Officers also seize 35 plastic tubes stuffed with nails, as well as three knives, two axes, a baseball bat, and two wooden sticks.

Truss has vowed to tackle rising energy bills and boost energy supplies, in addition to a twofold approach to resolving Britain’s economic woes

Indian trawlers often illegally poach in Sri Lanka’s waters; now a China-owned venture has been helping Sri Lankan fishermen to cultivate sea cucumbers, instead of heading out to sea.

South Korea has emerged as a cultural powerhouse in recent years with the global success of Oscar-winning film “Parasite”, Netflix series “Squid Game”, and K-pop superstars BTS sweeping the Billboard music charts.

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau does not name news outlet but says report had cost the media its integrity, three days after Bloomberg piece.

Trump’s speech at a Pennsylvania focused on the presidency, framing the November midterm elections as “a referendum on the corruption and extremism of Joe Biden and the radical Democrat party.”

A married man who fathered a child during an affair that he promised to support, but later refused to pay a cent, tells Chinese court he is not responsible as ‘she chose to keep the child’.

Female rider, 26, thought to be a holder of a learner’s licence, rushed to hospital with limb and hip injuries after being flung into the air from force of impact.

Mahathir was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after testing positive for the coronavirus, and will remain quarantined at home until Tuesday, a statement said. He has received at least three doses of Covid vaccine, the last known shot in November 202...

The visit later in the week will make Li the most senior figure to travel outside China since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The island’s defence ministry says the package was found on Lieyu, a small island that is only 5km from the mainland city of Xiamen.

Forward earnings estimates for MSCI’s Southeast Asia gauge have gained nearly 4 per cent since the start of the quarter, compared to a 1.5 per cent decline for the world index.

Shock and anger have given way to calls for more efforts to find domestic substitutes after Washington restricted some advanced graphic processing unit chips from being exported to China.

Case on Saturday had shocked city, with authorities finding the victim covered in abrasions and bruises.

Father reveals grim diagnosis for first time, says his son will try acupuncture next week.

Japan views tensions in the Taiwan Strait as ‘seriously destabilising’ to its own security as it relies on an open strait for safe passage of goods.

The city of Jackson, Mississippi where 80 per cent of the population is Black and poverty is rife, has experienced water crises for years. But this one is particularly severe, with many residents lacking clean running water for nearly a week.

Since 2020, factors such as Beijing’s zero-Covid policy, the crisis in the property sector and a huge number of lay-offs appear to have stirred up an increasing amount of self reflection among China’s young middle-class shoppers and suppressed th...

Reports of the city’s landfills being close to capacity are overblown as extensions should be able to accept waste for another decade. Even so, Hong Kong needs answers on recycling and waste reduction to reach the goal of zero landfills and aid the...

The plant, controlled by Moscow since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in late February, has become a focal point of the conflict, with each side blaming the other for nearby shelling.

Old shophouse buildings in danger of demolition as rules for preservation are too restrictive, experts say.

The construction of surveillance facilities comes after the announcement of joint military exercises between India and the United States.

A 21-year-old woman who has drawn more than 5 million followers with posts on life in a remote part of China says she never thought about popularity, she wanted to share her life and the beautiful landscape of her home.

Soaring inflation, growing rich-poor divide and declining social mobility have left middle-class families feeling the squeeze.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: ‘The money is intended to help the displaced people in Ukraine to continue to be able to provide for themselves.’

The favourite to succeed Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to brand China as a ‘threat’ and is tipped to draw a clear line under the ‘golden era’ of cooperation.

Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said Legionnaires’ had been identified as the underlying cause of double pneumonia in the four, who had suffered high fevers, body aches and trouble breathing.

About 10 people were injured by rocket attacks in Zelenodolsk, most of them seriously, said the military governor of the town in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Robert Hendy-Freegard, 51, has been on the run since August, when he hit two officers with his Audi A3 in a remote village in central France before speeding away. He faces charges of attempted murder of a public official.

Writing for The Mail on Sunday newspaper, the Ukrainian president paid tribute to British solidarity with the country since the Russian invasion. Johnson will leave office on Tuesday.

Residents said the attack was in retaliation for a local mobilisation against the al-Qaeda-affiliated group that holds significant parts of central and southern Somalia.

Spencer Elden claimed his depiction as a naked baby on the cover of the band’s 1991 album Nevermind was child pornography. A Los Angeles judge said Elden waited too long to claim Nirvana sexually exploited him.

Police said Cory Wayne Patterson did not have a pilot’s licence and was an employee of Tupelo Aviation. He faces charges of grand larceny and making terrorist threats.

The earliest opportunity to try flying the rocket again would come during the next launch period that runs from September 19-30, or during an October window.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Vladimir Putin that Türkiye can play facilitator role in Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant issue; alarm has grown in recent weeks about shelling near the site.

Chief Executive opens museum marking China’s resistance against Japanese invasion up to and during World War II.

A Chinese report says the new US Chip Act is designed to stifle academic collaboration, and will further divide researchers.

Life expectancy in Hong Kong is mostly a result of a low infant mortality rate, which stood at about 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births last year.

The authorities said areas expecting to receive 15-20 per cent additional rain this year actually received in excess of 400 per cent more; at least 1,265 people, including 441 children, are now known to have died.

The US is using the maritime convention to ‘suppress’ others without ratifying the document, vice foreign minister says.

Beijing-based group says US sorties in the area were down by a third in August.

Authorities say residents Fairbourne, which faces long-term ‘catastrophic flood risk’, must abandon the village by the mid-2050s.

Dozens of people showed up to watch a film on a screen in a Warsaw park, with some sitting on static bikes plugged into a generator.

Hong Kong’s development chief says pandemic has shown the need for spare sites which can be converted into medical facilities at any time.

The high cost of going to the cinema was also highlighted, in a nation where many people live in poverty, amid current global inflation.

A cinema in China has become an online joke and annoyed the middle-aged after releasing an ad offering free movie tickets that defines ‘old people’ as born between 1970 and 1985.

Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday aged 91, was granted a public send-off but not a funeral with state honours or President Putin in attendance.

South China Sea fish stocks are at risk according to members of a multinational working group.

Former farmer Sanu Sherpa was 31 when he completed his first mountain climb, just a year after he began working in the mountaineering world; now 47, he fancies being a regular tourist.