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Malaysia Airlines’ new Airbus A330neo is escorted by a Royal Malaysian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter jet as it performs a flypast. — Picture courtesy of Malaysia Aviation Group Berhad
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

New planes, old problems: Malaysia Airlines says A330neos have engine issues

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  / 11 h ago

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

An undated file photograph shows the logo of the Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (Jakim). — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

Jakim spells out when Muslims may wish Christians ‘Merry Christmas’

Images circulating online showed a cat’s carcass with a large gash on its body and all four paws missing.
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

CCTV footage reveals stray dogs behind cat deaths at UM, says KL police chief

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  / 10 h ago

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

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  / 11 h ago

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

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  / 10 h ago

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

A container ship transits the expanded Panama Canal through the Cocoli Locks. — Reuters pic
Money  / 8 h ago

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

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  / 9 h ago

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

Barat Daya district police chief ACP Sazalee Adam said efforts were being made by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) to bring home the two fishermen, Muhammad Ikmal Hakimi Ismail (left), 22, and Nor Hasrul Abdullah, 25. — Bernama pics
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Safe return: Missing fishermen found in Aceh waters, one week after drifting off Kuala Sungai Pinang in Penang

A volunteer places a gold leaf on a human skull during a Lang Pa Cha mass cleansing ceremony for unclaimed bodies. — Reuters
Life  / 10 h ago

Thai ceremony for the dead brings good karma and emotional closure

‘Sate ayam’ and ‘sate daging’ at Sate Famili’s newest outlet in Mutiara Damansara. — Picture by Ethan Lau
Eat-drink  / 11 h ago

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

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  / 10 h ago

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

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  / 12 h ago

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

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  / 8 h ago

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

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France’s Jean-Noel Barrot, who was making his first trip to Ukraine since becoming foreign minister in September, is also set to visit the east of the country tomorrow, where France will finance new two new centres for the protection of children impacted by the war. — Reuters pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

France warns that North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine would be an escalation

A file photograph shows children waiting with their families next to a bus stop in central Pyongyang, on September 10, 2018. — Reuters pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Things that make you go hmmm: 10-year-old with 22 houses among minors buying 3,000 S. Korea homes in five years

Indonesia’s next president Prabowo Subianto believes the road to prosperity lies in ending poverty and hunger by feeding the country’s tens of millions of schoolchildren who will be its future workforce. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Indonesia’s US$28b prosperity meal plan: Incoming president Prabowo aspires to grow talent and economy by feeding schoolkids

An abandoned excavator is partially covered by coal waste at a coal mine of the state-owned Longmay Group on the outskirts of Jixi, in Heilongjiang province, China, November 5, 2015. — Reuters pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

How a deputy mayor of a poor city in China stole RM2b and got away

Workers in protective suits conduct a cleanup operation to clear the mystery black balls ranging from the size of peas to tennis balls that washed ashore on Coogee Beach in Sydney that were initially feared to contain toxic substances on October 17, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Ewww, what are those black balls on Sydney beaches? Just chemical mix of cosmetics, cleaning products and oil, not harmful, says environmental agency

An undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on October 19, 2024 shows what is claimed to be a South Korean drone in a tree, found in an area of Pyongyang. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Pyongyang says found remains of crashed South Korean propaganda drone, suspects recce mission after North Korea deploys soldiers to aide Russia in Ukraine war

Canada has the largest community of Sikhs outside of Punjab and some of the dissidents have spoken out against the Indian government leadership under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for which they claim their lives to be at risk. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Some Sikhs in Canada, home to largest community outside Punjab, feel threatened by India under Modi after separatist leader Nijjar’s killing

Masaki Daito, deputy superintendent of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station, shows a diorama of the world’s biggest nuclear power plan in Japan’s Niigata prefecture that has a new tsunami wall to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophe that befell the Fukushima nuclear station in 2011. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Japan returns to nuclear 13 years after Fukushima disaster in bid for cleaner energy to power AI

A billboard depicting Hamas’ slain leader Yahya Sinwar with the Arabic slogan “if Sinwar departs from the battlefields, Palestine will birth a thousand Sinwars”, during a rally in Yemen’s Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on October 18, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

What next for Hamas after Israel kills Sinwar, and what will it mean for the war in Gaza?

Japanese officials find polyethylene tanks and petrol bombs in the car of a man in his 40s that crashed into a barricade near the Japanese prime minister’s official residence in central Tokyo on October 19, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Japanese cops nab man for throwing Molotov cocktails at ruling Liberal Democratic Party HQ ahead of Oct 27 general election

A young Palestinian boy holds up a portrait of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a rally in Ramallah, in the Occupied-West Bank on October 18, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

Hamas mourns death of leader Yahya Sinwar, says Israeli hostages ‘will not return’ till aggression against Gaza ends

A litre of petrol in Nigeria sold for around 195 naira just before Tinubu took office and rose to at least 998 naira (US$0.61) per litre in Lagos, 1,030 naira in Abuja, at the beginning of October and can cost 1,300 naira elsewhere. — AFP pic
World / 19 Oct 2024

As living costs rise, Nigerians swap cars for bikes

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) visiting the command of the 2nd Corps of the Korean People's Army, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP pic
World / 18 Oct 2024

Kim Jong Un declares South Korea a “hostile” nation, severs ties amid support for Russia

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy (right) and British Ambassador to China Caroline Wilson arrive at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on October 18, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 18 Oct 2024

UK’s foreign secretary Lammy gets red carpet welcome in Beijing even as he seeks to challenge China on human rights, Ukraine war and HK policies

A Palestinian man bakes bread at a make-shift camp for the internally displaced in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 17, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 18 Oct 2024

Is the war over? Tired Gazans hope with Sinwar’s death, Netanyahu no longer has a motive and reconstruction can begin

In this file picture dated December 14, 2022, the Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, Yahya Sinwar, appears before supporters during a rally marking the 35th anniversary of the group's foundation in Gaza City on. — AFP pic
World / 18 Oct 2024

Architect of Oct 7 attacks: Who is Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the intelligence operator said to be killed by Israel?