World

Three dead in light plane crash off South Australia coast, police say

SYDNEY, Feb ‌7 (Reuters) - A light plane crashed ‌into the ocean off South ‌Australia on Friday killing the three men on board, police said.

World

Trump orders prioritizing countries with higher defense spending as customers for US weapons

Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald ‌Trump signed an executive order that would re-prioritize the customer list for ‌U.S. weapons in favor of countries with higher defense spending and ‌strategic importance in their region, the White House said on Friday.

Technology

Apple plans to allow external voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay, Bloomberg News reports

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Apple ‌is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence ‌apps from other companies in CarPlay, Bloomberg ‌News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Technology

Goldman Sachs teams up with Anthropic to automate banking tasks with AI agents, CNBC reports

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Goldman ‌Sachs is working with technology ‌startup Anthropic to develop AI-powered agents aimed ‌at automating a widening range of internal functions, CNBC reported on Friday, citing the bank's chief ‍information officer.

Technology

US Justice Department casts wide net on Netflix's business practices in merger probe, WSJ reports

Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice ‌is investigating whether Netflix used anti-competitive tactics as part of the streaming giant's proposed $82.7 billion acquisition of ‌Warner Bros Discovery's studios and streaming service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Technology

Big Tech's quarter in four charts: AI splurge and cloud growth

Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. tech giants have predicted their spending ‌would surge this year as they double down on artificial intelligence, ‌sharpening investor scrutiny over whether these costly bets would generate enough returns to justify the sector's high valuations.

World

Armed attack leaves 4 dead in coastal city of Ecuador

QUITO, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed early Friday in an armed attack in the coastal city of Machala in Ecuador's El Oro province, local police said.

Football

Trying to stay paw-sitive

PETALING JAYA: Kuching City slipped up once against Brunei in the local football scene last year. And that painful defeat will be a reminder as they get ready to face the club from Borneo in the Malaysia Cup quarter-finals first-leg match at the Bandar Seri Begawan Stadium today.

Insight

Address stunting in children

Stunting, stemming from malnourished babies and children, is more than a matter of below-average height – it carries long-term consequences if unaddressed.

Nation

‘Pengerang TB cluster originated from elderly woman’

JOHOR BARU: The tuberculosis (TB) cluster in Johor, where 33 people tested positive, originated from a female senior citizen, says state health and environment committee chairman Ling Tian Soon (pic).

Sabah & Sarawak

Teen claims he doesn’t know seriousness of sexual offences

KOTA KINABALU: A teenager has claimed trial to charges of sodomising and molesting his 11-year-old step-sister, saying he did not know the seriousness of the offences.

Nation

Perak official urges public caution as dry spell drags on

IPOH: The people need to be mindful of starting an open fire during the current hot weather, says Datuk Sayani Saidon.

Japan

Nuclear power to resume soon

THE nation will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Nation

DVS allows pork imports from Thailand and Brazil

PUTRAJAYA: The Veterinary Services Department (DVS) has approved the import of pork from Thailand and Brazil to meet domestic demand during the Chinese New Year celebration this year.

Nation

Malaysia faces twin shortage of organs and transplant surgeons

PETALING JAYA: More than 10,000 Malaysians are on the waiting list for kidney transplants, but organs are scarce.

Nation

A long-term fix for organ transplants

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia, which has among the world's lowest organ donations, is now pushing for an improvement – but deeper challenges remain.

Focus

Maimed by someone else’s war

IN the dense hill forests along Bangladesh's border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.

Nation

Fine print needs to pass real test, say policy experts

PETALING JAYA: Hope is growing around the government's proposed Base Medical and Health Insurance/Takaful (MHIT) plan, particularly following assurances that Malaysians with pre-existing conditions will be included.

India

Cops probe death of three sisters

POLICE said an investigation has been launched into the death of three young sisters over concerns that they were heavily "influenced" by games and movies online that they were later denied access to.

Focus

A giant beneath the steppe

MORE than 3.2km beneath the wind-swept steppe of western Kazakhstan, porous rock formed from the skeletons of ancient coral and marine life holds one of the world's most prolific oil deposits.