MADRID (Reuters) -About 170,000 people marched through Madrid on Saturday in the largest protest yet against an amnesty law which Spain’s Socialists agreed over Catalonia’s 2017 separatist bid in order to form a government. The demonstration, the latest in a series of protests in cities across the country against the …

KOTA KINABALU: A school principal in Sabah’s Telupid district, located over 200km away from here has earned praise from Internet users after he shared a video of his living conditions in the school. George Odol, who has been serving as the SK Ulu Ansuan principal for over three years, shared …

PARIS (Reuters) – Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is welcome in France, France’s digital minister said in a statement on X, a day after the board of the company behind ChatGPT fired Altman without giving a reason. “Sam Altman, his team and their talents are welcome in France if they …

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A young Brazilian fan of U.S. singer Taylor Swift died in Rio de Janeiro on Friday night after falling ill inside the sweltering stadium where the superstar’s concert was held, amid a record-breaking heat-wave across large swathes of Brazil. Ana Clara Benevides, 23, became unwell …

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Virat Kohli has long been on the cusp of batting greatness and at 35 years old he is making a solid case to be considered the greatest 50-overs player of all time after a run-laden World Cup campaign on home soil. Sachin Tendulkar was the game’s …

SHOUTS of “Pulangkan” (return it) were heard from members of the Bukit Jelutong Residents Association (BJRA) who gathered at Jalan Bazar U8/101 to protest proposed plan to convert the Bukit Jelutong Golf Centre (BJGC) in Shah Alam into a housing project. More than 200 gathered in the peaceful protest urged …

MONROVIA/DAKAR (Reuters) – When Joseph Boakai won a place at Liberia’s prestigious College of West Africa in the 1950s, he helped pay his fees by working as the school janitor, cleaning floors and toilets at night and studying by day, his spokesman Amara Konneh told Reuters. Now Boakai, a 78-year-old …

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – If you want to party go to Ibiza, suggested Red Bull’s triple Formula One world champion Max Verstappen as the disillusioned Dutchman lamented the lack of passionate, knowledgeable motor racing fans in Las Vegas this weekend. Las Vegas may have lots of great spots to drink, …

SAN FRANCISCO: Malaysia has secured a total of RM63.02bil in proposed investments in the United States, mainly from technology giants, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The Prime Minister said out of the total, RM8.33bil were from the trade and investment mission to the United States organised before the start of …

RIO GALLEGOS, Argentina (Reuters) – Catalina Cepernic’s great-grandfather Jorge, a sheep-farm owner in Argentina’s windswept Patagonia, was the first member of the family won over to the ideas of Juan Domingo Peron, the former president who spawned the country’s most powerful political movement. Peron’s calls in the mid-1940s for better …