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2025 World Championships women’s doubles runners-up Pearly Tan and M Thinaah. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 19 h ago

Malaysia’s badminton camp falls short of four-gold target, spotlight now on doubles aces Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and Pearly Tan-Thinaah

DAP Youth says SPM Malay requirement proves community respects national language. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

UEC recognition a constitutional right, not threat to Bahasa Malaysia, says DAP Youth Wing

BAM doubles coaching director Rexy Mainaky said he is ready to step down as part of taking responsibility for the four-gold shortfall in Malaysia’s 2025 SEA Games badminton results. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 9 h ago

One gold, two silver, six bronze: Malaysia’s badminton chief admits shortfall, open to stepping down after SEA Games results

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi attends the 33rd All Malaysian Indian Progressive Front (IPF Malaysia) general assembly in Hulu Langat December 14, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Zahid cautions BN component parties against exit, says there will be ‘no way back’

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 10 h ago

Bloodshed at Bondi: 11 killed as gunfire tears through Sydney beach

A KTM Komuter train at the Kajang station. A new timetable for selected routes will take effect from January 1. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

KTMB announces new Klang Valley Komuter timetable from Jan 1 amid KVDT2 works

Malaysia secured its first badminton gold of the SEA Games today after national women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and M Thinaah triumphed in Bangkok. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 13 h ago

Pearly Tan–Thinaah break the spell as Malaysia finally strikes SEA Games gold

Ayesha Assilla Watuna said she has raised over RM15,000 so far, pledging 100 per cent of the proceeds to the Global Sumud Flotilla. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Legendary move: Sabah woman sells rare Pokémon card collection to join next Sumud Flotilla mission

Malaysia’s sepak takraw team celebrates their historic 2-1 victory over Thailand in the men’s team regu final at Nakhon Pathom Gymnasium, ending a 34-year gold drought. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 10 h ago

Malaysia ends 34-year drought with SEA Games team regu gold over Thailand

After four records and the 2025 SEA Games gold in Thailand, the Malaysian and Sarawak governments are lining up rewards for hammer thrower Grace Wong. — Picture from X/Bernama_Radio
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Sarawak, Putrajaya to reward record-breaking SEA Games gold medallist Grace Wong

Emergency responders at the scene of the road accident at Machang UiTM, where a student was killed after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing the road. — Picture via Facebook
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Student killed in Machang UiTM accident had wireless earbud on, police say

The Bagan MP said a proposed RM20 billion tax refund payout before Chinese New Year could inject much-needed liquidity into the business sector. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Lim Guan Eng urges full tax refunds, buy-local policy to ease business cash crunch

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the decision was made following feedback from teachers who felt the sSPLKPM was affecting their focus on their core duties. — File picture by Mukhriz Hazim
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

MOE ends SPLKPM so teachers can focus fully on the classroom 

The Kuala Terengganu High Court ruled today that the earlier defamation trial against Clare Rewcastle-Brown was invalid and must be reheard. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Kuala Terengganu High Court orders retrial in Clare Rewcastle-Brown defamation case

Feng Minmin doesn't let her height stop her from shooting hoops. — Xiaohongshu screenshot
Life  / 17 h ago

How high? China schoolgirl doesn’t let height get in the way of her basketball dreams (VIDEO)

The Moscow Metro, inaugurated in 1935, marks the 90th year of operation. — Picture courtesy of the State Unitary Enterprise Moscow Metro
Life / 20 May 2025

Moscow Metro, the world’s longest circular metro line, celebrates 90 years 

From April until May 8, BMA hospitals treated 1,974 patients, including 11 inpatients and 1,963 outpatients. — File picture by Choo Choy May
Life / 20 May 2025

Health experts: Covid-19 cases in Thailand nearly seven times more widespread than influenza

A boat sails between papyrus plants in Iraq’s receding marshes of Hawizeh. — AFP pic
Life / 20 May 2025

Oil vs Eden: Iraqis fight to save fabled Mesopotamian Marshes from drilling and drought

