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1. Yemen family eats tree leaves as aid dies out

   With no food aid, 65-year-old Saeedah Mohammed heads out with a plastic bag to pick tree leaves near her displacement camp in southern Yemen, before serving them to her grandchildren to stave off hunger. Behind the camp wooded hills stretch under a clear sky, while on the ground, yellowed and stony earth is strewn with rubbish. Amid the trash and destitution, daily life manages to organise...

2. Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying lifts off into space on Shenzhou-23 mission

   China’s latest space mission, which includes Hong Kong’s first astronaut, lifted off on Sunday night. The Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China’s Gansu province at 11.08pm local time on Sunday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The rocket left the launchpad with a deafening blast and sent...

3. Hongkongers praise astronaut Lai Ka-ying at send-off ceremony in Jiuquan

   Hongkongers gathered to witness the historic launch of the Shenzhou-23 mission hailed the city’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, as an “immense encouragement” as they watched the send-off ceremony for the crew in Jiuquan on Sunday night. Astronauts Lai, Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan were met with cheers at the Wentian Pavilion in Dongfeng Aerospace City in Gansu province in mainland China before...

4. Trump medical examination renews health scrutiny as 80th birthday nears

   President Donald Trump’s upcoming medical examination is intensifying health-related scrutiny that has surrounded him ever since his first campaign for the nation’s highest office more than a decade ago. Trump on Tuesday is heading to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre for his fourth publicly disclosed doctor’s appointment since the start of his second term. The White House has offered...

5. Why Hainan holds the key to survival for China’s aircraft carriers

   The PLA Navy’s aircraft carrier base in Hainan could prove vital to the fleet’s survivability and crucial in countering US containment along the first island chain in wartime, according to a prominent mainland Chinese magazine. Such a posture could also support efforts to impose a maritime blockade around Taiwan in the event of a conflict, Defence Review reported this month. China now operates...

6. Hong Kong police investigate suspected cat mutilation and poisoning

   Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after a Hung Hom shop cat was found with its tail nearly severed and its lips turning purple before dying at a veterinary clinic on Sunday afternoon. A 39-year-old woman, who operates a funeral services shop on Lo Lung Hang Street, reported to police at 3.30pm that her two-year-old cat appeared to have been injured and poisoned. She rushed the male...

7. DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut

   Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek’s latest flagship model has been ranked as one of the world’s best on an intelligence-per-dollar basis, far exceeding those from US heavyweights OpenAI and Anthropic in cost-efficiency after a 75 per cent promotional price cut was made permanent. The Hangzhou-based start-up announced the permanent price cut for its V4 Pro model on Saturday, a...

8. Can China’s AI-powered food monitoring avoid US military-style meal complaints?

   Images of sparse meals aboard naval vessels deployed in the United States’ war on Iran are a reminder that keeping military forces supplied with adequate food has been a problem for thousands of years. The photos came to light after a crew member from the USS Abraham Lincoln shared them with family in the US, sparking a dispute between personnel, their families and the Pentagon, along with...

9. Hong Kong school ordered to explain after principal swears on Singapore trip

   Hong Kong’s education authorities have demanded a written report from a secondary school after a video went viral that apparently shows its principal swearing at security guards during a school trip to Singapore. The Education Bureau expressed its concerns over the case on Sunday, saying it had approached the school and its sponsoring body and would remain in close contact to provide...

10. Temperatures to reach as high as 33 degrees for 4 straight days this week

    This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hongkongers are set for a scorching week ahead, with the forecaster predicting temperatures will climb as high as 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 Fahrenheit) on four days in a row, which may trigger the first very hot weather warning of the year. The Observatory...