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Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with around 150 rockets on Friday, a day after the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate after Israel launched a mass bombing attack, the Israeli military and the militant group said.

After months of showdown between US billionaire Elon Musk and the Brazilian judiciary, the law has finally prevailed! Social media platform X has now agreed to appoint a legal representative in the South American country, one of the key demands made by the Brazilian Supreme Court.

The Sri Lankan presidential election is going down to the wire. For the first time in the island country's history, the vote counting has gone into the second round after no single candidate managed to win 50 per cent plus one vote needed to emerge victorious.

More than 50 people were killed and many others were injured following a gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran's South Khorasan Province, state media reported on Sunday (Sep 22).

At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured on Saturday (Sep 21) in a mass shooting involving several assailants in the US state of Alabama.

Pakistan and China decided on Saturday to intensify their collaboration in a number of areas, such as border control and counterterrorism, and to work together to stop drug sales and smuggling.

The antibiotic-resistant infections can kill nearly 40 million people by 2050, as per a new study published in The Lancet. According to the researchers, drug-resistant infections led to the death of more than one million people every year between 1900 and 2021.

Disclaimer: Some readers may find the story disturbing. Discretion is advised. In a case that is starkly similar to Shraddha Walker's brutal killing by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawalla in 2022, a 26-year-old woman's dead body was found chopped in 30 pieces and kept inside a fridge in an apartment in Vyalikaval locality of Bengaluru, said the police.

Carlos Alcaraz hit out at the tennis calendar on Saturday, claiming the schedule is "going to kill us". The 21-year-old French Open and Wimbledon champion is currently taking part in the Laver Cup, his 14th tournament of the year.

British boy band Coldplay is coming to India in January 2025. And, Indian fans couldn't be more excited about this. However, on Sunday (Sept 22), the tickets for the rock band show were set to go live at 12:00 pm, but fans were disappointed after the online ticketing site BookMyShow crashed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Quad Summit at the latter's Wilmington, Delaware, home on Saturday (Sep 21).

Marxist-leaning leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who grabbed an early lead in the presidential election in Sri Lanka, vowed on Sunday (Sep 22) that he would not scrap the country's unpopular four-year $2.

Polls closed in Sri Lanka's first election since the economic collapse, and the counting of votes is underway. Millions of voters cast their votes to select a leader who will face the task of bolstering the country's fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.

Polls closed in Sri Lanka's first election since the economic collapse, and the counting of votes is underway. Millions of voters cast their votes to select a leader who will face the task of bolstering the country's fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.

Pop singer Chappell Roan, whose rise to stardom has been nothing short of meteoric, recently revealed her struggle with severe depression. In a new interview, the 26-year-old singer opened up about her mental health battle and how fame has changed her life.

Fawad Khan's movie The Legend of Maula Jatt is set to release in India, two years after the movie's original release worldwide. This is the first Pakistani movie to be released in India in over a decade.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he feels critics of the Premier League champions want the club wiped "from the face of the Earth" over their alleged breaches of financial rules.

Disclaimer: Some readers may find the story disturbing. Discretion is advised. In another heart-breaking incident, a software engineer died by suicide at his home.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-day trip to the United States, carried with him some exquisite gifts for United States President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden.