Entertainment & Glomour
Cambodia on Thursday welcomed the return of a batch of trafficked Buddhist and Hindu statues from collectors and museums in the United States.In recent years the kingdom has worked closely with US officials to secure the return of hundreds of precious cultural artifacts -- many of them stolen and ex...
World
A blast in an Indian pharmaceutical factory has killed at least 17 people with chemicals burning the skin off several of the 34 injured, police said Thursday.The Hindu newspaper reported that the force of the blast had been so strong, it left severed body parts scattered around the site.The fire bro...
Australia unveiled a US$570 million deal to build missiles domestically Thursday, a bid to beef up military capabilities amid a regional arms race.Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy announced a deal to develop naval and air-launched Joint Strike Missiles (JSM) at a plant north of Sydney.The factor...
President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia's economic and trade links with China are "yielding results" as he welcomed Chinese Premier Li Qiang to the Kremlin.Moscow has looked to Beijing as an economic lifeline since the Ukraine conflict began, with the two boosting trade to ...
The Israeli military killed a senior Palestinian in Lebanon on Wednesday, leading to accusations from the Fatah movement that Israel was trying to ignite a regional war.The strike that killed Khalil Maqdah, described by Fatah as "one of the leaders" of its armed wing in Lebanon, came hours...
US actors Jennifer Lopez (L) and Ben Affleck arrive for the world premiere of "The Flash" at Ovation Hollywood in Hollywood, California, on 12 June 2023. Photo: AFPJennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, US media reported Tuesday, two years after the Hollywood power couple o...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a "return of peace" Wednesday as he left for Ukraine, weeks after Kyiv condemned him for hugging President Vladimir Putin during a visit to traditional ally Russia.Modi, 73, will first visit Poland before travelling on to Ukraine on Friday.&qu...
Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city."We are struggling to breathe," said 30-year-old teacher Tayane Moraes, one of some 460,000 people who live in the city near the border with Bo...
A mining accident in southwest China on Wednesday killed seven people and left one other trapped, according to state media.State broadcaster CCTV said the incident occurred at around 10:00 am as workers were closing a ventilation shaft at a coal mine in the city of Leshan, Sichuan province.The outle...
Sports,Football
Ange Postecoglou admitted "wasteful" Tottenham lost their composure as Jamie Vardy's second-half equaliser gave Leicester a 1-1 draw against his profligate team on Monday.Promoted Leicester survived a series of costly Tottenham misses either side of Pedro Porro's first-half opener ...
A North Korean defected to the South by walking across the heavily fortified border that separates the peninsula, Seoul's military said Tuesday.Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, but the majority cross the land border ...
World,Back Page
Thousands of outraged Indian protesters, including arch-rival football fans and lawyers, called for justice Monday after the rape and murder of a doctor as widespread strikes by healthcare workers entered a second week.The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor's bloodied body at a state-run hospit...
Business & Commerce
Australia warned Monday that the "softness" of China's economy and tumbling iron ore prices could leave a multibillion-dollar hole in the nation's budget.Troubles in China's massive construction sector have seen iron ore prices drop about 30 percent since the start of the year ...
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said Monday it will send a probe inside a battered reactor this week for a trial removal of radioactive debris. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) aims to retrieve a tiny sample of the estimated 880 tons of radioactive debris that ...
The United States and South Korea kicked off their major annual joint military drills on Monday, Seoul said, with new exercises aimed at containing the nuclear-armed North, including fighting cyberattacks. The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise runs until August 29, with drills this year set to "ref...
Police across England and Wales are conducting fewer strip-searches of children but "concerning practices" remain, including a "widespread failure" to comply with safeguarding procedures, a new watchdog report said Monday.Officers carried out 457 such searches in the year to June...
Kylian Mbappe was left frustrated on his Real Madrid La Liga debut on Sunday as a resilient Real Mallorca held the Spanish and European champions to a 1-1 draw in their title defence opener.The French superstar was thwarted by Mallorca goalkeeper Dominik Greif and after Rodrygo Goes sent Madrid ahea...
Manchester City got their Premier League title defence off to a winning start as goals from Erling Haaland and Mateo Kovacic inflicted a 2-0 defeat on Enzo Maresca in his first match in charge of Chelsea.Haaland marked his 100th appearance for the club with his 91st goal before Kovacic struck on his...
The Thai king on Sunday formally appointed Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter of controversial billionaire ex-premier Thaksin, as Thailand's new prime minister.Paetongtarn, the kingdom's youngest ever PM, comes to office after a court sacked the previous premier and disbanded t...
Is America ready to elect a Black woman as its president? Vice President Kamala Harris, who will be officially confirmed as the Democratic US presidential nominee in Chicago next week, is betting that it is."In my entire career, I've heard people say when I ran... people aren't ready, i...
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