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1. Court orders Bill Cosby to pay US$19 million to 84-year-old woman over sex abuse claim

   A woman who said she was drugged and sexually assaulted by veteran US entertainer Bill Cosby was awarded more than US$19 million on Monday after a civil hearing in California. Donna Motsinger said she was working as a waitress more than 50 years ago when the performer began to target her. The hearing in Santa Monica was told how the comedian had initially come into the restaurant where the now...

2. Trump approved Iran operation ‘after Netanyahu argued for joint killing of Khamenei’

   Less than 48 hours before the US-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin ⁠Netanyahu spoke by phone to US President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war the American leader once had campaigned against. Both ⁠Trump and Netanyahu knew from intelligence briefings earlier in the week that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his key...

3. Dozens of soldiers feared dead after Colombian military plane crashes on take-off

   A Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country’s southern Amazon region on Monday, the air force said, and military sources said 71 people on board have been rescued. Colombian Air Force Commander Fernando Silva said in ‌a video posted on social media that the plane was carrying 114 passengers and 11 crew members, and that authorities were still...

4. Reclusive OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dead at 43

   Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire who acquired adult content platform OnlyFans and transformed it into a multibillion-dollar empire, has died of cancer aged 43, the company announced on Monday. “We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky. Leo passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer,” an OnlyFans spokesperson said. “His family have requested privacy at...

5. UK sending air defence systems to Gulf to help counter Iranian missile attacks: Starmer

   Britain is sending short-range air defence systems to the Gulf to help counter Iranian missile attacks, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. “We’re deploying short-range air defence systems to Bahrain at speed,” Starmer told a parliamentary committee, adding the UK was “doing the same with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia”. The UK is working with industry to “distribute air defence missiles to...

6. Italian voters reject judicial reform in a setback for PM Giorgia Meloni

   Italian voters on Monday rejected a judicial reform backed by conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, delivering a stinging setback to the right-wing government one year ahead of national elections. “Italian voters have decided and we respect their decision,” Meloni said in a video posted on Instagram. She pledged to complete her mandate, which runs into 2027. The “No” camp won around 54 per...

7. A Living Tradition: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in Hong Kong

   [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] For centuries, Leipzig has been a city where music mattered. Johann Sebastian Bach spent the last 27 years of his life there as the city’s music director. Richard Wagner was born there. Felix Mendelssohn conducted there and founded Germany’s first conservatory. The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig – the world’s oldest...

8. Iran built a camera network to control dissent, Israel made it a targeting tool

   The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in wartime. Hundreds of millions of cameras have been installed above shops, in homes and on street corners across the world, many connected to the internet and poorly secured. Recent advances in artificial...

9. What if US ground forces march into Iran? Chinese experts weigh the risks

   Potential US ground operations against Iran might constrain Tehran, but the prospects for reopening the Strait of Hormuz were “highly uncertain”, Chinese analysts said. They also cautioned that any such escalation was likely to result in heavy casualties, with one of them saying Iran “might even welcome” such close combat. US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a five-day halt to military...

10. Hong Kong raises Iran, Israel travel alerts to black, expands amber warning

    The Hong Kong government has raised the outbound travel alert for Iran and Israel to black, and expanded the amber alert to include Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The government on Monday announced the escalation “in view of the continued deterioration of the situation in the Middle East region.” “The black [outbound travel alert] signifies severe...