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Ten people were taken to the hospital after an accident between a lorry and a trailer on the Kranji Expressway (KJE).

Dashcam footage of the incident uploaded to the SG Road Vigilante Facebook page on Tuesday (March 10) shows a lorry with passengers in the back failing to stop in time before rear ending a trailer.

The impact of the collision causes the back of the lorry to tilt upwards, resulting in the passengers flying forward.

In response to AsiaOne's queries, the police said that they were alerted to the incident along KJE towards Tuas, before Choa Chu Kang Drive at around 6pm.

EL CAJON, California — The bishop of a small Chaldean Catholic community in the San Diego area has resigned amid charges that he embezzled US$270,000 (S$343,300) from his parish, Pope Leo XIV announced Tuesday (March 10).

Bishop Emanuel Shaleta pleaded not guilty on Monday to 16 felony charges, including money laundering, during a hearing attended by many of his supporters.

The hearing followed his arrest Thursday at San Diego International Airport as he was trying to leave the country, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office.

Shaleta, 69, is accused of embezzling from the St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, east of San Diego.

Barely hours after the first Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) A330 multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft landed in Singapore with 218 Singaporeans and their dependents , the Singapore government has announced that it will conduct a second evacuation flight from Saudi Arabia.

In a joint press statement on Wednesday (March 11) afternoon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said that the government will deploy an RSAF A330 MRTT for a second flight to assist the departure of Singaporeans from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

The evacuation flight will take place on March 12.

MFA and Mindef added that the MRTT is deployed solely to support the assisted departure operations.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his teenage daughter observed tests of strategic cruise missiles fired from a warship, state media reported Wednesday (March 11), as North Korea threatened responses to US-South Korean military drills.

Images sent by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) showed the two in a conference room looking at a screen showing weapons being fired from the Choe Hyon, a year-old naval destroyer.

Kim Jong-un watched the missiles launches via video on Tuesday and underscored the need to maintain "a powerful and reliable nuclear war deterrent", KCNA reported in a dispatch that did not mention his daughter.

The girl, reportedly named Kim Ju-ae and about 13, has accompanied her father at numerous prominent events including military parades and weapons launches since late 2022.

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers uncovered more than 3,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes during checks at Tuas Checkpoint on Feb 26, after calling the bluff on the driver of a Malaysia-registered lorry.

In a post on its social media on Tuesday (March 10), ICA said the lorry, driven by a 32-year-old Malaysian man, was carrying a consignment of goods declared as "mixed parcels".

"Mixed parcels" refer to shipments containing a variety of different items with the same storage or transportation requirements. This approach is said to optimise shipping and reduce costs for bulk items.

In this instance, the truck was directed for enhanced checks, where search and examination officers from ICA found more than 3,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes hidden within the consignment.

Ellie Goulding has welcomed a daughter with her actor boyfriend Beau Minniear.

The 38-year-old pop star — who also has son Arthur, four, from her marriage to Caspar Jopling — revealed she became a mother for a second time on Friday (March 6) when she gave birth to a little girl at a hospital in London.

In a post on Instagram, Ellie wrote: "On Friday I gave birth to a beautiful health baby girl. We are totally obsessed with her.

"It was fitting that I spent International Women's Day with her and the incredible female team at St Mary's, who provided me and my baby with extraordinary care and kindness. I will always be in awe of midwives.

MEXICO CITY — His face and body resemble those of a newborn. Yet the Baby Jesus statue towers five metres tall and travels across central Mexico spreading a message of peace.

The giant figure arrived this week in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood, known for its bustling street markets and strong local identity, but also for longstanding crime problems.

Prayers, offerings and a Mass followed.

"The Baby Jesus means everything to me and my family because we are very Catholic," said Guillermo Ramírez, a local resident who coordinated logistics for the statue's visit.

SALLA, Finland — Traditional reindeer racing that's been delighting spectators for decades in Finland brought hundreds of fans to the Salla Reindeer Cup in the town of Salla this past weekend.

Around 1,000 people attended the competition, despite frigid subfreezing temperatures and the remote location near the Russian border, roughly 264km northeast of the city of Oulu.

They watched and cheered as the reindeer galloped across the snow-covered track, pulling their handlers behind them on skis. Whoever is fastest wins the race.

Spectators came not only from Finland but also Italy, Norway, Germany and France, among other countries.

PARIS — Louis Vuitton's Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.

On Tuesday (March 10) he closed out a starry Paris Fashion Week with folklore treated as high fashion — capes, cowbells, shearling caps and walking sticks draped with handbags.

Ghesquière called the collection Super Nature and said he wanted to find what mountain people from the Alps to Central Asia to the Andes all have in common: Clothes shaped by weather, altitude and the need to keep moving.

Zendaya, Ana de Armas, Jennifer Connelly and Jaden Smith sat in the front row.

A 23-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly attempted suicide at an undergraduate housing facility at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Tuesday (March 10).

The incident happened at about 6.35pm at 38 Nanyang Crescent.

On a Reddit discussion thread, users said they saw at least two police cars, an ambulance and campus security vehicles at Saraca Hall.

AsiaOne understands that the 23-year-old was unsuccessful in his attempt but sustained minor injuries.