 'As long as people are productive, however old they are, if they have something to do, it is better to semi-retire,' he said.</p>

Carry on working if fit

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<p>WASHINGTON - PRIVATE US employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, lifting hopes for the weak economy. But the unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as more people entered the market looking for work. </p><p>Companies added a net total of 67,000 new jobs last month and both July and June's private-sector job figures were upwardly revised, the Labor Department said on Friday. </p>

US companies add 67,000 jobs

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<p>SINGAPORE Airlines will increase ticket prices next month - its third hike since April - as global demand for air travel continues to strengthen.</p><p>Indications are that other carriers will follow suit, said travel agents.</p>

SIA fares to go up

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<p>BRUSSELS - EVERGREEN striker Miroslav Klose backed up his wish to keep playing until the next World Cup with a second-half goal to seal Germany's 1-0 win over Belgium in Friday's Euro 2012 qualifier. </p> <p>Klose, 32, who has 14 World Cup goals to his credit and is just one away from matching Ronaldo's all-time record, scored his 53rd goal for his country on his 102nd appearance. </p>

Klose strikes to sink Belgium

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<p>VADUZ - LIVERPOOL forward Fernando Torres scored a brace as world champions Spain began their European title defence with a convincing 4-0 win over Liechtenstein on Friday in their opening Group I qualifier for the Euro 2012 finals.</p><p>It was Spain's first competitive match since lifting the World Cup in South Africa on July 11 and the Euro 2008 winners were far too strong for hapless Liechtenstein.</p>

Torres back in business

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<p>LONDON - ENGLAND handed under-fire manager Fabio Capello some badly needed breathing space here Friday as a Jermain Defoe hat-trick saw them romp to a 4-0 victory over Bulgaria in their opening Euro 2012 qualifier.</p><p>Defoe's first hat-trick for England and a late strike from Manchester City youngster Adam Johnson sealed the Group G points for Capello's side, desperate to bounce back from a traumatic World Cup campaign. </p>

England cruise past Bulgaria

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<p>NEW YORK - ONCE upon a time, teenage girls were winning Grand Slam titles and dominating rivals with speed and shotmaking precision.</p><p>Then came Serena and Venus Williams, bringing powerful serves and a more physical game that has so far produced 13 Grand Slam titles for younger sister Serena, seven more for Venus and an end to the era of the teen titans.</p>

Teen titans era over: Clijsters

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<p>PARIS - FRANCE'S campaign to qualify for Euro 2012 began in disappointing fashion on Friday as they lost 1-0 to Belarus in Laurent Blanc's first competitive game in charge.</p><p>Missing a raft of influential players, France struggled to procure clear sights of goal and were undone in the 86th minute when substitute Sergei Kislyak netted the winner from Vyacheslav Hleb's cutback.</p>

Belarus punish France

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<p>NEW YORK - US STOCKS closed higher on Friday after a much anticipated jobs report lifted hopes that the US economic recovery was on the right track.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 127.83 points (1.24 per cent) to end the week at 10,447.93, extending gains since Monday on mostly positive economic data.</p>

US stocks soar

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<p>WASHINGTON - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama will meet South-east Asian leaders on Sept 24 in New York and seek broader cooperation on issues including regional security, the White House said on Friday.</p> <p>The summit, whose date was earlier confirmed to AFP by a senior official, will mark Mr Obama's latest attempt to reinvigorate US policy towards the dynamic region that he said was neglected by ex-president George W. Bush's team.</p>

Obama-Asean meet on Sept 24

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<p>KABANJAHE (Indonesia) - AN INDONESIAN volcano spewed ash thousands of metres into the air on Friday in its most violent eruption since rumbling back to life earlier this week for the first time in 400 years.</p><p>Thousands of people have fled their homes since the 2,460m Sinabung in northern Sumatra started to erupt on Sunday after centuries of inactivity.</p>

Volcano erupts again

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<p>WASHINGTON - US UNEMPLOYMENT jumped to 9.6 per cent in August, the Labor Department said on Friday, showing the recovering economy is still struggling to create jobs. </p><p>In a keenly awaited unemployment report, the department said the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month, a better figure than the 120,000 loss expected by economists. </p>

US unemployment edges up

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<p>PEOPLE who buy resale HDB flats face stiff penalties, including jail time, if they make false declarations about other property they own overseas.</p><p>The Housing Board (HDB) said on Friday that dishonest owners could be fined up to $5,000, jailed for up to six months or have their flats compulsorily acquired.</p>

Penalties for errant buyers

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<p>ARMED with a knife, Goh Kar Wai would wait at car parks in Serangoon Central, Hougang, Sim's Drive and Pasir Ris for women getting out of their cars at night.</p><p>Forcing them back in, the 39-year-old would drive off to rob them of the cash they were carrying before leaving them at deserted locations. He even withdrew cash amounting to $4,500 with the ATM cards of two victims. He would then leave the cars at the same car parks he took them from.</p>

Carjacker gets jail, caning

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<p>A MILITARY policeman, moonlighting as a tutor, convinced the mother of a student, to let him sleep over for two nights in 2008.</p><p>Unknown to her, Kittredge Chan Lead Whye was a paedophile and used the opportunity to fondle the boy's private parts on both nights, before masturbating in front of the nine-year-old.</p>

Tutor jailed for molest

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