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In a new study, scientists have suggested that advanced alien civilisations may have been migrating near miniature black holes to fulfil the energy needs of their home planets.

Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least five villages, and left an unknown number of people dead in eastern Sudan, officials said on Monday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war.

A Chinese Y-9 electronic intelligence aircraft carried out a two-minute violation of the airspace over Japan's territorial waters at the Danjo Islands in the East China Sea on Monday, according to Japanese officials.

A resident doctor and a medical dresser were attacked allegedly by a patient's attendant, just days after resident doctors resumed work following an 11-day nationwide strike over the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.

Lionel Messi will miss Argentina's upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Chile and Colombia due to injury, with Paulo Dybala recalled to coach Lionel Scaloni's squad on Monday.

Janmashtami, one of the major festivals of the minority Hindu community commemorating the birth of Lord Sri Krishna, is being celebrated across Bangladesh on Monday with religious fervour and gaiety, media reports said.

The death toll due to militant attacks in Pakistan's Balochistan has climbed to over 70, the news agency Reuters reported on Monday (Aug 26) citing officials. Separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways in the province.

In India's Maharashtra, a 35-foot statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that was unveiled less than a year ago by Prime Minister Narendra Modi collapsed on Monday (August 26).

Having eliminated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, Israel is on the prowl to hunt his successor Yahya Sinwar. Both the US and Israel have been cooperating for more than 10 months to triangulate Sinwar's position to take him out but it looks like the operation might take a while.

On Sunday night, fresh and intense clashes broke out between students and members of Ansar, a paramilitary auxiliary force, near the Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Dhaka Tribune reports that the confrontation resulted in several injuries on both sides. This latest conflict comes despite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina having left the country more than two weeks ago. Previously, the same university students had staged a month-long protest calling for the removal of controversial job reservations. However, this recent clash was not directed at the government but rather with the Ansar force, which was protesting for the nationalisation of their jobs.

As Ukraine's Kursk incursion continues Moscow has renewed its strategy against Kyiv. Russian strikes across Ukraine have killed at least three people injured several and damaged energy infrastructure. Watch in for more details!

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (August 26) denied any "political" link to the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Durov was arrested by the French authorities on Saturday (August 24) allegedly over failing to curb the spread of illegal content and activities on Telegram, a platform with over 900 million users.

Swedish football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who coached England from 2001 to 2006, died Monday at the age of 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his agent said.

#Gravitas As per reports, on early Monday morning, Russia launched a massive missile barrage across Ukraine, killing at least three people, and severely straining the country’s energy grid. The latest attack comes in the backdrop of a Russian advance towards the strategic city of Pokrovsk leaving many to ponder whether Ukraine's attempt to seize Russian territory in Kursk backfired. Has it left eastern Ukraine exposed to Russian advances and will the repercussions of this gamble be far-reaching?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested on Sunday (Aug 25) that he might skip the September 10 ABC News debate with Democratic presidential candidate and current United States Vice President Kamala Harris.

#Gravitas 102-year-old Manette Baillie made history by becoming Britain's oldest skydiver. The World War 2 veteran and a former member of the women's royal naval service jumped above the skies in Suffolk, England.

Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency said on Sunday.

The founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov has reportedly been arrested. Molly Gambhir tells you more about the man who was once dubbed the 'Russian Zuckerberg.'

An Indian-origin doctor was shot in the US in Tuscaloosa, a city in Alabama, on Friday (Aug 23). The victim, identified as Dr Ramesh Babu Peramsetty, died on the spot.