Extending support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kerjiwal against the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday urged all opposition parties to oppose the ordinance in the Rajya Sabha.

The UK government yesterday announced a package of measures aimed at international students, including a ban on some family members, as ministers come under growing pressure to cut immigration.

A SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudi astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday, as part of a private mission chartered by Axiom Space

A private rocket carrying the first Arab woman astronaut has blasted off on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Russia yesterday said it was battling a cross-border incursion by saboteurs who burst through the frontier from Ukraine, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks of its kind since the war began last year.

Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland’s regulator announced yesterday.

A former Manipur MLA and two others were arrested with guns yesterday after violence flared up in state capital Imphal’s Chekon neighbourhood.

Greece’s conservatives were set to be offered an opportunity to form a coalition after winning the weekend’s election, but without enough seats to deliver on their pledge to rule on their own, a second vote in June looks all but certain.

At least 20 people were killed and several injured Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation’s president calling it a “major disaster.”

Sudan’s army conducted air strikes in the capital Khartoum yesterday, residents said, seeking to win ground against its paramilitary rivals hours before a week-long ceasefire aimed at allowing delivery of aid was due to take effect.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinian fighters yesterday in a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in what the army described as an operation targeting “terrorist” suspects.

At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation's president calling it a "major disaster."

Russian forces targeted the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro overnight with 16 missiles and 20 attack drones, the Ukrainian army said Monday.

The second-ever private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), organized by Axiom Space, blasted off from the southern US state of Florida Sunday, carrying the first two Saudi astronauts to travel to the orbiting laboratory

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday that it was time to reform both the Security Council and Bretton Woods to align with the “realities of today’s world”.

Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said yesterday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he claimed to have taken the eastern city of Bakhmut, something Kyiv denied.

Greece went to the polls yesterday in a general election unlikely to produce a clear winner, with a second vote expected by July if the country’s fractious political parties fail to agree to a coalition.

Three men died yesterday in an assault rifle attack in the French port city of Marseille, which has seen a surge of drug-related gang murders in recent months, police said.

Gurkha veteran Hari Budha Magar, who was almost killed serving with the British army in Afghanistan, has become the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Everest, a member of his team said yesterday.

Twelve people were killed and hundreds injured Saturday in a stampede at an El Salvador soccer stadium, police and emergency services said.