A man in Kazakhstan risked his own life to save a toddler from falling off the window of an eighth-floor home. The man is being hailed as a "hero" after a video of the daring act went viral on social media.
The regressive Taliban government has now barred men and women from eating out at restaurants together in the western Afghan city of Herat. The rule even needs to be followed by married couple.
An Indian court failed to reach a decision on the question of criminalising rape within marriage, leaving the laws unchanged. The issue can now go to the Supreme Court of the country.
A woman in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide after she suffered an obstetric emergency and lost her unborn baby.
An Indian airline has come under fire after it did not allow a child with special needs on board one of its flights at Ranchi airport over the weekend.
Video footage from the scene showed fire and rescue workers combing through piles of rubble dousing still smoking wreckage.
Patron, a two-and-a-half-year-old mine-sniffing dog, has been awarded by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky for his services to the country since the beginning of Russia-Ukraine war.
The Afghan Taliban in its latest decree has yet again attacked women and their freedom to choose what they wish to wear in public places.
The Taliban in its latest diktat have reportedly stopped issuing driving licenses to women in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan.
Amazon Inc. will now be reimbursing its US staff if they have to travel for non-life-threatening medical treatments, including abortions. The company in a message to its employees said that it will be pay up to $4,000 (£3,201) for such travel expenses annually.
A man from Germany who had served a jail sentence for having an incestuous relationship with his sister continues to call for the abolishment of laws that ban such relationships in the country. Both of them want incest relationships to be made legal.
A female suicide bomber has been accused of carrying out the attack in Pakistan that killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, on Tuesday.
A video that has gone viral on social media brought a cruel tradition to light wherein a person gets every strand of hair pulled from her head by hand until they go bald. The tradition is followed by people who follow an ancient Indian religion called Jainism.
At least eleven people, including three children, were electrocuted after a temple chariot they were travelling with came in contact with the overhead high-transmission live wire in Kalimedu village near Thanjavur district of India's Tamil Nadu.
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Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman certified as the oldest person in the world by the Guinness World Records in 2019, passed away at the age of 119 at a hospital in Fukuoka city.
A body of a child has been discovered during search and rescue operations initiated after a boat accident in northeastern Japan. The death toll in the accident has reached 11 now.
The Afghanistan Taliban have now banned TikTok and PUBG saying that the apps are "misleads the younger generation."
Ten people who were found by rescue workers after a tour boat went missing off Japan's northern coast have been confirmed dead by the coast guard.
A Taiwanese news channel called CTS had to issue an apology after it accidentally aired a fictional news alert stating that Chinese forces had launched an attack on the country.
Freedom of speech has historically enjoyed strong protection in Sweden.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accused India of stalling the health agency's efforts to revise the global Covid death toll after it reportedly pegged India's death toll at 4 million as against the official figure of 520,000
Japan's largest food chain Yoshinoya has fired its managing director Masaaki Ito following a backlash over his alleged sexist remarks.
A Pakistan anti-terror court has sentenced six men to death for their role in the mob killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of committing blasphemy.
California legalized recreational cannabis in 2016, but it remains on the federal list of controlled substances.
The family of the British soldier who was captured by the Russian army in the besieged city of Mariupol, has been waiting desperately for his return. The soldier was fighting with the Ukrainian army.
Mimi Reinhard, the woman who typed up the list that saved 1200 jews from death, has passed away at the age of 107 at her home in Israel. She was one of the Jews saved by German businessman Oskar Schindler from Nazi horrors World War II.
A Russian artist faces up to 10 years in jail for protesting against the country's invasion of Ukraine. A local court has put her behind bars for spreading "fake news."
Japan's Princess Mako who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro, is now reportedly working at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York as a volunteer.
The U.S.-drafted U.N. resolution would extend a ban on ballistic missile launches to include cruise missiles or "any other delivery system capable of delivering nuclear weapons."