3 people confirmed dead, more than 20 hurt in Honolulu fireworks blast, mayor says
HONOLULU (AP) — 3 people confirmed dead, more than 20 hurt in Honolulu fireworks blast, mayor says.
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Malay MailKepala Batas MP Siti Mastura pays RM830,000 to DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok pending appeal of case
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 23 — Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad, who was found to have uttered defamatory remarks against DA...
- Malay Mail
First marital rape trial in Singapore: Foreign man accused of raping wife under threat of metal rod
SINGAPORE, Jan 22 — A 42-year-old man is being tried in the High Court here for allegedly raping his wife and threatenin...
- The Independent
Former classmate arrested nearly 50 years after teen was found dead on the second floor of her Hawaii school
Detectives had failed to identify a suspect in the murder case for decades
- The Telegraph
Six-year-old girl and father found dead after she failed to turn up for school
The bodies of a six-year-old girl and her father were discovered after she failed to turn up for school, police have revealed.
- Malay Mail
Mystery surrounds Kajang death after pistol, bullets found in 19-year-old victim’s car
KAJANG, Jan 22 — A 19-year-old man’s fall from the 12th floor of a building yesterday has led to the discovery of a pist...
- The Guardian
‘I am so proud’: Joy as Thailand’s same-sex couples can marry at last
Marriage equality laws come into force, with hundreds of couples tying the knot in special wedding events
- Malay Mail
Oriental Kopi apologises, confirms no 15pc service charge hike for CNY
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — Oriental Kopi has confirmed it will maintain its service fees throughout the Lunar New Year perio...
- Malay Mail
Man to be charged in JB for slapping Puspakom staff after lorry fails inspection
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — A 59-year-old man who went viral for slapping a Computerised Vehicle Inspection Centre (Puspakom)...
- Malay Mail
Chinese student granted bail in Johor teen abduction case
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — A 23-year-old student, who is a China national, has been granted bail of RM8,000 after being char...
- The Independent
Britain should give India back its artefacts in lieu of £52trn in colonialism reparations, says historian
Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’
- The Independent
Turkey hotel fire latest: 10-year-old among 76 killed in ski resort blaze that saw guests jump from windows
Cause of fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya under investigation after dozens die at popular ski resort
- CNN
Hundreds of same-sex couples wed as Thailand’s landmark marriage bill takes effect
Hundreds of same-sex couples are tying the knot across Thailand on Thursday as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.
- Associated Press
Man convicted of stalking Chinese ex-official by leaving him a dire note gets prison in US
A man who taped a sinister note to a Chinese ex-official's door in New Jersey was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison. Zheng Congying was one of three men convicted at the first trial highlighting U.S. claims that China's government harasses and intimidates dissidents and critics on foreign soil. A federal court jury in Brooklyn found Zheng and co-defendants Michael McMahon and Zhu Yong guilty of playing various roles in seeking out Xu Jin, a former official in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and pressing him to return to his homeland.
- The Independent
Advertisers flee major Japanese TV channel amid sexual assault claims against star presenter
Scandal has raised questions about the industry’s seemingly lax attitude to sexual crimes
- France 24
Nearly 2,000 couples wed as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
Thailand's same-sex marriage law took effect Thursday, making it the largest Asian nation to recognise equal marriage rights, including for transgender individuals, and to extend adoption and inheritance rights to all married couples. Almost 2,000 same-sex and transgender couples married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's equal marriage law went into effect in a first for Southeast Asia.The milestone sees Thailand become by far the biggest nation in Asia to recognise equal marriage, after
- People
Brooklyn Man Who Died After Beating by Muggers in Back Seat of Taxi Remembered as 'A Father Every Girl Could Dream of'
"I don’t know how to live without him. He’s my life. He taught me everything I know," Taylor Shelonchik said of her father, Michael Shelonchik, who was fatally beaten on Jan. 21
- Sky News
Two 14-year-old boys charged with raping girl in New Forest park
Two teenage boys have been charged with rape, in Hampshire. The incident is alleged to have taken place at Fordingbridge recreation ground on the evening of 17 January. Hampshire Police said that both boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were from Fordingbridge and aged 14.
- The Independent
Kyle Clifford admits murdering BBC commentator’s wife and their two daughters in Bushey crossbow attack
Kyle Clifford stabbed Carol Hunt to death and fatally shot Louise and Hannah Hunt at family home in Bushey – but denies raping his former partner
- People
Ski Resort Blaze Killed 20 Children, Fire Department Officials Among 11 Now Arrested
Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76
- Malay Mail
‘Another time’: Zahid dodges question on AGC’s gag order move over Najib’s house arrest addendum
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has declined to comment on the Attorney General’s Ch...