Trail Blazers use 49-point third quarter to top 76ers, 135-118
Sixers, without Joel Embiid, lose 135-118
A loneliness crisis is the price China is paying for rapid modernisation
As the Year of the Snake ends, more than 9 billion passenger journeys will unfold during China’s Spring Festival travel period, the greatest annual human migration on Earth. For some, these are the only few weeks in the year when families are together.
For many, this is a period when they can find temporary relief from loneliness – from the striving and adjusting, even if not yet assimilating, in the cities where they work, far from their hometowns. The lucky ones, who can make ends meet and are...
China lifts veil on secretive underwater combat vehicle at Saudi Arabia defence show
At the Middle East’s largest defence exhibition, a Chinese state-owned shipbuilding giant is showcasing a new surface-to-subsurface delivery vehicle designed for frogman operations in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has displayed a small model of the vehicle, named SDV-01, during the World Defence Show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Running from Sunday to Thursday, the show features a substantial Chinese presence, including its naval weapons, which in...
Why young China viewers are increasingly drawn to dating shows featuring older contestants
A new Chinese dating reality show that features a group of single people aged about 50 has become a nationwide hit, sparking discussions about love and desire in the lives of the middle-aged and elderly.
The show by tech giant Tencent’s WeTV, Forever by Your Side, was first aired in December 2025, and was branded as “mature singles braving the world of love”.
It invites five men and five women around the age of 50 to travel together from Dali in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, a city known...
Members of Congress are fleeing the job at a historically high rate
Some feel they’ve hit an appropriate retirement age.
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Is NHS dentistry on 'life support'?
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Is NHS dentistry on 'life support'?
Megyn Kelly loses it in wild interview with Piers Morgan over Bad Bunny: ‘This is why you lost your culture!’
The MAGA cheerleader was incensed when Piers Morgan defended the rapper’s Spanish-language performance, fuming that it was a “middle finger to the rest of America.”
Blades of fury: Japan protests over 'rough' Olympic podium
Japan has filed an official protest with Olympic organisers after the figure skating medal podium at the Milan-Cortina Games left athletes with chipped skate blades following the team competition.
30 people evacuated at Hong Kong airport after fire breaks out
Firefighters evacuated 30 people at the Hong Kong airport after a fire broke out in an electrical engineering device room near a boarding gate on Tuesday afternoon.
The Fire Services Department said it received a report at 3.03pm about the emergency at the Hong Kong International Airport.
Two fire engines and two teams of firefighters equipped with breathing apparatus were called to the scene and had put out the flames in the electrical engineering device room by 4.01pm, the department...
New Zealand mosque shooter says he wanted to be described as a terrorist
Brenton Tarrant killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting
Epstein file redactions reveal victims as young as nine and implicate a high-level government official, lawmakers say
Representatives Jamie Raskin, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna raise questions about why some of the contents of the files was redacted after visiting the Department of Justice to review the uncensored material