LONDON (Reuters) – British track cycling sprinter Jack Carlin has big boots to fill as he begins the countdown to the Paris Olympics where he will face one of the toughest tasks in the sport. The 26-year-old Scot will likely spearhead the sprint squad as the senior rider now that …

PARIS (Reuters) – By naming young political prodigy Gabriel Attal as prime minister, French President Emmanuel Macron is showing what he hopes is a winning hand to beat the far right, which is leading in opinion polls ahead of June’s European parliamentary elections. Like elsewhere in Europe, France’s far right …

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here on Tuesday (Jan 9) allowed the application of two subsidiaries of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) to question the mother of Low Taek Jho or Jho Low regarding jewellery allegedly purchased by the fugitive businessman valued at US$1.695mil. Lawyer K. Siva Kumar, representing 1MDB, said …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union could become ungovernable if the far-right performs as well in the European Parliament election in June as in November’s Dutch vote and as opinion polls predict, the head of the liberal Renew group said on Tuesday. Far-right parties, including Marine Le Pen’s National Rally …

BOSTON (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is set to go before a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday in a trial over accusations that processors it uses to power artificial intelligence technology in key products infringe a computer scientist’s patents. Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, claims Google …

KUALA LUMPUR: Six policemen were among seven individuals detained in separate operations last week and Monday after they were suspected of processing and distributing ketum juice. Brickfields district police chief ACP Amihizam Abdul Shukor said four police personnel were arrested by the Bukit Aman Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (JIPS) …

(Reuters) – Sebastien Loeb took stage four of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as home favourite Yazeed Al Rajhi stretched his overall lead in the car category. Nine-times world rally champion Loeb, racing a Prodrive Hunter for the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team, finished the 299-km stage from …

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s president posed next to two lawmakers as police were searching for them to put them in prison on Tuesday amid an standoff between the government and the head of state over their status. The pictures, posted on social media platform X by President Andrzej Duda’s office, …

PETALING JAYA: The reassignment of nurses from clinics to wards is a good move to optimise nursing staff amid shortage of staff issues at public healthcare facilities, says Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz. She said the reassignments could even reduce the workload significantly, especially in hospital …

QUITO (Reuters) – At least four Ecuadorean police officers have been kidnapped by criminals, the police said on Tuesday, and explosions occurred in several cities, a day after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency. Noboa, a former legislator and son of one of the country’s richest men, took …