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CNA – The owner of three business entities offering beauty services and related courses masterminded a series of scams by instigating her subordinate to defraud the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) into disbursing almost SGD63,000 in training grants. However, Liu Meiying claimed at trial that it was her subordinate and whistleblower, Jovis Lau Pin Lin, who […]

GENEVA (AFP) – The mind-blowing growth of artificial intelligence (AI) poses many questions that have no answers yet, the United Nations admitted recently at its AI summit, attended by some exceptionally life-like humanoid robots. The UN is aware that AI technology is racing ahead of the capacity to set its boundaries and directions, and so […]

Lisa Strauss THE WASHINGTON POST – In the United States, the normative sleep schedule runs from about 11pm to 7am, though this varies with age, gender, geography (latitude and longitude), season and cultural norms. Night owls are people who are inclined to fall asleep and wake up hours later than the societal norm, and who […]

AP – German prosecutors said yesterday that a man who seriously wounded two young girls in an attack at a school in Berlin may have been suffering from a drug-induced psychological illness. Prosecutors said they were asking a court to have the 38-year-old suspect held in a psychiatric hospital pending further investigation. The man, who […]

LONDON (AP) – United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opened an investigation yesterdayinto allegations that the chairman of the governing Conservative Party settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country’s Treasury. It’s one of multiple stories about secret loans and unpaid taxes causing discomfort for Sunak, who has […]

AP – Paula Badosa has withdrawn from her Adelaide International semifinal with a thigh injury, handing fifth-seeded Daria Kasatkina a walkover into the final. Veronika Kudermetova then followed suit, opting not to play against Belinda Bencic because of a left hip injury. It means Kasatkina will play Bencic in the tournament final. Badosa, who is […]

UPI – A British couple are applying for Guinness World Records certification after they circumnavigated the globe on a tandem bicycle – riding about 28,968 kilometres through 21 countries. Laura Massey-Pugh and Stevie Massey arrived on December 1 in Berlin, the city where they had begun their record attempt 180 days earlier. The couple, who […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Normally, it would be horrible news to football fans anywhere that their team’s star player was injured. But even as they endured an anguished wait for a Neymar-less Brazil to score in their 1-0 win over Switzerland on Tuesday, some Brazilians found it hard to miss the injured superstar, who […]