Yathindra Siddaramaiah confirmed his father's decision to retire from electoral politics. He stated that once his father makes a firm decision, no one can change it. The senior leader is prioritizing his health as he approaches eighty years old. He will remain actively involved in politics and champion vulnerable sections. Siddaramaiah previously announced the 2023 elections would be his last contest.

The Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that prompted the ex-Cabinet secretary's separation from his 4-year-old twins was handled.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

How are we teaching critical thinking to students? Some want to see more explicit methods of guiding students from elementary through post-secondary to practise and build their critical thinking skills — and in spelling out why it's necessary.

One out of every 10 emergency physicians in Canada have left their specialty, while the vast majority of others are reducing their hours or taking time off to manage burnout. The findings, part of a study out Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, are based on a 2025 cross-country survey of hundreds of emergency medicine doctors.

Do storage lockers built directly into condo parking garages violate Ontario's fire code? Toronto Fire says yes. But a fire consultant describe a standards 'grey area' that's been going on for decades.

A self-radicalised 14-year-old planned a mass-casualty stabbing attack at his secondary school, drafted a 21-page manifesto and intended to livestream the violence before taking his own life.He is the youngest person ever detained under Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA). The teen was arrested in May, about a month before he planned to launch the attack during the June school holidays, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Monday (July 27).His case was one of three youth radicalisation cases announced by the authorities. The other detainees were a 15-year-old ISIS supporter who aspired to establish a violent «Malaya Caliphate» in Southeast Asia and a 19-year-old who allegedly plotted attacks against SAF personnel and LGBTQ students.All three individuals, aged 14, 15 and 19, were self-radicalised online by violent extremist ideologies and had planned to conduct attacks in Singapore.The 14-year-old non-Chinese Secondary Two student had planned on conducting a mass-casualty stabbing attack at his school during the June holidays.

Police are investigating payments from Fiona Cottrell - the mother of 'Posh George' Cottrell, who secretly bankrolled his close ally Nigel Farage.

Forget crowded resorts and busy seafronts: Bamburgh offers something increasingly hard to find: space, quiet and a truly unspoilt coastline.

Many people will have wished Andy Burnham well when he became Prime Minister a week ago. It's in all our interests that he doesn't make a complete hash of things.

Emergency services were called to Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall, at 9.45pm yesterday after two people got into difficulty at sea.

Motor neurone disease - known as MND - affects 5,000 adults in the UK at any one time, with about 1,100 diagnosed each year. The numbers seem to be rising steadily - and, crucially, it has no cure.

A woman was appalled when she witnessed a dog hanging outside of a car door as the vehicle was moving. The Tiktok user @tinadestruit posted a video on Sunday (July 26) of a white dog with its head out of the window of a moving silver BMW.In her caption, the motorcyclist wrote that she spotted a «cute dog» in a car but was not prepared for what happened next.Moments later, as she trailed behind the BMW in the video, she noticed the dog hanging out of the car door by its leash.«The dog [came] out,» she said repeatedly in the video.The motorcyclist ahead of her could also be heard honking his horn to alert the driver of the silver car.As the dog released itself from the car door, the car also came to a halt. The white dog could be seen bolting away from the road as the driver of the car stepped out to retrieve the dog.The motorcyclist added in her caption that it was a good thing the road was not busy. She did not specify where in Singapore the incident took place.In her video, she reminded pet owners to «always keep an eye on your pets in vehicles».

According to Esmaeil Baghaei, Iran has not requested negotiations since tensions began escalating again

Vladimir Zelensky said the process is not quick because of bureaucracy

Russia’s Federal Security Service reported that New Zealand sought to obtain from the detainee the data on Russia's military-technical cooperation with Asia-Pacific countries

The companies have already agreed on integrating GLM models into GPTunneL, testing them in Russian enterprise scenarios

According to Andrey Marochko, soldiers of Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted the greatest damage on the enemy

Chairman and chief executive officer of independent investment banking firm Evercore Asia, Keith Magnus, will be appointed to the Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) board from August 1, the Ministry of Law announced on Monday (July 27). The 52-year-old replaces DBS banker Lim Soon Chong, who completes his current term of office on July 31.Magnus, who also chairs The Kallang, has spent over 25 years in investment banking. This includes 22 years at the helm of Evercore Asia's Singapore office, a major international financial institution headquartered in Wall Street.Having advised on transactions worth close to half a trillion (SGD), Magnus received over 30 awards from leading industry publications, including best merger and acquisition adviser in Asia, and in Singapore.As the founding chairman of The Kallang Group, which owns and manages The Kallang precinct, he is involved in turning the precinct into a 24/7 integrated destination.

