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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  / 18 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  / 4 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

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 

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

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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Flames and smoke rise in an area targeted by an Israeli air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, October 6, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 06 Oct 2024

Lebanon state media report ‘very violent’ Israeli shelling of south Beirut

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the 19th Francophonie Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, October 5, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 06 Oct 2024

No more guns for Zion: France’s Macron denounces Israel over attacks on Gaza and Lebanon

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 / 06 Oct 2024

As his US presidential bid flags, Trump brings Elon Musk along for return to site where he was nearly shot

A man wades through the waters in the affected area of monsoon flooding in Roshi village of Nepal's Kavre district September 30, 2024. Nepal is reeling from its worst flooding in decades after ferocious monsoon rains swelled rivers and inundated entire neighbourhoods in the capital Kathmandu, killing at least 232 people. — AFP pic
World / 06 Oct 2024

‘No future now’: Nepalis face growing flood threat as climate change rapidly melts glaciers

A father hugs his son, as Greek and Greek Cypriot nationals are evacuated from Lebanon on a Hellenic Air Force C130, due to ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli forces, in Beirut October 3, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

Global response: Nations rush to prepare evacuation plans for citizens as Lebanon faces escalating conflict

Young men walk past portraits of the two presidential candidates on a wall in north-western Tunisia's Fernana town on September 25, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

Disillusioned young Tunisians look beyond politics, many dream of living abroad

Women work a field in north-western Tunisia’s Fernana town September 25, 2024. Tunisia, where incumbent Kais Saied is poised for re-election on October 6, grapples with mounting economic woes, and in the poorest areas like Fernana, those challenges are felt twofold as the country's increasing debt bears upon public funds' ability to provide social and development programmes. — AFP pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

Poverty and inflation fuel voter despair in Tunisia ahead of election

Workers hang billboards bearing a portrait of slain Lebanese Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah along the airport highway in Beirut October 4, 2024. Nasrallah’s potential successor Hashem Safieddine has been out of contact since yesterday. — AFP pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

Israeli strikes target Hezbollah leadership, successor to Nasrallah unreachable after air raid on Beirut suburbs

Members of media speak in front of cameras outside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi October 13, 2022. India’s government has insisted that marital rape should be treated more leniently than other rape offences in an ongoing Supreme Court case brought by campaigners seeking to outlaw it. — Reuters pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

India govt tells court marital rape laws ‘excessively harsh’ as activists seek full criminalisation

Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania in this file photo taken on July 13, 2024. Trump will make a defiant return today to the small town in Pennsylvania where an assassin tried to shoot him dead during a rally attended by thousands of supporters. — AFP pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

‘Bullet for democracy’: Trump to return to site of rally shooting, says Butler ‘like a monument now’ 

Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik (centre) leaves the Putra Mosque in Putrajaya after perform the Aidiladha prayer in this file photo taken on June 29, 2023. India’s Ministry of External Affairs has condemned controversial preacher Dr Zakir’s visit to Pakistan. — Picture by Hari Anggara
World / 05 Oct 2024

India criticises Muslim preacher and fugitive Dr Zakir Naik’s warm reception in Pakistan, calls it ‘condemnable but expected’

This aerial view shows smoke billowing from a forest fire affecting the Brasilia National Park in Brasilia on September 16, 2024. Brazil is suffering the effects of a multiplication of fires from north to south in the midst of an extreme drought linked to climate change. — AFP pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

Record 164-day drought grips Brazil’s capital Brasilia, wildfires and heat intensify, ‘orange alert’ issued for critically low humidity

A view of an abandoned van with graffiti reading ‘Welcome to Culiacan’, in which six bodies were found in the western state of Sinaloa, in Culiacan September 27, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

Turf war between Sinaloa Cartel factions leaves 150 dead in a month in Mexico

An airplane takes off at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport as smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon October 2, 2024. A South Korean military transport aircraft is evacuating 97 citizens and family members from Lebanon amid escalating tension and will return to South Korea this afternoon. — Reuters pic
World / 05 Oct 2024

South Korea evacuates 97 from Lebanon as Israel-Hezbollah tensions escalate

A woman described by police as a serial killer was arrested and charged yesterday with three murders this week in Toronto, Niagara Falls and another Canadian city. — Picture courtesy of Niagara Regional Police Service
World / 05 Oct 2024

‘She is a serial killer’: Canadian police arrest woman charged with three murders in three days across Ontario

Screen grab obtained from a social media video released on October 3, 2024, posted on the account of David Saranga via X, an Israeli diplomat, Israel's former ambassador in Romania, shows what he says was the moment 21 year old Yazidi woman Fawzia Sido who was kidnapped by Islamic State in Iraq and was freed from Gaza this week, meets her relatives at an unknown location. — Picture via X/David Saranga via Reuters
World / 05 Oct 2024

Hamas rejects ‘false narrative’ of Yazidi woman’s rescue, says she left Gaza voluntarily