Fuel tanker blast kills over 70 in Nigeria
South Korean court extends impeached President Yoon's detention
A Palestinian has been killed when a group of Israeli settlers attacked the town of Huwara, amid a surge in settler violence across the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Labib Dumaidi, 19, was shot in the heart by an Israeli settler, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Friday.
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels. Staying below that marker long-term is widely
Canada has moved out a majority of its diplomats working in India outside of New Delhi to either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore after it gave Ottawa an October 10 deadline to reduce its diplomatic staff to achieve parity in strength following a row over the killing of terrorist Hardeep Singh
Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to
A fire swept through a six-story residential building in Mumbai, leaving at least seven people dead and injuring more than 40 others in India’s financial and entertainment capital. Eight fire engines took three hours to extinguish the early morning fire in the Goregaon West
At least 43 million child displacements were linked to extreme weather events over the past six years, the equivalent of 20,000 children being forced to abandon their homes and school every single day, new research has found. Floods and storms accounted for 95% of recorded child
An attack Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed 112 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming "terrorist organisations" for the drone strike in government-held Homs. Separately, Turkish air raids in the country's Kurdish-held northeast killed at least 11
Ukrainian officials said on Thursday (October 5) that a Russian strike on a grocery store and cafe in the eastern region of Kharkiv had killed dozens of people. The Ukrainian prosecutor general said at least 49 people were killed. The head of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov
Norwegian novelist and dramatist Jon Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2023, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. The Nobel
Russia may use sea mines against civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying them on the approach to Ukrainian ports, the United Kingdom has said citing intelligence sources. The warning comes as Ukraine’s navy said that 12 cargo vessels were ready to enter a
Fourteen people have been killed and 102 others, including 22 soldiers, are missing after flash floods hit Sikkim early on Wednesday. According to figures released by the state government, 26 people have been injured so far and over 2,000 evacuated so far. Eleven bridges have
Migrants at the MSF's (Doctors Without Borders) Geo Barents ship at the Italian port of Brindisi on September 19, 2023, carrying 471 migrants, including 173 minors, one of whom was less than a year old. Rishi Sunak will call on Thursday for more co-ordinated European action to
The US has sent roughly 1.1 million bullets seized from Iran last year to Ukraine, its military has said. The US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees operations in the Middle East, says the rounds were confiscated from a ship bound for Yemen in December. Ukraine's Western
French-born Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus of the United States and Russian-born Alexei Ekimov on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for research in tiny particles known as quantum dots. The trio, whose names were leaked in the Swedish press ahead of the announcement, succeeded in
'Dedicated Teacher': Anne L'huillier Went Right Back To Her Students After Winning Nobel Prize Anne L'Huillier celebrates with students and colleagues at Lund University. Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in
Police in Turkey have detained at least 67 people over suspected links to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group in operations across the country. Tuesday's sweep, carried out in 16 Turkish provinces, comes after the PKK claimed responsibility for a suicide
As many as 23 army jawans have been reported missing after a flash flood occurred in the Teesta River of Lachen Valley due to a sudden cloud burst over Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim, said officials. The Defence Public Relations Officer (PRO) Guwahati informed about the incident on
The bright orange hotel sticks out as far as the eye can see - but unfortunately for its owner Bishnu Sharma, there is hardly anyone there to see it. His hotel offers breath-taking mountain views from the town of Lumbini in Nepal - Buddha's birthplace. But a hoped-for surge in
Pakistan has ordered all undocumented immigrants, mainly nearly 1.73 million Afghan nationals, to voluntarily leave the country or face deportations. “We have given them a November 1 deadline,” Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said on Tuesday amid claims by Islamabad that 14
Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing revolt - the first time ever that a US House of Representatives Speaker has lost a no-confidence vote. The final tally was 216-210 to remove the California congressman as leader of the Republican majority in the lower chamber of