Bank clerk murder: Police detain three men including boyfriend

Police have detained three men in connection with the murder of bank clerk, Rozana Mohd Yusak, who was stabbed 15 times in her rented house at Puncak Desa, Kepong on Dec 21.

The three men, aged between 19 and 20, included Rozana's boyfriend.
A police source said they were detained in separate raids in Pantai Dalam and Datuk Keramat yesterday.

Polls panel official's house robbed

Election Commission deputy secretary (elections) Datuk Noordin Che Ngah showing
 the window grille that was cut by the robbers to enter his
house in Taman Wilayah, Jinjang, yesterday.

Daughters locked in bathroom before robbers take gadgets, cash and car

ROBBERS broke into the house of an Election Commission senior officer and locked up his two daughters in a bathroom before ransacking the home and fleeing in his official car yesterday.

 Commission deputy secretary (elections) Datuk Noordin Che Ngah said he realised that a robbery had taken place only  when he woke up  at 5.30am and found his daughters, aged 15 and 28, locked in one of the bathrooms of their double-storey  house in Taman Wilayah, Jinjang, here.

Ambiga is FMT’s newsmaker of the year

Surprisingly 'people-savvy' Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak came in seventh after his wife Rosmah Mansor.

Bersih 2.0 hero S Ambiga was named FMT’s top newsmaker of the year after some 57% of its readers voted for her, drubbing more prominent figures like Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

This comes as no surprise, given the amount of headlines Ambiga, a former president of the Malaysian Bar Council, had accumulated throughout the year.

The year 2011 showered on Ambiga both positive and negative coverage, much of it due to her involvement in several rocking controversial events.

RM11m wasteful defence ‘consultancy’ fees

Zaid Ibrahim believes defence consultants are being used to channel corruption money gained from possible kickbacks.

Former law minister Zaid Ibrahim today demanded an explanation on the government’s need to hire consultants for defence procurement, particularly for the recent purchase of six patrol vessels (SGPVs).

Zaid, the Kita president, said as much as RM11.3 million were paid to several defence consultancy firms on the purchase in a transaction shrouded in secrecy at the expense of taxpayers money.

Zahid to explain RM11 million agents’ fees

The Defence Minister says he is ready to meet Zaid Ibrahim to get more information on the alleged kickbacks.

Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today said he will explain queries on the RM11 million “consultancy fees” paid to “agents” for the government’s recent purchase of six offshore patrol vessels (SPGVs).

Former Umno law minister and Kita president Zaid Ibrahim said last week that exorbitant amount of taxpayers’ money was spent unnecessarily on consultancy fees.

This, he had claimed, could be a way for corrupt officials to siphon kickbacks made from the RM9 billion purchase of the French made SPGVs, a transaction that he and other opposition leaders claimed was rife with controversy.

Do your homework, Pua tells Zahid

The DAP man bristles at the minister’s suggestion that he relied on a dubious source of information for his statement about the ballooning cost of warships for the navy.

 DAP publicity chief Tony Pua today fired back at Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for questioning the credibility of his statement about a 50% increase in the price of warships that the government has ordered for the navy.

He said Zahid should have done his homework before asking, in a mocking tone, how he learnt that the cost of acquiring the six littoral combatant ships from Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd had ballooned from RM6 billion to RM9 billion in less than a year.

Who are the Malays?

There are two theories as to their origins, one is they came from the Hoabinh area of Indochina and the other is they originated from South China.

To the general public, Syed Husin Ali is the former deputy president of PKR. To me, he will always be Prof Syed Husin Ali, the respectable bespectacled professor who I first encountered when I was an undergraduate in Universiti Malaya.

I never failed to make time to attend his public forum, seminars and talks. He was not my lecturer, but his ideas have definitely made an impact on my thought process.

Prof Syed’s book, ‘The Malays – Their Problem and Future’ was first launched in 1978. I can still remember the book which was green in colour – and I still have it with me. I found the book intriguing and very informative to understand the history of the Malays.

When they released a revision of the book in 2008, I was perhaps one of the first to go out to buy it and read it again.

