Oil Pulling Goes Viral in Southeast Asia, but Dentists See Little Value

Exit polls in Israel's first election since the October 7, 2023 attack show a dead heat between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, with record turnout and Arab lists poised as kingmakers.

Competitive eater Zermatt Neo opens his first restaurant, Over, on Tras Street on Oct 28, featuring an 8kg food challenge, local comfort food, and a Jett Barbecue collaboration.

Indonesia's surprise gas export cuts cover less than 2% of Singapore's daily demand, but the 2028 contract expirations and rising resource nationalism pose the real test for the city-state's energy strategy.

All 10 Singapore-based companies served notices under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act have acknowledged them, with most pledging cooperation as fires burn across Indonesian concessions.

A Yahoo News roundup contrasting celebrities born rich with those raised in poverty doubles as a readable case study on intergenerational wealth and social mobility, with clear parallels for ASEAN economies.

Intestinal permeability is real, but “leaky gut syndrome” is not a recognized diagnosis. Physicians explain what actually damages the gut lining and what the evidence supports.

Thailand's Cabinet has approved the Khlong Wang Tanot reservoir to feed its data centre boom, but protected forest, wild elephants and 654 villagers stand in the way.

Heating oil above $6 a gallon, up from $3.50 a year ago, is hurting Republicans in Maine, New Hampshire and Alaska Senate races on November 3, with voters blaming Trump's Iran war.

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz says Nathan Fielder's documentary left out documented lies to make a more compelling film, and why that matters for due diligence everywhere.

Mingus Reedus escaped conviction in the Olivia Cotter case with an ACD six days before trial. Court records show he was trying to wake her up after she passed out under the influence of drugs.

Kagiso Rabada dismissed Steve Smith as South Africa levelled the series in Gqeberha, setting up a Newlands decider steeped in the history of their 2018 rivalry and the Sandpapergate scandal.

Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA vaccine cut melanoma recurrence or death risk by 42% over two years, with implications for Southeast Asia's precision medicine ambitions.

Cottage cheese has returned to global food trends via TikTok and Hailey Bieber, but dietitians say the protein maths, and the sodium, deserve a closer look.

Rita Hayworth's two daughters, Rebecca Welles and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, took sharply different paths: one left fame behind, the other built an $86 million Alzheimer's advocacy machine.

President Prabowo Subianto accused MSCI of trying to intimidate Indonesia after the index provider's downgrade warning triggered a record stock market rout in Jakarta.

Maggie Sajak, daughter of former Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, is dating DWTS contestant Jackson Olson. A licensed attorney, she works on the show her father hosted for four decades.

Paiute tribes halted construction on NV Energy's $4.2 billion Greenlink West line in Nevada over burial site concerns, a governance case study for ASEAN grid planners.

Trump says he is open to unprecedented three-way talks with Xi and Putin at APEC in Shenzhen, with nuclear arms control on the agenda.

A two-year Yahoo News test of the 36-inch Blackstone griddle finds a versatile flat-top that replaces several appliances, with one catch: cold spots between burners.

<p>TikTok's American operation permanently suspended the advertising account for <em>Musk</em>, Alex Gibney's investigative documentary on Elon Musk, on Friday, October 17, 2026, before reversing the decision on Sunday night and calling the ban an error.

Insurance claim lines tied to ARFID rose 305% between 2018 and 2022, according to FAIR Health data reported by Yahoo News. The eating disorder, distinct from anorexia, is treatable with cognitive behavioural therapy.

The Telegraph reports Elon Musk personally proposed throttling Starlink in Ukraine, with Trump's agreement. The governance lessons for ASEAN's digital infrastructure are hard to ignore.

Winterizing strawberries too early cuts next season's yield. New guidance says dormancy signals, not calendar dates, should trigger covering beds and containers.

Women wait 54 hours on average to seek heart attack treatment versus 16 hours for men. The data behind the misdiagnosis gap, and what it means for ASEAN health systems and employers.

Don King, now in his 90s, is out of the spotlight but not the courtroom, with two active suits as of October 2026 and a $14 million Tyson settlement behind him.

Three children and one adult were killed when a 16-year-old opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, on October 16, 2026. The shooter also died.

The Taste of Home Test Kitchen cooked 21 dinners and gathered 245 data points comparing Napoleon and Weber grills, published by Yahoo News on 15 October 2026. Napoleon offers lifetime warranties and lower charcoal entry pricing; Weber counters with its iconic kettle design and parts availability.

Ken Paxton spent New Year's Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two DOJ fugitives, the Wall Street Journal reports, as his Senate bid absorbs $206.4 million in GOP spending.

<p>Wall squats cut blood pressure by up to 13.73 mm Hg in a new BMJ study, and ASEAN employers should take note of the cost-free intervention.</p>