Mild tremors were felt in Kolkata on Friday after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Bangladesh's Ghorashal area.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday departed for a three-day visit to South Africa. During his trip, the Prime Minister will attend the 20th G20 Leaders' Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city and economic hub.

Baloch leader Mehran Marri has delivered a scathing indictment of Pakistan's human rights record in Balochistan, alleging widespread enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detentions.

Venezuela's attorney general told AFP Thursday that Nobel laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be considered a "fugitive" if she travels to Norway to accept the peace prize.

In Washington's embassy district, years' worth of wildly overgrown vegetation outside an empty building was finally pruned away in September as the flag of Syria was raised.

A boiler at a glue-making factory in eastern Pakistan exploded on Friday, killing at least 15 workers and injuring seven others. Police said they arrested the factory manager and were looking for the factory owner, who fled shortly after the blast.

The Polar Night phenomenon, caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis, will leave the town without direct sunlight until January 22, 2026.

Just over a week after he called for halting "legal immigration", Nalin Haley, the son of former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, has said that naturalised citizens should not be able to hold office.

Alphabet Inc.s Google said it has developed a way for its latest Pixel smartphones to exchange images and other files with iPhones using Apple Inc.s AirDrop protocol.

The US will increase the immigration and border-related fees starting January 1, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced.

The Trump administration is proposing to open new areas off of California, Florida and Alaska to crude drilling as part of a draft blueprint released Thursday that would dramatically expand the sale of oil and natural gas rights.

In its biggest immigration shake-up in nearly half a century, the United Kingdom is planning to make some legal migrants wait up to 20 years before letting them apply to settle in Britain permanently.

American International Group Inc.'s announcement last week that it was parting ways with incoming President John Neal stunned insurance industry observers and raised questions about what caused the veteran executive to lose a $17 million job.

The US Coast Guard is poised to change some of its language and policies surrounding the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses as well as how personnel report hate incidents.

Only 776 of the more than 10,000 air traffic controllers who had to work without pay during the shutdown will receive the $10,000 bonuses that President Donald Trump suggested.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has agreed to work on the 28-point peace plan drafted by the US and Russia, which proposes to force Kyiv to cede large chunks of territory taken by Moscow.

The White House on Thursday defended President Donald Trump after he called a female reporter "piggy" as she questioned him about Jeffrey Epstein, saying the president's remarks reflected his frankness and transparency.

A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) uncovered a major Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip where the body of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was held by the terror group recently.

When the gates of an aid site in Gaza creaked open shortly after dawn, a thin line of men and women waited silently behind coils of fencing. Some held plastic bowls, others documents issued by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).