TOKYO: Even small delays in Japan’s much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy “shinkansen” services.

SYDNEY: Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days.

AHMEDABAD: Two members of a notorious criminal gang were arrested by Indian police Tuesday for firing at the home of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in retaliation for the superstar’s killing of two antelopes.

ANKARA: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of social media platform X, on Monday proposed a small fee for new users to write, reply to, or like posts.

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden made more than US$600,000 in 2023, according to their joint tax return released by the White House, reported Sputnik. .

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said on Sunday it will soon call up two reserve divisions for operations in Gaza, where it has been conducting a war against Islamist group Hamas.

HONG KONG: China’s top official on Hong Kong affairs said the city should “tightly hold” onto the bottom line of national security to safeguard development, in a speech coming weeks after the enactment of sweeping new security laws.

ANKARA: Australian police on Sunday said the man believed to be responsible for deadly stabbing spree at a Sydney beach side shopping centre has been identified as a 40-year-old originally from the northeast state of Queensland.

NEW YORK: Donald Trump becomes the first US ex-president to go on criminal trial Monday – pushing the nation’s legal and electoral systems to the limit less than seven months before Americans decide whether to return the scandal-plagued Republican to the White House.

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Troop reinforcements from Israel’s ally the United States headed to the region on Saturday, with fears of wider war growing more than six months into Israel’s battle against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.