1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (191+ words) SINGAPORE – A 79-year-old pedestrian died in hospital after he was involved in an accident with a car in the Orchard Road area on Aug 11. The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force said they were alerted to the accident, which happened…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago   (418+ words) Two Spanish F-18 fighter jets, which were already on alert as a precaution, received authorisation to intervene at 04:44 on Sunday morning. The drone was sighted 24 kilometres north of the town of Galati. The drone, whose origin has not been confirmed by…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (420+ words) SINGAPORE – A 37-year-old Australian man and a 50-year-old American man have been arrested for allegedly stealing perfumes in two separate cases at Changi Airport, with one of them nabbed after transiting through Singapore more than eight months after the theft....

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (403+ words) Moroccan security forces on Saturday say they have prevented hundreds of people from crossing into Ceuta. Reports say the group, mostly originating from sub-Saharan Africa, had been hiding on the outskirts of Fnideq, known in Spanish as Castillejos. Moroccan media…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (516+ words) Hundreds of drones targeted Moscow on Sunday as Russia launched missile strikes that killed three people and wounded more than a dozen in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, officials on the two sides said. Amid the intense hostilities, three people…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (159+ words) Rain prevented play in the morning session on the second day of the first cricket Test between Sri Lanka and India in Galle on Sunday. The heavy downpour in the coastal town denied India an opportunity to build on their…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago   (673+ words) A dominant Bangladesh stunned Australia to win the opening Test by a crushing nine wickets in Darwin on Sunday for a historic first-ever Test victory on Australian soil. After bowling Australia out for 284 and needing 57 to win, the visitors cruised…...

5+ hour, 12+ min ago   (685+ words) Help started arriving Sunday for thousands of evacuees on Indonesia's Flores island after a powerful earthquake killed 48 people, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses and buildings. Some 5,000 people fled their homes as the 7.7-magnitude quake hit the island early…...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1255+ words) SINGAPORE – As a child, Mervyn Ong would follow his property agent parents to house viewings and help them distribute flyers in letterboxes. This stirred in him a passion for the profession which he later spent years trying to enter. It…...

4+ hour, 57+ min ago   (686+ words) The chances of a missile attack on Kyiv that night were around 50 percent, according to the administrator of a social media channel monitoring Russian air raids. His channel, Aeris Rimor -- roughly derived from the Latin for Searcher of the Skies…...