Ratchanok Intanon outlast Chinese Chen Yufei 21-18 20-22 21-17 to claim her opening win in group B round robin competition of the BWF World Tour Finals in Guangzhou on Wednesday.

World badminton champion Kento Momota made a lightning start at the BWF World Tour Finals in China on Wednesday, rampaging past India's overwhelmed Sameer Verma in just 36 minutes.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi had some choice words for the president following an argumentative exchange in the Oval Office in which she blamed him for an impending government shutdown. Read Full Article at RT.com

The pound fell to a 20-month low against the UAE dirham on Tuesday.

The victim careened off the main road after being rammed from the rear.

Civil defence teams rushed to the scene of the incident.

L'école élémentaire de Teavaro à Moorea s’est vue décerner le label éco santé de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé en récompense de son approche en matière de santé et de protection de l’environnement.  

L’agence de l’ADIE a financé plus de 80 projets à Rangiroa et dans le nord des Tuamotu.  

Nouvelle mobilisation du SDIRAF, le syndicat des retraités de Polynésie.  

Un aventurier d’origine lettone effectue un tour du monde à la rame pour lutter contre les énergies fossiles.  

A 102-year-old great-grandmother is believed to have become the world's oldest skydiver after plunging 14,000 feet (4,300 metres) through the South Australian sky.

Vu Thi Dinh spent weeks scouring the rugged Vietnamese borderland near China after her teenage daughter vanished with her best friend, clutching a photo of the round-faced girls now feared sold as child brides.

Separatist Papuan rebels who killed at least 16 construction workers at a remote jungle camp refused Indonesia's demand to surrender Wednesday, as claims surfaced that the military murdered civilians after the massacre.

The Westin Dragonara, one of the hotels impacted by the massive Marriot International personal data hack, will not say how many guests were affected. Questions sent to the hotel were directed to the company’s communications department for Europe, with a spokeswoman telling the Times of Malta that an identification process is still under way. “We have not finished identifying duplicate information in the database but we believe it contains information on up to 500 million guests who made a reservation at a Starwood property,” the spokeswoman said, without supplying any specific information on the Westin Dragonara. Marriott International announced on Friday that hackers had illegally accessed its Starwood Hotels brand’s reservation database since 2014, potentially exposing personal information on about 500 million guests. A spokeswoman for the St Julian’s hotel, which forms part of the Starwood brand, had confirmed that all guests that had made reservations at any of the brand’s properties before September 10 “may be impacted”. Apart from seeking information on the number of affected guests, Times of Malta also wanted to know how many people had been contacted since the data...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta reports how Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Tuesday stood by embattled government official Neville Gafà who Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne had ordered to be fired. In-Nazzjon also highlights the situation in its front page.  In-Nazzjon also has the Strasbourg gun attack on its front page.  l-orizzont gives prominence to remarks by the Transport Minister that an international call for bids for the boring of the Malta-Gozo tunnel will be issued in six months' time.  MaltaToday says the Malta-Gozo medical helicopter operated by Steward Healthcare cannot be used for three months every year because of legally required maintenance.  The Malta Independent reports concerns by a representative of PEN International over the behaviour of the Maltese delegation to the UN.  PEN manager Sarah Clarke claimed she was verbally insulted by a member of the delegation during the UN conference on migration held in Morocco. 

Habitual exposure to anything, however unpleasant it may be, renders one to become accustomed to it, as is the case with casualty personnel and the sight of blood. Our society is now facing the same situation.  We are fast becoming immune to daily revelations of corruption, government handouts to party loyalists, including handing over public land worth millions for peanuts, multiple jobs to the same individuals and an in-your-face ‘we shall because we can’ attitude, which has no respect for any norms and laws. It is an established practice worldwide that ministers and politically exposed persons (PEPs) accept that they must live according to strict codes of conduct, and submit themselves to intrusive and uncomfortable levels of scrutiny. And yet, five years of constant, escalating scandals, of standards slipping so far and so fast that you can’t even see them anymore, have seemingly numbed our sensibilities, so that what was once unacceptable, is now fatalistically shrugged away by far too many. Since Labour took over power, their actions were never casual. They were always casual. The civil service was decapitated the morning after the election, with many permanent secretaries...

Malta’s electoral system is complex and depends on an elaborate vote counting process that usually takes days to declare the winners of an election. So, when both main political parties agreed to introduce an electronic vote-scanning system as from the next European Parliament and local council elections in May 2019, many had hoped the tense few days after the election would become a thing of the past. Election results should be known within six hours of the start of vote counting. However, doubts have now been expressed on how well the Electoral Commission has overseen the project, whereby two international IT companies would provide the e-counting technology and security systems. When the new system was stress-tested, a staggering 40 per cent of the ballot sheets were rejected and had to be scrutinised manually to determine the voting intentions of voters. A second test was conducted following some software changes made by the technology companies. The failure rate of the vote scanners fell but was still considered high, at about 20 per cent. Nationalist Party secretary general Clyde Puli expressed concern on some issues relating to project. He said there were various...

Malta’s new green transport initiative, GoTo, has been announced as an official sponsor of popular Gozo football club, Victoria Hotspurs. With more than 1,000 motorists already registered with GoTo across Malta, the newly-launched initiative offers an increasingly popular, environmentally-friendly alternative to private petrol-fuelled cars. The car-sharing initiative, which is currently rolling out a fleet of 150 electric cars nationwide, provides easy, convenient and green transport for its registered users across the island, as well as designated, strategically-positioned parking spaces at each destination. GoTo’s rapidly-growing success has now led it to become an official sponsor of one of Gozo’s most historic football clubs, Victoria Hotspurs. “Victoria Hotspurs FC is extremely thankful to GoTo Malta for becoming the team’s official sponsor,” Victoria Hotspurs president Anton Tabone said. “I think this may be a first for football in Gozo, to have an international company sponsoring a local football team. It is also a matter of pride for our ambitious club to be associated with such a company. At Victoria Hotspurs FC wish GoTo Malta all the possible success in its...

ANISHA YOUNG’S FAMILY NEWS CONFERENCE – VIDEO The family of Anisha ‘Anny’ Young, missing since early Sunday morning, today organized a search for her, starting near the home on Nargusta

THE REPORTER: News Staff, - Tuesday Dec. 11th. In October 2 Guatemalan Police Officers Jose Juan Garcia Palma and Armando Hub Pop were arrested at the Western Border after Police

MAJOR SHOOTOUT IN GUNGULUNG – CHICKEN TRUCK ROBBERY THE REPORTER: News Staff, -  Tuesday Dec. 11th. The Reporter has received this footage of a shootout between elements of the Police

Another Suspect Drug Plane Lands Near BELIZE-GUAT Border THE REPORTER: News Staff, - Tuesday Dec. 11th. Two Guatemalans found near Graham Creek in the Toledo District were today charged for

In order to exchange the experience of preparing the aircraft personnel, the crews of the two countries examined the area near Maiquetia Airport

In September, Russia and China conducted the massive Vostok-2018 exercises in Russia’s Far East

Janet Yellen, former US Federal Reserve chair, has warned that another financial crisis could be in the country’s future, due to ballooning corporate debt and regulatory impotence. Read Full Article at RT.com

  MANILA, Philippines --- Instagram users can now send voice clips in direct messages, the social media platform announced on Twitter last Tuesday.   Instagram launched its newest feature which allows its users to send or reply to messages through voice recordings.   «Starting today, you can send voice messages in Direct. Talk the way you want to be heard, whether by whispering what you're up to or shouting a compliment,» Instagram said.   https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1072206200077398016   Instagram, owned by Facebook, has almost one billion users worldwide./muf  ...Keep on reading: Voice messages now available on Instagram

YANGON, Myanmar--- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended a series of tweets about his recent meditation retreat in Myanmar that were pilloried on his own platform for failing to mention the persecution of Rohingya Muslims. Dorsey's gushing thread on Sunday came after a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat near Mandalay in which he praised the country's food, beauty and its people, whom he said were «full of joy». The comments drew heat online for leaving out any discussion of atrocities committed against Myanmar's Rohingya minority during a military crackdown last year that drove more than 720,000 people into Bangladesh camps. Critics piled into the tech mogul ...Keep on reading: Twitter CEO defends controversial Myanmar tweets

MANILA, Philippines --- Twelve senators on Wednesday voted to extend martial law in Mindanao until December 31, 2019. The 12 senators who affirmed the third extension of martial law in the region were Senate President Vicente Sotto III, and Senators Gringo Honasan, Panfilo Lacson, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Richard Gordon, Grace Poe, Cynthia Villar, Koko Pimentel, JV Ejercito, Sonny Angara, Win Gatchalian, and Manny Pacquiao. On the other hand, five senators voted against further placing Mindanao under martial rule. These lawmakers were: Minority Floor Leader Senator Franklin Drilon, and Senators Bam Aquino, Rise Hontiveros, Francis Pangilinan, and Francis Escudero. Senator Ralph R...Keep on reading: 12 Senators OKs third martial law extension in Mindanao

MANILA, Philippines --- Longtime couple Kylie Padilla and Aljur Abrenica finally tied the knot on Tuesday at Villa Milagros in Rizal. Photos from the wedding ceremony surfaced as many of their celebrity friends took to social media to congratulate the newlyweds. Padilla's co-actress in «Encantadia» Gabbi Garcia posed with the couple in an Instagram post on Tuesday.   View this post on Instagram   Always here for the both of you. Congratulations! Stay happy! Love you @kylienicolepadilla @ajabrenica #AljurKyliEpicAfter A post shared by Gabbi Garcia (@_gabbigarcia) on Dec 11, 2018 at 4:11am PST &...Keep on reading: LOOK: Kylie Padilla, Aljur Abrenica hold star-studded wedding

MANILA, Philippines---It was a long wait but Bobby Ray Parks Jr. is finally headed to the PBA. A stalwart since his college days at National University, Parks has eluded the PBA Draft for almost five years, but the son of late great Bobby Ray Parks Sr. said it's now his time to jump to the Philippines' premier basketball league. «I've seen a lot of things, I've played in different leagues and I mean for me it's time,» said Parks Wednesday at Gatorade Hoops Center during the PBA Draft Combine. Parks was a highly-touted prospect since he was in high school at St. Georges and then, at Melrose, both in Tennessee, and he even drew the attention of NCAA Division 1 school Georgia T...Keep on reading: Ray Parks says timing just right to join PBA, doesn’t consider self as rookie

A series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center plumbs the depths of director Jacques Tourneur’s richly mysterious horror movies, melodramas, thrillers, westerns and fantasy films.

Winter camping seems like a masochistic hobby, but combating the cold is easier than you think—and the payoff is a serene wilderness experience.

Barolo has long been considered the power wine of the Piedmont. But the truth is, many prefer the more-accessible, graceful and often less-expensive alternative, Barbaresco.

The New York Police Department received an anonymous tip about a bomb threat.

Civil defence teams rushed to the scene of the incident.