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The trans actor - Karla Sofia Gascon, who recently impressed the audience at Cannes Film Festival 2024 is all set to create a history at Oscar too. Watch in the report for more details!

Trigger warning: Some readers may find the details of this report disturbing. Discretion is advised. Jeremy Skibicki, a white supremacist serial killer, was given four life sentences by a Canadian court for murdering four native women in 2022 and abusing their corpses.

The PMO has denied reports that Netanyahu was unhappy with transport minister Miri Regev's refusal to compromise regarding the October 7th anniversary memorial. Watch WION to know more on the story.

It has been 20 days since a man allegedly raped and murdered a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Hospital in India’s Kolkata.

Kepa Arrizabalaga kicked off an expected exodus of out-of-favour Chelsea players in the final 48 hours of the transfer window by joining Bournemouth on a season-long loan on Thursday.

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog chief warned of heightened risk at the nuclear power plant in Kursk, Russia, where Ukraine has been conducting a military counteroffensive.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has issued a threat that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attempts to ignite a fire in her state, it will not spare Assam, Bihar, Manipur or even the capital city of Delhi.

Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Elon Musk 24 hours to name a legal representative for X in Brazil or face a ban of his social network across the nation of 200 million.

The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival is currently underway. On Wednesday (Aug 28), Tim Burton brought much-needed spookiness to the prestigious festival with his long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Africa has secured less than 10% of the estimated $245 million it needs to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, a senior official from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Wednesday.

Bangladesh's interim government has revoked a ban on the rightwing Jamaat-E-Islami, less than a month after it was outlawed by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On WION's live conversation today we decode all that is happening in Bangladesh.

In the wake of the recent wave of terrorism in Balochistan, the federal government on Wednesday removed Balochistan IGP Abdul Khalique Sheikh from his post and appointed Moazzam Jah Ansari as the new IG of Balochistan Police.

The United Nations World Food Programme temporarily suspended movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, saying at least 10 bullets struck one of its clearly marked vehicles as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint.

A chilling photo is doing rounds on social media, which features a man lying in a pool of blood at a Bengaluru airport. An airport employee’s throat was slashed by a man whose wife was allegedly cheating on him with the airport staffer.

A recent report has revealed that - a surprise improvement in air quality in South Asia in 2022 did drive a decline in global pollution.

The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades. This is according to a new study published in journal nature which also say that it has emitted more greenhouse gases than some of the largest emitting countries.

A wolf thought to be behind at least eight killings of people in India's Uttar Pradesh has been caught, said authorities in the northern state on Thursday (Aug 29).

You know you have been robbed when things are strewn around in the house. But one intruder has been cleaning up after him after breaking into houses in Washington.

Torrential rains have triggered a landslide in the Southern Italian province of Caserta, forcing evacuations and this while rescuers searched for a woman and her adult son who went missing and are feared dead.