LONDON, March 26 — British police said a fire which caused Heathrow Airport to close for 18 hours last week was no longer being treated as a potentially criminal matter.

BANGKOK, March 26 — Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will be the subject of a no-confidence vote in Parliament today, in an early test of the unity of her ruling coalition following two days of intense grilling by the opposition.

LONDON, March 25 — BlackRock has launched its first bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, in a bid to tap growing demand for cryptocurrency exposure in new markets after attracting more than US$50 billion (RM221.8 billion) into similar products in the United States.

JAKARTA, March 25 — Indonesia will join the New Development Bank (NDB), a multilateral bank developed by BRICS members, President Prabowo Subianto said today.

SINGAPORE, March 25 — Asian stocks stumbled today, dragged by a slide in Chinese tech shares after a strong rally, while investors weighed the prospect of narrower-than-feared United States tariffs and the dollar hovered near three-week highs after upbeat economic data.

SANCHEONG COUNTY, March 25 — Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea yesterday as authorities designated three more counties 'special disaster zones'.

SHENZHEN, March 25 — China's leading new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer BYD Company Limited has reported robust profit growth in 2024, driven by booming car sales, reported Xinhua.

SYDNEY, March 25 — China's Xiaomi Corp said today it had raised US$5.5 billion (RM24.75 billion) in an upsized share sale as the company pushes forward with its ambitious electric vehicle manufacturing plans.

SEOUL, March 25 — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said today that its co-chief executive officer Han Jong-hee has died due to cardiac arrest.

ANKARA/ISTANBUL, March 25 — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "movement of violence" and that the main opposition party would be held accountable for injured police officers and damage to property.

PARIS, March 25 — Actor Gerard Depardieu went on trial yesterday over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, in a case that placed one of France's best-known movie stars at the heart of the country's broader reckoning over sexual violence.

JAKARTA, March 24 — New sovereign fund Danantara Indonesia unveiled yesterday what it called a "dream team" to chart its strategy, including ex-presidents as well as advisory roles for hedge fund manager Ray Dalio, economist Jeffrey Sachs and former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

SANCHEONG, March 24 — Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea today as authorities designated three more counties “special disaster zones”.

LONDON, March 24 — Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain’s government said, adding to the growing list of mammals infected by the disease and fuelling fears of a pandemic.

GENEVA, March 24 — Two United Nations agencies said today that any shortfalls in funding from global donors could have dire consequences for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

SEOUL, March 24 — South Korea's Constitutional Court today ruled to strike down the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and restore his powers, marking the latest twist in the country's political turmoil after his impeachment as acting president more than two months ago.

BANGKOK, March 24 — Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra faces a no-confidence motion in parliament starting today, with the opposition set to grill her over an underperforming economy and her powerful father's perceived influence over her administration.

PARIS, March 24 — Parisians yesterday voted in a referendum to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

ISTANBUL, March 24 — A Turkish court yesterday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges, in a move likely to inflame the country's biggest protests in more than a decade.

CAIRO, March 24 — An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza killed a Hamas political leader, Salah al-Bardaweel, yesterday, the group said, as Palestinian officials put the death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict at over 50,000.