With urban walking gaining recent traction in Jakarta, here are our top five places for taking an idle stroll in the capital.

Saturday marked the UK's annual Record Store Day, created to support independent outlets, and vinyl enthusiasts were eager to get their hands on special reissues and new releases.

Rallying under the slogan "The Canaries have a limit", a collective of groups on the archipelago off northwest Africa are planning a slew of protests on Saturday.

Navicula and Endah N Rhesa joined the star-studded list of musicians who released a track featuring the sounds of nature to help generate conservation funding.

The Indonesian auteur has crafted himself a rich and remarkable filmography. His latest project, Siksa Kubur (Grave Torture), is a prayer of questions and restlessness.

Hong Kong gallery HomeArt snapped up the "Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser" ("Portrait of Miss Lieser"), which was commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist's family and painted by the symbolist master Klimt in 1917 shortly before he died.

The spaceship stopped sending readable data back to Earth on November 14, 2023, even though controllers could tell it was still receiving their commands.

The tissue box-sized aircraft made history by achieving the first powered flight on another planet after hitching a ride under the belly of the Perseverance rover, which first lifted off the surface on April 19, 2021.

The black hole, named Gaia BH3, was discovered "by chance" from data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, an astronomer from the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Observatoire de Paris, Pasquale Panuzzo, told AFP.

The Clipper spacecraft is due to blast off in October bound for Europa, one of dozens of moons orbiting the Solar System's biggest planet, and the nearest spot in our celestial neighborhood that could offer a perch for life.

Muylaert -- a strapping, bespectacled civil rights lawyer from Brasilia -- was in line at the 2022 Comic-Con convention in Sao Paulo when a stranger surreptitiously shot a cell phone video of him, amazed at his resemblance to "Superman" film star Christopher Reeve.

"Gaumont is developing a series titled 'Brigitte, A Free Woman' in six episodes of 45 minutes," they said, adding it was still in very early stages.

Altman, who became the face of the global AI frenzy when his company released ChatGPT in 2022, cracked the magazine's list of billionaires in the 2,692nd position.

Parents often worry about the harmful impacts of video games on their children, from mental health and social problems to missing out on exercise. But a large new United States study published in JAMA Network Open on Monday indicates there may also be cognitive benefits associated with the popular pastime.

In 2022, about one in five adults around the world were smokers or consumed other tobacco products, compared to one in every three in 2000, the UN health agency said.

US-based companies Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics welcomed the approval in a separate statement.

The checks threaten to cause a headache for global brands after recent inflationary pressure hit consumption of burgers and pizzas that are pricey for many Indian consumers.

"Until August," the final book by the Nobel prize winning giant of Latin American "magical realism," is being released in its original Spanish as "En agosto nos vemos" on March 6, and in English later this month.

In marking International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, why not spend the weekend celebrating the strong women and girls around you? Not because we told you to, but because they deserve love, appreciation and empowerment.

While the researchers suspect the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus killed the penguins, the field tests were inconclusive. Samples are being shipped off to labs that the researchers hope will provide answers in coming months.

At the time of the signing, Hyundai said it expected to procure aluminium from Adaro that meets the automaker's carbon neutralization policy amid growing demand for aluminium among global automakers.

Photograph inventory allows scientists to track the movement of specific whales, which is crucial for conservation initiatives. 

In 2022, at least 16 environmentalists were killed in Asia, including 11 in the Philippines and three in Indonesia.