King Harolds legendary 200-mile march across England to the Battle of Hastings in 1066 is a myth that likely never happened, according to research published on Saturday. In arguably the most famous battle in English history, the Anglo-Saxon leader was defeated by William the Conqueror, who became the first Franco-Norman king of England, at Hastings on ...

Police have arrested a woman on suspicion of child abuse after she allegedly hit her 12-year-old son with a rattan cane in a Hong Kong flat. The police force said it received a report at 2.48pm on Saturday from a boy in Wong Tai Sin, who complained he had been beaten by his mother. The boy, whose shoulder was red and swollen, was later taken to Queen ...

China has announced major discoveries of various critical minerals, including rare earths and fluorite, bolstering its reserves of the resources essential for the hi-tech, new energy and defence industries. At the Maoniuping mine in Sichuan provinces Mianning county, authorities announced the discovery of 9.7 million tonnes of rare earth oxides, bringing ...

Hawaii suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, officials said on Friday, while warning that more rain was expected during the weekend. Muddy floodwaters smothered vast stretches of Oahus North Shore, a community world renowned for its big-wave surfing. ...

Washingtons deployment of an amphibious assault ship from Japan to the Middle East could signal a temporary reduction in US military capacity in the Indo-Pacific region but will not necessarily diminish its deterrence of China, according to analysts. According to American media reports, the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli has left its home port in Japan ...

China should support Indias bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, a prominent US economist has suggested, saying the two Asian powers could overcome historical grievances and political distrust to inject stability into the world. Chinas real interest is true, stable multipolarity, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs told a ...

Some Discovery Bay residents have expressed frustration over a proposal to allow unrestricted taxi access to the seaside resort-like neighbourhood in Hong Kong, with a petition calling for greater public consultation garnering more than 1,100 signatures. In a reply to the South China Morning Post on Saturday, the Transport Department also confirmed it had ...

Most of Ukraines northern Chernihiv region was left without power on Saturday after a Russian drone attack, local governor Viacheslav Chaus said. He said repair works were under way to fix the damage. The region, which borders Russia and Belarus, had a pre-war population of nearly a million. The regional capital, also called Chernihiv, was fully without ...

The survival of Irans political and military apparatus following a massive US-Israeli decapitation strike has ignited a strategic debate in Taiwan, with experts weighing the islands ability to withstand a similar surgical opening to an attack from the mainland. Military analysts and officials in Taipei are closely studying the February 28 strikes that ...

Hong Kong police have arrested five people and recovered nearly HK$100 million (US$12.7 million) in gold stolen in a suspected deception case, in which a buyer allegedly worked as an accomplice of a group that seized the haul before fleeing. The incident took place at about 2.45pm on Friday at an office in Peninsula Square on Sung On Street in Hung Hom, ...

Iran launched a missile attack on a military base in the Indian Ocean jointly used by the United Kingdom and the United States, according to US media reports. The Islamic Republic fired ballistic missiles at the base on the island of Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands, on Friday morning, the Wall Street Journal and CNN reported, citing senior US ...

China called for a halt to the unjust war in Iran in a phone call between top diplomats on Friday and expressed willingness to work with France to prevent other nations from being drawn into the conflict. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic adviser to the French president, that as members of the UN Security Council, the two ...

Fourteen people died and 25 were seriously injured in a fire at a car parts factory in the South Korean city of Daejeon, fire authorities said on Saturday. The fire broke out around lunchtime on Friday and was contained by 11.48pm, the safety ministry said. Another 35 people suffered minor injuries, the fire authorities added. As of Saturday morning, 28 ...

A shadowy go-between known as Aunt Mei allegedly involved in a notorious child trafficking case has been arrested, according to police in southern China. Police in the city of Guangzhou said the woman, surnamed Xie, had been identified last year, and the case was still under investigation, state media reported on Saturday. The reports did not specify when ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US robotics industry will have to rely on Chinas supply chain despite the US pioneering the market, as the company bets on physical AI and looks to return to the Chinese market. I think China is formidable, Huang said when asked about the countrys rise in the robotics industry during a podcast hosted by Silicon Valley tech ...

An American man who donated photographs of the Japanese invasion of China in World War II and received a national gift of porcelain from China has announced that he has settled in the country. On March 15, Evan Kail announced the news on social media, saying that he has chosen to live in Tianjin in the north of the country, according to a report by the ...

The phone call between the Dutch and Chinese foreign ministers was a first on a series of fronts. For the new Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen, the call on March 13 was his first with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi since taking on the job a few weeks earlier. It was also the first between the two holders of the offices since China and the Netherlands ...

A 19-year-old star wrestler and two other young men were hanged in Iran this week, raising alarm among rights groups that a wave of executions may be under way as authorities facing relentless attacks from the US and Israel seek to squelch public dissent. The three men are the first to be executed from among the tens of thousands who were arrested during a ...

Hong Kong authorities have received more than 100 applications for innovative drone usage to pioneer the citys low-altitude economy, with some pilot projects set to launch as early as in three months, the transport minister has said. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan also pledged to push more advanced transport technologies to transition from ...

After decades at the frontline campaigning for environmental policies, Edwin Lau Che-feng, founder of The Green Earth, is finally slowing down to focus on his health and passion for radio-controlled boats. The 68-year-old has been one of the most vocal environmentalists championing the waste-charging scheme for more than two decades. Lau still remembers May ...

Popular doll Labubu and Blackpinks Jennie were among the headline names and brands from the city and abroad that drew thousands of fans to Hong Kongs third edition of pop culture festival ComplexCon early on Saturday. Organisers said this years edition broke attendance records and estimated tens of thousands would show up for the two-day event. On Saturday ...

Accelerating glacial retreat in the Himalayas over the past decades is threatening over 2 billion people in the region who depend on meltwater from the water tower of Asia for their daily needs, according to climate scientists. Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region have been losing ice at twice the rate since 2000, with smaller glaciers under 0.5 ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Tehran is ready to facilitate the passage of Japanese vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for global energy shipments, and that negotiations with Japan on the issue are ongoing. We have not closed the strait. It is open, Araghchi said in a telephone interview with Kyodo News on Friday. He also ...

Hong Kong authorities will issue weekly announcements about the changes in international and local fuel costs from April, following growing concerns that businesses have prematurely raised prices in response to the United States-Israeli war on Iran. The announcement on Saturday also came after the conflicts impact on oil prices prompted Hong Kongs transport ...

Pancakes are a common breakfast in many parts of China today, but few people are aware that the popular meal has been around for 5,000 years. An ancient griddle unearthed from the Yangshao site in central Chinas Henan province reveals that the history of Chinese pancakes could date back to at least 50 centuries ago. As for their invention, legend has it ...