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Hong Kong garage mechanic jailed 4½ years for role in 2019 attack on protesters, commuters at Yuen Long MTR station

Hong Kong garage mechanic jailed 4½ years for role in 2019 attack on p...

2 years ago 512

Cops closing in on gang behind £12MILLION gold bullion heist from airport as six arrested over Goldfinger-style plot

Cops closing in on gang behind £12MILLION gold bullion heist from airp...

2 years ago 908

Sophie Kinsella, best-selling ‘Shopaholic’ author, has brain cancer

Sophie Kinsella, best-selling ‘Shopaholic’ author, has brain cancer

2 years ago 388

About 60 enterprises forge partnerships with new Hong Kong I&T park as city pushes forward plan to attract jobs and billions of dollars in investment

About 60 enterprises forge partnerships with new Hong Kong I&T park as...

2 years ago 388

Post wins gold with property and Greater Bay Area reporting at Hang Seng University’s 8th Business Journalism Awards

Post wins gold with property and Greater Bay Area reporting at Hang Se...

2 years ago 350

Sweeping gun legislation approved by Maine lawmakers after mass shooting

Sweeping gun legislation approved by Maine lawmakers after mass shooti...

2 years ago 333

Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains

Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record...

2 years ago 633

China reports 4 times more cross-border trips by foreigners, but total still below pre-pandemic levels

China reports 4 times more cross-border trips by foreigners, but total...

2 years ago 442

Hong Kong lawmakers question HK$4.39 billion bill for running 30,000 temporary public housing flats

Hong Kong lawmakers question HK$4.39 billion bill for running 30,000 t...

2 years ago 441

Google just fired 28 employees who protested its contract with Israel

Google just fired 28 employees who protested its contract with Israel

2 years ago 328

Germany plans to build world’s tallest wind turbine with 1,200ft tower set to dwarf the Shard… & they’ll erect thousands

Germany plans to build world’s tallest wind turbine with 1,200ft tower...

2 years ago 481

Nigel Farage blasts Brussels after police order shut down of National Conservative Conference

Nigel Farage blasts Brussels after police order shut down of National ...

2 years ago 369

Canton Fair: Chinese Premier Li Qiang solicits views from ‘ambassadors of friendship’ as external tensions grow

Canton Fair: Chinese Premier Li Qiang solicits views from ‘ambassadors...

2 years ago 500

With Mideast on brink, investors ignore geopolitical risks at their peril

With Mideast on brink, investors ignore geopolitical risks at their pe...

2 years ago 337

Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism – video

Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism – video

2 years ago 358

German regional leader of far-right party in court over allegations of 'knowingly' shouting Nazi slogan

German regional leader of far-right party in court over allegations of...

2 years ago 347

Apple planning US$250 million expansion in Singapore to write ‘new chapter’ in company’s history in city state

Apple planning US$250 million expansion in Singapore to write ‘new cha...

2 years ago 320

Sydney’s Bondi Westfield mall reopens for tributes after fatal stabbings

Sydney’s Bondi Westfield mall reopens for tributes after fatal stabbin...

2 years ago 607

Stealth robot ‘XL’ submarines dubbed ‘Ghost Sharks’ to be deployed by Australia to ‘defend seas from China’

Stealth robot ‘XL’ submarines dubbed ‘Ghost Sharks’ to be deployed by ...

2 years ago 356

Can you hear the hyenas and wild pigs in new David Bowie hit?

Can you hear the hyenas and wild pigs in new David Bowie hit?

2 years ago 337

Israeli soccer facing Palestinian calls for action by FIFA at annual congress

Israeli soccer facing Palestinian calls for action by FIFA at annual c...

2 years ago 362

China primary school bans homework after 9.30pm with no penalty for unfinished assignments, sparks heated online debate

China primary school bans homework after 9.30pm with no penalty for un...

2 years ago 535

Blueberries and bell peppers: six fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide risk

Blueberries and bell peppers: six fruits and vegetables with the most ...

2 years ago 522

Having remade Twitter, Elon Musk takes his speech fight global

Having remade Twitter, Elon Musk takes his speech fight global

2 years ago 438

Reuters photographer wins World Press Photo of the Year with poignant shot from Gaza

Reuters photographer wins World Press Photo of the Year with poignant ...

2 years ago 565

Stabbed bishop forgives alleged attacker and urges followers not to retaliate

Stabbed bishop forgives alleged attacker and urges followers not to re...

2 years ago 477

'There is no time to waste': EU leaders want to boost competitiveness to close gap with US and China

'There is no time to waste': EU leaders want to boost competitiveness ...

2 years ago 398

Biden to win Kennedy family endorsement in hit to Robert F Kennedy Jnr’s White House bid

Biden to win Kennedy family endorsement in hit to Robert F Kennedy Jnr...

2 years ago 450

In Indonesia, China’s foreign minister warns against ‘bloc confrontation’ in Indo-Pacific

In Indonesia, China’s foreign minister warns against ‘bloc confrontati...

