Scientists have captured images of the suns surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It is dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundations Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island ...

A woman has been arrested after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden in central London on Wednesday afternoon. The Metropolitan Police said the four men, aged 34, 39, 42 and 52, were found with stab wounds. No further update has been given on the extent of their injuries. The 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon ...

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to the Indian government over child sexual abuse material on the companys platforms and for operational errors, local television channels reported on Wednesday. Zuckerberg apologised for the presence of the material, as well as deepfake content and operational lapses on Metas platforms, financial news ...

A Singaporean court has jailed a Hong Kong mother and her adult son for up to six months following a chaotic clash at Changi Airport, during which the pair attacked a police officer and a bystander. Chan Sui-kwan, 65, was reportedly sentenced to six months imprisonment on Monday for voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from the discharge of ...

Hong Kong should act as a super partner helping enterprises expand into Asean, Middle Eastern, Central Asian and European markets, as well as build an annual review into its first five-year plan, one of the citys oldest and largest chambers of commerce has said. The suggestions are among 65 that the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce put forward to the ...

A Hong Kong lawmaker has warned that an unfolding crypto scam run by a coffee investment venture based in Vietnam could involve more than 1,000 victims, as an investor reported losses of HK$14 million (US$1.73 million) across her team. The warning came as police said that total reported losses tied to the syndicate operating as Fun Coffee have climbed to ...

The leader of Britains opposition Conservative Party defended the selection of a former neo-Nazi who had been jailed for hate crimes as a local election candidate, saying on Wednesday that he was rehabilitated and could help fight antisemitism. Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted in 2015 of racially aggravated harassment of Luciana Berger, then a Labour ...

Beijing has been urged to create its own law to protect its underwater fibre-optic cables, as global fears grow over sabotage of critical ocean infrastructure. The recommendation by Shanghai Maritime University law professor Guo Ran comes amid growing threats to the undersea cables that carry about 99 per cent of global intercontinental data, including in ...

A former senior Chinese defence official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting over 43 million yuan (US$6.3 million) in bribes, as Chinas anti-corruption drive continues it sweep through the military sector. Zhang Jianhua, former deputy head of Chinas State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, was ...

Some vendors at Hong Kongs coming Food Expo have said they expect brisker sales and higher foot traffic compared with last year, citing better weather, discounts and creative products such as caviar sake gelato. The five day expo is among five trade fairs that will open next Thursday, with more than 1,850 exhibitors in total from over 30 countries and ...

Japans efforts to build a long-range capability to strike Chinese warships reached a milestone last week as flight testing began for the air-launched variant of its upgraded Type 12 anti-ship missile, a weapon with a reported range of about 1,000km (620 miles). Photographs taken by aviation enthusiasts on July 30 at Gifu airbase in central Japan show a ...

Shares of Chinas leading optical-module makers clawed back early losses on Wednesday after analysts downplayed the impact of proposed US restrictions that could block the firms from future American AI data centres. They noted that the rules would likely leave current supply chains intact and face significant hurdles because of Americas heavy reliance on ...

The Peoples Liberation Army has unveiled the first official footage showing a nuclear-capable air-launched ballistic missile, the Jing Lei-1, mounted on an H-6N bomber in combat-ready status during a joint anti-ship exercise. The strategic bomber was seen in flight, carrying a massive missile under its belly, in the final episode of the documentary Securing ...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 67-year-old woman who posed as a prospective tenant to swindle two property owners out of HK$4.3 million (US$510,008) in a virtual currency investment scam. Investigators from the Western district crime squad said on Wednesday that the suspect had contacted two victims who were separately advertising a flat and a parking ...

Malaysian authorities vowed to identify and close security loopholes in its airports after a pilot allegedly transported drugs from the country before being arrested in Indonesia last week. Malaysias home and transport ministries would implement steps to improve aviation security, and would place police officers at certain checkpoints, the governments ...

A Hong Kong mother who abused and starved her five-year-old son to death was sentenced to 22 years in prison, with the judge condemning a crime that exposed a savage nature utterly devoid of the empathy inherent to motherhood. Madam Justice Susana DAlmada Remedios on Wednesday said she had to impose the heavy sentence on the 37-year-old mother, whom she ...

A tertiary institution in Hong Kong has apologised for mistakenly sending an email to all 10,000 of its applicants telling them that they had been admitted and asking them to pay an acceptance fee, saying the error was an administrative oversight. The blunder involving Tung Wah College (TWC) in Kowloon on Wednesday sparked angry complaints online for ...

The underwater cables that play a vital role supporting the international digital economy are increasingly vulnerable to attack from low-cost drones, Chinese military researchers have warned. They said the seabed had long been viewed as a strategic blind spot due to the difficulty of exploration and the high cost of controlling it, but was becoming a new ...

A rare joint intervention to stabilise the yen has given US-Japan relations a near-term lift, according to analysts. But whether that goodwill endures depends on how long the currencys rebound can survive mounting market and policy pressures. Fridays operation, Washingtons first yen purchase since 1998, came after the Japanese currency had slumped to a ...

Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for Chinas artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13 billion. In a research note published on Monday, the US investment bank boosted its year-end annualised recurring revenue ...

Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving after a video went viral showing his van swerving dangerously close to a woman. A police spokesman confirmed that officers arrested a 37-year-old man on Wednesday and remains in custody. The widely circulated video shows a van swerving at high speed, passing close to the female cleaner ...

A woman in China was sentenced to three years in prison for abducting a 10-month-old baby boy 35 years ago from the family who employed her as their maid. The woman, identified by her surname Wang, confessed in court that she took the boy after being diagnosed with infertility, driven by her desire to become a mother, as reported by the Beijing News. In ...

Chinas largest hotpot chain Haidilao International Holding is aiming to further diversify its business with hamburger stores following the example set by American brands like McDonalds and KFC and has also opened up more sushi stores to tap new growth drivers, as its core hotpot business shows slowing momentum. The countrys hamburger market is seeing ...

Malaysia is considering a levy on electric vehicles (EVs) to fund charging infrastructure, even as export and pricing conditions on high-volume foreign assembly projects have left Chinese giant BYDs planned 1.3 billion ringgit (US$318 million) factory in limbo. Economists and industry experts warn the two policy moves could raise ownership costs while ...

German police said Wednesday that a security related incident involving an unidentified object found at an airport forced the diversion of flights and the deployment of a bomb disposal robot overnight. The Bild newspaper said the object found at Leipzig-Halle airport was a drone with a detonator and possibly explosives, found near a Ukrainian Antonov cargo ...