Deadly confrontations between India and Pakistan erupted after an April 22 attack on tourists which killed 26 people

"The helicopter was assigned to conduct a grappling exercise"

The deaths were reported in areas near the heavily militarised border

The Philippines yesterday criticised a “high-risk” manoeuvre by a Chinese vessel near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in a rare incident involving warships from the two navies.

Drones targeted army-held areas of eastern and southern Sudan for a fifth straight day yesterday as paramilitaries kept up their attacks on areas formerly regarded as safe, an army source said.

Turkish authorities yesterday blocked access to the account of Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on social media platform X, where he has nearly 10 million followers.

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Leo XIV, becoming the first US pontiff

US billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates intensified his ongoing dispute with Elon Musk, alleging that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was harming the world’s most vulnerable children by making what Gates described as ill-advised reductions to US development aid.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday told Russia’s Vladimir Putin their two countries should be “friends of steel”, as they pledged to boost cooperation to a new level at a time of heightened confrontation with the West.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a little known missionary from Chicago, was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church yesterday, becoming the first US pope and taking the name Leo XIV.

Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive used in artillery shells and other munitions in the war in Ukraine, a Reuters review of publicly available state documents has found.

Israel launched dozens of airstrikes in south Lebanon yesterday, in one of its heaviest bombardments of the region since a ceasefire ended last year’s war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut their doors yesterday due to a lack of supplies, closing off a lifeline used by hundreds of thousands of people in a further blow to efforts to combat growing hunger in the enclave.

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St. Peter's rang out on Thursday, signalling that cardinals have elected a new pope to succeed Pope Francis and take charge of the Roman Catholic Church

Xi was in Moscow as Ukraine accused Russia of violating its own ceasefire within hours.

No pope in modern times has been elected on the first attempt.

Marco Rubio has instructed officials to push for regulatory approvals for Musk's satellite firm, Washington Post reports

At least 40 to 50 students, their hands cuffed with plastic zip-ties, were seen being loaded into New York Police Department vans

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said yesterday that they would continue targeting Israeli ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden despite a ceasefire deal with the United States.

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel yesterday, before locking themselves away from the world to elect the man they hope can unite a diverse but divided global Church.