Portuguese authorities were investigating yesterday what caused a funicular railway popular with tourists to derail and hurtle down a hill, killing at least 17 people and injuring 21 when it crashed into a building.

UN staff arrested by Yemen’s Houthi rebels earlier this week are suspected of spying for Israel and the United States, a Houthi official told AFP yesterday on condition of anonymity.

GPS interference affecting aviation over the Baltic Sea region has risen sharply since 2023 and now occurs almost daily, Sweden’s Transport Agency said yesterday, pointing the finger at Russia.

US President Donald Trump said he remains committed to pursuing a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine despite uncertainty over the prospect of face-to-face talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, CBS News said in a report published yesterday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un met for talks in Beijing yesterday, state media reported, while the North Korean leader is in China on a rare foreign visit.

Israeli military has increased bombardments ahead of a planned offensive.

A new outbreak of the Ebola virus in Congo has killed 15 people since the end of August

Malaysia warned TikTok to crack down on age restrictions for users in the Southeast Asian nation to stop cyberbullying

Nepal said it would block access to several social media platforms, including Facebook, after they failed to register with authorities

The toll -- 1,469 dead and more than 3,700 injured -- will likely rise, deputy Taliban government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said on Thursday.

A power vacuum has consumed Thailand's top office since last Friday, when the Constitutional Court sacked Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over an ethics breach.

The judges, however, allowed the levies to stay in place through mid-October, giving Trump time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.

"These days... 70 years old," Xi said in Mandarin as he walked beside Putin and Kim, footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed.

"Google's privacy promises and assurances are blatant lies," the plaintiffs' attorneys said in the lawsuit.

The summit in Paris will be co-chaired by the leaders of France and the UK

Authorities did not identify the victims or disclose their nationalities

All Indian states and union territories were asked to set up designated detention camps for undocumented immigrants apprehended in India and restrict their movement pending deportation.

President Donald Trump said US forces had attacked a boat carrying drugs to the United States Tuesday, killing 11 “narcoterrorists” from a gang he alleged was controlled by leftist Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said yesterday the leaders of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea - who appeared together at a military parade in Beijing - represented an “autocratic alliance” challenging the rules-based international order.

Millions more children around the world could end up out of school by the end of 2026 due to a forecasted plunge in international aid for education, Unicef said Tuesday.