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A court in the Netherlands said on Monday (Sept 9) that it convicted two Pakistani "political leaders" over their calls to murder anti-Muslim lawmaker Geert Wilders.

The Indian men’s selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar made big changes to the Duleep Trophy squads on Tuesday (Sep 10) as players bound for the Indian team’s Bangladesh series were released.

Sanket Bawankule, son of the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, reportedly fled the spot after an Audi owned by him hit several vehicles in Nagpur on 9 Sept.

At the two-day global summit on artificial intelligence (AI) in the military domain, nearly 100 countries, including the United States, China, and Ukraine, agreed that humans—not AI—should make critical decisions regarding the use of nuclear weapons.

More than 1,000 people have been killed or wounded by cluster munitions in Ukraine since Russia launched its war.

In a recent study, it has been revealed that when the Starship rocket of SpaceX exploded during its second flight on November 18, 2023, it led to the formation of a temporary 2,000-km wide hole in the atmosphere of the Earth.

In a scary "Titanic moment", a Carnival cruise ship escaped undamaged after grazing a piece of ice in Tracy Arm Fjord of Alaska last week. The moment was dramatically compared to the “Titanic moment" in modern times.

An appeals court in Switzerland said on Tuesday (Sep 10) that it found prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape and sexual coercion in a case 15 years ago, overturning an earlier lower court acquittal.

China's disappeared Foreign Minister Qin Gang has reportedly been demoted to low level publishing job. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has declined to comment on Qin’s current role. The Washington Post in its report cited two former US officials dealing the Fall From Grace of the Chinese Diplomat who was once called a 'Wolf Warrior'.

Princess Mahra Al Maktoum of Dubai, who divorced her husband on social media a few weeks back, is back in the news. She has come up with her own perfume line and has ironically named it "Divorce".

Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Chandrashekhar Bawankule's son Sanket Bawankule reportedly fled the spot after an Audi car owned by him hit several vehicles in the early hours of Monday (Sep 9).

Mamata Banerjee urges public to focus on Durga Puja celebrations instead of protesting. Victim’s mother expresses outrage, calls CM’s remark insensitive amid protests.

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Mission, bound for low-Earth orbit, had a successful liftoff at 0923 GMT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Sep 10). Four crew members aboard the Dragon capsule will be passing as close to Earth as 190 km (118 miles) and as far as 1,400 km (870 miles), the farthest any humans will have ventured since the end of the US Apollo moon programme in 1972.

A convoy of United Nations vehicles and staff detained for more than eight hours by Israel in northern Gaza on Monday has been released, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said. The Israeli military said on Monday it detained the convoy after receiving intelligence indicating that a number of "Palestinian suspects" were aboard and that it wanted to question them.

Fashion designer Rachel Zoe and her husband Rodger Berman have decided to part ways and move on in their lives separately. Their whirlwind romance of 33 years has come to an end and they have decided to break their marriage mutually.

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film producer, was urgently transferred from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital in New York City for emergency heart surgery after experiencing severe chest pains. Watch to know more.

Prominent Indian opposition leader Sitaram Yechury's is in a critical health condition, and was placed on respiratory support on Tuesday (Sept 10) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.

Hundreds of workers at the Samsung India factory at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai city in Southern India, have been protesting for the second day, alleging that their management has refused to recognize their Left-affiliated Workers Union.

A high-intensity eruption occurred in the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai on January 15, 2022, which led to a powerful tsunami throughout Tonga. But this event also had another lasting effect which was the launch of high amounts of aerosol and water vapor plumes towards the sky.