A UK national who used to work as a guard at the British embassy in Berlin has been accused of spying for Russia. He has been charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act.
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a rare video appearance has praised Muskan Khan, the student who had become the face of defiance against the hijab ban in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Abramovich has recently been involved in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey
A man has been arrested for allegedly masturbating while sitting next to a woman on board a Southwest Airlines flight from Seattle to Phoenix on Saturday.
A police officer did not think twice before risking his own life to save a child when communal violence broke out in the Karauli area of the Indian state of Rajasthan on Saturday.
A Sociology textbook elaborating the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system has sparked a row in India with legislators, activists and social media users asking for its removal.
An Indonesian court has sentenced the principal of a school to death for raping thirteen students over the period of five years and impregnating at least eight of them.
The head of Motoyzhyn village, her husband, and her son were killed by the Russian forces during their occupation of the village near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ever Forward, a sister vessel to the Ever Given ship that had blocked the Suez Canal last year, has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than three weeks now and all attempts to free it have failed so far.
Kangaroos, a species native to Australia , was found in the Indian state of West Bengal, leaving officials in shock. The forest officials have called it a case of smuggling and have initiated a probe into the incident.
A documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches has accused food giant Mondelez International, which owns the Cadbury brand, of forcing children as young as ten years old to work long hours on cocoa farms in Ghana.
A man named Steven Ray Hessler has been sentenced to 650 years in prison for a series of sexual attacks he carried out between 1982 and 1985 in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Sir Lanka has revoked the ban imposed on social media platforms like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram hours after it announced the ban on Sunday.
Thousands have died in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol since the Russian invasion and the rest of the city residents are living in fear with no amenities available to them.
A man who had raped and killed a woman 42 years ago in New York has finally been identified with the help of DNA technology by Suffolk County police. However, the man is no more and died of cancer in 1991.
China has received backlash from Australian authorities after a court in Beijing carried out a trial of journalist Cheng Lei's case behind closed doors, under heavy security on Thursday.
An Indian techie named Nandan Kumar hacked an airline's website to locate his luggage after he accidentally switched it with a co-passenger's luggage on March 27.
Thousands of euros worth of designer items and electronic goods were stolen
The Ukrainian Security Service (SSU) intercepted radio communications between Russian soldiers and heard them talking about "eating dogs and raping Ukrainian women."
Two people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant in the city of Zwolle in the Netherlands on Wednesday.
A former Wiltshire Police staff member Rachel Beale has been sent to jail for having an affair with a convicted rapist she was assigned to supervise after his release from prison.
Colchester Royal Grammar School, one of the UK's best grammar schools has again courted controversy after it was forced to suspend a teacher for using a mug depicting Prophet Muhammad.
The rate of deaths by suicide during the fifth Covid wave in Hong Kong reached a crisis level, according to a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Hong Kon
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 Singapore court has rejected a mentally disabled Malaysian man's last appeal against his death sentence. The man was convicted more than ten years ago for smuggling drugs into the country.
A woman who stole more than £12,000 along with a colleague from a couple suffering from dementia, has been asked to repay just £1.
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.
