Boeing’s 737 MAX plane is “designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys”, a company employee wrote in one of a trove of newly published internal messages. The communications were released on Thursday by Boeing, whose 737 MAX plane was involved in two crashes that killed a total of 346 people in late […]
by Poornima WEERASEKARA Water has been a source of death as well as a source of life for a generation in Shenqiu, a region fed by a tributary of China’s heavily polluted Yangtze river and pockmarked with notorious “cancer villages”. Residents often faced a bitter choice: drink dirty, discoloured water and risk sickness, or pay […]
by Ross ADKIN Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond has something special in his bag as he prepares for the US Masters — the Buddhist meditation techniques learned as a monk that have helped him become the talk of Asian golf. The 24-year-old is Augusta-bound after a huge year when he won the Asian Tour order of merit, […]
by Robin MILLARD, James PHEBY and Joe JACKSON Prince Harry and his celebrity wife Meghan’s bombshell resignation from front-line royal duties rocked the British monarchy on Thursday, with reports suggesting Queen Elizabeth II had not been informed in advance. The couple said they would now “balance” their time between Britain and North America and rip […]
by Alice RITCHIE and Dmitry ZAKS After years of angry arguments that toppled two governments, Britain’s parliament Thursday will finally approve the terms of Brexit, clearing the divided country’s exit from the European Union on January 31. The House of Commons will rush through a final day of hearings and ratify Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s […]
by Jing Xuan TENG / with Yan Zhao in Hong Kong China believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS, which killed hundreds of people more than a decade ago. Lead scientist Xu Jianguo told the official Xinhua news agency […]
Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak allegedly sought help from Abu Dhabi’s crown prince to conceal wrongdoing linked to a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal, recordings released Wednesday by investigators showed. Huge sums were looted from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB and used to buy items ranging from a super-yacht to artwork, in a fraud allegedly involving Najib […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN A senior Facebook executive on Tuesday said the world’s biggest social network unintentionally helped put Donald Trump in the White House but warned against dramatic rule changes. The Trump campaign did effectively use Facebook to rally support for his presidential run, and the social network should be mindful of that without making […]
Iraqi armed factions called on Tuesday for an urgent meeting to face “the war against the resistance,” after a US strike on Baghdad last week killed top Iranian and Iraqi commanders. “We will regroup the forces of the resistance in a single entity to respond to Washington,” said Nasr al-Shammary, deputy head of the Harakat […]
