Trump gave US$45,000 cash to close aide Natalie Harp and others
US President Donald Trump gave tens of thousands of dollars in cash gifts last year to executive assistant Natalie Harp and three other close...
AI researcher quits Anthropic over superintelligence fears: ‘gambling with our lives’
An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of “gambling with our...
Tributes flow in as Hong Kong mourns Tung Chee-hwa, pioneering first leader
Hong Kong is mourning the death of Tung Chee-hwa, the city’s first leader after its return to Chinese sovereignty and a respected elder statesman,...
Police widen criminal probe into Reform UK over foreign funding claims
British police said on Wednesday a criminal investigation into the populist Reform UK party would be widened to include allegations made in a documentary...
Indonesia’s wildfire emissions surge to world’s highest, data shows
Indonesia is facing a surge in emissions from wildfires burning through parched stretches of forest and peatland on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra,...
Tung Chee-hwa hailed as visionary leader who helped build US-China relations
Published: 11:08pm, 9 Sep 2026Updated: 11:13pm, 9 Sep 2026 Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, who died on Tuesday, has been lauded as...
Japan’s China-facing military build-up confronts labour, budget and political limits
Published: 11:00pm, 9 Sep 2026Updated: 11:22pm, 9 Sep 2026 The risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring...
14 killed as explosion rocks Syria arms depot: authorities
An explosion at an arms depot in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province killed 14 people on Wednesday, the local health department said, without specifying the...
Singapore’s DBS sued for US$1 billion in alleged 1MDB-linked claim
Published: 10:12pm, 9 Sep 2026Updated: 10:39pm, 9 Sep 2026 Singapore’s DBS Bank is being sued for an estimated S$1.298 billion (US$1.03 billion) in damages...