TOKYO (Reuters) – From the moment a Japan Airlines passenger jet collided with a smaller plane on a runway in Tokyo on Tuesday, it took crew 18 minutes to get all 367 travellers off the plane and safely accounted for. Reconstructing the scene based on crew accounts, officials at Japan’s …

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa will fancy their chances of victory if they can set India a target of 100 or more although captain Dean Elgar was at a loss to explain a frenetic opening day of the second and final test at Newlands on Wednesday. The home side …

ARQUES, France (Reuters) – Parts of northwestern Europe struggled on Wednesday to cope with the impact of the latest in a series of Atlantic storms which dumped rain or snow on already saturated ground, while northern Scandinavia experienced extreme cold. In northern France, rescue crews helped evacuate residents from inundated …

LONDON (Reuters) – Four-time major champion Rory McIlroy says he regrets being too quick to judge players who joined the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf and now accepts it is part of the sport. The Northern Irishman has been a vocal critic since the breakaway tour launched in 2022 and signed …

TAWAU: The son of a murdered ehailing driver has told the High Court here that he could not recognise his own father’s body which was found in a state of decomposition in an oil palm plantation. Mohd Norazrie Nurman, 36, said he later identified his father based on various physical …

(Reuters) – Nasser Al-Attiyah hopes to be shooting for a medal at his seventh Olympics later in the year but the Qatari’s immediate sights are set on winning the Dakar Rally for the sixth time and third in a row. The 53-year-old rally driver, a skeet (clay pigeon) bronze medallist …

BATU PAHAT: Police have asked the family and public to give them space and trust to conduct their investigations into the disappearance of Mira Sharmila Samsusah, also known as Bella. Batu Pahat OCPD Asst Comm Ismail Dollah said investigations are still ongoing into the disappearance of the 32-year-old single mother …

LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging markets are gearing up for their biggest election year in decades, with investors focused on fiscal discipline and populist shifts that could stir markets and blur the outlook for some key economies. Countries home to more than half the world’s population and accounting for more than …

(Reuters) – Intel on Wednesday said it was forming a new independent company around its artificial intelligence software efforts with backing from digital-focused asset manager DigitalBridge Group and other investors. Intel executives would not comment on the value of the deal or whether it would retain a majority stake in …

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) chairman Datuk Seri Wilfred Madius Tangau (pic) says that the company does not have the power to raise or approve electricity tariff rates in the state. He said that after the Electricity Supply Bill 2024 was approved by the Sabah State Assembly on …