Singapore  - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the President-elect Barack Obama win in Tuesday's elections did not mean race was no longer an issue in the United States.

"People were tired, they wanted something different, and Mr Obama represented something different," the Sunday Times quoted Lee as saying.

Obama's victory marked a "historic change" for America, he said during a community dialogue on Saturday.

Port-au-Prince  - As rescue workers continued to dig through the rubble, the number of dead early Sunday had reached 84 in the collapse of a Hatian school as special rescue teams from the US and France rushed to help dig out survivors from the rubble.

An estimated 200 more children and possibly teachers are believed to still be buried in the rubble of the Petion Ville suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Radio Metropole reported Saturday.

The school collapsed Friday morning as an estimated 700 students were in the building.

Rescue workers had contact with some of the victims in the rubble and were able to talk to and supply them with water.

Wellington  - The New Zealand parliament will have a record six Asian members - including the first ethnic Korean and Sikh - following Saturday's election.

Korean-born television presenter Melissa Lee, 42, and former New Delhi businessman Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi will join Pansy Wong, who was New Zealand's first Asian Member of Parliament when she was elected in 1996, in the newly-elected National Party government ranks.

Havana/Miami - Hurricane Paloma hurled 195-kilometre-winds at the central Cuban province of Camaguey late Saturday, the third powerful hurricane this season to lash the Caribbean island.

The Cuban weather service said the storm had weakened slightly from the 230 kilometre-an-hour winds that had threatened. Cuban officials expect Paloma to leave Cuba Sunday morning for the Bahamas.

The National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida, said the storm had dropped from Category 4 - with winds of 230 kilometres an hour - to Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

The SRK-Aditya Chopra reunion film, 'Rab ne Bana di Jodi' is being considered a huge release, and the expectations from the music of the film are sky high.

With Jatin-Lalit having composed the music for 'DDLJ' and 'Mohabbatein' - Aditya Chopra's hit films with hit music - composer duo Salim-Sulaiman and lyricist Jaideep Sahni already had a lot to match up to.

In the opening track, 'Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai', a melodious santoor is attention-grabbing. 'Haule Haule' by Sukhwinder Singh plays next, the clips of the song already been shown in the promos on TV.

Dortmund, Germany - Twenty-first century office workers are so preoccupied with their e-mail accounts that do not have enough time for their actual job, according to Germany's Federal Institute for