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A day of utter dominance has India poised to secure just their second Test win in Perth and go 1-0 up in their defence of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (90 not out) and KL Rahul (62 not out) made a pitch that was previously difficult to bat on look easy as they wore down Austra...
Australia collapsed to 67-7 as India rallied with the ball to seize the initiative - despite being dismissed for just 150 on an extraordinary opening day of the first Test in Perth.After opting to bat first the tourists, who made a staggering six changes from their historic third Test defeat by New ...
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Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as Hamas's military commander.A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected Israel’s challenges to the court’s jurisdiction and issu...
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Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos.The 19-year-old's family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday. Hours earlier, the US State Department told the media that an American man died in the tourist town of Vang Vieng.T...
Several parts of the UK have seen heavy snowfall on Thursday as forecasters warn of Storm Bert's arrival at the weekend.More than 60 schools across the Highlands and 30 in north Wales have closed, while around 100 in Devon and Cornwall have closed, partially closed or opened later in the morning...
A Hong Kong court has sentenced dozens of pro-democracy leaders to years in jail for subversion, following a controversial national security trial.Benny Tai, 60, and Joshua Wong, 28, were among the so-called Hong Kong 47 group of activists and lawmakers who were involved in a plan to pick opposition...
Miss Nigeria, Chidimma Adetshina, has spoken of her pride at coming second in the Miss Universe competition, as well as being named Miss Africa and Oceania."I'm so proud of myself and I just made history," she said, shortly after losing out to Miss Denmark, Victoria Kjær Theilvig...
A Chinese influencer, with a huge global following and the approval of the Communist Party, has returned to the internet after a three-year hiatus.Famous for idyllic videos of life with her grandmother in a village in Sichuan province, the 34-year-old has released three videos since Tuesday - and th...
The US says Israel has not breached American laws on blocking aid supplies, after a 30-day deadline it gave Israel to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some military assistance cut off lapsed.Officials said on Tuesday that Israel has taken a number of steps to address its demands ...
Sara Sharif’s father has accepted “full responsibility” for her death, a court has heard.The 10-year-old's father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, had denied murder after Sara’s body was found with dozens of injuries at the fam...
The opposition Alliance of Change in Mauritius has won all 60 seats up for grabs on the archipelago's main island following Sunday's parliamentary election.Opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam, 77, said "the power of the people" had triumphed.Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, 62, had a...
At least 35 people were killed and 43 more injured after a car ploughed into a crowd of people exercising at a stadium in Zhuhai, China on Monday, according to authorities.A 62-year-old male driver, surnamed Fan, is alleged to have driven an SUV through a barrier and into Zhuhai Sports Centre in wha...
A journalist detained in Eritrean prison without trial for 23 years has won a Swedish human rights prize for his commitment to freedom of expression.Dawit Isaak, who holds dual Eritrean-Swedish citizenship, was given the Edelstam Prize "for his... exceptional courage", the foundation behin...
The main UN aid agency in Gaza says Israel has failed to meet a US deadline to boost aid to the territory or risk a reduction in American military aid.Last month, in a strongly worded letter, the US secretary of state gave Israel an ultimatum of 30 days to ensure more aid trucks reached Gaza daily. ...
The Kremlin has denied media reports that Donald Trump held a call with Vladimir Putin, in which the US president-elect was said to have warned the Russian president against escalating the war in Ukraine.The call, which was first reported by the Washington Post on Sunday, is said to have happened on...
India has said it is not nervous about working with Donald Trump, as the former US president is set to return to office for a second term after his win in the recently held election.Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday that many countries were nervous about a [Trump-led] US, but added...
Russia and Ukraine have carried out their biggest drone attacks against each other since the start of the war.Russia's defence ministry also said it intercepted 70 Ukrainian drones over six regions, including some approaching Moscow which forced flights to be diverted from three of the capital&#...
Former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said Democrats might have fared better in Tuesday's election if President Joe Biden had exited the race sooner.Pelosi - one of the most powerful politicians in Washington - told the New York Times that "had the president gotten out...
China has unveiled new measures aimed at boosting its flagging economy, as it braces for a second Donald Trump presidency.The country plans to tackle tens of billions of dollars of local government debt to prevent it being a drag on growth.Trump won the US election on a platform that promised steep ...
The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare, powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated...
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