Top 5 news: December 16

The National team's failure to get past the group stages of the AFF Suzuki Cup in Myanmar last month is a clear signal that holistic changes must take place in the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).

Former international Datuk Santokh Singh in expressing his disappointment at the team's failure in the AFF Suzuki Cup said the time has come for a total change in the governing body for football in the country.

The future of the Kelantan Football Association (KAFA) is in limbo as no decision was made in the discussion over the direction of the squad at a special meeting held here tonight.

KAFA acting president, Datuk Seri Affandi Hamzah said due to shortage of fund, The Red Warriors squad had resorted to withdraw from playing at the next season's championship.

Govt to create innovation and creativity guide index to achieve TN50 - PM

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the government will create a creativity and innovation index as a guide to achieve National Transformation 2050 (TN50). He said the index would become one of the thrusts to empower Malaysia as one of the top 20 nations in the world in the long term.

Explosive traces found on EgyptAir 804 victims

Traces of explosives have been found on victims' remains from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May killing all 66 people on board, the aviation ministry announced Thursday.

An official investigative committee which made the discovery has referred the case to Egypt's state prosecution, it added in a statement.

The White House on Thursday pointed to Russian President Vladimir Putin's direct involvement in cyber attacks designed to impact the US election, dramatically upping the stakes in a dispute between the world's leading nuclear powers.