It is very important that we understand the history and we agree to the historical foundation of this country. One of the most important historical foundations that we should not argue over is about who are the Malays and about this land that used to be called Tanah Melayu.

I find that there is a handful of Malaysians who seem adamant at insisting that this country was not sired from the Malay polity and that the Malays are not the legitimate natives of the land.

Google top US Web destination in 2011: Nielsen

WASHINGTON - Google was the most-visited Web destination in the United States in 2011, followed by Facebook and Yahoo!, industry tracker Nielsen said Thursday.

Google received an average of 153.4 million unique US visitors a month from home and work computers, according to Nielsen.

Facebook notched up 137.6 million unique US visitors a month and Yahoo! 130.1 million.

Man chains and confines children in toilet

Breaking free: The chains on the girl’s leg being removed at the house in Jalan Raja Uda

Police have detained a man for abusing his two children by chaining and confining them in the toilet of their home in Taman Mawar, Jalan Raja Uda, here.

Seberang Prai North police chief ACP Zulkifli Alias said Thursday that the man, in his 40s, tied his six-year-old daughter and two-year-old son with a metal chain when he went out to work at 3pm Wednesday.

The siblings were forced to starve for more than five hours after the father left the house.

Man wins Lamborghini, crashes it 6 hours later

A US truck driver who won a US$380,000 (RM1.2mil) Lamborghini in a convenience store contest crashed the sports car six hours after he got it, and now plans to sell the 640-horsepower convertible because he cannot afford the insurance or taxes.

Cops under fire for grilling cat

The policmen cooking the cat on an improvised barbecue

They are usually criticized for their grilling of suspects, but ten police officers from Dongguan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have come under fire after being seen barbecuing a cat in front of the city's public security bureau.

Members of the public told the local Southern Metropolis Daily that they saw smoke rising from among a crowd of police officers on the street and were surprised to see them cooking a cat on an improvised barbecue.

Man punches nurse for removing wife's veil

A Muslim man in France has been jailed after he punched a nurse who tried to remove his wife's veil during childbirth.

Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled from the delivery room for branding the midwife a 'rapist' as she carried out an intimate examination of his wife, the Daily Mail reported.

Woman steals beer carton by putting it up her skirt

An Indian woman eyes a 24-pack of beer, casually walks over, picks up the box,  lifts her dress and positions the case between her legs.

She then walks back to the man and child she was with before walking out of the camera’s view.

A video of the crime has been posted to YouTube.

To watch the video, go here.

It is not know if the shoplifter was caught, or where the crime took place.

RM6,000 to watch boss masturbate

A 21-year-old Malaysian woman was surprised when a man offered her a RM6,000 job as a personal assistant. A car and all-expenses paid shopping trips were also thrown in.

But what was more shocking was an unusual request by her boss - he wanted her to watch him masturbate.

Woman caught for khalwat with hubby's friend

A mother of three begged the religious authorities not to contact her husband when she was caught for khalwat (adultery) with his friend in Penang.

She told a religious officer that she would rather be locked up in jail than have her husband find out about her affair.

"I do not want my husband to know about this. He would be very upset with me," said the unidentified woman, who has been married for 29 years.

Afghan girl who refused to sell sex, rescued from toilet

Sahar Gul was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months
after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution

Afghan police have rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said Tuesday.

Sahar Gul, 15, was found in the basement of her husband's house in northeastern Baghlan province late on Monday after her parents reported her disappearance to the police.

"She was beaten, her fingernails were removed and her arm was broken," district police chief Fazel Rahman told AFP.

Wife charged with assaulting husband

Kamaliah Basir, 35, pleaded not guilty to a charge with hitting her husband,
48-year-old Zaihan Mohd Lani (right), with an office file nine months ago.

An Administrative and Diplomatic (PTD) officer pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate's Court here today to a charge with hitting her husband with an office file nine months ago.

