Boy, 11, shot dead in Texas after ‘ding dong ditch’ doorbell prank
An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston, Texas after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away,...
Taliban asks world for help in wake of deadly Afghanistan earthquake
Published: 6:49am, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 11:24am, 2 Sep 2025 Afghanistan’s Taliban administration made an appeal for help on Monday after one of the country’s...
What Southeast Asia needs to succeed in building local AI models
At Asean’s first ever artificial intelligence summit in Kuala Lumpur recently, YTL AI Labs, in partnership with the University of Malaya, launched a large...
China pushes development bank to help 10 Eurasian countries curb US dollar risks
A strong push on Monday to create a development bank serving 10 Eurasian countries, including China, would help insulate the group from increasingly risky...
Trump to award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Published: 5:27am, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 8:15am, 2 Sep 2025 US President Donald Trump said Monday he will award former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani...
US naval buildup in Caribbean draws fiery response from Venezuela’s Maduro
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he “would constitutionally declare a republic in arms” if the South American country were attacked by forces...
Guatemala prepared to receive minors deported from US
Guatemala is ready and willing to receive some 150 unaccompanied minors per week of all ages from the United States, President Bernardo Arevalo said...
Former CDC heads say Kennedy Jnr ‘endangering’ all Americans
Nine former leaders of the top US health body sounded the alarm on Monday about the Trump administration’s evisceration of the agency and warned...
Trump plans a hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages
Published: 1:16am, 2 Sep 2025Updated: 1:37am, 2 Sep 2025 US President Donald Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category...