As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers went into the fields. He directed the choir, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood.

The UK's former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, is stepping down as a member of the upper house of parliament, it was announced Tuesday, as a scandal deepened over his ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Witnesses reported the elephant grabbed him with its trunk, slammed him to the ground, and stomped on him.

Pakistan on Tuesday said that it has been invited to participate in Iran-US talks in Turkey aimed at diffusing tensions between the two nations. Foreign ministers from Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have also been invited.

An air alert warning of a possible Russian missile attack blared out across Kyiv on Tuesday during a visit by NATO chief Mark Rutte.

India responded to a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi being stolen from Australia's Melbourne. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that India has raised the matter with Australian authorities.

France summoned billionaire Elon Musk to a "voluntary interview" as cybercrime authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X, the Paris public prosecutor's office said.

In a significant breakthrough after months of tense negotiations and public sparring, Washington and New Delhi have sealed a trade deal that slashes US tariffs on Indian goods from 50 per cent to 18 per cent.

Former US Ambassador to India Kenneth I. Juster described the India-US trade understanding as "historic", saying it marks the first agreement of this magnitude between New Delhi and Washington and lays the foundation for a future free trade agreement

In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Dr Shafiqur Rahman said, "On the question of women, Jamaat's position is neither confused nor apologetic - it is principled. We do not think women should come into leadership."

A multi-agency search involving helicopters and boats located the remaining family members around 8:30 pm, clinging to a single paddleboard nearly 14 kilometres offshore.

A US federal judge said he would hear a request to block access to investigative files linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, after lawyers flagged unredacted names of victims.

Russia launched its biggest drone and missile attack this year on Ukraine overnight, leaving hundreds of thousands without heating in freezing temperatures on Tuesday, just one day ahead of fresh talks aiming to find an end to the four-year war.

The son of Norway's crown princess pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to four counts of rape at the opening of a trial that has embarrassed the royal family.

Jashanpreet Singh, the 27-year-old founder and leader of the Punjabi Devils Motorcycle Club, has pleaded guilty in a federal court in the United States to charges related to illegal arms trafficking and possession of a machine gun.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is overseeing a sweeping purge of China's military elite after a corruption scandal in the Rocket Force exposed missiles filled with water, faulty launch silos, and broken command systems.

A bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been stolen from outside the Australian Indian Community Centre in Rowville, Melbourne.

A Hong Kong court jailed a mainland Chinese student for three months after she hired an impersonator to take an overseas English test and used the result to meet university graduation requirements.

The Russian captain of a cargo ship that hit an anchored oil tanker in the North Sea last year was on Monday found guilty by a UK court of killing a crew member.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has taken over AI startup xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal, as Musk pushes plans to build space-based data centres to power the future of artificial intelligence.

Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said

During the one-child era, the trafficking of young boys was fuelled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say. Unwanted girls were often abandoned or sold into sex work, forced marriage or labour.

Jeffrey Epstein denied he was the "devil" and insisted he was only the lowest level of sexual predator in a video interview included in the latest release of files by US authorities.

Three Indian men have been arrested in Canada in connection with a firing incident outside a residence in Surrey. The three men have been charged with a firearm offence and sent to police custody till February 5.

OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year, eight sources familiar with the matter said, potentially complicating the relationship