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A court in southern China sentenced a former politician from Japan to life imprisonment on Friday for attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country hidden in the soles of platform shoes. 76-year-old Takuma Sakuragi was caught at an airport in 2013 with 3.29 kilogrammes of methamphetamine hidden in the handle of his suitcase and […]

Indian police have arrested more than 500 people ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on a hotly disputed religious site in the holy city of Ayodhya, media reports said, with authorities fearing the verdict could trigger unrest. The decision on the future of the site claimed by both Hindus and Muslims is due by November […]

by Andrew BEATTY Australian firefighters warned they were in “uncharted territory” as they struggled to contain more than a dozen out-of-control bushfires across the east of the country on Friday. Around a hundred blazes pockmarked the New South Wales and Queensland countryside, around 17 of them remained dangerous and uncontained late Friday. “We have never […]

An Indian-origin British journalist critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost his Indian overseas citizenship, a move campaigners said underlined the government’s hostility to a free press. The home ministry said Thursday that Aatish Taseer had “concealed the fact that his late father was of Pakistani origin” and was therefore ineligible for Overseas Citizenship […]

The vocal critic that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has named to a lead role in his deadly drug war called on Friday for revamping the crackdown and ending its “senseless” killing. Opposition leader Leni Robredo has regularly attacked Duterte’s internationally condemned initiative, prompting the president to appoint her this week to a post supervising it. […]

A Nazi-era bomb found on the set of a movie caused shock and panic among actors and crew members forcing the evacuation to safety of Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden. The actors were evacuated from the set of the Marvel film ‘The Eternals’ after an unexploded World War II bomb was found. The Sun UK said the […]

While the adage “the earlier, the better” holds true in other situations, travel booking site Expedia recently busted that myth when it comes to booking flights. Expedia’s expert travel tip—to book seven to 13 days before the flight date—can apparently result in up to 30 percent savings. If you think it’s too late to plan […]

BTS’s Jungkook was in a minor car accident recently and his management released an official statement regarding the incident. Here’s the statement from Big Hit Entertainment: “This is a statement regarding member Jungkook’s car accident. The police have not closed this case yet, so we cannot reveal the exact details, but Jungkook was driving his […]

The News Straits Times quoted China Post as saying that TVB actress Jacqueline Wong is rumoured to be pregnant and it is being circulated in Chinese social media channels. Wong, 30 vomited while filming her drama The Maid Alliance last March which sparked the pregnancy rumours. She said that she had a cold and that her […]

Emirates Airline, the largest carrier in the Middle East, on Thursday reported a 282-percent rise in half-year net profits, mainly thanks to a drop in operating costs and fuel prices. The result was a change of fortunes for the Dubai carrier, which for the full-year to the end of March took a heavy hit from […]

Beijing on Thursday criticised as “fictitious” a report by British politicians claiming there was “alarming evidence” of Chinese interference on university campuses. The report, which was released Tuesday, cited examples where Beijing-linked organisations appeared to suppress freedom of speech at institutions of higher education. One academic told lawmakers he saw Confucius Institute officials confiscating papers […]

More than 80 farmers have been arrested in northern India for starting fires that contributed to the recent pollution crisis in New Delhi and other cities, officials said Thursday. Each winter the post-harvest burning of crop stubble covers swaths of the region in toxic smog, which combines with car and factory emissions to turn Delhi […]

The wife of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed “a lot of information” about the jihadist group’s “inner workings” after she was captured last year, a Turkish official said. The official said that Baghdadi’s spouse identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was in fact Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi. She was said to be […]

The US Justice Department has charged three people, including two Saudis, with spying on Twitter users critical of the kingdom’s royal family. The trio worked to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of someone prosecutors designated “Royal Family Member-1”, which The Washington Post reported was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the […]

Hong Kong pop star Joey Yung came under fire after she posted a selfie wearing a face mask on Facebook. “I never thought that a lyric and a selfie…would attract this storm. I am extremely sorry,” she said. Joey Yung Cho-yee has apologised for the social media post that some netizens in mainland China said […]