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German president says US is destroying world order
Published on 08/01/2026
» BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has strongly criticised US foreign policy under President Donald Trump and urged nations not to let the world order disintegrate into a “den of robbers” where the unscrupulous take what they want.
Trump closes another door to immigrants after university shooting
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/12/2025
» WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has halted the US green card lottery programme, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Gunman kills two, wounds nine at US university
AFP, Published on 14/12/2025
» PROVIDENCE (UNITED STATES) - A gunman killed two people and wounded nine others on Saturday at Brown University, plunging the eastern US campus into lockdown as hundreds of police hunted the suspect late into the night.
Leftist New York mayor-elect faces Trump in White House showdown
AFP, Published on 22/11/2025
» WASHINGTON - New York's incoming leftist mayor Zohran Mamdani marches into the White House on Friday for a high-stakes sit-down with President Donald Trump, after a bruising war of words that lit up cable news and social media.
US travel woes mount as govt shutdown prompts flight cuts
AFP, Published on 07/11/2025
» WASHINGTON - Travelers faced mounting uncertainty over air travel in the United States after a directive to decrease flights at dozens of major airports went into effect on Friday.
Painting stripes on cows to lizards' pizza pick: Ig Nobel winners
AFP, Published on 20/09/2025
» PARIS - Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favourite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another language: these were some of the winners at the Ig Nobel prizes, which celebrate the sillier side of science.
Hong Kong, 2 mainland Chinese cities named UN body's top innovation cluster
South China Morning Post, Published on 02/09/2025
» A cluster of cities comprising Hong Kong and two others from mainland China has been named the world's top innovation hub, a feat attributed to a new ranking metric that involves venture capital deals, a United Nations body has said.
Chinese cluster now world's top innovation hotspot: UN
AFP, Published on 01/09/2025
» GENEVA - Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday.
'Nicest' judge, viral for his courtroom compassion, dies at 88
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» Frank Caprio, a US judge who became an internet sensation for his compassion and courteous demeanour in court, has died at 88, his family announced on social media.
AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brink
AFP, Published on 04/08/2025
» NEW YORK - Generative artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the advertising revenue they desperately need, in a crushing blow to an industry already fighting for survival.