Bangladesh General Election 2026 LIVE Updates: Bangladeshis are set to cast ballots on Thursday in a crucial national election, the first since the July 2024 uprising that ended former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15 years of iron-fisted rule.

Google-parent Alphabet will issue bonds maturing in 100 years as it continues to invest massively in infrastructure for artificial intelligence, according to data published Tuesday by Bloomberg.

With Bangladesh heading into national elections in less than 24 hours, a rare and urgent congressional briefing on Capitol Hill has thrown a harsh spotlight on what speakers described as the accelerating persecution of Hindu.

A French yoga teacher who was held in a blood and feces-stained Venezuelan jail on suspicion of being a US spy described how guards put him "through hell" in an attempt to break him.

The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has deleted its X post showing a map of India that depicted the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Aksai Chin, as part of India.

Gisele Pelicot, the survivor of mass rapes organised by her husband, has published her memoirs about the trial that turned her into an internationally celebrated figure in the movement to end violence against women.

A lawyer for YouTube insisted Tuesday that the Google-owned video platform was neither intentionally addictive nor technically social media, as a landmark US trial targeting tech giants entered its second day.

US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard told Reuters on Tuesday that she has wound down a task force she launched last year with the declared goal of rooting out politicisation from intelligence agencies.

Feb 10 - xAI co-founders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba have resigned from the artificial intelligence firm they started with billionaire Elon Musk less than three years ago, they said in social media posts.

A group of Buddhist monks — bearing a message of peace — walked into the heart of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, greeted by large, joyful crowds as they completed their 15-week trek from Texas.

New surveillance video of a masked and apparently armed person on Nancy Guthrie's doorstep the night she went missing was released Tuesday by federal investigators.

Ten people died including the shooter after a woman opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday before turning the gun on herself, police said.

Yunus sees himself as the prime candidate for the post of President. Yet, on the streets of Bangladesh, he is unpopular and much reviled.

The number of women juggling two part-time jobs rose 20 percent year-on-year.

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is to be called to testify Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom by lawyers out to prove social media is dangerously addictive by design to young, vulnerable minds.

Title 18, Section 111 of the U.S. Code is a catch-all charge for anyone who "forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes" with a federal officer conducting official duties.

China wants to use artificial intelligence in public tendering and bidding to guard against backroom deals and corruption, according to guidelines released, just as President Xi Jinping's years-long corruption purge intensifies.

With Sheikh Hasina's exit, families of the disappeared feel there may finally be a chance to speak openly and demand justice.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has made one of the starkest admissions of Islamabad's past alignment with the United States, accusing Washington of "exploiting" the Southeast Asian nation for its strategic interests.

The Trump administration has also removed the mention of agricultural goods from the text. It also altered its wording around President Trump's claim about India's "commitment" to buying over $500 billion of US goods.