(Reuters) – Defending champion Nasser Al-Attiyah ignored strategic slowdowns and won the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to go second overall behind home favourite Yazeed Al-Rajhi. The stage victory was the first this year for five-times Dakar winner Al Attiyah, whose Prodrive Hunter finished …

GUAYAQUIL/QUITO (Reuters) -More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is reeling from an escalation of violence in recent days that its president has called a war. President Daniel Noboa, who has promised to tackle a …

(Reuters) – Juventus forward Federico Chiesa will miss the Coppa Italia quarter-final with Frosinone, but is expected to return for their next league game, manager Massimiliano Allegri said on Wednesday. Chiesa missed the 2-1 win at Salernitana last weekend with a knee injury, and while he sits out the Coppa …

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Officials in Denmark have yet to decide how much money the new monarch will get, but whatever the cost, for some Danes the royal family provides a sense of fairytale tradition and is worth every penny. Queen Margrethe II stunned the nation on New Year’s Eve when …

BERLIN (Reuters) -The far-right opposition party Alternative for Germany said on Wednesday it had no plans to pursue deportation of “unassimilated” immigrants with passports if it wins power, after investigative portal Correctiv said that was aired at a meeting. Correctiv said Roland Hartwig, personal assistant to AfD leader Alice Weidel, …

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government plans to introduce new legislation to overturn the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office managers in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the country’s history, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday. Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of self-employed sub-postmasters at branches …

(Reuters) – Tens of millions of Americans were under the threat of menacing weather on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm loomed across the East Coast after after leaving in its wake power outages, grounded flights and destruction. More than 90 million people from eastern Ohio and Kentucky and up …

KOTA KINABALU: Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor has vowed that his Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition will never be part of any attempt to topple the present Federal Government amid talks of the “Dubai Move”. The Chief Minister said such a move would only lead to chaos and greatly affect the …

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has confirmed that Tun Daim Zainuddin’s wife, Toh Puan Na’imah Abdul Khalid, her two sons, Muhammad Amin Zainuddin Daim and Muhammad Amir Zainuddin Daim, have been called to record their statements at the MACC Headquarters in Putrajaya on Wednesday (Jan 10) morning. In …

Amazon.com Inc introduced a new feature that mimics Apple Inc’s AirPlay while working across different platforms, setting the stage for iPhone and Android users to wirelessly stream video to its TV hardware. The feature, called Matter Casting, is part of a push by Amazon to create interoperable services – an …