The State Department, in an email, reportedly informed the Indian workers that their interviews were delayed due to the new social media vetting policy.

The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll road and struck a concrete barrier before rolling onto its side, said Budiono, a search and rescue agency chief who goes by single name like many Indonesians.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 km northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors shut after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Russia "does not have the capability to conquer and occupy Ukraine," let alone invade Europe, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has said, accusing "deep state warmongers" and sections of the Western media

Pakistan's Defence Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has claimed that Islamabad received 'divine help' during the country's military confrontation with India in May after India struck terror targets under Operation Sindoor.

Starbucks has appointed Indian-origin technology executive Anand Varadarajan as its new executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), tapping a nearly two-decade Amazon veteran to lead its global technology operations.

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.

Prince William and his eldest son, Prince George, put on aprons to help make Christmas lunch at a homeless shelter, a charity that the Prince of Wales first visited as a child with his mother, the late Princess Diana.

Power was restored Sunday morning to the bulk of the 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco impacted by a massive outage on Saturday that caused major disruptions in the city.

Two more persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with the lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh, according to a media report.

The Indian visa application centre in Bangladesh's Chittagong (Chattogram) has shut down indefinitely after the security situation worsened, with Islamist radicals creating chaos and targeting minorities.

More than half a million people in Cambodia have been displaced by two weeks of deadly border clashes with neighbouring Thailand, Phnom Penh said Sunday, ahead of regional talks aimed at easing tensions.

A passenger said on social media that an "actual doctor" on board confirmed that she was already dead.

Three men will stand trial next year after a silver steward employed at the official residence of the French president was arrested this week for the theft of items of silverware and table service worth thousands of euros, the Paris prosecutor's offi

Cultural organisations in Bangladesh are under attack from Islamic radicals. The interim government formed after the toppling of Sheikh Hasina's regime has failed to rein in mobs that continue to target cultural institutions and minorities.

A huge electricity outage hit San Francisco on Saturday, leaving 130,000 residents without power for several hours at its peak, with the city's main provider saying all services would return overnight.

Saudi Arabia has quietly expanded access to its only store that sells alcohol, allowing wealthy foreign residents to buy booze in the latest step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom's experiment in liberalization.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's net worth rose to nearly $750 billion after a US court reinstated Tesla stock options worth $139 billion.

At least 12 unknown suspects were behind the mass shooting near Johannesburg in South Africa - in which nine people died, and nine others were injured.

There is no direct evidence that Dipu Chandra Das, the Hindu man lynched in Bangladesh's Mymensingh for alleged blasphemy, actually made any remark hurting anyone's religious sentiment, investigation into the chilling murder has found.

Unknown gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in an attack at a township outside Johannesburg, police said Sunday, in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month.

Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Saturday expressed anger after a long-awaited cache of records from cases against him were released with many pages blacked-out and photos censored.

The Justice Department's much-anticipated release of records tied to Jeffrey Epstein arrived in a flood of documents that did little to quell the long-simmering intrigue, largely because some of the most consequential records were nowhere to be found

Sharif Osman Hadi, a polarising figure known for his strong anti-India rhetoric, gained prominence during Bangladesh's 2024 student uprising that led to the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year.

Ten individuals have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Dipu Chandra Das, a 25-year-old Hindu youth, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) apprehended seven suspects, while the police arrested three others.