Police nab 100 'mat rempit' at pre-dawn illegal race

Police nab 100 'mat rempit' at pre-dawn illegal race
Karpal Singh warns MCA to stop exploiting hudud issue
Solo runner? Kickstarter GPS watch comes with a panic button
Another body found in tanker tragedy
Karpal Singh to make an issue of sedition charge
UN members fail to agree on global arms trade treaty
Nepal jeep plunge kills 14 pilgrims: police
New sapphire find sends panners into Madagascar lemur park
Five families made homeless in fire
26 including Thais and Myanmar detained in anti-drug operation
Colorado shooting suspect was under psychiatrist's care
Malaysian hospital separates conjoined twins
Olympic tourists descend on London
Pollution protestors clash with police in China
PAS' dream to implement hudud is impossible - DAP
Great Britain stuns with transformed opener for 30th Olympiad
Death toll in tanker tragedy rises to three as two more bodies found
Militants shoot dead 4 soldiers in restive Thai south
Court cuts China activist's jail sentence: lawyer
Jackson's mother, nephew to share custody of children

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:23 AM PDT

The police nabbed 100 motorcylists or 'mat rempit' who participated in an illegal race, at a roadblock in Padang Kota Lama here early today.

Karpal Singh warns MCA to stop exploiting hudud issue

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:13 AM PDT

DAP chairman Karpal Singh today warned the MCA to stop exploiting the hudud issue among Malaysians.

Solo runner? Kickstarter GPS watch comes with a panic button

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:12 AM PDT

Athletic-minded women may soon have a high-performance GPS-enabled watch all their own -- one that features a sleek size for smaller wrists, water resistance up to 100m, and an added bonus: a panic button.

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Another body found in tanker tragedy

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:09 AM PDT

Another body was recovered in the waters early today, following Thursday's fire which broke out on board the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) ship, MT Bunga Alpinia, causing an explosion in the vessel in Labuan.

Karpal Singh to make an issue of sedition charge

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 11:49 PM PDT

DAP chairman Karpal Singh said he will make an issue out of the sedition charge against him, in the upcoming general election.

UN members fail to agree on global arms trade treaty

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 11:25 PM PDT

The member states of the United Nations failed here Friday to agree on a global arms trade treaty designed to regulate the multi-billion-dollar industry.

Nepal jeep plunge kills 14 pilgrims: police

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 11:00 PM PDT

At least 14 pilgrims were killed when a jeep carrying them to a sacred Hindu site in southern Nepal swerved off a highway and fell 100 metres (330 feet) into a stream below, police said on Saturday.

New sapphire find sends panners into Madagascar lemur park

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:59 PM PDT

Knee-deep in muddy water, a 10-year-old child and a woman with braided hair lean over a large sieve, washing earth and rocks, their eyes clenched against the filthy splashing water.

Five families made homeless in fire

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:09 PM PDT

About 20 people from five families were made homeless in a fire which destroyed a row of four units of double storey semi-wooden houses at Jalan Wakaf Mek Zainab here.

26 including Thais and Myanmar detained in anti-drug operation

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:08 PM PDT

Twenty-six individuals including Thai and Myanmar nationals, as well as a woman, were detained following an operation code-named 'Op Tapis Khas' at the Selayang Wholesale Market, early this morning.

Colorado shooting suspect was under psychiatrist's care

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT

DENVER (Reuters) - A former University of Colorado graduate student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area movie theatre last week had been under the care of a psychiatrist who was part of a campus threat-assessment team.

Malaysian hospital separates conjoined twins

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:51 PM PDT

Conjoined 15-month-old twins attached at the pelvis and sharing three legs were successfully separated at a Malaysian hospital in a complex 24-hour operation, reports said Saturday.

Olympic tourists descend on London

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:36 PM PDT

(Britain, London-AFP) - With the clock ticking down to the opening of the 2012 Olympics, London is welcoming millions of foreign visitors. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.

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Pollution protestors clash with police in China

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:20 PM PDT

Thousands of demonstrators protesting against alleged pollution from a paper factory in east China clashed with police Saturday, an AFP photographer said.

PAS' dream to implement hudud is impossible - DAP

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:20 PM PDT

PAS' aspiration to implement hudud law in the country is impossible because the party needs to first amend the Federal Constitution.

Great Britain stuns with transformed opener for 30th Olympiad

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:20 PM PDT

Spectators at the Olympics Stadium here and television viewers all over the world were stunned as Great Britain put on a superb show to raise the curtains on the 30th Olympic Games tonight.

Death toll in tanker tragedy rises to three as two more bodies found

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:19 PM PDT

The death toll in the tanker tragedy here has risen to three after the bodies of two crew members of the MT Bunga Alpinia were found floating not far from the wrecked tanker today.

Militants shoot dead 4 soldiers in restive Thai south

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Militants shot dead four soldiers and wounded two others early Saturday in Thailand's volatile south, an army spokesman said, as a surge in violence since the start of Ramadan continued.

Court cuts China activist's jail sentence: lawyer

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 08:58 PM PDT

A Chinese court handed Ni Yulan, the disabled activist jailed earlier this year, a two-month reduction in her prison term on Friday, but upheld a conviction for "picking quarrels", her lawyer said.