Monthly Archives: May 2023
Kota Kinabalu man stabs ex-fiancee to death
ANN/THE STAR - The murder suspect detained over the death of his ex-fiancee allegedly stabbed the woman eight times after she refused his pleas...
1MDB fraud mastermind Jho Low reportedly hiding in Macau
ANN/ THE STRAITS TIMES - Malaysia’s anti-graft regulator has confirmed that it suspects alleged 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fraud mastermind Jho Low is hiding...
Former Canadian soldier extradited to Thailand over gang killing
ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES - Canadian national Matthew Dupre has been successfully extradited to Thailand in connection with the 2022 killing of a criminal gang...
Danish woman arrested in Bali for pornography on social media
ANN/THE STAR - A Danish national has been arrested in Bali for featuring in a pornographic video uploaded to social media, local police told...
Hirsutes you, sir!: French Open’s Paire joins pantheon of great sports beards
PARIS (AFP) - France’s enfant terrible of the tennis courts Benoit Paire (AFP, pic below) thrilled the Roland Garros crowd in a battling five-set...
Rolling thunder: Contestants chase cheese wheel down a hill
LONDON (AP) - The big cheese of extreme United Kingdom (UK) sports events is back.
Hundreds of spectators gathered on Monday to watch dozens of...
Japan PM’s son to resign after public outrage over private party at official residence
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy secretary to take responsibility for...
30 peacekeepers injured in fierce clashes with Serbs
PRISTINA, KOSOVO (AP) - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, yesterday raised the number of its troops injured in...
Spain prime minister’s shock election call brings unruly coalition to heel
MADRID (AP) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s snap general election call breaks apart the coalition he built with the far-left United We Can...
Five Greek border police officers arrested on suspicion of working with migrant smugglers
ATHENS (AFP) - Five Greek border police officers were arraigned yesterday as suspected accomplices of a smuggling network that illegally brought migrants into the...