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A British woman on a vacation to India has accused a local masseuse of raping her in front of her partner near a famous beach in Goa.

Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest have questioned a possible suspect among several fishermen known to have clashed with authorities earlier over fishing rights.

Ukrainian forces struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the eastern frontline city of Sievierodonetsk as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the situation was difficult, also pledging to retake Russia's gains.

Death of three sisters spotlights India dowry violence

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has marshaled $3.2 billion in corporate pledges to tackle the factors that drive some Central Americans to migrate to the United States, according to her office, an effort she will tout on Tuesday at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.

British geologist, Jim Fitton, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in Iraq for trying to smuggle artefacts out of the country.

Brazilian authorities have launched a search operation for British Journalist Don Philip and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira.

The head of an animal rescue shelter, Caroline Dawn Pennington, was arrested after decomposing carcasses of at least 30 dogs and cats were found at her house.

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street by street for control of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday in a pivotal battle of the Kremlin offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.

An 83-year-old Japanese man named, Kenichi Horie, has reportedly become the oldest person in the world to complete a solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

A man who fell into River Thames after being tasered by police officers, died during treatment at a hospital.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a prison bus went on to massacre a family of five in Texas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had traveled to Lysychansk and Soledar, two cities very close to some of the most intense fighting between his country's troops and Russian forces.

The police launched a probe after a man was found on fire at a park in east London on Thursday.

A Brazilian family who had lost their beloved pet tortoise in the 1980s were reunited with it almost 30 years later.

Trey Ganem has taken it upon himself to reach out to the families of the children killed in Uvalde.

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths is in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to discuss clearing the way for exports of grain and other food from Ukraine's Black Sea ports, a U.N.

A 47-year-old man who had gone to retrieve frisbees from a lake in John S. Taylor Park in Florida was later found dead with one of his arms ripped off.

A UK court has found ten teenagers guilty of murdering an 18-year-old boy when the latter was on his way back from a funfair in October 2021.

In a horrific incident reported from Pakistan, a woman was allegedly gangraped aboard a moving train by three men last week.

Britain aims to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks' time as part of a policy which the government says is designed to break people-smuggling networks and stem the flow of migrants across the Channel.

The German carmaker is facing legal action in Brazil over allegations of rampant human-rights violations at a large farm it ran in the Amazon rainforest basin in the 1970s and '80s

Days after a shooter wreaked havoc at Robb Elementary School in Texas, another shooting incident has taken place in the United States.

A New York couple accused of laundering $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the 2016 hack of digital currency exchange Bitfinex are still negotiating a possible plea deal while reviewing more than 1.1 gigabytes of evidence in the case, prosecutors said.

The situation on the eastern frontline in Donbas has become increasingly desperate, with Ukrainian towns facing near constant shelling from Russian forces.

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed all rumours around Vladimir Putin's health.

A pregnant Sumatran elephant was found dead of suspected poisoning in Indonesia's Riau province.

The new footage that has emerged from the Texas shooting incident shows panic-stricken students trying to flee their school through broken windows.

European Union leaders agreed on Monday to ban most imports of Russian oil to the 27-nation bloc as Ukrainian and Russian forces battled on the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk, the last city still held by Kyiv in Ukraine's strategic Luhansk province.