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A Salvadoran soldier stands guard outside its Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 4, 2025. — Reuters pic
Life / 14 Aug 2025

Costa Rica plans El Salvador-style maximum-security prison to tackle gang violence

A manuscript signed by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in 1527, believed to have been stolen from Mexico’s national archives, and recovered and returned by the US FBI to the Mexico government. — Reuters pic/FBI Boston handout
Life / 14 Aug 2025

US hands back 500-year-old conqueror Hernan Cortes document stolen from Mexico’s archives

The role of ‘Vehicle Operator, Autopilot’ involves the driving of an ‘engineering vehicle’ for extended periods, ‘conducting dynamic audio and camera data collection for testing and training purpose’, according to Tesla’s job listing. — Reuters pic
Life / 14 Aug 2025

Tesla hiring driver in New York as Musk eyes US robotaxi expansion

Scientists discovered a 'fast, sharp-toothed predator' that would have been about the size of a dolphin. — Illustration by Ruairidh Duncan via Museums Victoria
Life / 13 Aug 2025

Scientists unearth ‘cute’ but fearsome ancient whale

The hefty 54-pound (25-kilogram) stone is the largest Martian meteorite ever discovered on Earth, according to its Sotheby’s listing, and was found in November 2023 in the vast Saharan desert in Niger. — Sotheby's New York listing screenshot
Life / 13 Aug 2025

Auction of world’s largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate

Climbers pay for permits on Nepali peaks and the fees vary depending on the mountain’s height and popularity, with heftier charges for those such as Everest. — AFP pic
Life / 13 Aug 2025

Nepal waives climbing fees for 97 mountain peaks

A pharmacy sign indicates a temperature of 45°C in Toulouse, southwestern France on August 11, 2025. — AFP pic
Life / 13 Aug 2025

Why scientists say Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth

Cancer scientist Feng Gensheng is seen speaking at the Northwestern University in Illinois on September 23, 2022. — Picture from X/LauberthLab
Life / 13 Aug 2025

Top Chinese cancer scientist quits US post for Shenzhen as Trump cuts varsity funds

ChargEV tests idle fees at busy stations to stop charger hogging. — SoyaCincau pic
Life / 13 Aug 2025

New ChargEV rule: 20-minute grace, then RM30 an hour if you stay parked

Rangers and visitors stand at the Talek Gate in the Maasai Mara game reserve, in Narok county, Kenya August 7, 2025. — Reuters pic
Life / 13 Aug 2025

Tourism or conservation? Ritz-Carlton’s new US$3,500-a-night safari lodge sparks Maasai Mara lawsuit over wildebeest migration

Demonstrators pose with placards at a ‘Vance not welcome party’, organised by Stop Trump Coalition supporters and local residents in Charlbury, west of London on August 12, 2025, as the US Vice President JD Vance takes his vacation in the English countryside. — AFP pic
Life / 13 Aug 2025

JD Vance goes on holiday, gets the great British ‘sod off’

A woman and a child cool their hands in the Fontaine des Mers fountain spraying water at the Place de la Concorde in Paris on August 11, 2025, amid a heatwave in Europe. — AFP pic
Life / 13 Aug 2025

‘Silent Killer’: Experts reveal the underestimated dangers of rising global heatwaves

Labuan local Bruneian and the sole batik entrepreneur, Mastura Abd Razak, 44, (left) and husband, Abd Rahmad Abd Malik, 45, (right) pictured with a tourist at the Galeri Lawa Labuan. — Bernama pic
Life / 12 Aug 2025

Labuan batik set to dazzle the world: From local art to global fashion statement

An illustration by Mauricio Alvarez, released by Universidad de Chile, depicts the ‘Yeutherium pressor,’ a mammal that lived during the Late Cretaceous period about 74 million years ago and is estimated to have weighed between 30 and 40 grams. — AFP pic
Life / 12 Aug 2025

Fossil of tiny mouse-sized mammal from dinosaur era discovered in Chilean Patagonia

Bird populations in the tropics now face 30 days of heat extremes per year compared to three per year in the mid-20th century. — Reuters pic
Life / 12 Aug 2025

Extreme heat from climate change driving sharp decline in tropical bird populations, study finds

Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell died on Admiralty Bay on King George Island, located 120 kilometres off the coast of Antarctica on July 26, 1959. He was stationed on the island for a two-year assignment at a small UK research base. Bell and three other men had set out to climb and survey a glacier, when he fell through a crevasse — a deep chasm in the ice. His body was never recovered. — Picture from Facebook/British Antarctic Survey
Life / 12 Aug 2025

UK scientist’s Antarctic remains found after 66 years, closing a frozen chapter