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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  / 6 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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Carlos Reyes, 57, pauses work outside his booth at Broadacres Marketplace in North Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 11, 2024. Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, and represent 22 percent of voters in Nevada. — AFP pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Frustrated Latinos turn to Trump in key state of Nevada

Rohingya refugees on a boat wait to be pulled by a relief vessel to anchor closer to shore off the coast of Labuhan Haji in Southern Aceh province on October 21, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

UN appeals to Indonesia for Rohingya boat rescue

Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris attends a conversation moderated by Charlie Sykes with former US Rep. Liz Cheney in Brookfield, Wisconsin, October 21, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Harris, Trump pick up the pace two weeks to Election Day

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's head injury forced him to cancel a trip to Russia for a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging markets being held in Kazan, following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Brazil’s Lula says head injury ‘serious,’ with update from doctors in coming days

A relative embraces the body of a Palestinian killed in Israeli fire, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, at Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip October 21, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Hospitals under fire as Israeli forces deepen operations in northern Gaza

(From left) A combination picture shows a De Brazza’s monkey and a white-faced saki. Housed in five separate cages, the deceased monkeys included the De Brazza species as well as one common squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis. — Screencaps from Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
World / 22 Oct 2024

Monkey deaths at Hong Kong zoo: Authorities say soil infection killed them, as 11th dies

A Brazilian Indigenous man is pictured at the venue where the COP16 conference will be held at the Pacific Event Center in Cali, Colombia, on October 20, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 22 Oct 2024

Biodiversity at a crossroads: Key discussions set to shape nature’s future at COP16 in Colombia

A man walks past a newspaper displayed on a street for the public in Seoul on October 21, 2024, with coverage on North Korea’s decision to deploy thousands of soldiers to Ukraine’s front lines and a photo (centre) of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin toasting at a banquet in Pyongyang earlier this year. — AFP pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Seoul demands ‘immediate withdrawal’ of North Korean troops supporting Russia in Ukraine

The campaigns are racing the final stretch of an extremely tight presidential contest, with many polls showing the two candidates neck-and-neck, including in battleground states that could determine the winner. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Big spenders: Harris campaign burns through US$270m in Sept, dwarfing Trump’s outlays of US$78m

A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on October 19, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Once bursting with life, south Beirut blown to bits by Israeli bombs

Australian Daniel Mathew Otto claimed to have shouted a warning in English, while his Japanese victim claimed it was a threat in the Japanese language. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Warning vs threat: Aussie man in Tokyo lands in jail for shouting ‘go to da!’ at 70-year-old Japanese man

Two Chinese businessmen were reportedly abducted from their rented home, which doubled as their office, in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district. — AFP pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Two China businessman abducted in Bangkok, forced to transfer over RM1.5m to armed kidnappers before ditched 12km away from home

Screengrab of National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission video showing officials cutting off the internet cable across the bridge.
World / 21 Oct 2024

In daring scheme, Laos scam gangs install internet cable across border to trick Thais into thinking they're dealing with locals

Robert Fletcher, along with his nine-year-old alpaca, Hephner, greet Britain's King Charles at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

In Canberra visit, King Charles gets sneezed on by suit-and-crown-wearing alpaca named after Hugh Hefner (VIDEO)

A handout picture released by Zaman Daily shows exiled Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen at his residence on September 24, 2013 in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. — AFP pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Accused by Erdogan of fomenting failed 2016 coup, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen dies in exile at 83

File photo of members of the Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf. In April 2000, the militant group kidnapped at gunpoint 21 people from a holiday resort on the island of Sipadan in Sabah. — AFP pic
World / 21 Oct 2024

Philippine court jails 17 Abu Sayyaf militants for life over Sipadan kidnappings in 2000