A 13-year-old girl in China has been dubbed a little hero after risking her life to save a four-year-old boy who fell into a frozen lake. The incident unfolded on December 6, in a park in Tongxin county, Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwestern China. The boy was playing on the surface of the frozen lake when he suddenly plunged into a hole, the Jimu ...

A father and son appeared to be driven by Islamic State ideology when they opened fire on a Jewish festival at Sydneys Bondi Beach, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed killed 15 people in a mass shooting that targeted a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at the famous beach on Sunday evening. Authorities have ...

Beijing has approved Chinas first two cars with level 3 (L3) autonomous driving capability, taking a leap towards widely deploying self-driving technology in the worlds largest automotive market. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on Monday that Changan Automobile and BAIC were given the go-ahead to build electric vehicles ...

The courts verdict in former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-yings trial has shed light on the ways in which implicit acts and actions taken before the national security law came into effect may constitute criminal offences, legal experts have said. Lai, 78, was found guilty on all three charges he faced under the Beijing-imposed national security law ...

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has pressed ahead with its strategic move into the fast-growing healthcare sector with a major upgrade to its artificial intelligence health app AQ, positioning the platform to work like a fitness companion or a family doctor. The new features included integration of records from smart devices made by Apple, Huawei and Omron, ...

Kim Jong-un has publicly mourned nine North Korean soldiers killed in Russia, in a rare display of grief analysts say belies a harder message of military solidarity with Moscow and rising expectations of compensation. North Korean state television broadcast scenes of Kim greeting wounded soldiers in wheelchairs and consoling relatives of the fallen during a ...

China has announced a new policy package to boost household spending by tightening coordination between commerce and financial regulators, expanding access to credit and promoting new forms of consumption. The move comes as soft retail sales and weak consumer confidence continued to weigh on economic growth last month, highlighting the urgency for ...

Senior US officials on Monday pushed back against suggestions of American retreat from the Indo-Pacific, declaring that Washington is recalibrating its foreign assistance to more effectively outcompete China in the strategically vital region while maintaining support for allies through targeted aid and security cooperation. The focus, they said, is shifting ...

It has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In a new series, we look back at the events of 2025, starting with the geopolitical struggle between the two rival superpowers. In a year marked by domestic crises and global turmoil, Washington and Beijing are set to end 2025 with a fragile truce after they stepped back from the brink of ...

The son of Hollywood actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner has been charged with the murder of his parents after they were found dead in their home over the weekend, the Los Angeles Police Department said on Monday. Nick Reiner, 32, who has struggled with substance abuse, was arrested on Sunday night and is being held in prison with no bail, the police department ...

Constructed around 256 BC, Dujiangyan is the worlds oldest irrigation system that is still in use today. Long before the invention of gunpowder, the system was using natural topographic and hydrological features to divert water from the Min River for irrigation and flood control without the use of dams. To this day, the ecological engineering feat irrigates ...

The US has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russias nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, US officials said on Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. The officials said talks with US President Donald Trumps envoys, Steve Witkoff ...

Russia has propelled the world into an age of uncertainty and the UK is now operating in a space between peace and war, Britains new MI6 spy chief said on Monday. Lets be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades, Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service, warned. Conflict is ...

Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Monday defended Mexicos decision to impose new tariffs on imports from China and other Asian countries, describing the move as a necessary step to protect hundreds of thousands of domestic jobs rather than a provocation to any trading partner. The tariff package, approved by Congress last week, will take effect on January ...

Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Years Eve across Southern California. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the FBI has foiled a bomb plot targeting multiple targets, including immigration agents and vehicles, in Los Angeles and ...

Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has been found guilty on all three charges after a landmark national security trial, nearly five years after he was first denied bail following his arrest. The 78-year-old businessman turned opposition activist, who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid, was convicted on Monday of two charges of ...

Hong Kongs High Court found former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying guilty on all charges in his national security trial on Monday, ruling that he had used his tabloid newspaper and international connections to push for foreign intervention and sanctions against the local and central governments. In open proceedings watched by a packed gallery of spectators ...

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A wave of drastic, irresponsible aid cuts this year has inflicted unnecessary pain on refugees, who are being vilified while their suffering is exploited by traffickers and politicians, the United Nations said on Monday. Outgoing UN refugees chief Filippo Grandi said this year had been a perfect storm of successive crises for the worlds forcibly displaced ...

Punk group Pussy Riot was declared an extremist organisation by a Russian court on Monday. The ruling, by Moscows Tverskoy District Court, effectively outlaws the group from operating in Russia and puts anyone linked with the group at risk of criminal prosecution. The feminist protest group first catapulted to notoriety in 2012, when its members performed a ...

Jimmy Lai Chee-yings guilty verdict in the former media boss landmark national security trial in Hong Kong has become a political flashpoint between China and its Western opponents, as they demand his immediate release while Beijing strongly rejects their interference. But while the High Courts ruling on Monday could send the businessman-turned-opposition ...

Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-yings rabid hatred of the Communist Party of China has led him down a thorny path, according to the judges who found him guilty on three counts of national security offences. The 855-page full judgment released on Monday started with the rags-to-riches success story of Lai, but was overshadowed by criticism, ...

Hong Kongs 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium has been ranked the worlds No 3 in ticket sales in 2025, despite its debut nine months ago, with its operator saying the ranking cements the citys status as Asian events capital. According to data compiled by Pollstar, a US-based trade publication for the concert and live music industry, Kai Tak Stadium also ranked No ...

Bangladeshs interim government said it would fly a leader of the 2024 uprising, a candidate in coming elections, for treatment in Singapore after an assassination attempt that left him critically wounded. Masked attackers shot student leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Friday as he left a mosque in the capital Dhaka, wounding him in the ear. The shooting took ...

Chinas latest long-endurance stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the CH-7, has completed its maiden flight, further expanding Beijings rapidly growing arsenal of autonomous weapons. State broadcaster CCTV said on Monday that Chinas new high-altitude, high-speed, long-endurance CH-7 had recently completed its first flight. The drone offered long ...