2 dead, 17 injured after 15-year-old boy opens fire at Kentucky high school

BENTON ― A 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun just before classes started at his high school in rural western Kentucky on Tuesday ...

Flood prevention measures to be rolled out at 4 more locations by April: SMRT

SINGAPORE: Flood prevention measures that are now in place at Bishan MRT station following an unprecedented tunnel flooding incident  last ...

Apple launches HomePod voice speaker, taking on Google, Amazon

SAN FRANCISCO: After missing the critical holiday shopping season, Apple Inc has jumped into the voice speaker wars with the HomePod smar...

S’pore officially freezing, hits 21.9°C on Thursday, Jan. 11 night

According to data on the Meterological Service Singapore, 21.9°C temperatures have been recorded at Admiralty and Ang Mo Kio at around 10....

Japanese crime boss held in Thailand after 'yakuza' tattoos go viral

BANGKOK: A retired Japanese crime boss has been arrested in Thailand ending more than 14 years on the run after photos of his 'Yakuza...

Round up my ride! Bulgarian returns Singapore's damaged rental bikes

SINGAPORE: A sea of yellow and orange bicycles in Singapore's public spaces shows how quickly the city-state has embraced the shared-...

Man fined $5k for hitting boy, 6, 'who had not been disciplined enough by his mother'

SINGAPORE - A man who slapped a six-year-old boy in the face because he believed his mother had not disciplined him firmly enough was f...

Business class passenger loses earrings worth $5k on SIA flight, staff unable to retrieve item

Stomper Shirley lost a pair of Van Cleef & Arpels earrings worth $5,000 on flight SQ832 from Singapore to Shanghai on Sep 19, 2017...

Boy in Yunnan braves freezing cold to go to school

A Primary 3 boy in Yunnan, China showed up in school red-faced, with frost coating his hair and eyebrows, after braving freezing conditi...

Man arrested for armed robbery at Woodlands Checkpoint

SINGAPORE: A man armed with a sickle was arrested after he was involved in a stand-off with police officers at the Woodlands Checkpoint o...

Ex-Singapore Idol Hady Mirza a Grab driver now

Singapore Idol Season 2 winner Hady Mirza is now a Grab driver.A screenshot of Hady’s Grab driver profile has been shared on social media th...

Najib claims that S’pore government debt higher than our GDP, but here’s why you shouldn’t panic

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak wants to settle talk about government debt once and for all. His former political ally turned rival, ...