India’s anti-terrorism agency said yesterday it filed charges against Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), over an attack on tourists in India’s Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) last year that triggered a conflict with Pakistan.

UN Secretary-General AntonioGuterres yesterday warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is developing faster than anyone can keep up, calling for globally harmonised rules to reduce potential risks - especially to children.

A Russian patrol aircraft staged “unsafe” activity near the UK’s flagship aircraft carrier as it conducted Nato air defence operations off Iceland, Britain’s defence ministry said yesterday.

Hamas said yesterday it had dissolved its de facto government in Gaza and signalled it was ready to hand over to a group of Palestinian technocrats, as it presses Israel to honour other parts of a stalled US-backed peace plan.

Wildfires across southern Europe forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted authorities to ban spectators from yesterday’s Tour de France stage that was threatened by one inferno.

A week of ceremonies for the funeral of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has adopted heavy symbolism to promote pro‑government religious and political messages.

The Philippine Senate yesterday opened Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial, with her political career -- and a planned 2028 presidential run -- in the balance.

The Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- ever discovered, deepening a cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists.

Russia hammered Kyiv with missiles and drones early yesterday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, as shortages of US-made interceptors left the Ukrainian capital struggling to defend itself, just days after the deadliest attack this year.

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced today the dissolution of the body that has governed the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades, clearing the way for a technocratic committee to implement civilian rule.

Clashes between rival drug gangs at the overcrowded Negombo prison killed four guards and prompted a major security response

According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai received more than 265 mm of rainfall and over 227 mm in the suburbs during the last 24 hours (till 6 pm on Sunday)

Khamenei was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28

After lying in state in Tehran's Grand Mosalla religious complex for two days, Khamenei will be processed through the city for 10 to 12 hours starting at 6:00 am (0230 GMT), organisers said

Six countries in southern Europe have been hit by wildfires. One of the blazes, in southwestern France, could affect Monday's third stage of the Tour de France, authorities warn

As international rescue teams packed up and ended attempts to find survivors, attention shifted to mourning those lost and burying the remains that families have recovered from the ruins

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed 16 troops in an attack south of the port city of Hodeidah, two military officials aligned with the country’s internationally-recognised government told AFP yesterday.

Hundreds of firefighters battled forest infernos in France, Spain and Portugal yesterday as temperatures rose again in heatwave-scarred Europe.

People in Guam and the Northern Marianas moved to emergency evacuation centers and made last-minute preparations yesterday, hours before a “super typhoon” was projected to bulldoze through the US Pacific territories.

Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes killed nearly 3,000, updated official figures showed on Saturday, as international rescue teams began winding down search operations for survivors in the rubble of the disaster.