ISTANBUL: The total prize money on offer at Wimbledon, tennis’ oldest Grand Slam championship, has increased to a record £44.7 million (RM260.4 million) this year. “The prize money on offer for tennis events this year (not including per diems) is an 11.2 per cent increase on 2022 and a 17.1 per cent increase on the … Read more
PETALING JAYA: Sunway Group, through its innovation arm Sunway iLabs, has partnered with Deeptech Labs, a venture capital fund and deep tech-specific accelerator based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The partnership was announced at London Tech Week and witnessed by Lord Dominic Johnson, Minister for Investment at the Department of Business & Trade, and Natalie Black, … Read more
WASHINGTON: Even when he was president, Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to declassify a U.S. nuclear weapons-related document that he is charged with illegally possessing, security experts said, contrary to the former U.S. president’s claim. The secret document, listed as No. 19 in the indictment charging Trump with endangering national security, can under the … Read more
SHAH ALAM: A total of 5,000 of the 7,000 Selangor government contract civil servants have been absorbed into permanent positions so far, said Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari. Amirudin said the number showed the rate of absorption into permanent positions for contract civil servants in the state was high in line with the … Read more
IPOH: Police arrested a junior police constable believed to have been involved in a rape attempt on a teenage girl in the toilet of a petrol station in Jalan Tun Abdul Razak, here yesterday. State police chief Datuk Seri Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said his department received a report from the 19-year-old victim about the … Read more
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to back his embattled minister Katy Gallagher ‘1,000 per cent’ as she swats away a storm of criticism over whether she misled Parliament about what she knew about Brittany Higgins‘ rape claims. Senator Gallagher faced an onslaught of questions every day this week from the Opposition, with the Coalition … Read more
A transgender woman who accused a female-only Korean spa of discrimination after claiming she was barred from entering never even set foot on the property. Olympus Spa in Washington state was ordered by a judge to admit pre-op trans women with penises despite nudity being required in communal areas. That came after activist Haven Wilvich complained … Read more
Terrifying moment Florida sheriff’s deputy is pulled under water for 30 seconds after he was sucked into storm drain and propelled 100 feet while rescuing driver from huge flood David Boss left work and was making his way through water that was chest-deep on Highway 98 when he got pulled into the drain Escambia County … Read more
Just a few blocks east of Harvard sits an unassuming three-story Victorian apartment house that to the casual observer is nothing of note. But in 1958, No. 8 Prescott Street’s most notorious tenant moved into a gloomy single room dormitory on the first floor. His name was Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, a brilliant but timid 16-year-old math … Read more
Chelsea Handler voiced a call to action against the “horny old men” of the world. The former late night talk show host chastised Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin and Elon Musk for “spreading their seed.” “There’s a new epidemic sweeping the country, and no, it’s not another virus,” Handler said in an Instagram … Read more