A fire caused by a burst gas pipe yesterday spread to several homes and sent a fireball soaring into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city, injuring more than 100 people.The towering inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights outside Kuala Lumpur was visible for kilometers and lasted for several
A volcanic eruption restarted in Iceland, with lava flow threatening the already severely damaged fishing town Grindavik.An eruption — the eighth on the same volcanic rift since late 2023 — started at 9:45am yesterday “just north of the protective barrier by Grindavik,” the Met Office said in a stat
SPACEX: Wang Chun, along with a filmmaker, a robotics researcher and a polar guide, took off on Monday on a path never flown before in 64 years of human spaceflight
A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off on Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles.Wang Chun (王春), a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX’s Falcon ro
Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could help solve remaining enigmas of physics.The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91km loop along the French-Swiss border and even below Lake Geneva — published late on Monday
An Australian judge sitting on Hong Kong’s top court yesterday sided with the government to rule against former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting (林卓廷), who was jailed for revealing an anti-graft probe.Hong Kong, a common law jurisdiction, invites overseas judges to hear cases at its Court of Fi
OPTIONS: Asked if one potential avenue to a third term was having J.D. Vance run for the top job and then pass the baton to him, Trump said: ‘That’s one,’ among others
US President Donald Trump on Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.“There are methods which you cou
EMBEZZLEMENT: The far-right French leader was sentenced to four years in prison, which is to be served with an electronic tag, sidelining her from a 2027 presidential run
A French court yesterday sentenced far-right leader Marine Le Pen to a five-year ban on running for office with immediate effect, throwing into doubt her bid to stand for president in 2027.The judge also gave her a four-year prison term, which is to be served with an electronic tag, drawing immediat
The Israeli military yesterday issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah, indicating it could soon launch another major ground operation in the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.Israel ended its ceasefire with the Hamas militant group, and renewed its air and ground war earlier last
The usual festive mood of Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan has been subdued in Indonesia this year, as people grapple with soaring prices for food, clothing and essential goods.Consumer spending ahead of the biggest religious holiday for Muslims, which was cel
In a shake-up of long-standing travel rules, European nationals heading to the UK would from tomorrow need a mandatory entry permit, which the British government says would strengthen border security.The electronic travel authorization (ETA) can be bought online in the next few days for ￡10 (US$13),
GREENLANDUS not getting island: PMNew Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Sunday pushed back against assertions by US President Donald Trump that Washington would take control of the territory. “President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States
UNREST: The authorities in Turkey arrested 13 Turkish journalists in five days, deported a BBC correspondent and on Thursday arrested a reporter from Sweden
Waving flags and chanting slogans, many hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators on Saturday rallied in Istanbul, Turkey, in defence of democracy after the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which sparked Turkey’s worst street unrest in more than a decade. Under a cloudless blue s
With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting Internet access to using facial recognition to identify protesters, who have been forced to adapt. Amid a ban on protests, about 2,000 people have been arrest
Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group’s chief said on Saturday. “Two days ago, we received a proposal from the mediators in Egypt and Qatar. We dealt with it positively and accepted it,” Khalil al-Hayya s
Thousands on Saturday rallied outside a pro-government television station in Serbia accused of a propaganda campaign against university students behind months of massive anti-corruption protests rattling populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Private Informer television is among mainstream med
South Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country’s worst wildfires in history while cleaning his relatives’ grave sites, an investigator said yesterday. More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and
PLUNDERED: Out of 650,000 pieces stolen by the Nazis in World War II, about 100,000 had not been returned by 2009, figures released by a conference showed
The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday. Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp, Belgium, w
JOINT EFFORTS: The three countries have been strengthening an alliance and pressing efforts to bolster deterrence against Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea
The US, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a Chinese military ship kept watch from a distance. The Chinese frigate attempted to get closer to the waters, where the warships and aircraft from the three allied
Israel on Friday launched an attack on Lebanon’s capital for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November last year. Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke rising from an area in the city’s southern suburbs that Israel’s milit
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