Killer clown who murdered US woman and married her widower is freed
A woman who pleaded guilty to dressing as a clown and in 1990 murdering the wife of a man she later married was released...
Alibaba cuts ‘dozens of employees’ at metaverse unit as hype in sector cools down
Alibaba Group Holding is scaling down its metaverse operations, according to a source familiar with the matter, making it the latest Big Tech company...
PLA simulates Shanghai attack to see how close fighter jets from Japan could get
Could stealth fighter jets take off from Japan, get past China’s air defence system and bomb Shanghai? Advertisement Chinese military researchers say they have...
Harris and Trump nearly cross paths in North Carolina in final days to US election
Published: 6:12am, 3 Nov 2024Updated: 7:10am, 3 Nov 2024 Democrat Kamala Harris was greeted by an unusual sight as she arrived in North Carolina...
Cop29 is Azerbaijan’s moment to step into the global sunshine
Cop29, the UN climate change conference, convenes in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, from November 11-22. Compared to Cop28 host, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), less...
Shanghai Filled With Abandoned Projects; $4B Pentagonal Trade City, $30B Luxury Area Now Ghost Towns
Shanghai’s largest abandoned building project has been deserted for over a decade. Let’s take a look inside. This is Shanghai’s most astonishing unfinished building...
US Speaker Johnson floats, then walks back repeal of bipartisan chip law Trump attacked
Republicans seek to “streamline” a law subsidising American chip manufacturing, US House Speaker Mike Johnson said, as he backtracked from saying they “probably will”...
Jodi Picoult novel the most banned book in US schools; Atwood, Alice Walker close behind
Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel Nineteen Minutes, a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list...
Rick Scott Looks to Fend Off Democrat Challenger for Florida’s Senate Seat
While Scott has historically won his elections by narrow margins, polls and voter registration data suggest he holds an edge this year. In a...