In recent weeks, many in India have wondered if it was right to rely more on the West in recent years and weaken relations with its old-time, traditional ally, Russia.

The Trump administration had taken the assistance of an anonymously-run pro-Israel website for identifying pro-Palestine academics, in order to deport them, according to newly unsealed court documents. The website has been accused of doxxing.

Social media users reacted to the video, with one calling it "Breathtaking". Another user wrote, "That's an incredible shelf cloud formation - looks almost apocalyptic."

The number of measles cases in the United States has hit the highest level in more than 30 years, according to the data released by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A California woman's home turned into a dumping ground for Amazon packages after a Chinese seller listed her home as a return address. Despite never ordering any packages, she received hundreds of return parcels.

Every day, young Anne Frank and her sister Margot walked 2.5 kilometres to school, as Nazi anti-Jewish laws barred them from using public transport or bicycles.

A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday indicted deposed premier Sheikh Hasina in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity in connection with a deadly crackdown on protesters during the July-August uprising last year.

Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, the country has seen a significant increase in child and early marriages.

Rescuers pulled three more crew members and a security guard alive from the Red Sea on Thursday, maritime security sources said, a day after Houthi militants sank the Greek ship Eternity C and said they were holding some of the crew still missing.

China said Thursday that "arbitrary" tariffs such as the 50 percent levy on copper announced by US President Donald Trump on national security grounds "serve no party's interests".

Thailand's pygmy hippo Moo Deng marked her first birthday on Thursday, drawing crowds of diehard fans even as she left behind the cute animal infancy that earned her worldwide internet fame.

The US Secret Service suspended six of its agents "for failures" in connection with an assassination attempt on the presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania's Butler last year, ABC News first reported Wednesday.

Mr Burgess was camping in an RV camp with his wife and two boys. His two sons and wife, Julia Anderson Burgess, are still missing.

An Indian origin student pilot was among the two people who were killed in a tragic midair collision involving two training aircraft in Canada on Tuesday, the Indian Consulate General of India in Toronto said on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to urgently hear a petition to stay the execution of an Indian nurse from Kerala, Nimisha Priya, in Yemen. The top court today issued an advance notice to the Attorney General, seeking the Centre's reply.

China said Thursday it had cracked three spying plots, including one in which a public servant was lured by the "seductive beauty" of a foreign agent, urging government workers to remain vigilant against overseas threats.

Donald Trump's insistence that "spoiled" Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's problems ahead of elections that could sink his premiership after less than a year in office.

Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to serve as interim head of space agency NASA, weeks after pulling the nomination of a tech billionaire who was an ally of SpaceX boss Elon Musk.

The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, according to a regional climate monitoring body.

A teenage Australian surfer feared lost at sea was rescued after spending the night on an uninhabited island miles offshore, according to the officials and local media.