This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Classes at kindergartens and some special schools in Hong Kong will be suspended on Tuesday, with the No 3 typhoon signal remaining in force until at least 6pm. The Hong Kong Observatory said on…
The BBC’s Hugh Schofield at the scene of ”brazen” Louvre jewel theft Security protocols “failed” in preventing a major jewellery heist at the Louvre museum in Paris, leaving the country with a “terrible image”, France’s justice minister has said. Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world’s most-visited museum in broad daylight on Sunday, stealing…
McVitie’s Penguin and Club bars are no longer classed as chocolate after rising cocoa prices led the makers to switch to using other ingredients. Club bars had previously been marketed under the slogan: “If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club”. But both treats are now described as “chocolate flavour”…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That’s how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that today’s outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him. The places hit by the outage vary significantly. It…
While some celebrate the encounters as justice served, critics argue lasting protection for women lies in strengthenin LAHORE: After every high-profile rape case, popular sentiment often incites the authorities to take extreme punitive measures against the culprits. While such extrajudicial encounters might temporarily placate public fury, they nevertheless jeopardize the rule of law. In Punjab,…
Oct 20, 2025, 07:30 AM ET Trailing Ole Miss after halftime, Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton delivered in a big moment once again in the Bulldogs’ come-from-behind win over the fifth-ranked Rebels on Saturday. “He’s wired for these tight moments because he’s tough,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said afterward of the Bulldogs’ quarterback. “His team believes…
Jimmy Kimmel‘s short-lived suspension from ABC may have had a significant impact on Disney+ subscriptions, according to new data from the subscription analytics firm Antenna, which tracks subscriptions and viewership data for majorstreamingservices. Antenna on Monday released numbers showing that monthly churn rates for Disney+ and Hulu surged from 4 percent and 5 percent in…
Faisalabad conference seeks to highlight the philosophical, literary, and cultural dimensions of the figure’s poetry. FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) plans to host a grand ‘Waris Shah Conference’ on October 21 to pay tribute to the legendary Sufi poet. The conference, organised under the directives of Vice Chancellor Dr Zulfiqar Ali and the…
Charlotte EdwardsBusiness reporter, BBC News Getty Images Pizza Hut is to close 68 restaurants and 11 delivery sites in the UK with the loss of 1,210 jobs, after the firm running them fell into administration. DC London Pie Limited, which operates Pizza Hut’s UK restaurants, appointed FTI Consulting as administrators on Monday. However, Pizza Hut’s…
Oura / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Oura is measuring your stress in a new way. Cumulative Stress measures factors of chronic stress. Oura also announced an app redesign and several other new features. Your Oura Ring could soon tell you when…
