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The prime minister's political secretary Datuk Azman Abidin (centre) attends press conference at the Bandar Tun Razak Member of Parliament's office in Kuala Lumpur, Dec 21, 2024. — Benama pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Dr Wan Azizah demands swift response to mutilated cats at Universiti Malaya

Johor police chief Datuk M Kumar said the receipts, dated December 19 and 20, involved food purchases at fast-food restaurants in Kluang, Batu Pahat, and Muar, believed to have been made by the same individual. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Johor cops probe receipts from fast food eatery allegedly containing insults to Islam

A screen shot of a video showing the brawl involving football fans at the Bandar Tasik Selatan LRT Station on the Ampang-Sri Petaling Line.
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

‘Absurd’, Minister Hannah Yeoh says of football fans’ brawl inside Bandar Tasik Selatan LRT station

Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said that the National Registration Department (JPN) is conducting nationwide outreach programmes to combat the possession of fake MyKad among the public. — Picture by Farhan Najib
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Home Ministry cracks down on fake MyKad syndicate, mulls digital transition for future

A man passes by a mural of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Shah Alam, Selangor, on March 8, 2023. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

What you should know about MH370, the jumbo jet Malaysia is searching for again a decade after it went missing

People lay flowers at a makeshift memorial near the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg that saw over 200 injured. — AFP
World  / 5 h ago

Suspect in deadly Berlin Christmas market attack railed against Islam, Germany

The concept of negative time has drawn both fascination and scepticism, particularly from prominent voices in the scientific community. — Pixabay pic/Gerd Altmann
Life  / 18 h ago

Scientists observe ‘negative time’: A quantum breakthrough or just a new way of thinking?

A volunteer places a gold leaf on a human skull during a Lang Pa Cha mass cleansing ceremony for unclaimed bodies. — Reuters
Life  / 5 h ago

Thai ceremony for the dead brings good karma and emotional closure

The Royal Malaysia Police logo is seen on a door at the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur on Nov 18, 2024. — Picture by Choo Choy May .
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Teen girl missing in Cheras since attending lion dance class in Batu 11 Thursday

‘Sate ayam’ and ‘sate daging’ at Sate Famili’s newest outlet in Mutiara Damansara. — Picture by Ethan Lau
Eat-drink  / 5 h ago

Meru’s Sate Famili brings exceptional ‘sate ayam’ and more to Mutiara Damansara

A container ship transits the expanded Panama Canal through the Cocoli Locks. — Reuters pic
Money  / 2 h ago

Trump slams Panama’s ‘excessive’ canal fees, threatens to reclaim it

Batu Pahat police chief, ACP Shahrulanuar Mushaddat Abdullah Sani, said the victim, Afiqah Syaurah Qamarul Arifin, died at the scene from severe head injuries in the incident, which occurred around 10.30am. — Screengrab from social media
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

Tragic end: Four-year-old girl riding pillion with two siblings on bike with dad killed in motorcycle-lorry crash in Johor 

An illustrative photo shows the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) logo. — Picture by Devan Manuel
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Man missing in Kuantan found in parked car nine days later, then dies on site

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir delivers a speech during the launch of the Index Nexus Polycc: Synergy between Polycc and Industries at the Ungku Omar Polytechnic in Ipoh September 4, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Minister Zambry tells UM to start inquiries into sex pest claims

The three-day DWP concert at the Jakarta International Expo, organised by Ismaya Live, a part of Ismaya Group, concluded on December 15 and is one of Asia’s largest electronic music festivals. — Picture from Instagram/Djakarta Warehouse Project
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

Indonesian police detain 18 cops for alleged extortion of Malaysian fans at Jakarta DWP concert

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This combination of pictures created on October 22, 2024 shows a rocket fired by an Israeli war plane targeting a building in Beirut's southern suburb of Shayah on October 22, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. — AFP pic
World / 23 Oct 2024

Israel says ‘eliminated’ Hashem Safieddine, who took over Hezbollah’s leadership after predecessor Nasrallah killed

