OpenAI, Google and Perplexity have begun an unprecedented fight for artificial intelligence users in India, rolling out freebies in a strategy seen as a way to harvest troves of multilingual training data in the world's most populous nation.

Many who watched the video of a bystander disarm one of the killers during the Sydney mass shooting that left 15 dead have wondered how he found the courage and the strength to pull off the brave act

Pakistan's mounting water crisis is likely to worsen, as the Taliban government in Afghanistan has decided to move ahead with its plans to divert water from the Kunar River towards the Nangarhar region in the country

Amid a deteriorating security situation and the targeted hate and radical speeches towards India and its territorial sovereignty, the Indian Visa Application Centre in Dhaka has shut indefinitely.

Pakistan has decided to sell its entire 100 per cent stake in Pakistan International Airlines after bidders sought complete managerial control with no government role post-privatisation, local media reported on Wednesday.

Philippines said there was no evidence that the country was being used for terrorist training, a day after it was revealed the men behind Australia's Bondi Beach mass shooting had spent November on a southern island known for Islamist insurgencies.

Days after at least 15 people, including a child, were killed in a deadly shooting on Bondi Beach, new data shows that gun ownership in Sydney has been on the rise, with many buying multiple firearms on a single licence.

India has summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner in New Delhi, Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah, to issue a formal diplomatic protest over recent threats to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.

The Trump administration cited "terrorist presence" and "criminal and extremist activity" as reasons for the ban.

Paris' Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, remained closed on Wednesday, as its staff continued discussions on whether to extend a strike over pay and working conditions that started on Monday.

A former morgue manager at the prestigious Harvard Medical School was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the US Justice Department said.

An accused gunman in Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims.

Days after the attack on an anti-Sheikh Hasina radical leader in Bangladesh, the Muhammad Yunus administration in Dhaka has sought India's help to arrest and hand over the shooters.

The rupee is among the worst-performing currencies globally this year, sliding 6% against the dollar as a widening trade deficit, punitive 50% US tariffs and investment outflows have dragged it to a record low of 91.075 per dollar.

Mexican lawmakers got into a physical altercation on the floor of the Congress, with videos showing female legislators pushing and pulling each other's hair.

While the BBC has previously apologised for its "mistake", it insists there is no basis for a defamation case and said on Tuesday it would fight the lawsuit.

Nick Reiner, 32, was charged Tuesday with killing the 78-year-old actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced at a news conference with LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell

As Delhi and swathes of northern India choke under a blanket of toxic smog the AQI in the national capital was 437 at 4 pm Tuesday and 370 8 am Wednesday the Chinese embassy posted a note on X to underline relative success in Beijing's AQI fight.

Rhetoric seems to have eclipsed the grim realities of Pakistan, once again.

Extraordinary footage shows Ahmed Al Ahmed, a 43-year-old father-of-two who arrived in Australia from Syria in 2006, emerging from behind a parked car, grabbing the shooter from behind and wrestling the weapon from his hands.