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Authorities are searching for a Bering Air passenger plane with 10 people on board that was reported missing while en route from Unalakleet to Nome, Alaska's Department of Public Safety said on Thursday (Feb 6).

The small turboprop Cessna Caravan plane had nine passengers and one pilot on board, the agency said on its website, adding that crews were working to get its last-known coordinates.

Many villages are not connected by roads and small planes are used to transport people and goods.

Bering Air is an Alaska-based regional airline that operates around 39 planes and helicopters, according to data from flight tracking website FlightRadar24.

DHAKA — Bangladesh has asked India to stop ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from making "false and fabricated" comments while she is in the country, its foreign ministry said.

India to immediately take appropriate measures, in the spirit of mutual respect and understanding, to stop her from making such false, fabricated and incendiary statements.

Although India did not comment on the communication received from Bangladesh, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal condemned the destruction of Rahman's home as an "act of vandalism".

India and Bangladesh, which share a 4,000 kilometre border and maritime boundaries in the Bay of Bengal, have longstanding cultural and business ties.

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel and Arab states in mid-February, a State Department official said, making his first trip to the Middle East after a widely condemned proposal by President Donald Trump to displace Palestinians in Gaza.

Rights groups have condemned Trump's suggestion that Palestinians in Gaza should be permanently displaced as part of a US takeover of the enclave.

Rubio said on Wednesday that Palestinians in the enclave will have to relocate in the "interim" while it is rebuilt following the Israel-Gaza war.

President Trump and Marco Rubio believe that that's not the case, that things can change," the official said.

British pop-rock band Coldplay released their music video for new song Man in the Moon today (Feb 7), and it was revealed to have been filmed entirely in Singapore.

Man in the Moon is part of Coldplay's 10th studio album, Moon Music, released in October 2024.

The music video — filmed sometime in between the band's six Singapore concerts last January — was done in collaboration with Warner Music Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).

Coldplay said in a statement: "While we were in Singapore, we shot the video and captured some of the amazing, young, vibrant people whom we had met.

Former transport minister S Iswaran has been placed on home detention as of Friday (Feb 7).

Iswaran will serve the remaining eight months of his one-year sentence at home under specific conditions.

In 2024, about 44 per cent of the inmates eligible for home detention were placed on the scheme, SPS added.

Iswaran resigned from office in January 2024 and made a voluntary disgorgement — the giving up of illegally obtained goods — amounting to $380,305.95.

DJ Koo also shared plans for Barbie's assets distribution.

Barbie is said to have left at least NT$650 million ($26.7 million) worth of assets to DJ Koo and her two children, son Hsi-lin, seven, and daughter Hsi-yueh, nine, according to Taiwanese reports.

DJ Koo also took the opportunity to slam those who continued to slander her family during this period.

DJ Koo wrote in his post: "At this time, I can't help but think there are really evil people in this world.

"Everybody has a dream - to pursue our dreams, we must win," said Keith Yeo, one of the many Toto Hong Bao Draw hopefuls this year.

Yeo, 46, was queuing outside Tong Aik Huat, a popular Singapore Pools retailer in Hougang, when interviewed by AsiaOne on Friday (Feb 7) morning.

"Buying 4D is to change your life for the week, buying toto is to change your life forever," he joked.

This year's Toto Hong Bao Draw will take place at 9.30pm on Friday at the Singapore Pools Building at Middle Road.

LONDON — The world's leading central bank umbrella group, the Bank for International Settlements, has delivered its first public warning about the risks posed by US President Donald Trump's trade war and deregulation plans.

"Such pervasive policy uncertainty will affect central banks in several ways," Carstens, who was previously governor of the Bank of Mexico, said in a speech delivered in Mexico City.

The BIS is a forum for the world's top central banks, helping to manage their foreign exchange reserves and it also hosts the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.

"Should this continue, we could see greater variability in (central bank) policy settings, with flow-on effects to capital flows, exchange rates and global financial conditions."

It might come even closer in the future, with scientists estimating a one-in-2,700 chance of a collision with Earth in September 2182.

Dai said the potential death toll "mainly depends on where the asteroid impact occurs.".

Scientists know a great deal about Bennu, considered a "rubble pile" asteroid - a loose amalgamation of rocky material rather than a solid object.

"The likelihood that a Bennu-sized asteroid will strike Earth is quite small at 0.037 per cent.

In such moments, the operations executive turned to the cash payouts and CDC vouchers disseminated by the government as part of Budget 2024.

Lee hopes that the government will continue to provide such support measures during Budget 2025 to alleviate the cost of living issues many Singaporeans face.

In fact, CDC vouchers as well as the Cost of Living special payment and Assurance Package cash were the top three cost of living support measures from Budget 2024 which respondents of a survey conducted by AsiaOne looked forward to seeing in Budget 2025.

When asked what the government’s top three priorities for Budget 2025 should be, 65 per cent of respondents selected support for cost of living.