The Early Spring is proof not everyone can talk about their real feelings, and it is perfectly OK

UN votes to ‘correct the map’ as India backs fairer world view

Nigerian Navy discovers 99,000 litres of suspected stolen, illegally refined products as it intensifies anti-crude oil theft operations

Who is Aditi Paudel? 17-year-old becomes Japan's first literacy ambassador

Bengaluru: Officials find 40 kg expired chilli at chairman's club 

Jaishankar rejects trade link to ending Ukraine war 

Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill three, injure 23 despite truce

Alpine glacier was covered with sheep wool sheets to prevent melting. It worked

South Korea mulls deploying military assets to Strait of Hormuz

World's fifth-largest economy, British army can't afford to train

Breaking | Vance takes the podium: First White House briefing since Leavitt's exit

Taiwan raises 'concerns' over China's missile test

BRICS 2026: $1 trillion sovereign capital set to converge in Delhi for first iBRICS Summit

What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain that Trump has again threatened to bomb?

UN votes to correct world map that visually shrank Africa for 450 years

Former NewJeans member Danielle launches YouTube channel, hints at new solo journey

Bangladesh batter Towhid Hridoy creates history with 350 not out in South Africa

Brendan Fraser’s transformation fuels The Mummy 4 excitement as fans welcome back Rick O’Connell

Krishna Janmashtami 2026: From Dhaniya Panjiri to Makhana Kheer- 5 best sweet dishes perfect for celebrating Lord Krishna’s birth

Donald Trump plans to travel to Ireland on Qatari-donated jet amid security concerns

Nazi-looted art to return to Jewish heirs

Eight killed in Kerala’s Thrissur after car rams into lorry parked on highway

Why Russian fighter jets use bulky, low-pressure tyres compared to US jets

FBI-wanted fraud accused arrested in Jalandhar over $600,000 scam

Why US tanks weigh over 20 tons more than Russian tanks

New Friday OTT releases (September 4, 2026): GDN, Dhamaal 4, Jagamae Sangeetham- Watch 6 new movies and TV shows on Netflix, Prime Video and more

Killing the Himalayas slowly: Human urine is melting a glacier on Mount Everest

Armed with a microscope, some carving tools and a pencil, an Egyptian artist carves pharaonic statues into tiny tips of pencils. Inspired by a Taiwanese artist who creates similar work, 28-year-old Ibrahim Bilal decided to use this medium to highlight Egyptian history in a unique way.

Egyptian man transforms pencil tips into works of art

With the holidays approaching, jewellery maker Nadia Bele is trying to make the necessity of wearing a mask a little more pleasant for her customers. Her client base includes many Greek celebrities as well as international customers.

Greek jewellery maker brightens up masks for the holidays

Researchers believe they have found a previously unknown species of beaked whale in waters off Mexico's western coast. If confirmed, the new species would mark a significant discovery among giant mammals.

Researchers think they spotted new whale species off Mexico

Wildlife park and zoo Pairi Daiza has announced the birth of a new orangutan baby in its premises in Brugelette, Belgium.

Belgian wildlife park welcomes baby orangutan

South Korean furniture design student Kim Ha-neul is transforming discarded face masks into stools in an effort to show that the masks can be recycled and to draw attention to the environmental pollution they are causing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

South Korean student transforms used face masks into stools to promote recycling

Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott are offering "Songs of Comfort and Hope" in a new album set for release Friday, December 11

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma dedicates 'Songs of Comfort and Hope' to those 'going through tough time'

Millions of young Chinese toy lovers are behind the popularity of Pop Mart, a Beijing-based company due to list in Hong Kong on Friday (December 11) after raising $676 million in an initial public offering that priced at the top of its range, valuing the decade-old firm at as much as $7 billion.

Not for kids: Chinese mystery box maker rakes millions from country’s millennial consumers

One film, one-minute, filmed on one phone -- that was the simple criteria for the 16th edition of the Mobile Film festival that concluded on Monday (December 7) evening that tackled the theme of 'Women Empowerment' this year.

Got a minute?: Festival awards 60-second films tackling 'women empowerment'

Children won't get the chance to sit on Santa's lap at theatres across Italy this year but if you ask nicely and you have been well behaved he may find the time to give you a call instead.

