KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will soon see a new airline called Ascend Airways Malaysia Sdn Bhd taking off with plans to operate two Boeing B737-800s and four B737 MAX 8s by the end of 2025.

KUALA LUMPUR: The body of a foreign man was found floating in Sungai Pantai near the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) Angkasapuri station here at 4.39pm today.

WASHINGTON: The US Secret Service shot an armed man outside the White House early on Sunday after a confrontation, and the man is now in an area hospital, it said in a statement.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Police General Operations Force (GOF) along Sungai Golok has been put on high alert following a bomb explosion in front of a stadium in the Sungai Golok township, Narathiwat, yesterday evening.

BEIRUT, Lebanon: Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Saturday, after a war monitor reported that government and allied forces killed nearly 750 civilians from the religious minority in recent days.

KOTA BARU: Several Malaysians who were in Sungai Golok for iftar on last night expressed relief after narrowly avoiding a bombing that killed two people and injured eight others.

SUNGAI GOLOK: Several assailants opened fire and planted an explosive outside the Sungai Golok district office tonight, killing two police volunteers and injuring eight others.

PORT KLANG: Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah graced a breaking of fast event with Royal Malaysian Navy officers and personnel onboard the KD Pahang and KD Terengganu vessels at the navy base here today.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief General Tan Sri Mohd Asghar Khan Goriman Khan, presented contributions to 25 personnel from the Butterworth air base in Penang yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR: A power bank caught fire inside a mass rapid transit (MRT) train along the East-West Line yesterday evening (March 7) in Singapore.

KOTA KINABALU: The public has been advised to stay away from the collapse site involving the first-floor structure of a shop lot at Kompleks Segama here last night.

SEPANG: The Home Ministry is in the process of identifying a candidate to fill the post of director-general of the Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS), which became vacant following Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali’s retirement on Feb 9.

SEOUL: South Korea’s education ministry has agreed to freeze the number of new medical students at about 3,000 a year, it said on Friday, in a bid to end a 13-month dispute involving a walkout by trainee doctors and the boycott of classes.

KOTA KINABALU: A 55-year-old woman was seriously injured when the ceiling of a multi-storey shoplot collapsed on her tonight.

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested 59 individuals, including 47 foreign women aged between 19 and 45, at a nightclub in Jalan Sungai Besi here, which is found to be offering the services of female guest relations officers (GRO) to its patrons.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Japan is not required to protect the United States militarily and makes “a fortune” from it economically, as he fired off an impromptu broadside at a key ally.

KUALA LUMPUR: A p-hailing rider claimed trial at the magistrate’s court today to a charge of murdering a 5-year-old boy who was under the care of his wife.

KUANTAN: Additional firefighters and assets will be deployed to battle the series of wildfires near the Kuantan-Sungai Ular bypass, which have been raging for nearly two weeks.

PUTRAJAYA: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed April 26 for the Ayer Kuning by-election.

TIRANA: Albanian authorities said Thursday they were moving to shut down TikTok in the coming days, following through on a ban announced in December.