Hong Kong marks hottest ‘Frost’ solar term on record at 32.1 degrees Celsius

The ex-wife of Aldinga Beach mother Krystal Marshall has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for her role in the death.

Nelson was secretly driven from Japan’s largest women’s prison in Tochigi early yesterday morning before boarding a flight back to Perth.

Flight disruptions and cancellations are compounding across East Asia as Typhoon Champi approaches Taiwan, grounding hundreds of domestic and international services in Taiwan and poised to affect major mainland Chinese airports next. Taiwan’s transport ministry said 262 local flights and 715 international and cross-strait flights had been cancelled as of 10am on Friday. The island’s largest airports – Taiwan Taoyuan, Taipei Songshan, Kaohsiung and Taichung – faced large-scale flight...

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post. Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and commercial deployments, as Seoul ramps up investment in physical artificial intelligence. A growing number of Chinese robotics companies – including Hong Kong-listed UBTech Robotics, start-up Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based...

Mirik Milan says nighttime in cities is seen as a blight of “mischief and mayhem”. His vision transformed Amsterdam’s outskirts – and it could do the same for Melbourne.

Accused former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon said “pew pew” and made a shooting gesture to demonstrate how he killed two men, a jury has heard.

A major breakthrough in fighting skin cancer has been announced, with an Australian-led trial developing a world first vaccine.

Ren Xiaoping, who once vowed to perform the world’s first human head transplant, has operated on a patient’s severed spinal cord in a 12-hour landmark operation in Moscow, according to the Chinese surgeon and Russian state sources. Ren said the procedure was carried out at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine in Russia last week. “It was our Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital and the Russian team working together,” Ren told the South China...

Hong Kong’s top government officials and police officers have paid their final respects to a former constable who died 21 years after being left paralysed in an attack while on duty, during a funeral with full police honours. Jacky Chu Chun-kwok, who died last month aged 52, was laid to rest on Friday following a service at the Universal Funeral Parlour in Hung Hom at 10.30am, which was attended by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung. The mood was...

At least 16 people have been killed and 46 injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northern Tibet.

The NSW Supreme Court has awarded Rebel Wilson $359,000 in a successful countersuit against the co-producers of The Deb.

A man has been arrested and two people are on the run after a dangerous police pursuit through Liverpool left an innocent driver and a child in hospital.