Pick up the phone - Santa is on the line

One of the largest 'Christmas trees' in the world was lit up on Monday (December 7) in the medieval Italian town of Gubbio, a tradition dating back 40 years in which the entire slope of Mount Ingino is lit up with lights in the shape of a tree.

Giant Christmas tree display lights up Italian mountain

A Romanian cobbler who made giant shoes to help keep people apart during the first wave of COVID-19 has come up with a new line of huge winter boots to stamp out the second onslaught of the disease.

Romanian cobbler hopes to stamp out COVID with giant-sized winter boots

Diego Segura sits just outside the walls of Diego Armando Maradona stadium in Buenos Aires where he paints tributes to the local legend and the global soccer icon who recently passed away.

Argentine street artist immortalizes Maradona

First it was toilet paper, now it's Christmas trees as Australians stock up on the ultimate festive decoration in record numbers to celebrate the end of a year most people would rather forget. Nearly three weeks from Christmas Day on Dec. 25, owners of Christmas tree farms said they were already having to close due to elevated demand for home-grown pine trees, with some already taking tree orders for Christmas 2021.

Australians panic-buying Christmas trees? In 2020, drone footage shows anything is possible

The annual gingerbread competition at the Architecture and Design Museum in Stockholm is usually filled with wide-eyed children and adults marvelling at the culinary creations of the nation's bakers, but this year the Covid-19 pandemic has put a spanner in the works, which is reflected in the 2020 theme of "distance".

Gingerbread Greta and Anders Tegnell on show at corona-inspired baking competition

Even baubles hanging on Christmas trees can be reminders of the need to protect yourself amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, one factory making New Year's decorations has issued a collection of hand-painted baubles donning face masks.

Siberian factory puts masks on baubles to mark Christmas 2020

It is a ritual steeped in pagan mystery, updated for the coronavirus age. Sick people in northern France occasionally leave garments in healing trees in the hope of a cure, following a tradition that persists since pre-Roman times.

COVID masks adorn healing trees in updated pagan rite

St. Nicholas is keeping tradition alive and is speaking with children by video conference, as COVID restrictions in Belgium prevent him from seeing them face to face.

St. Nicholas video chats with Belgian children, keeping tradition alive despite COVID

Hundreds of sprinting Santas take over the German town of Michendorf every year on December 6, the day of its famous Santa Claus run. But this year, runners were asked to run separately and post photos of themselves while running.

Sprinting Santas keep Santa Claus run alive despite coronavirus restrictions

Spain's Bilbao museum included masks, gloves and toilet papers within their nativity scenes to integrate the pandemic in their tradition.

Masks sneak into Bilbao's museums nativity scenes

Catalan children enjoyed on Saturday (December 5) their traditional "Tio de Nadal", hoping the 'Christmas Log' poops gifts galore on December 24.

“Tio de Nadal’, or how to beat a log so that it poops gifts

A handgun used by the late Sean Connery in the first James Bond film sold for $256,000 at auction in Beverly Hills on Thursday (December 3), topping earlier estimates for the piece of Hollywood history.

Sean Connery's 007 pistol from 'Dr.No' sells for $256,000

A Ukrainian social entrepreneur has turned a waste recycling vending machine into an animal-friendly initiative where plastic bottles serve as currency to buy food for stray cats and dogs.

Machine with a heart: Recycle plastic and feed stray animals in one go

For the first time in music history, 197 musicians - one from each country - have formed an orchestra, hoping to exemplify how people can transcend physical and cultural borders to come together.

Musicians from every country form Earth Orchestra to record unique song

Australian Great Barrier Reef experts agreed on Friday (December 4) that the government needs to step up in protecting the world's most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem, as an international conservation group also said it was in a critical state as a result of climate change.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef outlook worsens, environmentalists blame government

It's hoped a new exhibition at the Queen's Gallery in London will help restore the finances of The Royal Collection Trust, after venues around the UK had to close to the general public for several months this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Old Master paintings on display at The Queen's Gallery

Two giant pandas welcomed frost in their enclosure, the CCTV camera of Moscow Zoo showed their reactions to the ice crust covering pounds on Monday (July 31).

Pandas in Moscow zoo enjoy first ice

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