A lush green forest in southern Chile might be home to the world's oldest tree after a new study found that an ancient alerce tree known as "great grandfather" could be more than 5,000 years old.

Toronto police shot and killed a man who was walking down a street carrying a gun in a city neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, an incident that prompted five nearby schools to be placed under precautionary lockdowns, city officials said.

British prosecutors said Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men.

Russia is advancing a new law allowing it to take control of the local businesses of western companies that decide to leave in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, raising the stakes for multinationals trying to exit.

US President Joe Biden said on Monday he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, as part of a series of critical comments about China, but an aide said the remark represented no change in US policy on the self-ruled island.

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday to denounce as "utterly untrue" claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.

Former US President George W Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

As debate over the 22 closed rooms in Taj Mahal reverberated in and out of the court last week, the Archaeological Survey of India has released pictures of some of the said underground rooms of the 17th century monument of love. The rooms were opened in January this year for conservation work.

A senior NATO official said Sunday that Russia’s military advance in Ukraine appears to be faltering and he expressed hope that Kyiv can win the war, as Russia’s neighbor Finland announced it wants to join the Western military alliance.

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs said on Friday. He was also ruler of Abu Dhabi emirate.

Elon Musk said on Friday his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc was temporarily on hold, citing pending details on spam and fake accounts.

Top officials of Archaeological Survey of India have said that the contention in the petition filed with Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench seeking opening of the 22 locked rooms of Taj Mahal is “factually incorrect,” reports Times of India.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today commended the BJP-led government in Assam state for strongly tackling illegal migration but alleged the Trinamool Congress government in neighbouring West Bengal was not cooperating with the Centre in dealing with the problem.

Sri Lanka’s president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, a prominent lawmaker said Friday.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her, according to a source with knowledge of proceedings.

A court in Delhi has taken cognisance of a charge sheet filed by India’s Enforcement Directorate against former Trinamool Congress youth wing leader Vinay Mishra; the alleged kingpin of a cattle smuggling racket across the India-Bangladesh border, Mohammad Enamul Haque; and others.

The United States' top diplomat and defence chief were Sunday set to make their first wartime visits to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago, with fierce battles raging in the east of the country.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday criticized a decision by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to visit Moscow on Tuesday, before heading to Kyiv.

Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed.

The US space agency Nasa should prioritise a mission to Uranus, according to an influential group of scientists.