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Now users can scan a QR code with their phones to access a website showing restroom locations and live congestion levels. ― Unsplash pic/Tim Mossholder
Life / 28 Aug 2025

Need to urgently pee? Japan’s QR code service shows nearest toilets and real-time queues

Villagers walk along a flooded road in Bedono, Central Java, on July 30, 2025. Rising seas and sinking land threaten Indonesia’s coast as plans for a massive seawall face delays. — AFP pic
Life / 28 Aug 2025

Indonesia’s ambitious seawall plan faces delays as Java villages vanish to rising seas

The ceremony recognised 142 scholars and demonstrated the impact of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in delivering job outcomes for rural youth, alongside support for persons with disabilities (OKU), academic achievers, employees and Employees’ Children, under the theme “Building Brighter Futures.
Life / 28 Aug 2025

Yayasan Sime Darby expands TVET push with Budget 2025 boost to empower rural youth

Visitors look at Lego brick versions of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ painting at Dutch Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. — Reuters pic
Life / 28 Aug 2025

Iconic Van Gogh Museum seeks more state aid to protect priceless collection

Rayyan Arkan Dikha (L), 11, who went viral for his calm boat dance, talks with American rapper Melly Mike (C) during the Pacu Jalur festival on the Kuantan River, Riau Province, on August 24, 2025. Rowers paddle furiously in traditional longboats as crowds flock to watch. — AFP pic
Life / 28 Aug 2025

Viral dancing boy draws record crowds to Sumatra’s Pacu Jalur boat race

Rohingya refugees who were stranded after leaving Myanmar walk towards the Balukhali refugee camp after crossing the border in Bangladesh’s Ukhia district on November 2, 2017. — AFP
Life / 28 Aug 2025

‘Used as pawns’ and abandoned again: Rohingya refugees trapped between a war-torn homeland and a world that’s moved on

Denmark’s National Museum curator Peter Pentz shows a gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking, on August 26, 2025 in Copenhagen. — AFP pic
Life / 28 Aug 2025

Braided beard and a perfect parting: Denmark reveals first Viking ‘portrait’ — and he’s immaculately groomed

After two years of controversy over how to ethically exhibit human remains, the Mutter Museum announced last week it has changed its policy to contextualise and de-anonymise its collection. — AFP pic
Life / 28 Aug 2025

More than just a giant colon in a jar: America’s oddest medical museum tries to get ethical about its dead

When Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez announced their engagement this month, two things stood out: the outsized diamond ring, and their unmarried cohabitation in conservative Saudi Arabia. — Picture via Instagram/Georgina Rodríguez
Life / 27 Aug 2025

Living in sin? Ronaldo and Georgina’s engagement stirs talk of privilege, progress and double standards in Saudi Arabia

A sign that reads in Spanish ‘For Rent’ is seen on the facade of a commercial store in Guayaquil, Ecuador on August 9, 2025. — AFP pic
Life / 27 Aug 2025

Where the music once played there’s only fear now as cartel violence shuts down nightlife in Ecuador’s Guayaquil

In this handout photograph taken on May 11, 2025 and released by Airlift Technology, a man operates a heavy-lift drone to clear trash dumped at the Everest Base Camp. — Airlift Technology handout via AFP
Life / 27 Aug 2025

Drones take on Everest’s garbage

This aerial view shows water buffaloes drinking from a marsh in the drought-striken Chibayish marshes in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province on August 19, 2025. — AFP pic
Life / 27 Aug 2025

‘The marshes are dead’: Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water

A tractor collects hay in a field near Omaholmen Island in Omastranda, Norway on August 23, 2025. Norway will host the world's first CO2 'graveyard. — AFP pic
Life / 27 Aug 2025

World’s first commercial CO2 ‘graveyard’ opens in Norway

Celebrity chef Jean Imbert, who rose to fame after winning the TV competition “Top Chef” before becoming a social media star, has denied the allegations. — Picture via Facebook/Jean Imbert
Life / 26 Aug 2025

French star chef faces domestic violence accusations

Maurice Tempelsman acquired New York-based diamond jewelers Lazare Kaplan, propelling him onto New York's business and social scene, and quickly becoming one of the world's premier diamond merchants. — Pexels pic
Life / 26 Aug 2025

Diamond czar Maurice Tempelsman, Jackie O companion, dead at 95

Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad chairman Thomas Karl Rapp, Hap Seng Land property management director Manfred Weber and ASPAC, Hyatt International executive vice president & group president David Udell at the launch of Hyatt Regency Kuala Lumpur KL Midtown. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Life / 26 Aug 2025

Five-star Hyatt Regency Kuala Lumpur opens its doors to business, leisure guests at KL Midtown