The German pizzeria's special item number 40 offered a special side order of cocaine with your pizza. — Pexels/Muffin Creatives pic
World / 23 Oct 2024

Special menu: German pizzeria serves up cocaine as side dish, earns a police raid for the trouble

Mike Jeffries is accused of baiting young men with the prospect of modeling jobs to lure them into traveling around the world so they could be sexually abused. — USA TODAY network via Reuters
World / 23 Oct 2024

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries charged with sex trafficking

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrives to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Islamabad, Pakistan October 15, 2024. — Press Information Department handout via Reuters
World / 23 Oct 2024

Pakistan, India extend visa-free corridor in rare cooperation

While investigators have not yet pinpointed the exact ingredient causing the outbreak, they are focusing on slivered onions and beef patties—both of which have been removed from restaurants in the affected states pending further investigation. — AFP pic
World / 23 Oct 2024

Quarter Pounder with a side of E. coli: McDonald’s linked to one death, dozens of food poisonings in US

Rwandan-born French Gaspard Jassef shows a photograph depicting him with his adoptive mother Dominique Jassef taken on June 21, 1995, upon his arrival at a French airport after his adoption, during a photo session in Paris, on June 5, 2024. Gaspard Jassef lost his mother and sister when he was a child during the genocide that affected the Tutsi minority in Rwanda in 1994. He also lost his father and was orphaned in Rwanda. He was adopted in 1995 in France, where he has been trying to rebuild his life for the past 30 years. — AFP pic
World / 23 Oct 2024

From horror to hope: Rwanda’s genocide survivors rebuild lives 30 years on

Residents of Liliba carry their buckets filled with water from a water tanker provided by the City of Ekurhuleni in Tembisa in South Africa on October 15, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 23 Oct 2024

In South Africa, dry taps are the new reality as water crisis deepens

According to a BBC documentary, Harrods failed to intervene, and helped to cover up abuse allegations during Al—Fayed’s ownership between 1985 and 2010. — Picture from Facebook/Harrods
World / 22 Oct 2024

Harrods says discussing settlement with over 250 women who accused late owner Al-Fayed of sexual misconduct

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a US$1 million cheque during the town hall at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. — Screengrab from social media
World / 22 Oct 2024

Legal scrutiny looms over Musk’s million-dollar voter lottery ahead of US election

According to Australia’s ABC news, Giulia Manfrini, 36, died after a swordfish speared her in the chest while surfing in the waters off Ombak Bengbeng, near Masokut Island. — Photo via Facebook/Naga Laut Mentawai Blue
World / 22 Oct 2024

Italian woman dies after being speared in the chest by swordfish while surfing in Indonesia

Matilda Campbell had a lucky escape after being stuck in a crevice for seven hours, upside-down. — Facebook/NSW Ambulance pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Trying to retrieve her phone, Aussie woman ends up stuck upside-down between boulders for seven hours

The Kremlin says the choice of who becomes the next US president is a matter exclusively for the American people and that it will work with whoever is elected. — Sputnik pic via Reuters
World / 22 Oct 2024

Russian state media flatters Trump, but Kremlin cool on him and Harris

Former US President Donald Trump had a staged photo opportunity at a Feasterville McDonald's location. — Getty Images via AFP
World / 22 Oct 2024

McDonald’s HQ says it did not facilitate Trump visit, ‘does not endorse candidates’

China’s Communist Party has never ruled the island, but it claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has said it will not renounce the use of force to bring it under its control. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

China launches live-fire exercise in Taiwan Strait

An protester carries a portrait of Nimrod Cohen, an Israeli hostage held by Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, during an anti-government demonstration in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement. — AFP pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Wealthy Israelis offer rewards for release of Gaza hostages

Three children and two adults were killed in the shooting, the King County Sheriff’s department said in a statement. A girl who lived in the house was also injured.— Pexels/Kaboompic photo
World / 22 Oct 2024

Shooting in Washington state leaves 5 dead; 15-year-old boy is in custody