WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jenny Shipley has been ordered by the country’s highest court to pay NZ$6.6 million ($3.9 million) plus interest as compensation for her role in the collapse of a construction company, a judgement released Friday said. Shipley was New Zealand’s first female prime minister holding the role from 1997...
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (Reuters) - As former President Donald Trump was arrested in Atlanta, U.S. President Joe Biden said he had spoken with Ukraine's president on Friday and issued a fresh appeal for contributions to his 2024 re-election campaign "apropos of nothing." Biden was silent all day on Friday while on vacation at a home...
PETALING JAYA: A woman in Hubei, China, had the shock of her life after discovering about 60 cockroach eggs in a shampoo bottle she had bought online, China Press also reported. She paid 76 yuan (about RM50) for two bottles of shampoo. When her son used the product, he screamed upon seeing the cockroach eggs. The two bottles...
BHARDEV, Nepal (Reuters) - In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently squeezing the wet larvae of the black soldier fly into small plastic containers. Another woman slices pears and wilted vegetables to feed the insects,...
(Adds dropped word "to" in first paragraph) (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump is due to surrender at a Georgia jail on Thursday to face charges he illegally tried to overturn the vote in the state in the 2020 presidential election which put Joe Biden in the White House. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Trump is due to report briefly...
The Imaxed Barbie will be out in North America and select international markets. Barbie will be out on Imax with bonus footage next month. Variety reported on Wednesday (Aug 23) that the Margot Robbie-Ryan Gosling-starring movie — based on the iconic Mattel doll line — will be out on Imax for a one-week engagement starting Sept 22. This new version will...
NAMIE, Japan (AFP): Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday (Aug 24) despite angry opposition from China and local fishermen. The start of the discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water over several decades is a big step in decommissioning the still highly dangerous...
KAJANG: A 30-year-old woman has been rescued after she slipped and fell while heading down Broga Hill. Selangor Fire and Rescue Department assistant director Ahmad Mukhlis Mukhtar said the woman sprained her right ankle as a result of the fall. "We received a distress call at 10.53am and deployed a team to the site. "The victim slipped and...
PETALING JAYA: The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2023 examination will take place from Dec 5 to March 7 next year, says the Education Ministry. SPM 2022 was conducted from Jan 30 to March 15 this year. Science practical tests will be held from Dec 5 to 7, while the Bahasa Melayu (BM) oral test will be from...
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of India for the successful landing of Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the moon on Wednesday (Aug 23). In a Facebook post on Thursday (Aug 24), the Malaysian Prime Minister said Malaysia also took pride in the...
