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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  / 6 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  / 5 h ago

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

PM Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to deliver a special update on the Madani Cabinet at 3:30pm today. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 7 h ago

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

Passengers pose for a selfie at JB Sentral on Dec 12, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 7 h ago

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

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  / 15 h ago

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

A customer buys fish at the Section 6 wet market in Shah Alam on February 16, 2023. — Yusof Mat Isa pic
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

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

Rain clouds are seen over the city centre in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture dated December 8, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 11 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  / 12 h ago

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

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  / 12 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  / 10 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  / 8 h ago

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

Dr Mohammed Taufiq is a politician and a physician who has been serving as the Sungai Petani MP since November 2022. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

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

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  / 10 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  / 12 h ago

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

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  / 3 h ago

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

Thailand's forensic police officers (centre) inspect the site of an attack that killed two defence volunteers and injured 12 others, outside the district office of Sungai Kolok in the southern Thailand province of Narathiwat bordering Malaysia on March 9, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 13 May 2025

Thai teachers fear for safety, call for urgent protection in restive provinces bordering Malaysia 

A street in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on December 11, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 13 May 2025

Trump Tower Damascus? Syria seeks to charm US president for sanctions relief

Budding politician Smitthiphat Leenawarat whose mother is a mayor and father a former mayor in a district north of Bangkok, Thailand, won a municipal election on May 11, 2025 despite facing charges for reckless driving causing physical injuries to a couple in their 60s after crashing his brand new BMW into their pick-up truck in Pathum Thani on April 16, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

Election win for Thai politician weeks after BMW crash sends 65-year-old man to ICU

A resident loads food and supplies on his vehicle as market reopened after Pakistan-India ceasefire at the frontier village of Chakothi near the Line of Control (LoC), in Pakistan-administered Kashmir May 11, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 May 2025

In Pakistan’s Chakothi, families emerge from bunkers as ceasefire holds — but few trust it will last

A drone view of the Marywilska 44 shopping centre burning during a massive fire in Warsaw, Poland, May 12, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

Poland boots Russian diplomats over shopping mall inferno in hybrid war showdown

The 15-year-old alleged stabber claims he chose 84-year-old victim Yayoi Takahashi randomly. — Photo by Raymond Manuel
World / 12 May 2025

Japanese teen admits to fatal stabbing of 84-year-old woman, says felt like killing someone, didn’t matter who

The head of British intelligence agency MI6 will be a woman for the first time, as the agency’s leadership is choosing one of three female candidates who have reached the final interview. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

For the first time, a woman will lead MI6 — and all eyes are on a Beijing-savvy diplomat

A South Korean army K1A2 tank fires during a live fire exercise near the demilitarised zone separating two Koreas, in Pocheon, South Korea in this file picture dated March 6, 2025. The Air Force will resume most live-fire drills starting this week, officials said, about two months after suspending such drills following a mistaken bombing of a civilian town in March by two fighter jets. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

Live-fire drills to resume in South Korea, two months after jets accidentally bombed town

South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing charges of orchestrating a rebellion when he declared martial law, arrives to attend his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 12, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

Ousted South Korean president Yoon back in court over insurrection charge

Women walk past a Jammu & Kashmir police vehicle parked along a road in Srinagar on May 12, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 May 2025

India, Pakistan weigh next moves after US-brokered ceasefire; military talks loom, markets rally

The boat was returning from the popular Tikus Island when it was struck by large waves and strong winds around 4pm local time on Sunday, causing engine failure and immobility.
World / 12 May 2025

Seven dead after tourist boat capsizes off Sumatra, over 100 aboard

A demonstrator wearing a mask representing US President Donald Trump and carrying a doll with a mask depicting Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu attends an anti-government protest calling for the end of the war and for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas, in front of the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on May 10, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 May 2025

Netanyahu rules out Gaza truce, prisoner swap despite Hamas promise to release US-Israeli hostage

People gather at a bus station in the main town of Poonch district in Jammu region on May 11, 2025. A ceasefire appeared to hold on May 11 between India and Pakistan, hours after the nuclear-armed rivals accused each other of violating a truce that brought them back from the brink of all-out war. — AFP pic
World / 12 May 2025

Kashmir truce brings ‘first calm night’ after days of deadly India-Pakistan clashes

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to tackle the issue following the anti-immigration Reform party’s resounding win in recent local elections. They are riding high in the polls, as Labour struggles. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

UK PM Starmer to unveil ‘radical’ immigration clampdown as Reform party gains rattle Labour

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Caeli prayer from the main central loggia of St Peter’s basilica in The Vatican, on May 11, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 May 2025

Leo XIV gets down to business on first full week as pope

Last month, the US president signed an executive order aiming to lower crippling drug prices by giving states more leeway to bargain-hunt abroad and improving the process for price negotiations. — Reuters pic
World / 12 May 2025

Trump vows up to 80pc cut in US drug prices with ‘most favoured nation’ order