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A severe cold wave has tightened its grip on large parts of northern India, with temperatures hovering near zero in several states. On Thursday, the capital Delhi recorded its coldest morning so far this winter, with the temperature dropping to 2.9C. In neighbouring Haryana state, temperatures in some areas reportedly …

In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy weight curled up on her chest. Half asleep, she reached out for her dog – and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object. As Bloor retreated further under the covers and …

Leehyun Choi,Seouland Kelly Ng Getty Images This verdict comes more than a year after Yoon’s short-lived martial law decree South Korea’s beleaguered ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol will on Friday receive the first verdict on charges linked to his botched martial law attempt in 2024. He is facing eight separate trials …

When Daidai realised her father was too old to slaughter two pigs for a traditional community feast in the run-up to Chinese New Year, she turned to social media. She didn’t want him to feel bad. “Can anyone help me?” she asked on Douyin, China’s version of Tiktok, at the …

Getty Images Pritam Singh heads the Workers’ Party, the largest opposition party in Singapore Pritam Singh, the leader of Singapore’s largest opposition party, has been stripped of his title as the Leader of the Opposition. The move was announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Thursday, one day after parliament …

Watch: Indian hand-stitched ship inspired by ancient painting completes historic voyage The Indian Navy’s hand-stitched wooden sailing vessel INSV Kaundinya arrived in Oman on Wednesday to a water salute after completing 17 days at sea. The ship began sailing from Porbandar on India’s west coast on 29 December and arrived …

Two people were killed after a construction crane collapsed onto a highway in Thailand, a day after a crane accident in another part of the country left 32 people dead. The crane was being used to build an expressway in Samut Sakhon, a Bangkok suburb. Footage shows the moment the …

AFP via Getty Images It was a piece of audio obtained by the BBC that revealed what worries the Taliban’s leader most. Not an external danger, but one from within Afghanistan, which the Taliban seized control of as the previous government collapsed and the US withdrew in 2021. He warned …

Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent Getty Images Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted from office and arrested in 2021, after the military sized power As of Wednesday the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 20 years in detention in Myanmar, five of them …

Panisa AemochaBBC Thai, Sikhio, Nakhon Ratchasima Watch: BBC reports from site where crane collapsed on train in Thailand Residents in Thailand’s Ban Thanon Khot are accustomed to the rumbling of trains – rail is a key mode of transportation connecting the remote town with major cities. But on Wednesday, the …

At least 28 people have died and 64 others left injured after a construction crane fell onto a moving train in north-eastern Thailand. The crane derailed the train and crushed some of its carriages, one of which caught fire. Official records say some 195 passengers had been onboard the train …

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is en route to China for a pivotal visit aimed at resetting ties with Beijing and finding new economic opportunities for his country outside the US. It will not be an easy task, with pressure on Canada to balance its goal of diversifying trade without …

Getty Images Experts say that India’s juvenile justice law isn’t properly implemented in many places (Representative image) Pooja* was 16 years old when she was accused of murdering her mother. The teenager, who lived with her alcoholic stepfather in a poor neighbourhood in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, …

The US government has given chip giant Nvidia the green light to sell its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) processors in China, the Department of Commerce said on Tuesday. The H200, Nvidia’s second-most-advanced semiconductor, had been restricted by Washington over concerns that it would give China’s technology industry and military an …

Prosecutors have asked for South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol to be handed a death sentence if he is found guilty over his botched attempt to impose martial law. A court in Seoul heard closing arguments in Yoon’s trial, in which he was accused of being the “ringleader of …

Prize-winning Australian author Craig Silvey has appeared in court charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material. Silvey, best known for his novel Jasper Jones, was arrested on Monday after police raided his home in Perth. Police alleged he was actively engaging with other child exploitation offenders online when they …

G Venket Ram Vijay’s new film will open to nearly 5,000 cinemas across India and overseas in January India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has a long, peculiar political tradition: here, cinema doesn’t merely entertain, it also governs. From extremely successful political stints of MG Ramachandran – popularly known as …

Joshua Cavallo – the first man to come out as gay while playing top-tier football – has alleged he was pushed out of his former club due to “internal homophobia”. Cavallo, who recently joined Stamford AFC after leaving Adelaide United in May last year, made global headlines in 2021 when …

The death toll in a collapsed landfill in the central Philippines has risen to 11, authorities said, as hopes of finding survivors dim. The landslide occurred at the Binaliw landfill in Cebu City last week while more than 100 workers were on site, officials said. Rescuers have so far pulled …

ABC Randa Abdel-Fattah says a decision to exclude her from the Adelaide Festival was a ‘shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism’. One of Australia’s biggest cultural festivals has been left in disarray after a decision to disinvite a prominent Australian-Palestinian writer, triggering a massive backlash and mass exodus from fellow authors. …