Forest fires in Canada's western province of British Columbia intensified on Saturday, with the number of people under evacuation orders doubling from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that a Russian missile had hit the central square of the northern city of Chernihiv including a theatre and a university.

US counterintelligence agencies on Friday warned the American space industry to guard against efforts by foreign intelligence entities to steal research and trade secrets as they try to boost their own countries’ space programs.

Myanmar authorities have arrested a Swiss citizen for writing and directing a film that allegedly harmed the “morality and dignity” of the Buddhist religion, the country’s military said on Friday.

A Muslim cleric is among a dozen people being investigated for using mosque loudspeakers to order protests against alleged blasphemy by Christians which erupted into mob violence in Pakistan earlier this week, a senior police official said.

Elon Musk said Friday his social media company X would scrap a feature that allows users to block posts from specific accounts.

Pakistani opposition leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi was detained yesterday, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said, just hours after he said it would challenge any delay to the election in the courts.

North Korea slammed a recent United Nations meeting about its human rights record, asserting the United States used the international organisation for a “scheme” against Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported yesterday.

West African military chiefs said on Friday they were ready for an armed intervention in Niger after a coup ousted President Mohamed Bazoum last month, but a diplomatic mission was possible over the weekend to keep talks open.

Stronger winds and higher overnight temperatures caused a vast wildfire raging out of control in Tenerife to spread, prompting more residents to flee their homes in the northern sector of the Spanish holiday island, officials said yesterday.

India today announced the imposition of 40 percent duty on the export of onions till December 31, in a move to tame escalating prices in the domestic market

A $250,000 Hermes Birkin bag and a rare Patek Philippe watch that costs over $7 million on the resale market are said to be among the items seized in raids this week conducted by the police in a billion-dollar money laundering case

A former head of Pakistan's central bank has been appointed finance minister in the interim government leading the country to an election due in months

A total of 2,038 people died due to floods, lightning and landslides across India this monsoon so far, with the eastern state of Bihar reporting the highest casualty figure of 518 followed by Himachal Pradesh 330

Wildfires bore down on two Canadian cities Friday, with firefighters in the west bracing for another "scary" night as stunned refugees from the far north began arriving at shelters after their entire city was evacuated.

Despite Singapore's strict regulations to prevent money laundering through real estate, property transactions remain attractive for criminals looking to wash dirty money, said lawyers and property consultants

A British nurse who described herself as a "horrible evil person" was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six in the neonatal unit of a hospital in northwest England where she worked

The chief of the United Nations humanitarian relief agency has urged Myanmar’s ruling military to allow greater access to 18 million people in need of aid, describing the situation as critical as a post-coup conflict intensifies.

In a fresh round of violence in the Indian state of Manipur, mutilated bodies of three youths were found after heavy gunfire at Kuki Thowai village in Ukhrul district yesterday.

The World Health Organization and US health authorities said yesterday they are closely monitoring a new variant of Covid-19, although the potential impact of BA.2.86 is currently unknown.