Russia said it downed two Ukrainian drones flying over border regions yesterday, after the governor of Belgorod region said a drone carrying explosives had killed a man.

Russian investigators said yesterday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week.

Authorities in Iran have begun legal proceedings against a prominent pop singer over his latest song urging women to take off their mandatory headscarves, the judiciary said yesterday.

A white man driven by racial hatred shot dead three Black people in a Florida discount store Saturday before taking his own life after a standoff with police, authorities said.

Tokyo has urged Beijing to “ensure the safety of Japanese residents in China” after a wave of telephone harassment targeting businesses in Japan sparked by the controversial discharge of Fukushima wastewater.

Three US Marines died in an aircraft crash off the coast of northern Australia yesterday while transporting troops during a routine military exercise, officials said. Five others were “transported to Royal Darwin Hospital in serious condition”, Marine Rotation Force - Darwin said in a press release.

The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner paramilitary group, following a plane crash on Wednesday has been confirmed by formal genetic analysis, Russia's Investigative Committee said Sunday

India's space agency's Chairman S Somanath has said the country's first sun observatory will be ready for launch in the first week of September

Three US Marines died Sunday after an Osprey aircraft crashed on a remote tropical island north of Australia during war games, US military officials said

Former President Donald Trump has raised nearly $20 million in the past three weeks, a period that roughly coincides with his indictment in federal and state cases connected to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, Trump's campaign spokesman said on Saturday

A white man driven by racial hatred shot dead three Black people in a Florida discount store Saturday before taking his own life after a standoff with police, authorities said

Pope Francis yesterday denounced “disinformation” and fake news spread in an effort to influence public opinion as journalism’s principal offence.

Japan’s fisheries agency yesterday said fish tested in waters around the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant did not contain detectable levels of the radioactive isotope tritium, Kyodo news service reported.

At least nine people were killed yesterday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said.

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is to halve the $200 daily fee it charges tourists in an effort to boost a sector still struggling to recover a year after the end of Covid-19 restrictions.

The biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster in five decades got underway in the Scottish Highlands yesterday, as researchers and enthusiasts from around the world braved pelting rain to try to track down the elusive Nessie.

Russia yesterday said that it shot down two drones over its Belgorod region and one headed for Moscow, as it reported Ukrainian shelling wounded six people in a border town.

Former US president Donald Trump’s historic mug shot, posted by a Georgia courthouse on Thursday evening, is being turned into T-shirts, shot glasses, mugs, posters and even bobblehead dolls by friends and foes alike.

Indian authorities yesterday vowed to take action after a primary school teacher ordered her pupils to take turns slapping a Muslim classmate, with footage of the incident stoking outrage online.

Rescue ship Ocean Viking has saved 438 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean over the last two days, the organisation that runs it, SOS Mediterranee, said on Friday.