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Donald Trump elected US president
On Tuesday, Republican Donald Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election. Republicans also kept control of ...

On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2016
The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It fe...

File photo of HarbourFront station, 2006. (Image: Sengkang.)

Signalling issues and stalled train disrupt service ...
SMRT issued another tweet at 8:09 am, alerting commuters to another signalling fault affecting the CCL, on the stretch between Botanic Gardens and HarbourFront stations. Initially informing commuters that the issue would add 10 minutes of travel time along the affected stretch, the company later revised this to 20, and finally, in subsequent tweets, attributi...

José Eduardo dos Santos, from file. (Image: Agência Brasil.)

Angolan Supreme Court summons President dos Santos o...
The Supreme Court of Angola yesterday summoned President José Eduardo dos Santos to explain his decision to appoint his daughter head of the national state-owned oil firm, Sonangol. The pair face claims of nepotism and breach of probity legislation. José Eduardo dos Santos, from file. Image: Agência Brasil. Isabel dos Santos, Africa's richest woman acco...

Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down webs...
On Friday, a network of diverse Internet-connected devices targeted the Dyn domain registration service provider. It took down Dyn clients, including several popular websites such as Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, New York Times, and Wired. The attack involved targeting Dyn's domain name system servers with a large volume of requests, rendering it incapab...

The scene of the attempted bombing. (Image: Kristan Tarr.)

Failed UK suicide bomber Mohamed Saeed-Alim aka Nick...
Mohammed Rashid Saeed-Alim, a failed English suicide bomber better known by his birth name Nicky Reilly, has died while serving a life sentence. He was 30. The scene of the attempted bombing. Image: Kristan Tarr. Originally from Plymouth, Alim attempted to bomb the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter in 2008 when he was 22. He used glass bottles filled with na...

File photo of Wells Fargo's corporate headquarters in San Francisco, 2007. (Image: Laimerpramer.)

California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo b...
The warrant said property to be seized at the bank's San Francisco headquarters was related to the unauthorized creation of accounts by Wells Fargo employees including the names of individuals for the accounts; account information and fees; the names of employees and their managers who created accounts without the consent of the Wells Fargo customers in questi...

Screenshot from Donald Trump Jr.'s Instagram account, parodying The Expendables as "The Deplorables."

On September 2, the FBI released a report on Clinton's use of a private server for official e-mails. Among the revelations was that Clinton could not r

On the campaign trail in the USA, September 2016
The following is the fifth edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: an arrest warrant is issued for the Green Party presidential and vice presidential nominees...

File photo of Jim Prentice, 2014. (Image: Manning Center (flickr).)

Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice killed in plane ...
The plane, a Cessna Citation, departed Kelowna at 9:32 p.m. before quickly disappearing from radar sight, according to a Transportation Safety Board official, Bill Yearwood. The National Post reported RCMP detachments in Kelowna and Lake Country were alerted to the loss of contact at 10:07 p.m. by Surrey Air Traffic Control Centre. According to tracking site ...

File photo of Parliament House, Islamabad, Pakistan. (Image: Usman.pg.)

Pakistan frames law against 'honour killing'
On Thursday, Pakistan's parliament announced a bill has been passed against the practice of honour killing. Per the legislation, those convicted of honour killing would be imprisoned for 25 years to life. In the practice of honour killing, men had the right to kill a female relative deemed to have brought dishonour to the family. Thus, murderers could avoid d...

File photo of Underwater World Singapore, 2006. (Image: Sengkang.)

Stingray kills head diver of Underwater World Singapore
Phillip Chan, 62, the head diver of the defunct facility, was moving stingrays in preparation for transfer to another aquarium when one of them stung him in the chest. Singapore newspaper The New Paper reported no prior such stingray incident was known to have occurred in Singapore. Australian conservationist Steve Irwin died in a similar manner in 2006. Foll...

Indonesian authorities investigate after pornographi...
ss="published">Monday, October 3, 2016 Indonesia Related articles 3 October 2016: Indonesian authorities investigate after pornographic film screened on billboard in Jakarta 2 December 2015: Investigators blame pilot error for AirAsia crash into Java Sea 22 October 2015: Former Miss Austria Ena Kadic dies after mountain fall 4 July 2015: C-130 Hercules cr...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May plans to trigger artic...
When triggered, Article 50 gives the country two years to agree to the the specifics of the exit; if this process is not finished within the deadline and member states do not vote unanimously to extend it, then the UK would be forced to leave the EU — leading to hesitancy in triggering it. Her decision is consistent with what some have asked for. Ian Duncan S...

File photo of downtown Houston. (Image: Hequals2henry.)

Multiple people wounded in Houston, Texas shooting
The spouse of one victim knew DeSai. She and her husband lived near him. The woman described DeSai as "a normal, average Joe". Local media report one of the victims hospitalized is listed in critical condition. Another victim has been hospitalized in serious condition. Earlier in September, a fourteen year-old girl in Alpine, Texas shot herself, after shootin...

File photo of Jeremy Corbyn, 2015. (Image: Garry Knight.)

Jeremy Corbyn wins UK labour leadership election
Jeremy Corbyn used his acceptance speech as an opportunity to offer an olive branch to his detractors, telling Owen Smith they were both "part of the same Labour family". He said he was "honoured" as he thanked those who voted for him for "trust and support". Owen Smith made no speech at the event; he later said he would support Corbyn since Corbyn won. There...

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson (right) and his running mate William Weld (left) at the campaign's first rally, August 5 in Nevada. (Image: Darron Birgenheier.)

On the campaign trail in the USA, August 2016
The following is the fourth edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: the vice presidential nominee of the Reform Party is revealed; those attacked in a high pr...

Path of the Kaveri river. (Image: NaanCoder.)

Water Disputes: Violence hits Karnataka, Tamil Nadu;...
In Tamil Nadu, people vandalised a hotel whose owner was of Kannada origin. They left a note in Tamil, warning Kannada people not to harm Tamilians. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wrote a letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha asking for the safety of Kannada people in Tamil Nadu. Metro Service in Bengaluru were halted for 20 minutes in the af...

A medical shop remained closed in Mysore due to strike. (Image: acagastya.)

Karnataka closed for a day after Supreme Court's jud...
The Indian Supreme Court judgement instructed Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water from the Kaveri river for ten days to Tamil Nadu. Both of the states demand shares of Kaveri water which goes back to the time when Britishers ruled India. Petrol pump in Mysore didn't open due to the strike. Image: acagastya. Due to the str...

64 blocks of ice were used to construct the cube. (Image: Dennis Bratland.)

Ten-ton ice cube melting in Seattle park
A cube of ice, weighing about ten tons (about 9000 kg) and measuring 80 inches (2m) per side, is melting in Seattle, Washington's Occidental Park. The temporary art installation, set up yesterday morning, "showcases the stages of the natural water cycle as the ice shifts from opaque to translucent", the artists said. How long it will take to melt is uncer...

Eddie Chu received the largest vote in any geographical constituency

Michael Tien of NPP

In the New Territories West geographical constituency, nonpartisan pan-democrat Eddie Chu was elected with 84,121 votes, the most given to any list in the geo

New faces emerge as veteran politicians step down in...
ss="published">Friday, September 9, 2016 The Hong Kong legislative election was held on Sunday, with a record-breaking turnout of around 2 million voters and turnout rate of 58%. The results show the anti-establishment camp successfully maintained a majority in the geographical constituencies' seats thus veto power to any members' bills, and also a minorit...

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