UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the “accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza after more than 21 months of Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory.

Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programmes reaching gold-level scores for the first time.

WHO decried Israeli attacks Monday on its staff residence and its main warehouse in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah

The Trump administration released hundreds of thousands of pages of records on Monday about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

An Indian court yesterday acquitted 12 men previously convicted for a series of bomb blasts that ripped through packed commuter trains in Mumbai in 2006 that killed 187 people.

The Israeli military attacked Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port yesterday in its latest assault on the Iran-backed militants, who have been striking ships bound for Israel and launching missiles against it.

Militants in Pakistan have started using commercially acquired quadcopter drones to drop bombs on security forces in the country’s northwest, police said, a potentially dangerous development in the volatile region.

Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early yesterday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks.

A French probe into alleged foreign interference and bias via the algorithm at Elon Musk-owned social network X is “politically motivated”, the company said in a post yesterday, adding that it was refusing to cooperate.

Tehran yesterday blamed European powers for the failure of 2015 nuclear deal, accusing them of breaking their commitments ahead of renewed talks in Istanbul with UK, France and Germany.

Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern areas of the Gazan city of Deir Al-Balah for the first time yesterday, an area where Israeli sources said the military believes some of the remaining hostages may be being held.

Visiting US envoy Tom Barrack said yesterday that disarming Hezbollah was a domestic issue, as Washington presses the new authorities for action after the group was weakened by war with Israel.

UN experts yesterday warned that an elderly British couple detained for months by the Taliban authority in Afghanistan could die without access to medical treatment and demanded their immediate release.

The shortages blamed on mismanagement and overexploitation of underground resources, as well as the growing impact of climate change

Trump administration also faces demands to release all government files on Epstein's alleged crimes and his death

Western nations and Israel have long accused Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran has consistently denied.

The ferry sinking en route to Bali this month was attributed to bad weather

The project is part of China's push to expand renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.

Deaths of civilians seeking aid have become a regular occurrence in Gaza

Dozens of rescuers were scrambling in Vietnam yesterday to trace four missing people after retrieving the bodies of dozens killed when a thunderstorm capsized a boat in the top tourist destination of Halong Bay, authorities said.