Crowd disarms knife-wielding woman at Malaysia water festival
A woman carrying a knife has been arrested after being tackled by the crowd during the Rain Rave Water Music Festival in Kuala Lumpur...
Fuelling a continent: how China’s engineering prowess built Africa’s biggest oil refinery
As the energy shock unleashed by tensions in the Middle East rippled through Africa, a massive oil refinery in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos,...
Quirky China: robot plays dead for pesticide warnings; bot hugs girl, in-car toilet approved
A robot in a high-visibility vest carrying a loud hailer while patrolling a park in China’s northeastern Jilin province has caused much amusement online....
Japan joins hunt for aliens. Can it solve the ‘Wow! Signal’ mystery?
Astronomers in Japan have recently launched what they say is the country’s first organisation dedicated to the search for alien life, with radio observations...