The body of a 38-year-old expatriate who went missing on Tuesday while canoeing in the sea off Sai Kung has been found, Hong Kong police have confirmed. The force received a report on Friday at 7.54am from a boater who saw a body floating in the water about 500 metres (1,640 feet) away from Sai…
The stock market rallied on the latest inflation report. The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, while the Nasdaq rose over 1% and the Dow spiked nearly 500 points. The benchmark S&P 500 is up almost 10% year-to-date. Here’s where US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. ET closing bell on Tuesday:…
A tourist from the Philippines was killed in Hong Kong on Tuesday after an elderly cabby lost control of his vehicle and mounted the pavement at a hotel taxi rank. Police received a report at 1.52pm that a man had been struck by a taxi that veered onto the pavement at 8 Yeung Uk Road…
An elderly man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a bus driver after a dispute on a double-decker vehicle. A police spokesman said on Tuesday that the force had received a report the day before in which a 25-year-old driver accused a passenger of physically assaulting him on Argyle Street, Kowloon City. “During the scuffle,…
Hong Kong’s Pok Fu Lam neighbourhood was hit by heavy downpours in the early hours of Tuesday, with rainwater flooding a major thoroughfare and a public hospital, once forcing it to divert patients to other institutions. The Hospital Authority said on Tuesday the severe flooding on some roads within the Queen Mary Hospital compound had…
Hong Kong police are investigating the discovery of a headless, dismembered body in the city’s upscale Mid-Levels neighbourhood during a severe rainstorm. The force said that it received a report at 7.05am on Tuesday from a passerby who claimed to have spotted a “human-shaped object” near 45 Kennedy Road. The body, found under a tree,…
Stock valuations are getting frothy again, but this time, it’s not all Big Tech’s fault. Yes, valuations of the Magnificent Seven stocks — Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Tesla — are back up after since bottoming in April. Yet, the group’s 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio is still down from mid-2024, mid-2023, and 2020…
LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September — unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps toward long-term peace. Starmer called ministers together for a rare summertime Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in Gaza. He told them that Britain will recognize a…
Thousands of disgruntled Hongkongers caught in heavy rain during their Tuesday morning commute have asked why the city’s weather forecaster did not issue its highest-level warning earlier, although meteorologists have said some deluges are hard to predict. Social media users took to the comments section of the Observatory’s posts to vent their frustration after the…
The California judge for Elon Musk’s racketeering lawsuit against Sam Altman granted the Tesla CEO a small legal victory Tuesday, but not before dinging both sides for trying to waste her time with “excessive” court filings. “The court will not waste precious judicial resources on the parties’ gamesmanship,” US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote….