THE country's military placed a substantially larger purchase of body bags than normal around the time when now-suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law on Dec 3 last year, a local media outlet and a lawmaker said, fuelling suspicions on whether the military anticipated a large number of potential deaths.
OSAKA, (Japan): The Osaka prefectural police announced Friday (March 21) that the mutilated remains of a man were found in shrubbery along a walking trail in Fukushima Ward, Osaka.
SHARG ELNIL, Sudan (Reuters) - In a part of Sudan recaptured by the army just weeks ago after nearly two years under the control of paramilitary fighters, Red Crescent volunteers in hazmat suits and masks pulled bodies out of a well and put them in black bags as residents looked on.
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Bodies, clothes and bags lay scattered on the ground after a deadly stampede at the world's largest gathering of humanity, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, on one of the most auspicious days in Hinduism.
MADRID: A famous Spanish actor's son, jailed for life in Thailand for the grisly murder of a Colombian plastic surgeon on the tourist island of Koh Phangan, has appealed his sentence, his lawyers said Thursday (March 27).
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (March 20, 2025)
From timeless yet ultra-contemporary, to relaxed, cool or chic, there will always be one bag out there that can suit your needs – or tastes.
SINGAPORE: Megan Khung was four years old when she died after suffering more than a year of humiliating physical and emotional abuse inflicted by her mother and the woman's boyfriend.
A MAN in India killed his wife, cut up her body into eight parts and stuffed them into luggage bags before dumping them in a jungle, Malaysia Nanban reported.
South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld an eight-year prison term for a woman who killed her two newborn babies and hid their bodies in her refrigerator.
SEOUL: South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld an eight-year prison term for a woman who killed her two newborn babies and hid their bodies in her refrigerator.
Affordability is at the heart of Paris Hilton's lifestyle brand for department store Walmart, where she recently introduced a line of fashionable handbags.
SEOUL: South Korea's prosecution is facing a dilemma over the high-profile luxury Dior bag case involving first lady Kim Keon Hee, as the investigation review committee for the nation's top prosecution body gave the upper hand to the pastor who wishes to be indicted in the graft case in hopes of bringing the first lady to the court.
A MAN made a grisly discovery at a bus stop in Kulai on Wednesday (April 12). Is it true that he found a woman's body in a bag?
CILVEGOZU, Turkey (Reuters) - They arrived at the border in taxis, run-down vans and in piles atop flatbed trucks: black body bags carrying Syrian refugees killed by the earthquake in Turkey, now being taken to final resting places in their war-ravaged homeland.
The Hong Kong-American diva posted a picture of what looked like a drainage bag on her body, sparking concern about her health.
KOTA BHARU: The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) has arrested an undocumented migrant along with three packets of ketum drink and a parang at the Malaysia-Thailand border.
(Reuters) -There were 773 bodies in hospital morgues in and around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as of Jan. 30 following this week's offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, the Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry said on Saturday.
ABUJA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- At least 80 deaths have been reported across 11 states in Nigeria amid the latest outbreak of Lassa fever, public health authorities said.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- California had distributed 5,000 newly purchased body bags and 60 53-foot refrigerated storage units on standby in counties and at hospitals, the state's governor Gavin Newsom disclosed at a COVID-19 briefing Tuesday.