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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  / 9 h ago

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

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  / 16 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

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

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  / 13 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)

This overview shows a demonstration demanding action to free the Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants, outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 25 Aug 2024

Gaza ceasefire talks continue in Cairo, as Hamas says only sending reps but not joining discussions

NASA administrators speak during a news conference to discuss plans to return two astronauts who remain stranded at the International Space Station, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on August 24, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 25 Aug 2024

Originally set to stay for eight days, Boeing astronauts will return to Earth after eight months instead…on rival SpaceX’s craft

German police patrol a taped-off area in Solingen, western Germany where three people died, and several were wounded when a man went on a stabbing rampage as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. — AFP pic
World / 25 Aug 2024

German cops nab 26-year-old Syrian suspect as IS claims its ‘soldier’ behind knife attacks at Christian festival that killed three people

Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested by French police for offences related to the popular messaging app at Le Bourget airport north of the French capital on August 24, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 25 Aug 2024

‘Enough of Telegram’s impunity’: App’s CEO Pavel Durov under French probe for cyberbullying, promoting terrorism, and more

A sample of plastic pollution collected from the sea is displayed to create awareness during an annual seaweed race at the Cruinniu na mBad (gathering of the boats) regatta in Kinvara, Ireland August 18, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Aug 2024

‘Unresolved matters’: Plastic pollution treaty talks heat up with financing, bans on the table as experts meet in Bangkok

Activists attend a protest during the International Whaling Commission conference in Florianopolis, Brazil September 10, 2018. The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the spotlight on the widely condemned practice of hunting whales. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Aug 2024

Whaling: Why Japan, Norway, and Iceland refuse to give up whaling as anti-whaling activist faces extradition from Greenland

Undated handout picture of a Bavarian Nordic research team member holding a test tube obtained by Reuters on August 16, 2024. — Bavarian Nordic/Mikkel Inumineq handout pic via Reuters
World / 25 Aug 2024

Why are mpox vaccines only now arriving in Africa after two years of delays? Some point fingers at WHO’s slow approval process

Japan today marked a year since it started to release tritium-containing treated water into the sea from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, with the country still facing a long road ahead in completing the discharge project. — AFP pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

One year on, Japan continues Fukushima nuclear plant water release as part of 30-year plan

Italian Coast Guards (Guardia Costiera) retrieved a body from the luxury yacht that sank in Porticello near Palermo. — AFP pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

Sicily prosecutors open manslaughter probe after superyacht sinking kills seven

A drone view shows houses submerged in floodwaters in Ban Saeo, Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai, Thailand, August 22, 2024, in this screengrab taken from a social media video. — Reuters pic/Nack Jettanan
World / 24 Aug 2024

Death toll in Phuket landslide jumps to 10, three still missing

Two cars set on fire outside a synagogue in southern France today caused an explosion in which a police officer was injured, authorities said. — AFP pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

Explosion outside synagogue in southern France injures police officer, say officials

A Lenovo computer salesman has found himself in a swirl of trouble, fired from his job after he says a bladder condition forced him to relieve himself in a lobby of his Times Square hotel. — Unsplash pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

Fired for peeing in public, former Lenovo salesman seeks US$1.5m relief, blames it on bladder condition

South Korea has reported a rise in the number of Covid-19 hospitalisation, which looks set to increase in the third week of August, though at a slower rate than in previous weeks. — AFP pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

South Korea sees rise in Covid hospitalisations; govt prepares new guidelines and medication

Icelandic authorities said yesterday that a second fissure had formed on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, but volcanic activity had decreased after lava started spewing forth for the sixth time in the region since December. — AFP pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

Volcanic eruption cools in Iceland with reduced lava flow

This screengrab from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) handout video taken on August 19, 2024, and received on August 24, 2024, shows a Chinese air force fighter jet deploying flares near a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) plane. — AFP pic/Philippine Coast Guard
World / 24 Aug 2024

South China Sea showdown: Philippines accuses China of firing flares at patrol plane

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, scion of America’s storied political clan, suspended his long-shot presidential bid yesterday and endorsed Donald Trump. — AFP pic
World / 24 Aug 2024

Robert F Kennedy Jr bows out of presidential race to back Trump — the ultimate plot twist in a bizarre campaign