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This photo taken on May 22, 2025 shows patient companion Meng Jia (right) assisting Tian Yigui at the payment counter during their visit to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Beijing. — AFP pic

Life / 25 Jun 2025

‘Companions’ ease pain of China’s bustling, bamboozling hospitals

Scientists are also recording the effect of adding basalt to oil palm plantations in Malaysia. — Picture by Farhan Najib

Life / 25 Jun 2025

Rock on: How crushed stone could help fight climate change

France's President Emmanuel Macron (left) is seen with US singer-songwriter music producer and fashion designer Phrarell Williams. — AFP pic

Life / 24 Jun 2025

Pharrell bigs up brown denim as Paris fashion week starts

A symbolic tree planting session at Padang 44, FRIM Kepong to mark the launch of the Segamat initiative.

Life / 24 Jun 2025

AEON launches reforestation drive in Johor, targets 30,000 trees in Segamat after Bidor forest success

Downtown KL is good to visit but really, who can stay here especially with the escalating prices of property in the area?

Life / 24 Jun 2025

Pursuit of peacefulness: Why more young Malaysian couples prefer to live in quieter suburbs these days

File photo: Maintainers and crew chiefs from the 509th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prepare B-2 Spirits at Whiteman Air Force Base in this U.S. Air Force handout photo dated March 19, 2011. — Reuters pic

Life / 24 Jun 2025

Inside the cockpit of the B-2 stealth bomber: 40-hour missions, turkey sandwiches and blind refueling at 50,000 feet

Heavy metal fans attend the 18th edition of the Hellfest Summer Open Air rock and heavy metal festival in Clisson, western France, on June 19, 2025, as a heatwave hits France. — AFP pic

Life / 24 Jun 2025

‘Girls shouldn’t shout?’: Women defy stereotypes at France’s loudest metal festival

Visitors walk next to artworks displayed at Art Basel, in Basel, Switzerland, June 17, 2025. — Reuters pic

Life / 23 Jun 2025

Why the ultra-rich are buying less art — and what it means for the market in 2025

This undated handout image released by NSF-DOE on June 20, 2025 shows another small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster. Visible are two prominent spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right), several groups of distant galaxies, many stars in the Milky Way galaxy and more. More than two decades in the making, the giant telescope, funded by the US National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy is perched at the summit of Cerro Pachon in central Chile, where dark skies and dry air provide ideal conditions for observing the cosmos. — NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory handout/AFP pic

Life / 23 Jun 2025

From nebulae to near-Earth asteroids, groundbreaking Vera Rubin Observatory unveils dazzling first images of deep space

Creative director of LOEWE British-Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson arrives for the premiere of A24's ‘Queer’ at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles on November 13, 2024. British-Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson will debut as Dior's artistic director at the upcoming Paris Fashion Week which starts tomorrow. — AFP pic

Life / 23 Jun 2025

Paris Fashion Week doubles down on menswear as Anderson, Vaccarello, Pharrell headline and Saint Laurent returns

Life Line Association Malaysia says it has seen a rise in callers over the past five years, according to its 2024 annual report. — Picture by Arif Zikri

Life / 23 Jun 2025

More Malaysians are reaching out — this counselling NGO is making sure someone’s there

While for centuries it was more socially desirable to give birth to a boy, this ‘tradition’ is losing ground and even reversing. — katrinaelena/Getty Images pic via ETX Studio

Life / 23 Jun 2025

Congratulations… it’s not a boy! How gender stereotypes are shifting as families embrace daughters

Protea flower grower Nico Thuynsma poses for a photograph next to one of the Protea flower species growing at his fam in Cullinan, east of Pretoria June 3, 2025. On his farm two hours north of Johannesburg, Nico Thuynsma gestured towards thousands of orange, yellow and pink proteas in flower and thriving 1,500 kilometres from their natural home at the southern tip of Africa. — AFP pic

Life / 23 Jun 2025

‘Part of South Africa’s DNA’: Iconic national flower protea blooms far from home as climate shifts native range

A person looks at Jan Vermeer’s ‘Mistress and Maid’ during The Frick Collection press preview on March 25, 2025 in New York City. The show brings together a trio of paintings by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer: the Frick’s own ‘Mistress and Maid,’ ‘The Love Letter’ on loan from Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and ‘Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid’ from the National Gallery of Ireland. — AFP pic

Life / 23 Jun 2025

Three Vermeers, one theme: The art of the love letter on view in New York

Researchers found an average of around 100 microplastic particles per litre in glass bottles of soft drinks, lemonade, iced tea and beer. — ETX Studio pic

Life / 22 Jun 2025

More microplastics in your beer? Blame the glass bottle, says French study

Visitors walk on the artwork ‘Choir’ by German artist Katharina Grosse at the entrance of Art Basel fair for Modern and contemporary art, in Basel June 17, 2025. — AFP pic

Life / 22 Jun 2025

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JPJ: Officer suspended after risky overtake in Simpang Pulai

Dr Mahathir turns 100: A look back at a few defining moments that shaped Malaysia

Surprise find: 7.4m steel track from 1895 unearthed near Penang’s Fort Cornwallis

Rafizi could have been like Singapore’s Goh Keng Swee in Anwar’s Cabinet — Hafiz Hassan

Teen, woman accomplice charged over murder of Cyberjaya university student

Malaysian Bar: Lawyers’ walk to PM’s office on July 14 not to protest CJ’s non-extension, but to defend courts’ independence

Now that’s a push present: Aaron Kwok celebrates baby boy news with no-limit credit card for wife Moka Fang

Cycling on public roads is legal, says national federation after viral dispute

Anwar extends birthday wishes to Mahathir who turns 100 today

Pagoh gang rape: Teen among two arrested after couple attacked near Johor plantation

Cyberjaya student’s death: Two suspects to face murder, abetment charges tomorrow

‘Sickening’: MAGA loyalists turn on Trump officials over Epstein probe

New concessionaire to manage parking collection in four Selangor local councils from August 1

Red Bull fires Christian Horner as F1 team principal after 20 years

Malaysian held at Thailand’s Don Mueang Airport over gambling, money laundering charges

‘Companions’ ease pain of China’s bustling, bamboozling hospitals

Rock on: How crushed stone could help fight climate change

Pharrell bigs up brown denim as Paris fashion week starts

AEON launches reforestation drive in Johor, targets 30,000 trees in Segamat after Bidor forest success

Pursuit of peacefulness: Why more young Malaysian couples prefer to live in quieter suburbs these days

Inside the cockpit of the B-2 stealth bomber: 40-hour missions, turkey sandwiches and blind refueling at 50,000 feet

‘Girls shouldn’t shout?’: Women defy stereotypes at France’s loudest metal festival

Why the ultra-rich are buying less art — and what it means for the market in 2025

From nebulae to near-Earth asteroids, groundbreaking Vera Rubin Observatory unveils dazzling first images of deep space

Paris Fashion Week doubles down on menswear as Anderson, Vaccarello, Pharrell headline and Saint Laurent returns

More Malaysians are reaching out — this counselling NGO is making sure someone’s there

Congratulations… it’s not a boy! How gender stereotypes are shifting as families embrace daughters

‘Part of South Africa’s DNA’: Iconic national flower protea blooms far from home as climate shifts native range

Three Vermeers, one theme: The art of the love letter on view in New York

More microplastics in your beer? Blame the glass bottle, says French study

Basel’s art fair marches toward utopia — dragging democracy’s ghosts along