LONDON, Jan 12 - Britain's media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X on Monday to determine whether sexually intimate deepfakes produced by its Grok AI chatbot violated its duty to protect people in the UK from content that could be illegal.
The earlier heist involved stolen gold worth more than 35 million baht (S$1.4 million).
Nearly 15,000 people lost their jobs after protests toppled the government in September 2025.
More than 27,000 people applied for the temporary police jobs on the first two days of applications, Nepal police spokesman Abinarayan Kafle said.
A new bleak-sounding app has been downloaded in droves by many youth who live by themselves - and fear dying alone.
COPENHAGEN, Jan 12 - Finnish police said on Monday they had lifted the seizure of a ship which had been held on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland, although the investigation continues.
LONDON/NEW YORK, Jan 12 - Investors have piled fresh bets on gold and European defence stocks in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to take control of Greenland, fearing a geopolitical rift that could end NATO, shatter the global order and damage the dollar.
The hearings at the International Court of Justice will mark the first time that Rohingya victims of the alleged atrocities will be heard by an international court.
The Maduro regime was always likely to end abruptly. Reports that US forces encountered little resistance—and that Venezuela’s president had come to rely on Cuban security rather than his own military—say less about American might than about how completely Nicolas Maduro had
China was the largest market, followed by the US.
Dhaka says it has deployed its law enforcement agencies in villages close to the border.
TOKYO — Investors betting against a MAGA-fied Federal Reserve are rapidly getting used to disappointment. On Friday (January 9), as Fed Chair Jerome Powell has since detailed in a video message, US President Donald Trump’s administration threatened a criminal indictment via
Garbage has been piling up at several landfills in the region.
Defence Minister Khaled Nordin said they will review and improve tender and procurement processes.
Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.
“India’s journey today is not merely about development; it is also a journey of psychological renaissance.” — Narendra Modi “Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times.” — Xi Jinping India and China — the
Opposition leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut was the top choice for PM among 32% of 2,682 people polled.
The injured people were taken to several nearby hospitals for further treatment.
Twenty people were reportedly involved in the explosion.
The team said its process eliminated over 95 per cent of micro and nanoplastics within 10 minutes.
Sergio Gor tells reporters in Delhi "real friends can disagree but will always resolve differences".
Thousands of travellers were affected by the flight cancellations.
The sitting has been moved from Feb 3 to Jan 19 and 20.
Jan 12 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will seek to extend his four-decade rule on Thursday in an election that has renewed questions about the 81-year-old leader's eventual succession.
The elections are being derided as a ploy to prolong junta rule.
KAMPALA, Jan 12 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is widely expected to extend his four-decade rule in an election on Thursday after a campaign marred by violence and clouded by questions about who might eventually succeed him.
President Xi Jinping in 2025 called corruption “the biggest threat” to China’s Communist Party.
BEIJING, Jan 12 - China will focus its corruption crackdown on preventing misconduct from escalating into graft, according to a state broadcaster documentary series that highlighted the crimes of a disgraced former minister.
Mr Jiang Chenghua is a veteran negotiator with experience in managing the country’s investment ties with the US.
The new destinations will connect Hong Kong with popular tourist cities, including Nanjing.
Defence Minister Khaled Nordin says accusations of corruption and immorality in the Malaysian Armed Forces have embroiled it in “ugly and distorted” public debate.
Pyongyang accused Washington of a “hideous criminal act”.
SEOUL, Jan 12 - North Korea has lashed out at a special sanctions monitoring team composed of multiple countries, calling its activities \"illegal\" and irrelevant to the United Nations, state media KCNA reported on Monday.
Imagine if what happened in Venezuela had happened to the United States. In the scenario, Washington has a longtime, totally compliant lap dog of a president in some Asian country, and there are American businesses in the place with the country’s main natural resource asset
The summit in Japan’s Nara City comes amid a growing diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Tokyo.
She began language learning using materials, including computers, at the age of 18 months.
There are wars that begin with missiles and those that begin with memos. Donald Trump’s latest economic offensive belongs firmly to the second category. A 500% tariff threat on India—embedded in the so-called Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025—is not merely an escalation of
Several PAS MPs openly demanded Muhyiddin’s resignation during discussions in a WhatsApp group chat.
It was originally meant to wear an upturned smile.
The 68-year-old leader bid for both top positions at a party meeting in December 2025.
HANOI, Jan 12 - Vietnam's Communist Party chief To Lam is seeking to combine his party role with the state presidency, officials said, in a move that would align Vietnam's political structure more closely to China's where President Xi Jinping heads the party and state.
I am neither a forensic expert nor a jury member, but it sure looks to me like an ICE agent shot and killed a woman who wasn’t threatening his life. We have video of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 7th, and the Washington Post has a detailed blow-by-blow
Between 2007 and 2024, methylphenidate prescriptions were highest among teenagers and those in the highest income group.
The film's breakout anthem Golden was also named best original song at the awards on Sunday.
Another heating event is expected towards the end of January, though its intensity is uncertain.