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Winner of world’s biggest sports photography competition crowned for mind-blowing timing and composition

This alignment existed for less than a heartbeat – and is now globally recognized, beating 23,130 submissions from the world’s best professional sport photographers

Digital Camera World · Jan 15

Singapore election a test for ruling party against rejuvenated opposition

Singaporeans long accepted fewer freedoms in exchange for economic growth and good jobs. But that may be changing.

Al Jazeera · May 2, 2025

Singapore tightens rules for expat workers with an eye on local discontent

The city-state is raising the salary threshold for foreigners to get a work permit amid stiff competition for jobs.

Al Jazeera · Apr 11, 2024

Habitual mask-wearing is likely helping Japan, Singapore and South Korea bring daily Omicron deaths down, epidemiologists say

There is "a really quite important cultural difference" in Asia that epidemiologists suggest is having a dramatic impact on their daily rate of COVID-19 deaths.

ABC News · Jul 31, 2022

Analysis-Ukrainian dreams of retaking Kherson hinge on Western weapons

For the Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retake ground in the wheat fields and empty villages northwest of the city of Kherson, the liberation of one of Ukraine's most strategically important Black Sea cities feels tantalisingly close.

Reuters · Jun 15, 2022

Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell'

As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.

Reuters · Jun 14, 2022

'Danger! mines' - Odesa's popular beaches now off limits

Tourists once flocked to the Ukrainian resort of Odesa to lie on its Black Sea beaches, but the white sands are now covered in mines because of the war with Russia and police officers patrol the boardwalks.

Reuters · Jun 9, 2022

Western artillery already making difference for Ukraine -regional governor

Western-supplied artillery systems are already making a difference on the ground for Ukraine and it is "just a question of time" before its forces win back significant ground in the south, the governor of the Mykolaiv region said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Jun 8, 2022

Russia strikes Kyiv for first time in weeks as battle rages in east

Russia struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with missiles early on Sunday for the first time in more than a month, while Ukrainian officials said a counter-attack on the main battlefield in the east had retaken half of the city of Sievierodonetsk.

Reuters · Jun 5, 2022

Ukraine's 'unicorn' LGBTQ soldiers head for war

As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction - a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers.

Reuters · May 31, 2022