Hong Kong MTR trains skip Lam Tin station after smoke reported on platform

Matildas coach Joe Montemurro says Australia still has work to do ahead of next year's FIFA Women's World Cup.

A radical idea from Canada would see Australian institutions axe fees and entrance exams in a bid to reduce school segregation and improve learning outcomes.

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The spray paint giant has been caught up in allegations involving an $8 million arson attack on a competitor and a plot to murder its rival boss.

Strong Santa Ana winds, dry conditions and a heat wave will create high fire risk in western Los Angeles beginning Thursday, according to forecasters.

Kana Liu, a Chinese Canadian living in the US on a work visa, felt compelled to speak up. Faced with a Department of Homeland Security proposal to charge up to US$100,000 in fees for international students to work in the US after graduation under Optional Practical Training (OPT), she rushed to the government’s public comment portal. “I firmly oppose the proposed $70,000 initial OPT fee and $30,000 subsequent fee,” she wrote on the federal comment site on October 12. “They create undue barriers...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday made a reference to a 1812 U.S.-British battle in which forces from the United Kingdom were victorious. “On this day in 1812,” Carney said in a post on the social platform X that also featured a photo of a small sculpture of what appears to be a British...

A group of law enforcement agencies from around the world teamed up with a handful of high-profile technology firms to disrupt West African criminal scam networks, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Tuesday. The operation led to "dozens" of arrests and 117 trafficking victims rescued from scam compounds in Ghana, the DOJ said. Authorities in the...

The White House’s bid for a US “golden age” of science should put China on alert, Chinese analysts have warned, but they remain sceptical as to whether President Donald Trump’s alliance with Silicon Valley billionaires can pull it off. This comes as Trump, in another arguably unconventional move, handed the country’s highest science and engineering awards to top American tech bosses. Elon Musk, head of electric-vehicle maker Tesla and aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, received the National Medal of...

The nation’s energy regulators have shot down a bid from a regional grid operator to cut power to some large data centers during a supply shortfall — leaving the issue largely in the hands of states. Regional grid operator PJM, which manages the electric grid for several East Coast and Midwest states, proposed an ability...

An OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia has been arrested after allegedly hiding a recording device in the company’s offices, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who had worked as an engineer at OpenAI since last July, was charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept...

The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced it was fining Bank of America more than $1.2 billion for violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) fined Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the country, $1.2 billion for its failure to “mitigate and report priority national security risks,” the department...