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Panelist and Court of Appeal judge Datin Evrol Mariette Peters speaks at the ‘Children’s Rights in Malaysia: From Commitments to Monitoring and Accountability’ panel session during the Human Rights Day Forum 2025 in Kuala Lumpur December 11, 2025. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Malaysia  / 8 h ago

How judges handle children in custody disputes: Court of Appeal judge shares personalised, child‑friendly approach

The Malaysian Meteorological Department today issued a warning of continuous rain that is expected to hit several states until this Thursday. — Picture by Farhan Najib
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

MetMalaysia warns of continuous heavy rain in several states until Thursday

A customer buys fish at the Section 6 wet market in Shah Alam on February 16, 2023. — Yusof Mat Isa pic
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Why are fish prices so high in Malaysia? LKIM claims wholesalers are hoarding, manipulating market

A damaged luxury car rests on a roadside embankment in Kuala Langat after the driver allegedly lost control while reaching for his mobile phone. — PDRM pic
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Costly distraction: Man crashes Porsche in Kuala Langat after dropping phone

Rain clouds are seen over the city centre in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture dated December 8, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Brace for rain: Thunderstorm alert until noon for Selangor, KL, N. Sembilan and Sabah

Subang MP Wong Chen today said the Subang Jaya City Council has agreed to fund an independent Traffic Impact Assessment for the proposed Persiaran Lagoon Selatan–Kelana Link flyover in SS14. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Wong Chen: MBSJ agrees to independent traffic study on Persiaran Lagoon Selatan–Kelana Link flyover

Malaysia’s rhythmic gymnastics squad leapt, twirled, and danced their way to a team gold at the SEA Games Thailand 2025, today. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 19 h ago

Malaysia’s rhythmic gymnastics squad dazzles with routines to clinch SEA Games gold

People react in front of a flower tribute near Bondi Pavilion following a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney December 15, 2025. — Reuters pic
World  / 18 h ago

What we know about the shooting victims at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Jewish event

A handout photo taken and released by the Australian Prime Minister's Office on December 15, 2025 shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (2nd left) walking with police officers after laying flowers at the Bondi Pavillion at Bondi Beach, the scene of a shooting where 15 people were killed. — Australian Prime Minister's Office handout/AFP pic
World  / 6 h ago

Father, son behind Bondi Beach mass shooting linked to Islamic State ideology, says Albanese

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told the Dewan Negara that the police report on the case will be submitted to the Attorney-General today for further action. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

‘No compromise’: Police assure full, transparent probe into Durian Tunggal triple shooting in Melaka, says Anwar

Penang police chief Datuk Azizee Ismail said the 54-year-old man was deceived after receiving a call on February 21 at his home in George Town from an individual claiming to be a cybersecurity officer. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

Manager duped out of RM2.54m in elaborate phone scam in Penang

In this picture taken on June 16, 2020, media tycoon Jimmy Lai poses during an interview with AFP at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong. US President Donald Trump said yesterday he wanted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to free Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul’s conviction. — AFP pic
World  / 5 h ago

‘I feel so badly’: Trump says he asked Xi to release Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai

Undated photo from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate shows Donald Trump with a group of women; released by House Oversight Democrats on December 12, 2025. — Handout photo from House Oversight Democrats via AFP
World  / 8 h ago

Countdown begins for Trump and Co: Decades of Epstein sex-trafficking files set for release this Friday

In this photo illustration, a phone shows U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social post on the death of actor and director Rob Reiner on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood home on December 14. — Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP
World  / 5 h ago

Trump condemned over ‘perverse’ remarks linking filmmaker Reiner’s criticism to his murder, critics say he has ‘lost it’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the Live Keynote Pregame during the GPU Technology Conference in Washington, DC, October 28, 2025. — AFP pic
Money  / 8 h ago

Silicon gold rush: Nvidia’s H200 demand surges in China amid export rethink

Delio Payaguaje, a Shaman from the Siona indigenous community, walks in the protected Amazon rainforest of Cuyabeno, Ecuador. When the fish became scarce, the spirits revealed that ‘envious’ shamans had blocked their passage through the Cuyabeno rivers, but scientists attribute this to the major impact of deforestation, climate change, and pollution from mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon. — AFP pic
Life / 13 May 2024

