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In India, a woman was beheaded by her father-in-law after a heated family dispute ensued due to quarrels between the victim and her sister-in-law.

The EU has reached an agreement giving users greater access to their data and control over how the digital information is used by companies.

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey was due in a London court on Wednesday to stand trial for a dozen sexual offences which allegedly occurred more than a decade ago.

Violent protests shook Paris suburbs overnight and celebrities expressed outrage Wednesday after police shot dead a teenager during a traffic stop and appeared to have lied about the circumstances of the killing.

Four Armenian separatist fighters were killed Wednesday in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region by Azerbaijani fire, rebels said, as Baku and Yerevan held peace talks mediated by the United States.

Outside a bustling fruit market in Senegal's Dakar region, three trucks are blocking the road while a dozen men sweat to unload the precious cargo.

Wearing a pink dress that matches the bow in her hair, eight-year-old Agatha flashes a smile that belies all she has been through as a trans child growing up in Brazil.

Almost 62 years after it was detonated, Tsar Bomba still holds the title of the largest and strongest nuclear bomb ever produced by mankind.

Lee Jung-hee was set to turn 60 next year but South Korea dropped its traditional age counting system Wednesday, so the Seoul-based housewife just got a year younger -- and she's thrilled.

A satellite image from NASA's satellite shows smoke from the Canadian wildfires already over Spain and Portugal.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko also claimed that he stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin from destroying the Wagner group.

At least four people were killed and more than 40 wounded in a Russian missile strike that hit a restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, authorities said Tuesday.

Cuba, which relies heavily on the tourist dollars of visitors to its pristine Caribbean beaches and colorful towns, has experienced a frustrating scarcity of foreigners since the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko received an unusual gift as his country continues to take delivery of tactical nuclear weapons from Russia.

The Russian government spent more than 160 billion rubles to fund the Wagner group and its owner, Concord company.

Wildfires raging across Canada, made more intense by global warming, have released more planet-warming carbon dioxide in the first six months of 2023 than in any full year on record, EU scientists said Tuesday.

Julian Sands, whose body was identified Tuesday after he disappeared in January while hiking in California, was a British actor who shot to fame as the romantic hero in 1980s period drama "A Room with a View".

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was re-elected with 56.17 percent to serve a second term, the head of the electoral commission said on Tuesday following a process disputed by the opposition.

MANPADS have reportedly caused significant threat to Russian fighter jets, particularly the Su-35 and Su-34 aircraft.

Fighting raged in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, after paramilitaries seized Khartoum's main police base.

French police on Tuesday killed a teenager who refused to stop for a traffic check outside Paris, prompting expressions of shock and questions over the readiness of security forces to pull the trigger.

Shiba Inu has come a long way since it was created by its pseudonymous creator Ryoshi in August 2020.

Britain and the European Union signed a long-awaited cooperation pact on financial services regulation on Tuesday in a new sign of improving post-Brexit relations between the two sides.

Over the past decade, China has emerged as the world leader by investing hundreds of billions of dollars in high-speed trains on its 38,000-kilometer network.

While Atlanta's airport saw the highest number of passengers at almost 94 million, London's Heathrow airport witnessed the highest annual passenger traffic growth at over 217%

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday faced accusations of minimising the problems of unemployment after he told the mother of a jobseeker that her son could easily find work.

A prominent Chinese financial journalist who has compared the country's economic problems to the Great Depression has been banned from social media.

The father said the school administration encouraged him to pursue further studies and finish senior high school.

Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said Tuesday, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics.