A man died after setting himself on fire outside the UN’s headquarters in New York on Thursday, police said, with activists and reports identifying him as a pro-Tibet campaigner.

In the Venezuelan resort town of La Guaira, a group of rescuers watched as sensors that once detected life under the rubble now showed nothing, as silence gave way to resignation.

An overloaded bus veered off a road and fell more than 20 metres into a ravine in western Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 40 people, officials said.

India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has cleared purchase proposals worth 520 billion rupees ($5.46 billion) for equipment such as missiles and air defence systems, reports Reuters.

Plans funeral events in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Iraq

Dozens of fans queued to get their hands on the novel as his first book in three years hit shelves in Japan Friday

"We are saddened by this tragic and horrific incident, and offer our condolences to his family," A spokesperson for the UN chief, said

Trump also insists he wants Europe to take the lead role for its own defense

India and Japan will work more closely on critical minerals to boost “resilience” in their supply chains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as the two huge Asian economies look to cut dependence on top exporter China.

Public institutions in European Union countries are signing profitable contracts with Israeli companies despite Israel’s long track record of war crimes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, data collected by Statewatch and revealed by Al Jazeera shows.

Mediators, Qatar and Pakistan, concluded separate meetings with US and Iranian negotiators in Doha, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) said yesterday, adding that “positive progress” was made on issues related to the MoU and the Lake Lucerne Summit.

Two people were arrested Wednesday after they climbed up an antenna on the top of the Empire State Building in New York -- and possibly got engaged at the same time.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours yesterday, killing at least 21 people and damaging around 130 buildings in one of the biggest attacks of the war.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday formally apologised for the forced adoption of an estimated 185,000 babies born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976, calling it “a stain on our history”.

The Trump administration will intensify its fight against so-called birth tourism, the US attorney general said Wednesday, a day after a Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than two million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses, according to a study published Wednesday by a US think tank.

President Donald Trump wants a peace deal to end the "senseless killing" in Ukraine, a US official said Thursday after a massive Russian barrage on Kyiv killed at least 21 people

The World Health Organization on Thursday declared an end to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship which sparked international alarm, after the last person left quarantine

Latin America accounted for 67 percent of the submissions, with Colombia alone representing 25.9 percent of the total

Syrian state TV says a bomb had been planted at the cafe