Tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleads guilty in corruption case
A Singapore-based billionaire hotelier has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a rare corruption scandal that shocked the country last year. Ong Beng Seng has admitted to abetting the…
A Singapore-based billionaire hotelier has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a rare corruption scandal that shocked the country last year. Ong Beng Seng has admitted to abetting the…
Strong gusts of wind helped two huge waterspouts merge just off Italy’s Delta del Po, on the country’s east coast. A local tour boat operator paused an excursion so he…
The UN’s main food agency has warned that families trapped within the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher face starvation. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it had not been able…
More than three thousand Boeing defence workers are set to go on strike on Monday, in a fresh blow to the embattled aviation giant. It comes after union members at…
SANTA CLARA — Linebackers coach Johnny Holland chuckled when asked about the 49ers’ incoming visitors for this week’s opening of the preseason. It just so happens the Denver Broncos are…
Njeri Mwangi BBC Africa Eye in Maai Mahiu Tamasin Ford BBC Africa Eye BBC Nyambura (left) and Cheptoo (right) told undercover investigators how they exposed children to prostitution in Maai…
A burning car on Interstate 580 in Castro Valley sparked a vegetation fire on Sunday evening, officials said. The far right two lanes heading westbound near Eden Canyon Road were…
More than 50 migrants died when a boat carrying around 150 people sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather on Sunday. The vessel capsized off Yemen’s southern province…
For the last three road games, the shorthanded Valkyries found a way to pull out wins on their tenacity and execution. But against a team as star-studded as the Las…
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Bernardo Reyes-Tur A Polymita snail in its native forest habitat in Eastern Cuba Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider…