Popular characters Labubu, Elmo, Grimace, and Doraemon will be inflated and floated at Victoria Harbour this October as part of one of Hong Kong’s largest cultural tourism events, which also features a sea parade and a bazaar. The organiser, Hong Kong design studio AllRightsReserved (ARR), revealed on Saturday that the mega event would also feature...
Joel GuintoSingapore and Virma SimonetteManila BBC Ms Tolentino on her daily boat ride – her mother is rowing them to the clinic Crissa Tolentino has long been resigned to floods as a way of life. The 36-year-old public school teacher takes a paddle boat through the inundated streets nearly every day. It’s the only way...
Michael Voepel Close Michael Voepel ESPN Senior Writer Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Alexa Philippou Close Alexa Philippou ESPN Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn...
Germany prosecutors’ prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been released from prison in Germany, where he has been serving a sentence for an unrelated offence. Christian Brückner was driven out in a black Audi by his lawyer with a police escort shortly after 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT). He could not be...
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Pony.ai will deploy robotaxis in Singapore in the coming months, as the Chinese autonomous driving technology company takes a tentative step to expand into Southeast Asia’s mass transport market. The Guangzhou-based company, one of mainland China’s top three robotaxi operators, said on Saturday that it would team up with Singapore’s taxi fleet operator ComfortDelGro to...
Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent Vivek R Nair This single-celled brain-eating amoeba can enter the nose during swimming On the eve of Onam, the most joyous festival in India’s Kerala state, 45-year-old Sobhana lay shivering in the back of an ambulance, drifting into unconsciousness as her family rushed her to a medical college hospital. Just days earlier,...
Earlier this week, I was denied entry into Israel while on a humanitarian parliamentary delegation organised by the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). The NGO is one of the most active and respected bodies working on the Middle East in the British parliament. It promotes conflict resolution, human rights and civil society....
Alden GonzalezSep 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. LOS ANGELES — It was the middle of June, the San Diego Padres were in town for what promised to be a heated series...
The wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he was killed by poisoning while serving a prison sentence in an Arctic penal colony in 2024. In a video shared on social media, Yulia Navalnaya said analysis of smuggled biological samples carried out by laboratories in two countries showed that her husband...