MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Title contenders Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff and Stefanos Tsitsipas all made light work of their third-round ties at the Australian Open on Friday to storm into the second week of the year’s first Grand Slam. After a day of close scrapes, marathon tiebreaks and upsets …

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal upheld the 50-year-jail sentence imposed on a man convicted of two counts of incest with his 14-year-old daughter. A three-member bench comprising Justice Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Datuk Azmi Ariffin and High Court Judge Datuk Noordin Badaruddin, in dismissing the 45-year-old man’s appeal for …

A teacher at a Christian high school is accused of trying to kill her husband by blending a poisonous root into his smoothie, Missouri police say. Sarah Scheffer, 37, is charged with attempted murder following a series of alleged poisonings, the latest occurring Tuesday, Jan 16, according to the Jefferson …

KUALA LUMPUR: UEM Group Bhd through its wholly-owned subsidiary and green industry arm, UEM Lestra Bhd along with HEXA Renewables Malaysia Sdn Bhd and ITRAMAS Corporation Sdn Bhd announced that they have made significant strides in developing the one-gigawatt (1GW) hybrid solar power plant, a project that was first announced …

TAIPEI: Taipei-listed shares of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC soared on Friday after the company gave a bullish outlook for the year on the back of the boom in artificial intelligence (AI), cheering tech stocks at home and abroad. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a …

Apple Inc’s long-awaited Vision Pro mixed-reality headset will finally be available for preorders on Jan 19, giving the company its first real taste of consumer demand for the US$3,499 (RM16,517) device. The product goes on sale at 8am Eastern time via Apple’s website and mobile app – ahead of the …

KOTA KINABALU: The Bornean States’ legal fraternity will continue working towards the return of rights under the Malaysia Agreement 1963, conduct outreach programmes to the interiors of Sabah and Sarawak, and uphold environmental laws. These were among the pledges made when the fraternity collectively renewed its vows at the opening …

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Stepping onto a tennis court to take on a Russian or Belarusian opponent is a painful reminder for Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko of her war-torn country, the 34-year-old said after losing to second seed Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open on Friday. Almost two years after the Russian …

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Jan 18 said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google. Sometimes called artificial general intelligence or AGI, the goal, given in an interview with The Verge, is to create …

SYDNEY: Asian shares bounced on Friday, buoyed by a rally in global chipmakers, while the yen was set to end the week with heavy losses as investors pared back bets the Bank of Japan would soon abandon its uber-easy policies. The stock rally is set to spill over to European …