The body of a 78-year-old man who lived alone in a Lengkok Bahru flat was found last Saturday (July 25), more than a week after he was last seen around the neighbourhood.Volunteers making the rounds that morning had noticed last week's bread still hanging on his gate and called the police for help, reported Shin Min Daily News.A reporter from the Chinese evening daily visited Block 58 Lengkok Bahru and observed that the dead man's flat was filled with clutter.His relatives arrived at the home at about 4pm, and they burned joss paper when his body was taken away at about 5.30pm.The deceased, who was unmarried, was identified as Lin Yaba (transliteration) by Shin Min.A neighbour surnamed Chen, who last saw Lin on July 16, said Lin used to ride his bicycle every day. «The volunteers visited (on July 25) and discovered that the bread from last Saturday (July 18) was still hanging at the door,» he claimed.Lin's younger sister said her brother had always been in good health, though he had complained about prostate issues about two weeks ago.His death came as a shock to her, she said.

SINGAPORE — Merging the Category A and Category B certificates of entitlement (COEs) into a single pool, and introducing rebates and surcharges based on vehicle value, were among the ideas discussed during the refresh of the Land Transport Master Plan.The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said in a statement on July 27 that more than 400 participants in the master plan’s second phase of focus group discussions had explored ideas for categorising COEs.These included using vehicle size as a differentiating criterion and allocating COEs based on need, particularly for large families with young children.They also suggested creating a separate category for car leasing companies, imposing surcharges on those who own multiple cars, and removing the Open category (Category E) COEs, which are typically used for larger and more powerful cars.At the focus group discussion on this topic, Edward Chia, deputy chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Transport, proposed pooling the Category A and B COEs.He also suggested offering discounts for vehicles with lower open market values and imposing surcharges on those with higher values.

Profitant de la présence au Gabon de Son Excellence Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Président de la République démocratique du Congo, dans le cadre d'une visite privée, le Président de la République, Chef de l'État, Son Excellence Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, a convié son homologue à une visite des principaux chantiers qui illustrent la transformation progressive de la capitale gabonaise. Les deux Chefs d'État ont ainsi parcouru plusieurs sites emblématiques, notamment la Baie des (...) - INFRASTRUCTURES / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

La 3e édition de la Journée Culturelle de la Louetsi -wano tient toutes ses promesses ! Une mobilisation exceptionnelle avec une foule impressionnante venue célébrer notre identité, nos traditions et notre héritage au PK 8 à Libreville. À Évasion 2000, l'ambiance est au rendez-vous : des centaines de participants, des prestations artistiques de qualité, des rencontres, des échanges et une véritable immersion au cœur de la culture de Louetsi-Wano, sous le thème : « Louetsi-Wano, terre (...) - ARTS & CULTURE / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

En marge de sa visite privée à Libreville, le Président de la République du Congo, Son Excellence Denis Sassou Nguesso, a effectué, à l'invitation du Président de la République gabonaise, Son Excellence Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, une visite de plusieurs chantiers engagés dans le cadre de la politique de modernisation du Gabon. Il était accompagné de la Première Dame, Madame Zita Oligui Nguema. Cette séquence, empreinte de convivialité et de fraternité, illustre l'excellence des (...) - INFRASTRUCTURES / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

The 19-year-old triple murderer was accused of 'manipulating the system' after being shipped out of maximum-security HMP Belmarsh this month.

Pensioners, widowers and hard-working homeowners living on Britain's 'most eroded coastline' face being left with nothing as properties are demolished amid council fears they could end up in the sea.

Emergency services rushed to West Wittering Beach in West Sussex at 2.30pm on Sunday following concerns for the safety of two adults in the water.

Adam Ramsay-Peaty paid tribute to his wife Holly for supporting him during a 'whirlwind' 24 hours, after he missed out on 100m breastroke gold at the Commonwealth Games.

The Prime Minister suggested his plans for reform could make payments more 'conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented in front of them'.

GEORGETOWN (AP) — Guyana's government on Sunday appointed a group of international experts to investigate the recent sinking of a state ferry that killed dozens of passengers in the country's worst maritime disaster on record. The 87-year-old MV Barima capsized in Atlantic waters on June 18 after it departed the capital, Georgetown, en route to Port Kaituma, an Indigenous community near Venezuela.

One week after a damaging audio recording became public, in which the voices of two alleged People’s National Party (PNP) officials could be heard discussing ways to discredit Major General Antony Anderson in his role as head of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the party has broken its silence on the matter. The issue was the first item on the agenda at a meeting of the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) on Sunday. The meeting is usually the last such gathering before the party’s annual conference in September, provided there is a conference.