Officials said Wednesday that 33 had died in the recent bad weather in Beijing, mainly by flooding and buildings collapsing, almost three times the figure given by officials last Tuesday.
Tensions have soared between China and Philippines over the South China Sea under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, with Manila pivoting back to the United States, which supports the Southeast Asian nation in its maritime disputes with China.
Former United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to carry out the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” if he wins the 2024 presidential polls.
About 1,000 people clustered around the border just opposite the Texas city of El Paso - some peering through the slats of the border wall while others sat alongside an industrial train line headed to the United States.
On Monday, the Washington Post cited unnamed current and former U.S. and Japanese officials as saying that Chinese military hackers gained access to Japan's classified defense networks in 2020, accessing information about the U.S. ally's military capabilities, plans and assessments of shortcomings.
The media regulator asked not to use the term 'homosexuality' and to use the correct term 'sexual deviance'. A government spokesperson said a penalty for violating the rule had not yet been set but could include a fine.
The justices put on hold a July 5 decision by U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth, Texas that had blocked the 2022 rule nationwide pending the administration's appeal.
In the early voting state of New Hampshire, Donald Trump assailed Jack Smith as a “thug prosecutor” and a “deranged guy” a week after being indicted on felony charges for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The parents of a 10-year-old girl in the United States organised a 'marriage' ceremony for her to fulfill her dream of getting married, days before she died of cancer.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said that Imran Khan was disqualified after being found guilty of corrupt practices under Section 167 of the Elections Act, 2017 and his sentencing for three years.
Police in Pakistan's Punjab province said that over 200 supporters of Imran Khan have been detained since his arrest. An Islamabad trial court convicted Khan in the Toshakhana case, citing "corrupt practices", on Saturday, leading to his arrest.
The walkathon was the brainchild of 'British Women In Sarees', conceived during August's heritage month to honor National Handloom Day.
The contestants of the Miss Universe Indonesia pageant accused the organisers of sexual harassment and alleged that they were subjected to topless "body checks". Six contestants have filed police complaints.
The five-year tenure of the lower house of the Parliament is ending on August 12 but it is likely to be dissolved on August 9 by Prime Minister Sharif, who will send advice to President Arif Alvi, a former leader of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan challenged his conviction in the Toshakhana corruption case. He labelled the trial court verdict as a "slap in the face of due process and fair trial" and "a gross travesty of justice".
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan's attorney Naeem Haider Panjotha said that the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supremo was prepared to spend his whole life in jail.
The Hazara Express train travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi derailed on Sunday in Nawabshah district near the Sarhari Railway Station, 275 kilometres from the provincial capital Karachi.
A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by rain, hail and lightning in the eastern US, claimed two lives and knocked out electricity to more than 1.1 million households and businesses and disrupted thousands of flight operations. A tornado watch has been issued in several states across the East Coast.
A 20-year-old woman in Australia's Melbourne is fighting for her life after she miraculously survived a fall from a seven-storey building. The victim had undergone various lifesaving surgeries following the accident.
The WHO issued an alert over a batch of Cold Out, an India-made common cold syrup, which was being sold in Iraq over higher than acceptable limits of contaminants in the product.
