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Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace.Smouldering...

New Delhi - Terrified for her safety, Indian actress Sreelekha Mitra remembers pushing chairs and a sofa against her hotel door after she said an award-winning veteran director sexually harassed...

JENIN: Israel carried out an air strike in the occupied West Bank on Friday as its large-scale military operation entered a third day, with both sides reporting at least 19 Palestinians killed.A top...

BRUSSELS: The European Union wants to train more Ukrainian soldiers but remains divided over whether to provide the support in Ukraine itself, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Friday.The EU has...

NEW YORK: Donald Trump's lawyers late on Thursday filed a request to have his hush money case moved to federal court as they seek a way to overturn the former US president's felony conviction.In their...

MONACO: The draw for the league stage of the new-look UEFA Champions League took place on Thursday, throwing up a series of heavyweight fixtures including a trip for holders Real Madrid to Liverpool...

MONZA: Max Verstappen was fastest in Friday's first practice session for the Italian Grand Prix, pipping Charles Leclerc to the top time as he tries to get his Formula One title defence back on...

PARIS: The Paralympic track and field events began at the Stade de France on Friday while the wheelchair tennis players commenced battle at Roland Garros on day two of competition in Paris.Paralympic...

New York: Defending champion Novak Djokovic reached the third round of the US Open on Wednesday as Laslo Djere retired in the third set, but said he'll have to do better to win a fifth title on the...

Intense monsoon rains and floods in India's Gujarat state killed at least 28 people in the past three days, some drowning and others hit by falling trees, government officials said.The weather...

Mumbai - Among the swanky skyscrapers of India's financial capital Mumbai, hundreds of dangerously dilapidated buildings facing demolition are crowded with families risking their lives rather than...

Social media platform X was back up on Tuesday night after an outage that lasted less than an hour, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.Downdetector, which tracks outages by...

Paris: The arrest of maverick entrepreneur Pavel Durov has drawn global attention to the importance of his messaging app Telegram for Russian troops and propagandists as Moscow's war against Ukraine...

Quetta, Pakistan: Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in "coordinated" attacks in southwestern Pakistan on Monday that largely targeted ethnic Punjabis, government officials said....

Sydney - Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to "disconnect" on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours contact from employers, to the distress of big industry.People...

RAWALPINDI: At least 35 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan on Sunday, including 12 pilgrims who had been trying to reach Iran, rescue and hospital officials said.Twenty-three...

Beirut, Lebanon, - Dozens of passengers at Lebanon's only international airport were anxiously checking announcement boards Sunday as more flights to the capital were canceled or delayed amid...

Cairo - Negotiators geared up for a crucial weekend of truce talks Saturday, as Hamas said it was sending delegates to Cairo, but that they would not participate, and Israel continued to bombard Gaza...

Bangkok - The death toll from a landslide caused by heavy rain on Thailand's popular resort island of Phuket has risen to 10, officials said Saturday.Three people were still missing and 19 were...

Washington - NASA is expected to decide Saturday whether two astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner should return on that craft -- or brace for a longer...