Norwegian veterinarian Rolf Arne Olberg checks if a polar bear is properly sedated in eastern Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, on April 10, 2025. The Norwegian Polar Institute, an Arctic research organisation, organised a five-week expedition aboard the high-tech research vessel and icebreaker Kronprins Haakon to collect adipose tissue biopsies and blood samples from polar bears in order to study the impact of pollutants on their health. — AFP pic
Life / 20 May 2025

Norway study: Scientists tranquilise polar bears in Arctic to study effects of pollution

Trainer Shadi Abu al-Dahab (L) holds a horse that belonged to the former presidential Assad family, ahead of the fourth Al-Nasr Equestrian Show Jumping Championship at the Central Equestrian Club in Dimas, northwest of Damascus on May 9, 2025. For decades, equestrian sports were dominated by Syria's former ruling al-Assad family and their inner circle. — AFP pic
Life / 19 May 2025

Syrians reclaim equestrian sport once dominated by Assad family

Participants wearing smurf costumes arrives to take part in the largest gathering of Smurfs in Landerneau, western France. — AFP pic
Life / 19 May 2025

Smurf and proud: French town paints itself blue to smash world record

Over 56 per cent of Bangkok residents are affected by abdominal obesity, placing them at higher risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) than people in other parts of Thailand. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Life / 19 May 2025

Bangkok waistlines widen: Over half suffer from abdominal obesity — well above Thailand’s 39pc national average

Syariah lawyer Marlina Amir Hamzah says a Muslim wife’s rights are protected by the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Act 1984 and similar laws at the state level. — File picture by Azneal Ishak
Life / 19 May 2025

Legal experts say Muslim women can sue husbands for maintenance while still married under Islamic family law – here’s how

Philip Schetter, CEO of Cantourage, shows the storage room of the raw cannabis plants at his Berlin-based company whose website slogan says “we love cannabis”. — AFP pic
Life / 19 May 2025

Germany’s medical cannabis boom: How it’s transforming health care and raising legal debates

The new book ‘They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals’ by Mariah Blake is seen in Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California May 14, 2025.— AFP pic
Life / 19 May 2025

From contamination to justice: The US towns that took on ‘forever chemical’ giants — and won

Eddie Williams of Australia lifts a 154kg (340lbs) circus barbell for two reps, during the Overhead Medley event on the first day of qualifying at the ‘World's Strongest Man’ competition on May 15, 2025 in Sacramento, California. — AFP pic
Life / 18 May 2025

Breaking stereotypes: The ‘gentle giants’ of the World’s Strongest Man competition

Aerial view of the Moinho favela in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, taken on May 13, 2025. — AFP pic
Life / 18 May 2025

The end of Moinho: Central Sao Paulo's last shantytown faces demolition to make way for park, train station

The menu chosen by Muhamad Sufi’s, who hails from Pasir Mas, Kelantan, which successfully captured the judges’ hearts, was Malaysian fusion, with a touch of Western. — Picture via Facebook/Gastronomy Association of Malaysia
Life / 18 May 2025

Malaysia’s Muhamad Sufi clinches gold at Young Chefs International Competition in Kazan, highlighting Malay fusion cuisine

Shafinaz Syed Malik and her family visit the Perak Museum in Taiping May 18, 2025, which opened its doors for free in conjunction with International Museum Day today. — Bernama pic
Life / 18 May 2025

Forts, fossils and free entry: Why Malaysia’s museums were the place to be this weekend

File photo of British climber Kenton Cool waving upon his arrival at the airport, after completing his 17th ascent of Mount Everest, which is the most by any foreign climber, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 19, 2023. — Reuters pic
Life / 18 May 2025

British climber makes record-breaking 19th ascent of Everest, most by a non-Sherpa

Nature YouTuber Luke Nichols, best known for his YouTube channel Outdoor Boys, is going on an indefinite hiatus from content creation. — Picture via Instagram/outdoorboyschannel
Life / 18 May 2025

Outdoor Boys’ Luke Nichols calls time on YouTube before ‘things get out of hand’ (VIDEO)