Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace said on Thursday it was preparing for the launch of ​its Vikram-1 rocket, the first attempt by an ‌Indian private company to place a satellite in orbit.

A man has been rescued alive after being trapped for eight days in the rubble of a building that collapsed after twin earthquakes in Venezuela.

An 11-year-old Canadian boy has died from rabies after being awoken by a bat on his nose and mouth.

A young couple in Indonesia’s strict Islamic province of Aceh have been publicly caned for kissing outside marriage on TikTok, an act seen as a violation of Sharia law.

An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday (July 2), killing eight, officials said.

The next indirect United States-Iran talks will come after the late Iranian supreme leader’s funeral, mediators said on Thursday (Jul 2), as diplomacy inches ahead on ending the Middle East war.

Russia has started seaborne imports of gasoline from India, two industry ​sources said on Wednesday, in an effort to mitigate fuel shortages triggered by ‌Ukrainian attacks on its energy infrastructure.

India has ​asked WhatsApp to justify the implementation of a planned feature covering usernames and to freeze the rollout ‌in its biggest market, escalating a crackdown on messaging anonymity that began with Telegram, according to a government le

Oil prices dropped about 1% on Thursday, down for a third consecutive day, after Qatar said Iran and the ​U.S. had made progress in indirect talks focused on the Strait of ‌Hormuz, which handled one-fifth of global oil supply before the war.

Israel’s defence minister said Wednesday that Israeli forces would remain in so-called security zones established in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza ’’until further notice’’.

When one of China’s biggest stand-up comedians opened his show with a joke about the extraordinarily long rule of the country’s leader Xi Jinping, it drew a cheer, alongside a smattering of approving profanities.

It has been four days since a small plane slammed into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, killing the pilot – the only person on board – and wounding 13 others, but it’s still unclear why, and how, that happened.

India and Japan are set to advance plans for a local-currency settlement framework that would allow direct yen-rupee transactions for bilateral trade and reduce reliance on the US dollar, according to a Nikkei Asia report ahead of Japanese Prime Mini

Iran said Tuesday it would not meet with top ‌US envoys who flew to the region following an outbreak of hostilities, clouding the prospects for a lasting peace between the two countries.

Fourteen children died after the roof of a building near Lahore collapsed on top of them, officials say.

Woven from fibre-optic cable and grass, a small ​bird’s nest found near the front line of the war in Ukraine shows how the more ‌than four-year-old conflict is reshaping the natural environment, researchers say.

The United States has started deporting migrants to a sparsely populated archipelago in the tropical Pacific, the island nation of Palau told AFP on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025.

The battle against mental illness is often fought behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny and beyond the reach of legal texts. Yet in Pakistan, the law has once again entered that deeply personal space.

Afghan government officials said on Monday that Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 36 people and injured 163 others.

Stocks of ​crude oil in the U.S. ‌Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 5.5 million barrels to 325.7 million barrels, ​the lowest level since May ​1983, according to data from the ⁠Department of Energy.

Iranian and U.S. negotiating ​teams were due in Doha this week, but Iran said on Monday no meeting had been scheduled as weekend missile fire from both sides tested the interim ceasefire ‌to end the four-month-old war.

Guo Wengui, who was once believed to be one of China’s richest businessmen, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail in the US for running a billion dollar scam.

WhatsApp announced a much-awaited feature: usernames, which will allow users to share their profiles without disclosing their phone number. However, WhatsApp will still require a phone number to create an account on the chat app.

The twin earthquakes in Venezuela have left a trail of death and destruction, with nearly a thousand deaths and well over that number yet to be accounted for. Rescue operations have begun in earnest in the oil-rich nation.

A father and his son were pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Sunday, ​four days after the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela.

Pakistan launched airstrikes and sent ground troops into Afghan provinces along its border on Sunday, killing dozens.

In a devastating development, Venezuelan top-flight club Deportivo La Guaira has confirmed the tragic passing of Argentine defender Lucas Trejo’s wife and two children following the recent earthquakes in Venezuela. Trejo’s wife, Yanina Maranella,

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A freshly inked pact with Vanuatu ensures there will be “no foreign military base” in the archipelago, Anthony Albanese has declared, as China hunts for a military foothold in the Pacific.