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Paul Dano narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould.
















A woman bagged the $300,000 (S$414,000) jackpot in the local lottery in Michigan, United States, thanks to her honest nephew who returned to her the winning ticket.
The winner, who was not named, told Michigan lottery officials that she bought the ticket when she visited her family elsewhere in the state.
When she got home, she got a message from her nephew saying that she left behind some tickets at his home. She then called him to scratch the tickets for her.
The Public Health Ministry is working to make the medical use of marijuana legal by next month.
Once Public Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn endorses the new announcement prepared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 9, cannabis extracts and oil will become legal for medical use, just like morphine.
"We will ask him to sign the announcement at the upcoming Narcotics Control Board's meeting," FDA secretary-general Tares Krassanairawiwong said yesterday.
With its cheap airfares, high frequency of flights and large number of destinations served, Lion Air has become the go-to airline for travellers in a hurry, despite the budget airline's spotty safety record.
And even after one of its aircraft plunged into the Java Sea on Monday, killing 189 people on board, travellers continue to stick with the budget carrier.
Luthfinnisa Sony Putri, who now lives in Yogyakarta, said she would stick with her plan of booking a Lion Air flight for her Idul Fitri holiday trip to South Solok regency in West Sumatra.
Lion Air Group founder Rusdi Kirana has apologised to the families of passengers and crew aboard Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed into the Java Sea, saying that he was "deeply shocked" by the tragedy.
Rusdi, who is the current Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia, visited the families of victims at Ibis Cawang Hotel in East Jakarta on Tuesday, a day after the plane went down en route from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in Bangka Belitung Islands on Monday morning.
NEW DELHI - An Indian court on Wednesday (Oct 31) sentenced 16 police officers to life imprisonment for rounding up and massacring dozens of unarmed Muslims during historic riots in the country's north decades ago.
The officers were found guilty of shooting 42 men and tossing their bodies into canals, in one of the bloodiest moments of violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus in 1987.
A lower court had acquitted the officers from a special branch of Uttar Pradesh's police force in 2015 over a lack of evidence.
SEOUL - South Korea's supreme court ruled on Thursday (Nov 1) that moral and religious beliefs are valid reasons to refuse the country's military service, in a case that has implications for hundreds of conscientious objectors.
"Conscientious objection is a valid reason" to refuse conscription, the court said in its ruling, Yonhap news agency reported.
Thursday's decision comes after the Constitutional Court's ruling in June that recognised for the first time the need for alternative service for conscientious objectors.
JAKARTA - A "ping" sound believed to be emitted by the black box of an Indonesian jet that crashed into the sea this week with 189 aboard is getting clearer, the deputy of a national transport safety committee said on Thursday (Nov 1).
Ground staff lost touch with flight JT610 of budget airline Lion Air 13 minutes after the Boeing 737 MAX 8 took off early on Monday from Jakarta, on its way to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. There were no survivors.
“How can a mother explain to her two young children that their father will never come home again?”
So said Helda Aprilia, 31, the wife of Ibnu Hantoro, a 33-year-old doctor who was among the 189 people on board Lion Air flight JT610 that crashed into the Java Sea on Monday morning. Their children are 4-year-old Farisa and 1-year-old Fatih
A policewoman who was photographed working in her station with her infant child sleeping on a table nearby has been allowed a transfer back to her parents' hometown, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Archana Jeyanth, 30, works in Uttar Pradesh, India, away from her parents and her husband in Agra.
When Archana could not find a babysitter a few days ago, she decided to bring the baby to the police station.
Images of the mother and baby went viral subsequently.
BANGKOK - A Chiang Mai man was arrested yesterday for offering sex services by his dogs to his clients.
Damrongpol Sanmuang, 52, was arrested at his house in Chiang Mai's Sarapee district on Wednesday afternoon, a day after Watchdog Thailand and livestock development officials filed a complaint against him with the district police station.
Daromgpol denied the charges but officials alleged that Damrongpol had sex with dogs and shot a video clip to post online to offer sex service with dogs with a fee.
Comedians Tretan Muslim and Coki Pardede have claimed to have received several death threats after uploading a video on the popular video sharing platform Youtube in which they cooked a pork dish.
JAKARTA - Police have identified the first victim of Monday's Lion Air crash: 24-year-old Jannatun Cintya Dewi, an Indonesian civil servant who was headed to Pangkal Pinang for work.
HANOI - A Vietnamese cybersecurity law that global technology companies and rights groups have warned could undermine development and stifle innovation, will protect the country from increasing cyber threats, the security ministry has said.
Legislators approved the law in June, overriding strong objections from companies like Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google, rights groups and Western governments including the United States.
Thailand is rolling out plans to legalise medical marijuana, an official told AFP Wednesday, as the country hopes to cash in on a multi-billion dollar industry with a product its supporters hail as some of the world's best.
Several nations have embraced the use of medicinal cannabis, including Canada, Australia, Israel, and more than half the states in the US.
But Thailand would be the first country in Asia to do so, tapping into a market that US-based Grand View Research has estimated could reach US$55.8 billion by 2025.
Shibuya's famed Halloween party got a little out of hand when revelers toppled a truck over and damaged it.
JAKARTA - Indonesia's Transport Minister removed on Wednesday (Oct 31) the technical director of Lion Air airlines and several of its technicians after the crash of one of its jets with 189 people on board, the Antara news agency reported.
"Today we will replace Lion's technical director with somebody else, along with engineers being in charge of and recommending the flight," Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said, according to Detik news.
It was not clear whether the removal was permanent or temporary.
SARDAR SAROVAR DAM, India - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (Oct 31) unveiled the world's biggest statue to mark the 143rd birth anniversary of Indian independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
"This is a project that we had thought about during the time I was the Chief Minister of Gujarat," Mr Modi said at the launch ceremony at the foot of the 182m-tall statue.
MANILA - Philippine rescue teams worked to free at least 30 people trapped under earth and rubble on Wednesday after a typhoon dumped heavy rainfall on a mountainous region, triggering floods and deadly landslides.
Soldiers and disaster agency personnel managed to pass through blocked roads to reach the remote area during the night in northern Mountain Province, where a building owned by the local highways department was engulfed by an avalanche of earth.
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have agreed to temporarily release the 19 Filipinos who were arrested during a raid at a Halloween party last Friday to the custody of the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday.
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Adnan Alonto said that Chief Prosecutor Khalid Al Hozaimi provided the names of the 19 women who are currently detained at the Al Nisa jail - not 17 as initially reported - and agreed to turn them over to the custody of the Embassy.
SEOUL - North Korea is preparing its Punggye-ri nuclear test site for international inspectors, the Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday (Oct 31), citing South Korea's spy agency.
While North Korea has stopped nuclear and missile tests in the past year, it did not allow international inspections of its dismantling of Punggye-ri in May, drawing criticism that the action was merely for show and could be reversed.

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