Mild tremors were felt in Kolkata on Friday after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Bangladesh's Ghorashal area.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has agreed to work on the 28-point peace plan drafted by the US and Russia, which proposes to force Kyiv to cede large chunks of territory taken by Moscow.

The White House on Thursday defended President Donald Trump after he called a female reporter "piggy" as she questioned him about Jeffrey Epstein, saying the president's remarks reflected his frankness and transparency.

A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) uncovered a major Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip where the body of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was held by the terror group recently.

When the gates of an aid site in Gaza creaked open shortly after dawn, a thin line of men and women waited silently behind coils of fencing. Some held plastic bowls, others documents issued by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

In its biggest immigration shake-up in nearly half a century, the United Kingdom is planning to make some legal migrants wait up to 20 years before letting them apply to settle in Britain permanently.

The United States is not taking part in this weekend's G20 summit in Johannesburg, the White House said Thursday, denying comments from South Africa's president who had said Washington wanted to participate.

Parts of the venue for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belem were being evacuated on Thursday following reports of a fire.

US President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself playing football with Cristiano Ronaldo inside the White House.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Pakistan in the early hours of Friday morning, as per the National Centre for Seismology.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Thursday said while he has many disagreements with President Donald Trump, he will work with the American leader on any agenda that benefits New Yorkers.

A federal judge on Thursday moved to halt President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., a temporary legal setback to Trump's efforts to send the military to American cities over objections of local leaders.

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli hostage released last month after more than two years in captivity, said in a television interview that he was sexually assaulted in captivity in Gaza.

The Russian army claimed on Thursday to have again captured the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, a key Kyiv bastion in the eastern Kharkiv region where Russia's soldiers have been steadily advancing.

The BBC came under fire again Thursday in a new book about its bombshell interview with the late Princess Diana, 30 years after it was aired.

The UK government tabled its proposal in Parliament on Thursday to double the period international migrants, including Indians, would be expected to wait before applying for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) under a new "earned settlement" model.

When outraged Filipinos turned to an AI-powered chatbot to verify a viral photograph of a lawmaker embroiled in a corruption scandal, the tool failed to detect that it was fabricated -- even though it had generated the image itself.

UK's government-level response to the COVID pandemic was often a case of "too little, too late", and a week's delay in imposing a mandatory lockdown during first wave in 2020 led to approximately 23,000 excess deaths, an official inquiry concluded.

New York's incoming leftist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, said he was "ready for whatever happens" when he meets US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, stressing their shared desire to tackle the cost of living.