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Man admits posting fake bomb message on Instagram, delaying three flights at Changi Airport

Man admits posting fake bomb message on Instagram, delaying three flights at Changi Airport The hoax caused three Scoot flights to be delayed by at least an hour each, costing the airline almost S$2,000. SINGAPORE: A 19-year-old Singaporean posted a photo on his private Instagram account saying he was "about to bomb" a plane.

With his pet chihuahua and trusty gopher, 97yo grazier won't slow down

feel good Doug Harrison, 97, refuses to slow down after eight decades as a grazier Mon 8 Jun 2026 at 6:34am Doug Harrison doesn't do retirement. With his trusty gopher and pet chihuahua by his side, the grazier prefers to scoot around his outback station while completing the day's chores. "I'm not as old as I look, I'm only 97," he says.

CNA Explains: How airlines avoided a jet fuel shortage amid the Iran conflict

CNA Explains: How airlines avoided a jet fuel shortage amid the Iran conflict Despite warnings of a looming jet fuel supply crunch amid the Iran war, major airlines are now saying that they have enough fuel for the next few months. The conflict in Iran has sent jet fuel prices soaring, as the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz choked exports from Gulf refineries that supply a significant share of the world’s jet fuel. The war, which began with United States-Israeli strikes on Iran on...

Shattered Storm superstar to miss entire NRL season

Melbourne star Xavier Coates to miss remainder of NRL season after rupturing Achilles Melbourne's fragile hopes of making the NRL finals have been dealt a major blow with star winger Xavier Coates ruled out for the season after snapping his Achilles. Coates was on the comeback trail after injuring his Achilles in the pre-season, requiring surgery that put him out for three months. With State of Origin off the table, the Storm set a target of round 10 for his return but that was pushed back...

Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco

Grading bold preseason predictions for all 30 NBA ...

Before this NBA season began, I made 30 bold but realistic predictions, one for each team. In retrospect, some of them made me look prescient and smart. So as the 2025-26 season winds down and the offseason approaches, it's a good time to reflect on those scattered prognoses.

CT scans of BYD car parts

Design to Reality Evolution of the Plastic Bottle In the dark nights of my soul, I fret about how inconsistently engineered my life is. The coffee table I made a year or two ago was intended to look like the dining room table I built a few years earlier, but in reality the two bear only a vague resemblance to each other. Open a drawer of my tool chest at random, and perhaps you’ll find a thematically-aligned collection of well-loved hand tools, meticulously cut into a nest of Kaizen foam, or...

Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco

Andrew Durham’s tender adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s book finds warmth, humour and heartbreak in an unconventional family unit shaped by love and lossFor anyone familiar with the Bay Area in the 1970s and 80s, this offers a glorious wallow in nostalgia, from the grainy archive footage of San Francisco Gay Freedom parades to the novelty of sushi at a book launch and the new wave hairstyles. But this film is not just about the set dressing and the costumes; at the story’s core is what was then...

Zorawar To TEJASTRA: PM Modi gets a look at India's next-gen arsenal

From a light tank built for the Himalayas and a battle-tested artillery gun deployed in Ladakh to laser weapons designed to counter drones, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Larsen & Toubro's Hazira facility offered a snapshot of India's rapidly expanding indigenous defence ecosystem. The showcase brought together some of the country's most ambitious military platforms and next-generation technologies, highlighting the growing role of the private sector in advancing the Atmanirbhar...