Malaysian Digest - Malaysia News and Current Affairs

PARIS: New French President Francois Hollande has chosen mostly moderates for his Cabinet, indicating an effort to build a broad coalition in the country, CNN reported.

NEW YORK: Apple is indeed planning to introduce an iPhone with a larger screen, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal, CNN reported.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's National Committee for Transportation Safety (KNKT) hope the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the ill-fated Sukhoi Superjet 100 which crashed in Gunung Salak, Bogor, West Java last week, killing all 45 onboard, can reveal how the plane had crashed.  

SAN ANTONIO: What started as two neighbors throwing eggs at each other's apartments ended with the death of an innocent man stabbed in the back.

WASHINGTON: An American brewery company has apologised for naming a beer after Hindu goddess "Kali" and said it is currently scrambling to rename the product amidst protest in the Indian parliament.

NEW YORK: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, is filing a countersuit for at least $1 million against the Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault, CNN reported.

Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on the secluded Easter Island than just the statue heads made famous in photographs.

WASHINGTON: David Beckham and his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates met President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, where the soccer stars were applauded for their Major League Soccer Cup win, San Francisco Chronicle reported.

NEW YORK: iPhone users beware! Security company Kaspersky Lab expects the iPhone and iPad to be infected by malware within the next year, Huffington Post reported.

PARIS: A presidential jet carrying newly inaugurated French President Francois Hollande was hit by lightning en route to Berlin and forced to turn back to Paris, but the Socialist was unharmed and took off again in another plane, a presidential source said, Huffington Post reported.

PARIS: François Hollande is due to take the oath of office as the new president of France on Tuesday, assuming residence of the Elysee Palace amid a period of financial turmoil across Europe, CNN reported.

NEW YORK: President Barack Obama touched on his recent announcement of support for same-sex marriage, saying at a New York City fundraising event Monday that he believes marriage equality "strengthens families.", CNN reported.