As the Lok Sabha election counts begin this morning in India, capping an 80-day long marathon polling process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aiming for a record-tying third consecutive term in office, while the opposition bloc in India hopes to pull off a surprise, Ndtv reports

India's election commission began tallying on Tuesday the 642 million votes cast in just-concluded elections, an AFP reporter at a counting centre said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tipped to win

A module of a Chinese lunar probe successfully took off from the far side of the Moon on Tuesday carrying samples to be taken back to Earth, state media reported

President Joe Biden on Monday for the first time called former President Donald Trump a "convicted felon" who poses a higher threat to the United States if he wins another term - the most biting attack on his opponent's legal troubles to date

Forced displacement has pushed over a million Palestinians away from the Gaza city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said yesterday.

A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth.

In a bitter-sweet prediction for India’s Congress party, an exit poll carried out by the VMR-Manorama News has suggested a massive erosion in Rahul Gandhi’s vote share in the recently-concluded election in Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency.

Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.

A High Court in Pakistan yesterday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan from a conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his party said, but Khan will remain in prison for now due to a conviction in another case.

Hunter Biden, the long-troubled son of Joe Biden, went on trial yesterday on gun charges in a historic first prosecution of a sitting president’s child -- and potential threat to his father’s reelection.

India’s Election Commission (EC) said yesterday a record-breaking 642 million voters cast their ballots in the general election that concluded on June 1 and dismissed opposition concerns over how the votes would be counted.

Some 55 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged or possibly damaged since the Israeli offensive began in the Palestinian territory eight months ago, according to preliminary satellite analysis by the UN.

Britain, France and Germany will seek to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at its board meeting starting today despite US opposition, diplomats told AFP

Two suspected rebels were killed in a gunfight with soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said today, weeks after the disputed, mostly Muslim territory saw its highest voter turnout for decades in India's general election

India created a "world record" with 642 million voters, including 31.2 crore women, exercising their franchise in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, the world's largest electoral exercise, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said today

Airlines are expecting to fly nearly five billion passengers in 2024, a new record beating the pre-Covid pandemic high, trade industry association IATA said on Monday

President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South African party leaders to work together in the public interest Sunday, after his ANC lost its 30-year-old governing majority in a bruising general election

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first woman president by a landslide Sunday, making history in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence

Murdoch and Elena Zhukova, 67, were wedded Saturday at the media mogul's California vineyard and estate, called Moraga.

Assuming the job in 2021, Buzbee was the first female editor of the Post in 150 years.