Twitter opens up data for researchers to study Covid-19 tweets, Digital News,Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about Covid-19, which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinfor
Australian police find 7 dead in rural town, guns seized, World News,SYDNEY – Australian police found seven dead people on Friday, including four children, in a rural town in the Margaret River wine-growing region, and said guns were involved in the killings. The bodies of four children and three ad
Australian wildfires destroy homes, kill cattle as hundreds of people flee, World News,SYDNEY – Australian authorities urged people to remain alert on Monday as wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes, killed cattle and forced hundreds of residents to flee continued to burn out of control in t
Saudi woman who fled family is welcomed as 'brave new Canadian' in Toronto, World News,TORONTO – An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family this week saying she feared for her life arrived in Toronto's international airport on Saturday (Jan 12) after being granted asylum in Canada
Anti-molest volunteers to patrol MRT stations in Singapore, Singapore News,The increase in outrage of modesty (OM) cases on public transport has prompted the police to launch a pilot plan for volunteers to patrol train stations to deter molesters. The volunteers are from the community programme Citi
Hold my croc: Indonesian teen brings 'backup' to gang fight, Asia News,Wrong place, wrong time? One student in an inter-school brawl accidentally brought in a rather unusual 'reinforcement' — a baby crocodile he had been tasked to take care of. The altercation between the teens t
Bushfires destroy buildings in Australia as heatwave melts highway surface, World News,SYDNEY – Bushfires in Australia destroyed buildings and threatened lives on Saturday as a heatwave in three states brought temperatures strong enough to melt the bitumen on a highway. A fire raging out of control
No luck in search for remaining bodies on New Zealand volcano, World News,WELLINGTON (AFP) – Search teams returned to New Zealand's volcanic White Island on Sunday (Dec 15) but there was no sign of two bodies still unaccounted for after last week's eruption, as police released the names of
Bangladesh confident Rohingya will be returned, Asia News,Bangladesh on Wednesday stuck by plans to begin repatriating some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya minority who fled Myanmar last year, despite UN warnings and trepidation among the refugees themselves. \”All necessary arrangements and
Woman in Johor nearly raped after mistaking attacker's car for her Grab ride, Malaysia News,JOHOR BARU – Malaysian police have caught a man for sexually attacking a woman in Johor who got into his car after wrongly thinking it was the Grab ride she booked. The incident took place late on Monday
4-year-old Australian girl missing from campsite found alive after 2 weeks, World News,SYDNEY – A four-year-old girl who went missing from an Australian outback campsite more than two weeks ago has been found \”alive and well\” in a locked house, authorities said on Wednesday (Nov 3). Police broke int
