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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar shows the new Cabinet list during a special announcement in Putrajaya on December 16, 2025. — Picture from Facebook/Anwar Ibrahim
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

Anwar announces Cabinet reshuffle: Jo Ghani takes over at Miti, Hannah Yeoh now FT minister

A view of the Cabinet meeting room at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya. — Picture by Afiq Hambali/Prime Minister’s Office of Malaysia
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

Malaysia Cabinet reshuffle: Full list of all 28 ministers and deputies

Passengers pose for a selfie at JB Sentral on Dec 12, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

KL Sentral-JB Sentral ETS services double to eight daily trips starting 2026

PM Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to deliver a special update on the Madani Cabinet at 3:30pm today. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Anwar to go ‘live’ at 3.30pm today with special announcement

Rain clouds are seen over the city centre in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture dated December 8, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

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

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  / 19 h ago

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

Prices for some of Rapid KL’s public transport passes will go up next year starting January 1, but prices for the My50 monthly pass will remain unchanged at RM50. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Malaysia  / 10 h ago

Rapid KL transport passes’ prices go up from Jan 1, but My50 pass stays at RM50

Dr Mohammed Taufiq is a politician and a physician who has been serving as the Sungai Petani MP since November 2022. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Physician turned politician Dr Mohammed Taufiq Johari takes charge of Youth and Sports portfolio

New evidence related to the killing of three victims in the Durian Tunggal police shooting was presented during a press conference at Lawyers for Liberty in Petaling Jaya, December 15, 2025. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

AGC orders Durian Tunggal police shooting case reclassified as murder

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  / 18 h ago

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

The new Aerotrain is seen during its launch at KLIA Terminal 1 in Sepang on July 1, 2025. — Yusof Mat Isa pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

KLIA Aerotrain starts trial operations amid major repair push; nightly shutdown to continue

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  / 18 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  / 19 h ago

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

After helming the deputy minister’s role twice in different ministries, Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir will now take on a new role as Economy Minister. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Akmal Nasrullah succeeds Rafizi Ramli as Malaysia’s new Economy Minister

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  / 19 h ago

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

A passenger plane crashed on takeoff in Kathmandu today, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage but all 18 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital told AFP. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Nepal passenger plane crash, 18 dead, pilot sole survivor

US Senator from Ohio and 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his wife Usha Vance during the 2024 Republican National Convention. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

‘We bless her’: Indian village prays for Usha Vance’s historic role as US first non-white second lady

This still image taken from a police bodycam video released by the Illinois State Police on July 22, 2024, shows Sonya Massey reacting after a police officer draws his weapon before being shot and killed on July 6, 2024. — AFP pic/Illinois State Police
World / 24 Jul 2024

Body cam footage captures US police shooting unarmed Black woman after 911 call, ignites nationwide fury

The Islamic Centre of Hamburg operates from the Imam Ali Mosque, one of the oldest in Germany. — Picture from Facebook/Islamisches Zentrum Hamburg
World / 24 Jul 2024

Citing ‘radical Islamist activities’, Germany bans Muslim association linked to Iran and Shiah denomination

Thailand’s top court will rule next month on a case seeking to oust Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin over his appointment of a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction. — Reuters pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Thai PM faces judgement day, top court to rule on controversial cabinet appointment in August

Typhoon Gaemi is expected to make landfall in northeast Taiwan by 10pm today. — Reuters pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Taiwan hits pause button, braces for typhoon Gaemi, cancels schools, flights

A man comforts an woman injured during Israeli bombardment at al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip yesterday. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Is Kamala Harris signalling a new US policy change on Gaza?

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned yesterday, a day after acknowledging that the agency had failed in its mission to prevent an assassination attempt against Donald Trump. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

US secret service head steps down following security breach, Trump shooting

Typhoon Gaemi and a south-west monsoon brought heavy rain today to the Philippine capital region and northern provinces, prompting authorities to halt work and classes, while stock and foreign exchange trading were suspended. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Typhoon Gaemi hits Manila, halts work, classes and market trading

Israel swiftly condemned an agreement brokered by China yesterday that would bring Hamas into a national reconciliation government for post-war Gaza. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Israel blasts China’s deal to include Hamas in post-war Gaza government

The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh passed the 2,500 mark in an AFP tally yesterday, after protests over employment quotas sparked widespread unrest. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Bangladesh arrest count surge past 2,500 amid bloody crackdown

The god of truth and righteousness is on the side of the Democratic Party in this year’s US presidential election, according to Hindu priests in likely nominee Kamala Harris’ ancestral Indian village. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Divine intervention: Indian priests in Kamala Harris’ Tamil Nadu ancestral village prays for Democrat’s White House dreams

Demonstrators from Jewish Voice For Peace protest the war in Gaza at the Canon House Building on July 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. The protest comes a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak before Congress. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Israeli PM Netanyahu seeks to lobby both Trump and Harris, as Democrats aim to boycott Congress speech in protest

Vice President Kamala Harris is narrowly beating rival Donald Trump in a national presidential poll released yesterday, one of the first conducted since US President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign. — AFP pic
World / 24 Jul 2024

Kamala Harris surges ahead, poll shows narrow lead over Trump after Biden bows out

A picture shows a view of the old city of the Yemeni capital Sanaa with its Unesco-listed buildings, on February 24, 2023. Yemen’s government and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have agreed to halt tit-for-tat banking sanctions as they wrestle for control of the country’s financial institutions, the United Nations said today. — AFP pic
World / 23 Jul 2024

Yemen's warring sides reach financial de-escalation deal brokered by UN, says envoy

Passersby holding umbrellas walk under a strong sunlight at the Sensoji temple as Japanese government issued heat stroke alerts in 39 of the country's 47 prefectures in Tokyo July 22, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 23 Jul 2024

World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 21, monitor says