Sitting around a wrestling ring, churchgoers roared as local hero Billy O’Keeffe body-slammed a fighter named Disciple. Beneath stained-glass windows, they whooped and cheered as burly, tattooed wresters tumbled into the aisle during a six-man tag-team battle.This is Wrestling Church, which brings b
TIT-FOR-TAT: The arrest of Filipinos that Manila said were in China as part of a scholarship program follows the Philippines’ detention of at least a dozen Chinese
The Philippines yesterday expressed alarm over the arrest of three Filipinos in China on suspicion of espionage, saying they were ordinary citizens and the arrests could be retaliation for Manila’s crackdown against alleged Chinese spies.Chinese authorities arrested the Filipinos and accused them of
Britain’s Prince Andrew sent Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) a letter on his birthday every year as part of a “communication channel” to support the British royal’s platform for entrepreneurs, court documents published on Friday showed.The documents came to light following a legal challenge broug
Democrats on Friday expressed outrage that US President Donald Trump had fired the head of the highly sensitive US National Security Agency (NSA) at the apparent urging of far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.Loomer, who is known for claiming that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were an inside job
Australia plans to wrest control of a Chinese-owned port in the country’s north after a national election next month as concerns grow over a more assertive Chinese military presence.Opposition leader Peter Dutton yesterday said he would take immediate action to bring the Port of Darwin under Austral
Guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the star Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 following an illness, his family said on Friday, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind musician.With his wife Mariam Doumbia, Bagayoko formed half of a group whose blend of traditional rock guit
CIVILIAN DEATHS: Gaza officials said that Israeli forces killed at least 27 people in an airstrike on a school building, which the military said was a Hamas command center
Israeli troops moved into an area of northern Gaza to expand what they call a security zone around the edge of the enclave, the military said yesterday, days after the Israeli government announced plans to seize large areas with an operation in the south.Soldiers carrying out the operation in Shejai
US Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday said that French Member of Parliament Marine Le Pen was convicted of a very minor offense and barring her from running for office was “not democracy.”“They’re trying to throw her in prison and throw her off the ballot,” Vance said in an interview with the New
ACCESS DISPUTE: The blast struck a house, and set cars and tractors alight, with the fires wrecking several other structures and cutting electricity
An explosion killed at least five people, including a pregnant woman and a one-year-old, during a standoff between rival groups of gold miners early on Thursday in northwestern Bolivia, police said, a rare instance of a territorial dispute between the nation’s mining cooperatives turning fatal.The b
In a series of coordinated attacks, tackers targeting Australia’s major pension funds have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, and compromised more than 20,000 accounts.National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said
An original model of E.T. created for Steven Spielberg’s beloved film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby’s auction house in New York said on Thursday.The piece, a little over 1m tall and which had been estimated to fetch between US$600,000 and US$
Thai police yesterday summoned an American academic to face charges of insulting the monarchy, a rare case of a foreign national being charged under the kingdom’s strict lese-majeste law.The army filed a complaint against Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in northern Thailand and an a
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court today, which upheld parliament's impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of martial law last year that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades. With Yoon's ouster, a presidential election is requir
‘WEAPONIZED STATE’: A report said the president and vice president had eradicated independent institutions, and silenced the opposition inside and outside the nation
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, his wife and dozens of senior officials were responsible for arbitrary detentions, torture and extrajudicial executions, a report by UN experts said yesterday.The report compiled by the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua names 54 people it said played key
The US government has banned US government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press (AP) has learned.Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about
‘STRANGE’: Norfolk Island faces US tariffs that are nearly three times higher than Australia proper, despite being the No. 223 exporter in the world
Australia yesterday expressed puzzlement over US President Donald Trump’s decision to slap a 29 percent trade tariff on its tiny Pacific territory of Norfolk Island.The island — home to many descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers — has a total population of a little more than 2,000 people and lies
The 1999 action game Shenmue yesterday was named the most influential video game of all time following a survey organized by BAFTA, the British association that honors films, television and video games.The series, created by Japanese designer Yu Suzuki, stars a young Ryo Hazuki as he seeks to avenge
Yodelers of the world, you never stood a chance: Monkeys will always be better at yodeling than humans because they have a “cheap trick” hidden in their voice box, scientists said yesterday.When monkeys howl — or yodelers yodel — they rapidly switch back and forth between low and high-frequency soun
MALAYSIAMH370 search pausedThe latest search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been suspended as it is “not the season,” Minister of Transport Anthony Loke said yesterday, more than a decade after the plane went missing. “They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the
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