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The Afghanistan Taliban in its latest diktat has asked all male government employees to wear a beard to office or risk being fired from the job.

A 59-year-old Chinese man was stopped by the police from test-flying his home-made helicopter. The man had managed to build the helicopter using a boat engine.

A Ukrainian woman has claimed that she was raped by two Russian soldiers who first shot her husband dead at her house in a village located close to Kyiv on March 9

A 46-year-old man named Stuart Paul McPhee has been jailed for 32 months for torturing and falsely imprisoning his neighbour after the latter stole a tin of chicken curry from McPhee's flat.

An Australian couple risked their lives and flew to Ukraine to get their surrogate baby girl safely back from war-ravaged Ukraine. The parents and the girl were eventually evacuated safely to Moldova on Monday by Australian officials.

Brewing giants Carlsberg (CARLb.CO) and Heineken have joined the long list of companies that have pulled out of Russia as a mark of protests against Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials have claimed that more than 10,000 hectares of forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been set ablaze due to active fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

Days after backtracking on its promise to allow re-opening of girls' school beyond sixth grade, the Taliban have now allegedly ordered that women in Afghanistan cannot board flights without a male chaperone.

An Italian fighter pilot who was dismissed from the country's air force after she complained of being "bullied," by her seniors, has now joined Ukrainian resistance forces against Russia.

Authorities in Bahrain shut down an Indian restaurant after its manager allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing hijab. The incident occurred at Bahrain Lanterns, a restaurant in the Adliya area of the country's capital Manama last week on Thursday.

Several media reports have claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trying to hide the actual numbers of Russian soldiers killed in his war against Ukraine

Indian hotel aggregator has delisted the hotel in Delhi which had denied accommodation to a Kashmiri man despite having valid identification cards. The development came after a video of the man being refused accommodation went viral on social media.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has lashed out at the Taliban for backtracking on its promise to allow girls to get an education.

We have heard of people keeping designer wardrobes and fancy cars, but seven-year-old Coco might just be amongst the few lucky dogs who get super pampered by their owners.

The Taliban backtracked on its decision to open schools for girls beyond 6th grade, just hours before the schools were to open for the first time since August last year.

The family of Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalists Danish Siddiqui has approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking for a probe into his death.

The UK has been cracking down against individuals who are deemed to be supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A 96-year-old man who managed to survive Nazi concentration camps during World War II, lost his life in Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The students who had participated in the protest against the hijab ban in schools and colleges in the Indian state of Karnataka, will not be given a second chance to appear for the practical exams.

Football legend David Beckham gave away the control of his Instagram account to a Ukrainian doctor working and serving the injured at a hospital in war-torn Kharkiv city of Ukraine.

As many as four million people in Somalia face the risk of starvation and the situation is only deteriorating as the country faced its third consecutive dry season, the United Nations' climate report has warned.

At least six people lost their lives after a cargo vessel collided with a ferry carrying dozens of people on the Shitalakhsya River in central Bangladesh on Sunday.

UK's new "kleptocracy" unit has launched an investigation to identify assets that are allegedly kept by Russian President Vladimir Putin in London.

Elon Musk who is infamous for his controversial tweets has now changed his Twitter name to Elona Musk after Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, called him effeminate.

Isak Munda, a daily wage labourer from the Indian state of Odisha who was struggling to earn a living during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, has now become a YouTube star. He had uploaded his first video on the platform in March and now has almost 800,000 subscribers.

Several western brands have been unable to stop operations in Russia despite wanting to do so because of the complex franchise deals with their Russian partners.

An Indian court has upheld the ban imposed on wearing hijab to schools and colleges in the southern state of Karnataka. The court dismissed as many as five petitions filed by students against the ban.

The Russian oligarch has been forced to put the club up for sale following sanctions from the UK Government

A pregnant woman and her unborn baby both have lost their lives after Russia bombed the maternity hospital they were admitted in. The haunting image of the woman being evacuated from the rubble of the hospital in Ukraine's Mariupol had sent shock waves across the world last week.