From a modern summer villa with an outdoor pool to a fully equipped film studio or a casino, paper model makers in Taiwan are ensuring the dead enjoy an eternity of luxury. Across the global Chinese diaspora, burning paper offerings has long been seen as a way to send ancestors
LONDON: The British government and the main opposition were to hold further crisis talks yesterday after MPs voted in favour of a Brexit delay that would avoid Britain crashing out of the EU on April 12. With options running out, May switched course and invited Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for
CHRISTCHURCH (New Zealand): The man accused of attacking two mosques in Christchurch last month will face 50 murder charges when he appears in court today, New Zealand police said. Australian Brenton Tarrant was previously charged with one murder as a holding measure, but police said yesterday that all the deaths
PARIS: French authorities are investigating an attack on a transgender woman who was assaulted and jeered at a demonstration in central Paris against Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika that sparked outrage Wednesday among activists and politicians. A video of the incident on Sunday, which has been viewed over 1.5 million times
ADDIS ABABA: The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month killing 157 people, repeatedly followed procedures recommended by Boeing, but were unable to regain control of the jet, according the investigators’ report released yesterday. The initial report, unveiled by Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges, cast further doubt
WASHINGTON: A teenager told police that he escaped from captivity on Wednesday and identified himself as a boy who has been missing for seven years, US media reported. The 14-year-old gave his name as Timmothy Pitzen and said he had been held by two men with bodybuilder physiques at a
MONTREAL: A Quebec couple won Can$1 million in the lottery after finding a winning ticket that had been forgotten in a book for months, the province’s Loto-Quebec organization said Wednesday. Nicole Pedneault and Roger Larocque only realized last weekend that they had a winning ticket from an April 5, 2018
SYDNEY: Social media executives risk jail for failing to take down violent extremist content quickly, under controversial laws passed in Australia yesterday – a “world first” in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the laws, which hold firms like Facebook and YouTube –
PARIS: Football legend Pele told Kylian Mbappe on Tuesday that he believes the French World Cup winner can emulate his own achievement of scoring 1,000 career goals. The 78-year-old Brazilian claims to have netted over 1,000 goals in his career, while Mbappe has so far managed 103 in total, with
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP on Tuesday appealed against results in Istanbul and Ankara following a weekend election after tallies showed the ruling party lost both key cities. Erdogan’s AKP and coalition partner won more than 50 percent of votes nationwide in Sunday’s local ballot, but defeat in
