At least 19 people have been killed and dozens injured in Nepal after demonstrations against political corruption and a government social media ban led to clashes between protesters and security forces. Thousands heeded a call by demonstrators describing themselves as Generation Z to gather near the parliament building in Kathmandu over the decision to ban…
A woman accused of murdering her two children and hiding their remains in suitcases is going on trial in New Zealand, in a case that has shocked the country. Hakyung Lee, who was extradited from South Korea to New Zealand in November 2022, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder. The remains of…
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he is stepping down after less than a year in the role, following two major election losses. The move comes a day before his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was expected to vote on whether to hold an internal leadership vote that could have forced him out. The LDP…
Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Team Cherry The biggest online video game stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong – one of the most-anticipated games of the year. Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store Steam after its release at 15:00…
An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia. The man arrived to collect his grandchild from First Steps Learning Academy in the southern suburb of Bangor, on Monday afternoon. But he accidentally took home a different child, who was asleep in a…
Indian doctors have successfully removed “parasitic twins” – two foetuses that were growing inside the abdomen of a 20-day-old baby. Called foetus in foetu, the condition is extremely rare, with fewer than 200 cases reported worldwide until now, a handful of which were in India. The condition develops early in pregnancy when a malformed foetus…
Fifteen people were killed and more than 30 others were wounded in a suicide bombing near a political rally in Pakistan, authorities said. Hundreds of members of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) had gathered for a rally at a stadium in Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province, when a bomb exploded in the parking…
Australia’s top court has thrown out a last-ditch attempt by the country’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, to overturn a landmark defamation ruling. Thursday’s ruling ends Mr Roberts-Smith’s long legal battle with newspapers he had sued over reports of serious misconduct while he was deployed to Afghanistan. A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles…
