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The boy from the most-watched YouTube video of all time is now 17 years old, and wants to be a K-pop star. Source link

A 97-year-old’s dramatic rescue captures how Assam’s floods are reaching places once thought safe. Source link

Malaysia’s Forest City was pitched as “paradise” but last month police raided it over alleged scam operations. Source link

It’s a familiar experience: racing against masses of anonymous netizens online to get yourself on the list for an in-demand event. For Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, in Australia, it was a spot in an often over-booked pilates class – but his solution had unexpected consequences. He says he outsourced the “chore” to an AI agent…

The exchange, which drew relatively little interest when the episode aired, has resurfaced after Tokyo’s former ambassador to Canberra Shingo Yamagami labelled Albanese’s comments a “sexist joke” and said they “betrayed the close bond” between Japan and Australia. “The last thing [Takaichi] expected was to be so casually mocked by the trusted leader of Japan’s…

A US judge has dismissed criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, bringing a high-profile bribery and fraud case against one of India’s richest businessmen to an end. In 2024, Adani was accused of allegedly paying bribes to Indian officials for high-profile renewable energy projects and misleading US investors about it. Adani and his companies…

A Chinese rocket, the Long March 7A, failed and exploded on its 10 August launch in Wenchang, Hainan, China. State media reported that the failure occurred due to an “in-flight anomaly”. This was the rocket’s first failure since its maiden flight in March 2020, according to Reuters. Source link

Just months into the marriage, debt collectors started calling, alleging she owed them money. Wang grew suspicious and wanted to know what else she had kept hidden. He checked her phone and found details of her former life, her birth certificate and former marriage documents. When he confronted her, she offered him a divorce, but…

Thousands of protesters in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand are marching to the state assembly to demand reforms in recruitment exams. The march has largely been peaceful so far, but police have had to use water cannons and batons to try and disperse protesters at a few locations, reports BBC Hindi. Students, job seekers…

A former Thai MP allegedly shot dead a local official in the southern province of Nonthaburi, then dialled into a YouTube livestream to inform the host – a political pundit – of what he had done. Former Nonthaburi MP Chalong Reawraeng told the shocked host, Anchalee Paireerak, that he had shot Thongchai Yenprasert, a former…