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Australian Federal Police say the airport employee told the 43-year-old man that he would not be permitted to fly after he turned aggressive while waiting to check in for a flight to Bali on February 25. 

In December 2020, the advocacy group together with six Malaysian women married to foreigners with children born outside the country had filed a constitutional challenge with the Kuala Lumpur High Court, seeking their children’s right to Malaysian citizenship.  They sought a court order for all relevant government agencies, including the National Registration Department, Immigration Department and Malaysian diplomatic missions to issue citizenship documents to children born abroad to Malaysian women married to foreigners.  On Sep 9, 2021, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled in their favour, declaring that Malaysian mothers have equal rights as Malaysian fathers to automatically confer citizenship…

Throughout China’s annual legislative meeting, the national leader Xi Jinping made clear that he wants nothing to hold back his plans for China to march past its rivals by becoming a technological superpower. Not the economic slowdown or heavy local government debt, nor a trade war with the United States.The meeting in Beijing, called the National People’s Congress, was once a stage for Communist Party leaders to make a show of public consultation. Congress delegates, although handpicked by the party, sometimes chided officials over problems like pollution. There were even rare flashes of discord among senior officials.Mr. Xi, though, has…

NASA is eliminating its chief scientist and other roles as part of efforts by the Trump administration to pare back staff at the agency’s Washington headquarters.The cuts affect about 20 employees at NASA, including Katherine Calvin, the chief scientist and a climate science expert. The last day of work for Dr. Calvin and the other staff members will be April 10.That could be a harbinger of deeper cuts to NASA’s science missions and a greater emphasis on human spaceflight, especially to Mars. During President Trump’s address to Congress last week, he said, “We are going to lead humanity into space…

A federal judge found on Monday that Elon Musk’s government-cutting unit is likely subject to public disclosure laws and must promptly turn over documents to a group that had sued for access to its internal emails.In his order, Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that the Department of Government Efficiency Mr. Musk leads had all the hallmarks of an agency that would typically be subject to laws like the Freedom of Information Act. He said Mr. Musk’s team appeared to be exercising “substantial authority over vast swathes of the federal…

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersGood morning. US stocks got taken out to the woodshed yesterday. The S&P 500 fell 2.7 per cent and the Nasdaq fell 4 per cent, its biggest one-day fall since 2022. A few things are clear. US growth and tariff policy are major concerns for investors at a moment when the country’s risk assets are very expensive. Inflation risks remain on the table. And the Trump…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and GramercyFinancial markets have witnessed a dramatic change that is overturning the consensus trades that dominated until early February of this year. Falls in US stocks and their under-performance relative to other countries reflect a remarkable turnaround in investors’ views about the economic outlook for America and Europe — and to a lesser extent China. What is less clear is whether the resulting mix of all this is favourable…

Maybe that was a true reflection of reality. Our dogs regularly romped through Prospect Park in Brooklyn, swapped germs with playmates and scarfed down rogue chicken bones, while our cats lived cosseted, indoor lives.Now I suspect that we may have missed signs of illness in our cats. I had worried that we were overreacting when we took Olive to the vet for seeming maybe, slightly, sort of not herself. In fact, she was critically ill.Indeed, cats are talented at masking their symptoms, which may also present differently from those in dogs, experts told me. Arthritic dogs often develop noticeable limps,…

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Jason Zinoman, who has been the comedy columnist for The New York Times since 2011, stumbled into his role by accident.“It was just dumb luck,” said Zinoman, then a freelance theater critic for The Times who had just published a book on his longtime passion, the modern horror film. “But in retrospect, it makes sense to me: There are a lot of theatrical elements to comedy. And there’s a really fine line between horror and comedy.”Now, nearly 15 years after being…

“The Bachelorette” alum DeAnna Pappas was arrested in February on battery charges against her ex-husband, Stephen Stagliano. Pappas was arrested on a misdemeanor charge on Feb. 27 in Santa Clarita, California and was released on $20,000 bond the same day. The arrest also stemmed from alleged alcohol consumption.Her court hearing is set for March 20. NEW YORK – AUGUST 29:  Former “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” contestant DeAnna Pappas and fiance Stephen Stagliano attend 46NYC’s Alex’s Lemonade Stand to raise funds and awareness for childhood cancer, at Merchants’ Gate, Central Park on August 29, 2010, in New York City.  (Photo by…