Kamaliah Basir, 35, is charged with voluntarily causing hurt to Zaihan Md Lani, 48, by hitting him with an office file while in a car at the Persiaran Semarak Api and Persiaran Apec traffic light intersection, Cyberjaya, Sepang, here at 12.45pm last March 3.

She is charged under Section 323 of the Penal Code which provides imprisonment for up to a year or fine up to RM2,000 or both, if found guilty.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Aqeeb Lizalman requested that bail be set at RM2,000.

However, Sessions Court judge Zurina Mohamed Nor, who sat as Magistrate, set bail at RM1,800 and fixed Feb 9 for mention.

On a roll! The incredible tsunami of 'wave' clouds that had all eyes on the skies

All eyes were trained on the sky over Alabama last week as eerie wave clouds rolled over the state. 

The surreal event was captured on camera phones last Friday afternoon in Birmingham and is called a Kelvin–Helmholtz instability.

It normally occurs in regions with vast plains where winds quickly change speed creating turbulence.  A fast-moving, lighter density cloud slides on top of a slower, thicker layer, dragging out the surface and creating the wave effect. 

'Missing' student found in gay wedding

A Malaysian reported missing in Ireland, has been found - after he married a man in a grand gay wedding.

Ariff Alfian Rosli went to study medicine at University College Dublin in 2003 under a Petronas sponsorship programme.

He stopped all contact with his family in Malaysia three years ago.

His father Rosli Haron lodged missing person reports with the police, Wisma Putra, the Irish and Malaysian embassies in both countries.

Shower gel gels get nude and lathered up

A Chinese company hired three young ladies to appear totally naked to promote its shower gel products.

With just towels wrapped around their heads, the beauties lathered themselves up, rubbed themselves down and playfully squirted the audience with water.

At one point, male audience members were asked to help apply the gels to the young models nude bodies.

The marketing stunt was employed just once, after which the company realized that maybe it wasn’t appropriate.

Man with 2kg of cocaine in stomach

Haul ... man was caught with nearly £300,000 worth of cocaine in his belly

A BRITISH man has been caught trying to smuggle a two-kilo haul of cocaine out of Brazil — in his stomach.

The 44-year-old was arrested at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo as he attempted to catch a flight to Senegal, in West Africa.

X-rays of the man's belly showed 89 capsules of the class A drug — each weighing just under an ounce.

The man, whose name has not been released, was held as he tried to check-in when cops noticed irregularities on his passport.

Police Chief Jose Alonso said the man held a British and Nigerian passport and information on the two did not match.

The enormous stash of cocaine was removed from his stomach and intestines hours later in hospital after he was arrested last Thursday.

Police said the haul was worth £286,000 and was destined for sale in Europe.

The man could now face up to 15 years in prison for drug smuggling.

Facebook and Twitter get new look

The battle to be the king of the networking sites is about to step up a notch – with reigning champ Facebook and young contender Twitter launching re-designs.

As well as keeping ahead of each other, they know they must stay ahead of the chasing pack. The new-look Facebook will launch within two weeks but The Sun has had a sneak preview.

Meanwhile, the new version of Twitter went live yesterday. Here we profile the history of the rival sites and look at how they are evolving.

Game netball girls strip for calendar

Sporting ... Bristol University netball students strip off for calendar

A GAME netball team has stripped off to raise money for their club.

The ballsy Bristol University students posed in a series of saucy shots for a 2012 calendar.

The girls are hoping to net enough cash to fund their team for the next year.

And the sporting students' snaps have already proved hugely popular online after a Facebook group promoting the calendar, which is out tomorrow, received thousands of hits.

Fundraising officer Maddie McKenzie said: "The response we've had has been absolutely amazing."

Local women ranked top 5 most unfaithful

A recent survey has revealed Singaporean women as among the top five most unfaithful in the world.

The survey, by condom maker Durex, also reveals that Singaporeans now have twice the number of sex partners compared to four years ago.

Singaporean men are found to have an average of 16 sex partners, up from 8 in the old survey.

This is the same number as Hong Kong men, and the highest in Asia.

Singaporean women now have an average of 6 sex partners, up from 3 previously.