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Sebastien Pocognoli will name his first Scotland squad on Tuesday, but what can we expect? Will the new head coach use this clean slate as time to call upon new names? BBC Sport Scotland takes a look at the potential candidates...

Sebastien Pocognoli will name his first Scotland squad on Tuesday, but what can we expect? Will the new head coach use this clean slate as time to call upon new names? BBC Sport Scotland takes a look at the potential candidates...

Sebastien Pocognoli will name his first Scotland squad on Tuesday, but what can we expect? Will the new head coach use this clean slate as time to call upon new names? BBC Sport Scotland takes a look at the potential candidates...

More than 700 Hongkongers were shocked to discover that their credit cards had been used to place unauthorised orders for Apple’s new iPhone 18 Pro series handsets over the weekend. Although banks reassured victims they would not be charged as long as the cards were used with due care and the transactions were proven to be unauthorised, the incident still caused widespread concern over credit card security. The South China Morning Post asked information technology experts for practical tips on...

A Malaysian teenager was on Monday found not guilty of murdering his 16-year-old schoolmate last year, after a high court ruled that he had been of unsound mind when he attacked the victim in their school, in a case that left the country reeling in shock and horror. The boy, who was 15 at the time of the attack last October, was arrested at his high school in Selangor state on the same morning that he had repeatedly stabbed Yap Shing Xuen in the school’s toilet. The victim, who was a year from...

Alexander Zverev says it was an "amazing feeling" to lift the US Open trophy after defeating Ben Shelton in the final.

Alexander Zverev says it was an "amazing feeling" to lift the US Open trophy after defeating Ben Shelton in the final.

‘There’s no win no matter what you do. Three children are dead,’ Trump remarked

Singapore’s openness to chemical castration for sex offenders has cast light on the ethical questions surrounding the treatment, with the discussion centred on whether it would fill any gap left by existing legislation. Experts point to how safeguards would be set regarding who receives the treatment, the duration of the process and if resulting medical consequences would be proportional to the offence. The debate comes after Senior Minister and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam’s written...

Democrats and Republicans are proposing new regulations for artificial intelligence. But there’s no consensus, and the House has only one more workweek before Election Day.

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has sacked the finance minister and appointed the deputy ‌finance minister as his replacement, the president’s office said on Monday. Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara was among the senior ⁠officials who arrived at the state ‌palace for a swearing-in ceremony. Earlier on Monday, Finance Minister Purbaya ‌Yudhi Sadewa had left in ⁠the ⁠middle of a parliamentary hearing. Suahasil Nazara ‌had been deputy finance minister since 2019. He said ‌on Monday...

Chalk another one up for the ethno-nationalists! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Alternativ für Deutschland party (AfD) won an election last Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany’s sixteen federal states. They won it convincingly, overwhelmingly, despite (or maybe due to) the fact that the establishment parties have been maintaining a …