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At least 50 people have been killed and 350 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Expre…
A new football league in Tokyo has been established with one strict criterion: all the players are aged 80 and above. In Japan, where people over 65 represent nearly a third of the population, active older people are challenging ideas about what they c…
A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a very rare high-altitude rescue, a government official has said. Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849-me…
Videos shared on social media show protesters clashing with police outside a mosque in Yunnan in south-western China. Tensions rose after a ruling ordered parts of the Najiaying mosque to be removed and verified videos from Saturday show police officer…
Justin Trudeau spread his legs to put himself at a similar height to South Korea national assembly speaker, Kim Jin-pyo, during a visit to the country.The move is known in South Korea as ‘manner legs’, meant to level the height between two people, and …
G7 leaders have laid flowers at a memorial to the victims of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in a sombre opening to a summit overshadowed by fears of a potential nuclear conflict in Ukraine. As the heavy early morning rain began to ease, the summit’…
Thousands of people were evacuated to monasteries, pagodas and schools in Myanmar, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that tore the roofs off buildings and killed several people. Cyclone Mocha made landfall near Sittwe township in Rakhine state on S…
Jubilant supporters of Imran Khan erupted into song and dance after a Pakistani court ordered the former prime minister’s release on bail for two weeks following his arrest, which ignited deadly protests across the country. Security was tight as Khan a…
Police in Pakistan have arrested hundreds of supporters of the ousted prime minister Imran Khan for violence after his arrest on corruption charges, authorities said on Wednesday. The government said supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) …
Supporters of Imran Khan protested across Pakistan, asking for the release of the former prime minister after his arrest in Islamabad.Imran Khan was appearing in the Islamabad high court when he was arrested by military personnel on Tuesday. Officers f…
The former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has been arrested by the military as he appeared in court in Islamabad to face charges in a corruption case. Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said the 72-year…
At least 22 people drowned after a double-decker tourist boat capsized in India’s southern state of Kerala, police have said. The vessel overturned off the coastal town of Tanur because it was overcrowded, according to officials.Most of the victims wer…
Wrestlers in India are demanding the arrest of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Wrestling Federation of India chief and member of parliament, for alleged sexual harassment of seven wrestlers including a female minor. Singh has denied all allegations against …
People trapped in a Beijing hospital apparently tied bedsheets together and escaped by climbing out of windows, as seen in videos circulating on social media.The fire at Changfeng hospital has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate. Tw…
A former Indian MP, Atiq Ahmed, convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges has been murdered along with his brother in a dramatic shooting broadcast live on TV. Ahmed, who was serving a life sentence in jail, and his brother Ashraf A…