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A viral video of a man beating his wife in China, and police’s handling of the case, has renewed a debate online in the country over how to punish domestic abusers. Last week, a home security video that showed a man from the northwestern city of Xi’an assaulting his wife during a citywide Covid-19 lockdown […]

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck getting married may seem like destiny, seeing as they were dating then they broke up and they’re now back together again. The superstar couple’s on and off relationship has been the subject of much speculation since early 2000. The duo finally got married in Las Vegas on July 17th. Popularly […]

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” powered its way into sixth place on the all-time global box office list, as it returned to the top spot in North American theaters at the weekend, industry data showed Sunday. In its sixth week out, the Sony superhero yarn with Tom Holland in the title role took in an estimated […]

By Chris Stein Blocks from the White House, an unassuming edifice in downtown Washington that once held offices used by the US Department of Justice is set to be converted into homes for hundreds of people. The transformation of the vacant office space is among a surge of “adaptive reuse” projects that swept the US […]

Beijing, China By Poornima WEERASEKARA China condemned a French parliament resolution on Friday that accuses Beijing of carrying out a genocide against its Uyghur Muslim population, a move that has strained ties two weeks before the Winter Olympics.The resolution adds to a chorus of western nations that have criticised Beijing for placing around one million Uyghurs […]

South Korean tech giant Samsung has pulled an online advert in Singapore that featured a hijab-wearing Muslim woman hugging her drag queen son after it sparked a backlash from socially conservative corners. LGBTQ rights remain a sensitive topic in the prosperous city-state, where a rarely invoked colonial-era law banning sex between men was upheld by […]

Jakarta, Indonesia Tens of thousands of Indonesia’s indigenous people are at risk of being expelled from their lands to make way for the construction of a new capital on jungle-clad Borneo island, a rights group warned on Friday. At least 20,000 people from 21 indigenous groups live in the area designated for the construction of the […]

Three men were indicted for allegedly conspiring to sell handwritten notes and lyrics for the Eagles album Hotel California. The 100 or so pages were stolen in the late 1970s according to band member Don Henley and include the lyrics to the songs Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane and New Kid in Town. […]

World class athlete and Olympic champion Mo Farah arrived in Britain at the age of 9 and was forced to do menial work in exchange for food. This included housework and childcare. “If I wanted food in my mouth,” he said. Farah, 39, was born in Somalia and his original name is Hussein Abdi Kahin. […]

By Laurie Chen and AFP reporters A growing number of Western nations and cybersecurity groups have issued digital surveillance warnings for next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, with some advising foreign athletes to leave personal phones and laptops at home. China hopes to pull off a successful, coronavirus-free Games that will burnish its international reputation. […]

A US warship sailed through the South China Sea on Thursday, sparking a warning from China’s military as tensions between the superpowers remain high. The American navy said the USS Benfold “asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands, consistent with international law”. The Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army […]

By Jitendra JOSHI Allies of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson closed ranks on Thursday after a day of high drama prompted second thoughts among some Conservatives about dethroning their embattled leader.One anti-Johnson plot by younger Tory MPs, livid at breaches of lockdowns by partying Downing Street staff, appeared to be fizzling out despite one senior […]

    Mandopop singer Wang Leehom’s ex-wife Lee Jinglei may have won a lot of support from many as the messy split between the couple unspooled, but not enough it seems for her to be considered among the Top 10 Chinese Women for 2021. A post on social media platform Weibo said that Chinese culture […]

By Peter HUTCHISON New York’s top justice official said her investigation into Donald Trump’s family business had uncovered “significant evidence” of fraudulent or misleading practices, intensifying pressure on the former president as he tries to shut down the probe. In a court filing late Tuesday, state Attorney General Letitia James wrote that the ongoing civil […]

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, recently deported from Australia due to his coronavirus vaccine status, is co-founder and majority shareholder of a biotech firm developing a Covid-19 treatment, the Danish company’s CEO said Wednesday. “He is one of the founders of my company we founded in June 2020,” the chief executive of QuantBioRes, Ivan Loncarevic, […]