Envious shamans and pollution: Diverse threats to Ecuadoran Amazon

General view of cherry blossom trees with Mount Fuji in the background at Lake Kawaguchiko, Fujikawaguchiko, Japan, April 14, 2024. — Reuters pic
Life / 13 May 2024

Japan to introduce online booking for Mount Fuji trail

This photograph shows Gerry Halman, aka Lord Gregarious'
Life / 13 May 2024

Lord of his manor: Dutchman builds huge Roman castle in garden

This aerial photo taken on May 7, 2024 shows a general view of a pepper farm in Cambodia's Kampot province. — AFP pic
Life / 13 May 2024

Cambodia’s famed Kampot pepper withers in scorching heatwave

Starting from 1st September 2024, ANA will be operating twice daily flights between Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, to its Narita and Haneda hubs. — Pictures by SoyaCincau
Life / 13 May 2024

ANA operates twice daily flights from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo from September 1

Lauren McClain's job begins at her home workshop near Houston, Texas, where she carefully clears away dirt stuck to the more than 60-million-year-old remains using a tiny drill with an air compressor, similar to a dentist's tool. — AFP pic
Life / 13 May 2024

US restorationist solves 60-million-year-old dinosaur fossil ‘puzzles’

Wearing a traditional Buddhist robe, South Korean comedian Youn Sung-ho, known as NewJeansNim, get people pumped up for an electronic dance music (EDM) party with the teachings of Buddha, in celebration of the upcoming birthday of Buddha in Seoul, South Korea, May 12, 2024. — Reuters pic
Life / 13 May 2024

Celebrating Buddha’s birthday, a South Korean DJ is in spotlight

Volunteers take care of dogs at an animal shelter in a shopping mall parking lot in Porto Alegre, Brazil on May 11, 2024. — AFP pic
Life / 13 May 2024

Dogs, horses, rabbits: More than 10,000 animals rescued from Brazil floods

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, react as Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (unseen), gives a speech at the State Governor House in Lagos on May 12, 2024 as they visit Nigeria as part of celebrations of Invictus Games anniversary. — AFP pic
Life / 13 May 2024

Prince Harry, Meghan end Nigeria tour with Lagos visit

A tourist explores the Ritacuba Blanco glacier at the Natural National Park Nevado El Cocuy in Boyaca Department, Colombia April 19, 2024. — AFP pic
Life / 12 May 2024

Ritacuba Blanco: Death of a Colombian glacier

This photo taken on April 8, 2024 shows James Cook University associate professor and toxicologist Jamie Seymour holding a stonefish, the world’s most venomous fish, in his work shed located in the Queensland city of Cairns.
Life / 12 May 2024

Milking venom from Australia’s deadly marine animals

World War II veteran Harold Terens, 100, and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin, 96, pose for a photo during an interview, April 3, 2024, in Boca Raton. — AFP pic
Life / 12 May 2024

US centenarian to marry at Normandy, 80 years after Allied landing

Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa who reached the top of Mount Everest on May 23, 2023, for a record 28th time gestures to the crowd upon arriving at the Tribhuvan airport in Kathmandu on May 25, 2023. — AFP file pic
Life / 12 May 2024

Nepal’s ‘Everest Man’ claims record 29th summit

Several medical teams around the world including in China and the United States have been trialling similar treatments with good results for hereditary deafness that focuses on a rare genetic mutation. — AFP pic
Life / 12 May 2024

UK girl’s hearing restored after groundbreaking gene therapy

Nepal has been praised worldwide for combating poachers and conserving wildlife, allowing it to bring several animal species back from the brink of local extinction. — AFP pic
Life / 12 May 2024

Nepal’s nature threatened by new development push, say conservationists

French authorities have identified a few small problems potentially affecting visitors in the run up to the Olympics. — Picture courtesy of Mystockimages / Getty Images via ETX Studio
Life / 12 May 2024

France braces for petty scam wave during Olympics