USA: Sharon Stone says Basic Instinct role cost her custody of her son

Actress Sharon Stone says one of her most famous roles caused her to lose custody of her son in 2004. Her famous flash in the 1992 Basic Instinct warped perceptions…

UK: BP chief’s annual pay more than doubles to £10m

The boss of BP saw his pay more than double to £10m last year after the oil giant reported record profits on soaring energy prices. Bernard Looney’s pay and bonuses…

Malaysia: Ex-PM charged with corruption over Covid spending

Malaysia’s former prime minister who led during the height of the pandemic has been charged with corruption – a move that ratchets up already bitter political tensions. Muhyiddin Yassin, 75,…

China: Parliament elect Li Qiang as PM

The man nominated as China’s next premier by President Xi Jinping has been formally elected by parliament. Li Qiang, the former Communist Party leader of the country’s biggest city of…

Mexico: Cartel turns in own men over US kidnappings

Reports from the Mexican border city of Matamoros say a splinter group of the Gulf Cartel, called the Scorpions Group, has apologised for kidnapping four US citizens last week, killing…

Malaysia: Ex-Goldman Sachs boss gets 10 years for 1MDB scheme

The former head of Goldman Sachs in Malaysia will be sent to prison in the US for his role in a massive financial corruption scheme. A US judge sentenced Roger…

USA: Regulators take over failed Silicon Valley Bank

US regulators have shut down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and taken control of its customer deposits in the largest failure of a US bank since 2008. The moves came as…

Uganda: Authorities briefly close main expressway after bomb scare

Uganda’s police on Wednesday briefly closed a busy expressway that connects the capital, Kampala, to the country’s main airport after a security scare. A bomb squad was deployed to conduct…

Germany: Seven killed in attack on Jehovah’s Witness Hamburg hall

Seven people, including an unborn baby, have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the German city of Hamburg, police say. They say the gunman…

Afghanistan: Taliban governor killed in his office

The Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has been killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Mohammad Dawood Muzammil was killed in his office…