Oil smuggling has been so enormously profitable that no matter how many obstacles Washington and Brussels put up, the barrels kept flowing.

A client who duped a sex worker with fake proof of payment has been convicted of rape in Belgium, in a ruling the Antwerp court of appeal called unprecedented on Thursday.

Amnesty International says North Korea is executing people, including young citizens, for watching <i>Squid Game</i> and listening to K-pop.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office posted a celebratory message on World Hijab Day, calling the head covering the "identity and pride" of Muslim women.

With Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League barred from contesting, the political battlefield has opened to new contenders.

A 'bad day', 'perplexing', 'absolute bloodbath', 'bizarre decision', 'setback for journalism'... the reactions to the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post's brutal decision to lay off a third of newsroom staff worldwide, around 300 people.

Democratic US senators on Thursday urged the Pentagon to conduct an immediate review of SpaceX amid allegations that Chinese investors have secretly acquired stakes in the closely held rocket maker, citing potential national security risks.

Austria's Ambassador to India, Robert Zischg, described the newly announced EU-India Free Trade Agreement political declaration as the "mother of all deals" - one that, he says, will "affect close to two billion people".

An Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centers and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday.

Bangladesh will allow postal voting for the first time in its history in the February 12 national election, the Election Commission announced last month.

The US Justice Department has publicly released thousands more documents from the estate of registered sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The sudden breakthrough in the India-US trade negotiations was a result of multiple converging factors, Dhruva Jaishankar, Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) America, has said.

"Having spent decades navigating the slippery slopes of policy and the treacherous inclines of debate, it was, quite ironically, a simple marble step that proved to be my undoing."

Caroline O'Donovan, who joined The Post in 2022, reported on technology companies and corporate accountability, with a particular focus on Amazon.

The India-US trade deal - which will see the US slash reciprocal tariffs to 18 per cent and India stop buying oil from Russia - will be signed early next week, sources told NDTV Thursday afternoon.

Saudi Arabia is set to introduce official passports for camels to regulate trade, protect ownership, and manage its 2.2 million-strong camel population, underlining the animal's lasting cultural and economic importance.

China's leader Xi Jinping held back-to-back calls with Russia's Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump this week, timing analysts said was rare and significant as Beijing positions itself as a stable global power.

A Delaware man who was once married to former first lady Jill Biden decades ago remains in jail on first-degree murder charges as authorities investigate the death of his wife.

The last major arms control agreement between the US and Russia expired Thursday, increasing the risk of a new arms race between the world's two largest nuclear powers amid growing global instability.

Security forces have dealt a big blow to Pakistan-backed terrorism, eliminating a notorious Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district.