The Birmingham Airport underwent an evacuation due to a suspicious vehicle being discovered on the premises. Learn more about what happened and whether the airport has reopened by reading below. The Birmingham Airport entered partial evacuation mode early Wednesday, October 23, 2024, after encountering suspicious activity, leading some passengers to revise their flights due to changes...
Volkswagen's Scout Motors was revived as a new EV vehicle company. Learn more about its Traveler SUV and Terra pickup truck. Scout Motors’ EVs are here and almost ready to hit the road. Motor enthusiasts have been patiently waiting for the brand’s nameplate to finally arrive. Now that it has, customers got a glimpse at Scout’s...
BEIJING: An associate professor at a prestigious university in China has posted videos of her working out in the gym to recruit chemistry PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows. Yang Xuemei, 31, from Harbin Institute of Technology’s Shenzhen campus in southern China began posting videos of herself training in gyms and showing off her muscles as “advertisements”...
SINGAPORE: A 16-year-old girl was among 112 suspected drug offenders who were nabbed in an islandwide anti-drug bust, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in a statement on Monday (Oct 28). The raids, which took place from Oct 14 to 25 in areas such as Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Clementi, Eunos, Jurong and Tampines, saw a...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was on thin ice on Monday (Oct 28) after his ruling coalition was projected to have lost its parliamentary majority in disastrous snap elections. Ishiba, 67, called Sunday's vote days after taking office on October 1, but voters angry at a slush fund scandal punished his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). "We...
YANGON: Myanmar authorities have arrested an ex-military officer and son-in-law of a former junta chief for Facebook posts that threatened "peace and stability," the junta said. The junta has cracked down on dissent since ending a decade-long experiment in democracy in 2021, with systematic censorship and surveillance of online speech. Nay Soe Maung, whose father-in-law Than Shwe...
(Reuters) -Corporate giants Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay $89 million for violations of consumer protection laws in their joint credit card business that affected hundreds of thousands of people, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday. In a partnership to finance Apple customers' purchases through the Apple credit card that Goldman is now seeking...
PHNOM PENH: Following the publicity of the Pink Dolphins on social media by the ministries, institutions, media and influencers, the number of visitors to the Pink Dolphin boat tour has now significantly increased, as a result, reservations have to be made at least in two days advance. Under the leadership and guidance of Dith Tina, Minister...
An Uber driver found himself facing the wrath of an armed and angry pet owner when he refused to take her dog for a ride, according to investigators in Florida. The driver escaped unharmed, but was robbed of his cellphone during the dispute, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. It happened around 8pm...
As a young girl growing up in Tasik Junjung, a small border town in Province Wellesley (now Seberang Perai), Dr Michelle Kem Su Ng-Hor always felt that she was of the “wrong gender”, born at a wrong time – when girls were destined to be treated differently from boys. Now a successful gastroenterologist with her own...
