ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Can Rohit Sharma’s India win the World Cup?
An experienced India side will look to leave last year’s heartache behind as they plot their way to T20 World Cup glory.
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7 Pakistani soldiers, 23 militants killed in separate shootouts during raids along the Afghan border
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces were conducting several raids in the country’s volatile northwest, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, when shootouts ensued leaving seven soldiers and 23 militants dead, the army said Monday.
Fears rise a second landslide and disease outbreak loom at site of Papua New Guinea disaster
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris that swept over a village, a United Nations official said Tuesday.
Philippines sounds alarm over ‘worrisome’ rise in sale of children ads online amid exploitation fears
“While the ‘buyers’ are often childless couples who may want to start a family and [are] frustrated with the adoption policies, children are also subject to being sexually exploited by syndicates who groom children for paedophiles,” Amihan Abueva, regional executive director of Child Rights Coalition Asia and the co-founder of anti-child trafficking organisation ECPAT, told This Week in Asia.
History shows how a UK election can impact the country's stock market
LONDON — The U.K. is less than six weeks away from a General Election in which polls suggest the center-left Labour Party could return to power after 14 years — and analysts say stock markets would react positively to that outcome.
Papua New Guinea landslide kills more than 670, no hope of finding survivors: UN agency
The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670 as emergency responders and traumatised relatives gave up hope that any survivors will now be found.
Fire at children’s hospital kills seven newborns in India’s capital
The owner of the hospital in Delhi has fled, police said, adding that legal action is being taken against the individual.