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Signature ABC at Lubiantan ABC in Cheras. –– Pictures by CK Lim
Eat-drink  / 12 h ago

Why folks line up for the ABC, prawn mee and ‘nasi lemak ayam rendang’ at this ‘lubiantan’ in Cheras

Johor police chief Datuk M. Kumar (centre) with the outgoing deputy state police chief Afandi Senin (left) who will be replaced by lNor Azizi Maarof (right) at the Johor police contingent headquarters in Johor Baru November 21, 2024. — Picture by Ben Tan
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Police arrest six men after 180km high-speed chase from Muar to KL, recover two rented vehicles

An undated file photo shows the Royal Malaysia Police logo outside the federal police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
Malaysia  / 10 h ago

Toyota Hilux driver leads cops in 180km chase from Muar to KL, then gets away

A general view of the Kuala Lumpur city centre on January 10, 2023. —Picture by Firdaus Latif
Opinion  / 11 h ago

Kuala Lumpur: A city under other people

Three people, including a pregnant woman, were killed while another pregnant woman sustained critical injuries after a Perodua Viva they were in skidded near a shopping mall in Putrajaya late last night. — Picture courtesy of the Fire and Rescue Department
Malaysia  / 10 h ago

Pregnant woman among three killed in Putrajaya crash, another pregnant woman critically injured

If you’re a TNG eWallet user, you must complete your eKYC process by December 20, 2024 to ensure seamless and full access to your eWallet. –– SoyaCincau pic
Tech-gadgets  / 6 h ago

Unverified TNG eWallet users will gradually lose access starting Dec 20: Here’s how to check and complete the eKYC process

A lorry driver fell into a micro-sleep while driving, causing an accident on the North-South Expressway (NSE) that killed a toddler and injured seven others in Muar. — Picture courtesy of the Fire and Rescue Department
Malaysia  / 10 h ago

Three-year-old dies, seven injured in North-South Expressway crash as lorry driver’s micro-sleep causes collision with family’s car

File picture of the road where the incident happen. The 10-year-old girl, confirmed to be brain dead following a fall from her bicycle in an accident in Kuang last Thursday, died at 10am yesterday at Sungai Buloh Hospital. — Picture courtesy of the police
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Selangor police: 10-year-old girl in Kuang dies after bicycle fall, trousers caught in chain, hit-and-run ruled out

School students use an illegal route on a boat to cross the Malaysia-Thailand border to start the school session November 19, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 7 h ago

Immigration to open Rantau Panjang ICQS at 6am, offer RM10 annual pass and considering special lane for students crossing Kelantan-Thai border

Najib’s lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur High Court Complex on October 30, 2024. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

After Shafee complains about Najib’s SRC trial reports, NUJ says don’t blame the media

A photo posted online shows the freezer where the woman’s body had been stored for the past three years.
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Woman in Taman OUG freezer died from blows to chest, police say

Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Malaysia. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
Life  / 13 h ago

Silent killer: Colon cancer highly treatable, but third leading cause of cancer deaths

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad (second from right) and Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi (fifth from left) speak with healthcare workers during the handover ceremony for Hospital Seri Iskandar on Nov 21, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Tanjung Malim health clinic’s 24-hour times not coming back, Dzulkefly says

Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan said the government’s current priority is completing and further developing projects such as the Gemas-Johor Baru electrified double-track rail project and the East Coast Rail Link. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

KL-Singapore HSR plans pending approval as Cabinet prioritises existing rail development projects like Gemas-JB line and ECRL, says Amir Hamzah

People cross a street in the Omotesando shopping area in Tokyo on November 15, 2024. Japanese people are the least satisfied with their sex and romantic lives, closely followed by South Koreans, a global survey by a French research firm showed. — AFP pic
Life  / 13 h ago

No sex or romance: Japan, South Korea trail global satisfaction rankings, Ipsos survey finds

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday labelled Donald Trump the ‘more dangerous’ option in next week’s US presidential election but slammed Harris for Israel support. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Greta Thunberg says Trump ‘more dangerous’, then criticises Harris over Israel, tells Americans don’t settle for least worst option

A Russian student will face trial this month for treason on behalf of Ukraine, a court said Friday, after the 20-year-old was jailed in Chechnya for allegedly burning the Quran. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Russian student jailed for Quran burning now faces new treason trial for alleged ties to Ukraine’s security service

Men carry a body inside a blanket in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 1. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

No permanent ceasefire, no truce: Hamas rejects mediators’ proposal

Richard Moore, 59, was pronounced dead at 6.24pm after receiving a lethal injection at a prison in state capital Columbia, media witnesses said. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

South Carolina executes black man convicted by all-white jury amid claims of self-defence

Businesses were boarding up in Washington as the US capital braced for Tuesday’s knife-edge presidential election — and any potential repeat of the shocking violence that erupted in the wake of 2020’s vote. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Fort Washington: Businesses brace for unrest as election anxiety peaks

This picture taken in Moscow on October 5, 2021 shows the US online social media and social networking service Facebook's logo on a smartphone screen. Dozens of Facebook groups bill themselves as Kamala Harris fan pages but mount racist attacks, criticise her record on immigration and promote her rival Donald Trump, in what disinformation researchers call a ‘bait-and-switch’ tactic aimed at deceiving voters in a tight US election race. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Deceptive ‘bait-and-switch’ Facebook groups spread disinformation targeting US voters with anti-Kamala Harris posts

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan October 31, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

‘Empty words’: Climate action stalls a year on as world clings to fossil fuels

This photograph taken on October 9, 2024 shows an elite police personnel monitoring security at a post on a sandy island along the Indus river, in the 'Katcha lands' at Rahim Yar Khan district. On TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram Pakistani gangster Shahid Lund Baloch fascinates tens-of-thousands with defiant messages delivered gun-in-hand, glamourising his exile lifestyle and cultivating a ‘Robin Hood’ reputation. — AFP pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

‘Beloved brother bandit’: TikTok-famed outlaw terrorises, transfixes Pakistan riverlands as authorities struggle to catch him

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 / 01 Nov 2024

‘Vladimir, let’s talk’: Putin and Trump’s uneasy bromance — from admiration to geopolitical clashes

Firefighters pump floodwater out of a tunnel where vehicles are piled up, after heavy rains in Alfafar, in Valencia, November 1, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

Spain flood death toll hits 205 as Valencia opens temporary morgue

People check the devastation in the aftermath of Israeli strikes in the neighbourhood of Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburbs on November 1, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. — AFP pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

WHO ‘deeply concerned’ about ‘rising attacks’ on Lebanon healthcare

Two people died and six were injured in a shooting in the downtown area of Orlando, Florida in the midst of Halloween festivities. ― Reuters file pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

Halloween horror in Orlando: 17-year-old suspect arrested after shooting leaves two dead

A participant wearing wings in the rainbow colours attends the yearly Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Berlin on July 22, 2023. Germans will be able to change their legal gender more easily from November 1, 2024 thanks to a new law hailed as a ‘historic’ step for the LGBTQ community. — AFP pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

Germany eases legal gender change with new law, removing psychological assessment requirement

Footage from Metro TV showed flames and billowing black smoke coming out of a building in the centre of an industrial complex in Bekasi, a city on Jakarta’s eastern edge. The report said roads had been closed around the factory. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

Jakarta cooking oil factory fire leaves eight dead, authorities investigating cause

In a June paper reviewed by Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three institutions, including two under the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) leading research body, the Academy of Military Science (AMS), detailed how they had used an early version of Meta’s Llama as a base for what it calls ‘ChatBIT’. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

Chinese military uses Meta’s Llama to advance AI capabilities, analysts reveal

Pedestrians walk near the India gate amid smoggy conditions after Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in New Delhi on November 1, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

India’s capital chokes in smog after firework ban flouted during Diwali