Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl for allegedly trying to kill her mother in a plot believed to have been hatched by her fathers 25-year-old second wife, who has also been detained.

Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.

A woman in her 20s, believed to be from either the Middle East or Eastern Europe, fell to her death from a high-end condominium in Jalan Bukit Gambir here.

Officials say they have confiscated 75 tons of an explosive material being shipped from Malaysia to Indonesia and are investigating possible links to terrorism.

The use of contaminated fish to make crackers, a favourite snack in the state, has been identified as among the sources of cholera outbreak Terengganu, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said.

There was much fun with children and pretty women whacking each other with pillows but no record was in sight at the Worlds Largest Pillow Fight.

Felda, which is known for its vast palm oil and rubber development programmes, is now looking to the sea in its new venture.

storm is brewing at Malaccas centuries-old Chitty Village in Gajah Berang following plans for a high-rise development project next to the protected heritage site.

A second wave of floods has hit Terengganu with water rising in most of the main rivers and a few having exceeded the warning level this morning.

Teoh Beng Hocks body was exhumed on Saturday for a second autopsy at Sg Buloh Hospital following an order by the Coroners Court that held an inquest into his death.

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will be the first nation in the world to own the Amphibious Sealegs a high-tech boat functional both in water and on land if the purchase receives the green light from the Government.

ALOR SETAR: Although flood had subsided over the last couple of days, rice farmers here are facing a new threat from the golden apple snails, locally known as siput gondang emas .

KUALA LUMPUR: It is the Go- vernments key objective to make every Malaysian understand that the countrys diversity is a blessing and a basis for racial unity.

KUALA LUMPUR: Holding a fresh election for the MCA was one of the issues discussed when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak held separate meetings with the two rival groups in the party.

PEKAN: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has put forward a conflict-resolution proposal to MCA with high hopes of ending the leadership crisis.

The Star is among Malay- sias Most Valuable Brands (MMVB) for the third consecutive year.

AN alliance of Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) established last year will focus on helping the community develop, Tamil Nesan reported.

SERI ISKANDAR: Three siblings were among four people nabbed in connection with a spate of house break-ins here recently.

HONG KONG superstar Andy Lau (pic) went to see a psychiatrist after he came to know that the father of a fan had committed suicide, China Press reported.

NUR IZZATI AZAHAR scored 5As in the UPSR but she was not allowed to collect her result slip because she had not settled her school fees amounting to RM57, reported Utusan Malaysia .