A 2-metre high bus that allows cars to pass under it while transporting commuters is fast becoming a reality, as China unveiled a completed life-sized model on Sunday.The bodywork of the world's first "straddling bus" was unveiled in Juangsu,...
Almost 300 hot spots were detected over Sumatra and Kalimantan yesterday that were due to forest and land fires, and the number is expected to increase in the coming dry months.The figures were disclosed as news emerged of an...
Researchers in India have found that cow urine contains traces of gold.The results of the study, which was announced today (July 4), revealed that a litre of urine from the Gir cow species contains three to 10mg of gold. According...
Dark clouds, fierce winds, and a scene that looks like it's from an apocalyptic movie - this is what a rainstorm in Qingdao, China caused the city to look like.On Saturday (July 2), pictures of the terrifying sky emerged...
PETALING JAYA: Young, smart and with boyish good looks, Nibras Islam came from a wealthy family and had a penchant for Bollywood.He also enjoyed a wide following of friends at a private university here where he studied commerce after...
DHAKA - A survivor of a massacre in a Bangladeshi cafe recounted Sunday how he spent the night being literally sick with fear as he listened to the haunting screams of diners being hacked to death.The employee at the...
Overnight flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before the waters hit washing away most of the settlement, officials said Sunday.The heavy monsoon...
DHAKA - Bangladesh said Sunday the attackers who slaughtered 20 hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka were well-educated followers of a homegrown militant outfit who found extremism "fashionable", denying links to the Islamic State group.As the country began two...
BANGKOK - Doctors treating Thailand's ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej have drained a fresh build-up of water on the brain, the palace said Sunday, in the latest in a series of updates of the 88-year-old's health.Subject to an intense personality...
HONG KONG - In China's eastern city of Hangzhou, Mr Li could barely watch as Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo lined up a penalty kick in a finely-balanced Euro 2016 group match against Austria. Li had reason to be nervous:...