2 years ago 499

China unloads more US Treasury bills as odds of Fed rate cuts grow slim

China unloads more US Treasury bills as odds of Fed rate cuts grow sli...

2 years ago 500

NASA chief says 'secretive' China is hiding military projects in space

NASA chief says 'secretive' China is hiding military projects in space...

2 years ago 349

Britain’s renegade royal, Prince Harry, now calls himself a U.S. resident

Britain’s renegade royal, Prince Harry, now calls himself a U.S. resid...

2 years ago 598

Gold bars melted down after Canada's biggest ever bullion heist 'used to buy guns'

Gold bars melted down after Canada's biggest ever bullion heist 'used ...

2 years ago 463

Sydney shopping mall reopens five days after six killed in stabbing

Sydney shopping mall reopens five days after six killed in stabbing

2 years ago 437

Iran feared to be MONTHS from building nuclear bomb at secret base ‘buried so deep under mountain missiles can’t hit it’

Iran feared to be MONTHS from building nuclear bomb at secret base ‘bu...

2 years ago 553

World Press Photo 2024 – global winners

World Press Photo 2024 – global winners

2 years ago 361

A portrait of Haitians trying to survive without a government

A portrait of Haitians trying to survive without a government

2 years ago 474

Takeaways From a Trove of ByteDance Records

Takeaways From a Trove of ByteDance Records

2 years ago 468

How a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ finalist became an unlikely ambassador for Taiwan

How a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ finalist became an unlikely ambassador for ...

2 years ago 549

What Iran’s attack on Israel revealed about its weapons arsenal

What Iran’s attack on Israel revealed about its weapons arsenal

2 years ago 362

Germany arrests men allegedly spying for Russia in plan to sabotage Ukrainian aid

Germany arrests men allegedly spying for Russia in plan to sabotage Uk...

2 years ago 404

Northern Lights shine over Iceland’s erupting volcano in stunning timelapse footage

Northern Lights shine over Iceland’s erupting volcano in stunning time...

2 years ago 411

Germany arrests 2 for allegedly spying for Russia, plotting sabotage to undermine Ukraine aid

Germany arrests 2 for allegedly spying for Russia, plotting sabotage t...

2 years ago 309

Ukraine warns of ‘World War 3’ ahead of long-stalled US Congress aid vote

Ukraine warns of ‘World War 3’ ahead of long-stalled US Congress aid v...

2 years ago 489

Elderly South Korean woman dies after 5-hour wait for hospital that can perform heart surgery amid doctors’ strike

Elderly South Korean woman dies after 5-hour wait for hospital that ca...

2 years ago 553

Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds

Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back i...

2 years ago 514

Chinese-linked nickel miners in Indonesia accelerating deforestation, threatening indigenous Bajau people: report

Chinese-linked nickel miners in Indonesia accelerating deforestation, ...

2 years ago 479

Hong Kong to spend HK$4.6 million on improving public inquiry hotline, including AI

Hong Kong to spend HK$4.6 million on improving public inquiry hotline,...

2 years ago 372

Indonesians leave homes near erupting volcano and airport closes due to ash danger

Indonesians leave homes near erupting volcano and airport closes due t...

2 years ago 493

How more Asean-China agricultural trade could reshape regional, global markets

How more Asean-China agricultural trade could reshape regional, global...

2 years ago 460

Who are likely contenders for House speaker if Republicans oust Mike Johnson?

Who are likely contenders for House speaker if Republicans oust Mike J...

2 years ago 463

BP trims down executive team, picks new head of its gas and low carbon energy business

BP trims down executive team, picks new head of its gas and low carbon...

2 years ago 466

Pregnant woman airlifted from Disney cruise ship in Atlantic Ocean

Pregnant woman airlifted from Disney cruise ship in Atlantic Ocean

2 years ago 528

Qatar reassessing its role as mediator between Israel and Hamas

Qatar reassessing its role as mediator between Israel and Hamas

2 years ago 501

Bank of England to cut rates in May, Morgan Stanley says, retaining contrarian call

Bank of England to cut rates in May, Morgan Stanley says, retaining co...

2 years ago 340

Two killed in horror sheep attack as cops forced to shoot rampaging beast dead after finding bodies lying in paddock

Two killed in horror sheep attack as cops forced to shoot rampaging be...

2 years ago 580

Hamas’ head of interrogations killed in Israeli airstrike as IDF prepare to wipe out terror group in Rafah mission

Hamas’ head of interrogations killed in Israeli airstrike as IDF prepa...

2 years ago 464

New Swedish law lowers age to change legal gender from 18 to 16

New Swedish law lowers age to change legal gender from 18 to 16

2 years ago 390

Tim Cook visits Singapore amid Apple's Southeast Asia expansion efforts

Tim Cook visits Singapore amid Apple's Southeast Asia expansion effort...

2 years ago 439

Woman in Brazil wheels corpse into bank to take out loan in dead man’s name

Woman in Brazil wheels corpse into bank to take out loan in dead man’s...

2 years ago 580