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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  / 5 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  / 11 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  / 7 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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A resident transports his dog on a board as he wades through flood waters in Chiang Mai, on October 6, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Expect more floods and droughts as UN warns world’s water cycle has become chaotic, unpredictable

Lawyer Mark Christopher Tolentino (left) holds the application of Apollo Quiboloy, pastor and founder of the Philippine-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) church, as he files his candidacy for senator in the May 2025 midterm elections, in Manila on October 8, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Philippine pastor detained over child sex crimes to run for senator, vows to lobby for ‘God-centred’ laws

Miguel Angel said that a few days before his father died, he crossed paths with him on the train as Gonzalez was coming home and 'he told me it was hard for him to talk because of the heat he was feeling'. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Deadly heatwaves: Madrid street sweeper’s death shows extreme hot weather kills

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (right), Vice President Ma'ruf Amin (second right), Defence Minister and president-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) and vice president-elect and the incumbent President's son Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second left) arrive to attend celebrations marking the 79th anniversary of the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) in front of the National Monument (MONAS) at Merdeka Square in Jakarta on October 5, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Taking over from Jokowi, polyglot Prabowo set to lead a bolder Indonesia on world stage

Bangkok skyline on a clear day, free from the smog that has recently enveloped the city. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Hazardous smog blankets Bangkok and nearby provinces 

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to France’s Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and Franco-Swede Anne L’Huillier for research using ultra quick light flashes that enable the study of electrons inside atoms and molecules. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Which achievements have a chance for physics Nobel? ‘Invisibility cloak’ and quantum computing tipped for award this year

Donald Trump said Monday that illegal immigrants were bringing “bad genes” into the United States, doubling down on previous inflammatory rhetoric about migrants poisoning the blood of the country. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Trump claims illegal immigrants bring ‘bad genes’ to the US, White House condemns remarks as ‘vile’

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed in an interview broadcast yesterday that she owns a Glock semi-automatic pistol. — AFP
World / 08 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris reveals she owns a Glock, says she’s fired it at a shooting range

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press the “sacred mission” against Israel’s enemies. — File pic via Reuters
World / 08 Oct 2024

Israel intensifies multi-front battle against Hezbollah, Hamas on attack anniversary, Netanyahu vows ‘sacred mission’

People gather in Meridian Hill Park for an interfaith rally and vigil in solidarity for Palestinians on October 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. Around the US groups of both Palestinian and Israeli supporters held memorials and demonstrations for the one year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel and the start Israel? military campaign in Gaza. — AFP
World / 08 Oct 2024

Dark day: Global leaders, mourners call for peace one year after Hamas attack on Israel

A woman walks past a crater where a collapsed building stood following an overnight Israeli air strike on the neighbourhood of Kafaat in Beirut's southern suburbs, on October 7, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

US warns Israel against targeting Beirut airport as strikes escalate against Hezbollah

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk reacts next to Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump during a campaign rally, at the site of the July assassination attempt against Trump, in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, October 5, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 08 Oct 2024

Elon Musk to ramp up support for Trump in key Pennsylvania rallies ahead of crucial election

File picture of journalists working on a street in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on December 11, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. — AFP pic
World / 07 Oct 2024

A year of war: Gaza becomes deadliest conflict zone for journalists

A view of an oil refinery in Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung February 1, 2007. The United Nations will bring urgent environmental challenges into focus in the coming months, hosting four major sessions aimed at tackling critical threats to the planet. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Oct 2024

Global summits loom: Can the UN sessions tackle the planet’s most urgent threats?

A combination picture shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her five-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023 (left) and Inas visits a damaged cemetery where Saly was buried, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, September 11, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Oct 2024

A year after the image of her grief gripped the world, Gaza woman remains haunted by memories of her niece

The Norwegian Nobel Institute is pictured in Oslo, Norway. — AFP pic
World / 07 Oct 2024

Did you know Alfred Nobel invented the dynamite and wrote a scandalous play featuring incest? Here are four more things to know about the Nobel Prizes and their creator