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A plush doll has taken the Internet by storm, and it is now fetching six-figure prices. We are talking about the trending Labubu dolls, available as figures, plushies and blind boxes, and now considered a full-blown fashion craze. Love them or not, these toothy, mischievous, grinning creatures have sparked massive demand with long queues outside toy stores, sellouts within minutes and resale prices soaring to two or three times the original. The result? The sales have made Wang Ning, founder of toy maker Pop Mart International Group, a top ten billionaire in China. As the Labubu dolls fly off the shelves in Asia, Europe, and the US, Wang Ning is now the 10th richest man in China and also...

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has crowned Argentine superstar Lionel Messi as the best player in football history while placing Cristiano Ronaldo in the top five on the list. The recently released list put Messi at the top, followed by legends Pele and Diego Maradona above Ronaldo. Johan Cruyff rounds out the top five. The next five positions are held by Ronaldo Nazario, Zinedine Zidane, Franz Beckenbauer, Alfredo Di Stefano and Ronaldinho. Lionel Messi, one of the most decorated football players worldwide, made a surprising move to Major League Soccer's (MLS) Inter Miami CF, co-owned by David Beckham, earlier this year. He...

A fight outside a condominium in Malaysia between an MMA fighter and a security guard went viral recently. Posted across social media, the video showed an argument which escalated into a brawl. The fighter, in a pink singlet, finished the bout with a convincing knockout. 22-year-old amateur MMA fighter Tony Lim spoke to MS News about the incident, which reportedly took place last Thursday (10 July) night. Security guard allegedly assaulted another resident previouslyAccording to Mr Lim, the guard was a member of the security team at his condo in Selangor, Malaysia. Mr Lim alleged that the security guard had physically assaulted another resident a few days before their fight. The guard...

In a peculiar turn of events that has both amused and alarmed social media users, a seemingly harmless mosquito turned out to be the unlikely cause behind the destruction of a high-end smart TV worth several lakhs. (The man destroyed his high-end TV swatting a mosquito with a badminton racket. (Source: Instagram/@bhala_studios) The incident unfolded in the living room of a young man’s home, where his son was peacefully watching cartoons. As the child remained engrossed in his favourite show, a mosquito buzzed into the room and landed squarely on the television screen. Irritated by its presence and lacking any mosquito repellent at hand, the father decided to take matters into...

Have you ever found money on the street? Well, this story is going to fascinate you then. It’s not money, but it’s something better. A man in France realized that his land held not just a treasure, but a gold mine (literally). He went out for his daily walk along the stream on his property, and suddenly something sparkled in the damp soil. He bent down, brushed it with his hand, and there it was: gold. Pure, shiny gold. But what seemed like the discovery of a lifetime turned into a bitter story just days later. Because in France, what’s under the ground… isn’t yours. It belongs to the State. A million-dollar discovery but… This is what happened to...

More than 1.5 million eligible Singaporean adults will receive up to $850 cash via the GST Voucher scheme, and about 690,000 seniors will receive up to $450 in MediSave top-ups in August. They will receive $850 in cash if they are 21 or older in 2025, have an assessable income of up to $39,000 in the latest assessment year, and own at most one property whose annual value is up to $21,000 in 2024. Those who meet this same age and income criteria but whose property’s annual value is over $21,000 but no more than $31,000 will get $450 instead. Singaporeans who own more than one property are not eligible for the payout. Eligible recipients will automatically receive their payments via...

A 33-year-old project manager from Selangor has struck gold by winning the RM14.6mil Power Toto 6/55 Jackpot on July 6. He attributed his win to a set of numbers inspired by his and his girlfriend’s MyKad numbers. The lucky winner revealed that he had been faithfully using the same set of numbers — 4, 8, 11, 18, 20, and 29 — for the past three years, ever since he began dating his girlfriend. "I always play Lotto games with this winning set of numbers and would buy 8 draws in advance," STM Lottery quoted him as saying on Thursday (July 10). He added that combining both of their MyKad numbers made the win feel "even more surreal," highlighting the sentimental value...

ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး အစိုးရအဖွဲ့၏ ကြီးကြပ်မှုဖြင့် ရိုးမရိပ်သာ တန်ဖိုးနည်းအိမ်ရာမှ အခန်းများ ရောင်းချပေးရန် စီစဉ်လျက်ရှိရာ အိမ်ခန်းဝယ်ယူရန် တင်ပြထားသော လျှောက်လွှာများကို အိမ်ရာရောင်းချရေး ကော်မတီက စိစစ်ခဲ့သည်။ ထိုသို့ စိစစ်ရာတွင်...

A 33-year-old Japanese man has been raising eyebrows because of his radical change in appearance after making drastic lifestyle changes and turning to cosmetic enhancements. Aki, who goes by @Aki_fit on X (Twitter), was recently featured on a popular show by Japanese online television network ABEMA, where he spoke about the shocking physical transformation that made him somewhat of an anti-aging guru on social media. The 33-year-old man said that everything started 10 years ago, after his boss at the time ridiculed him for looking much older than his age and going bald. His girlfriend broke up with him soon after that, so he was in a real dark place, but instead of wallowing in...

Talk about proud parenting! A Japanese dad is making major headlines after blowing a whopping $700,000 (100 million yen) on ads featuring his young son all over Tokyo’s Adachi district. The kid, lovingly nicknamed “The Landmark Kid”, is now a full-blown neighborhood icon. From footbridges to buses, even convenience stores, Yu-kun’s adorable face is impossible to miss. The boy’s wild, funny, and sometimes downright embarrassing expressions are plastered everywhere. One hilarious ad shows him bawling his eyes out after a street performer startled him. That crying-face photo is now a 6-foot-tall billboard outside a subway station. Locals love him, tourists...