India has temporarily blocked the Telegram app over concerns it may be used for cheating, days before a crucial medical entrance exam is set to be reheld.

As part of its 125th Jubilee celebrations, St. Bridget’s Convent will host “Shamrock Trail”, a Jubilee Walk and Carnival, on 4th July 2026, bringing together students, past pupils, parents, staff, well-wishers, and the wider community. MORE..

Australia’s weather bureau ​on Tuesday said an El ‌Nino event is underway in the tropical Pacific, with atmospheric indicators like ​trade winds, pressure and cloud ​patterns aligning with the weather phenomenon. MORE..

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates ​to a 31-year high on Tuesday, marking another landmark step in normalising monetary policy as it focused on taming price pressures from the energy shock caused by the ‌Iran war.

Donald Trump hosts a card of seven mixed martial arts fights to be held on Sunday inside a specially built arena on the White House's South Lawn on his 80th birthday, a spectacle spotlighting his norm-defying style at a tense moment in his presidency.

A backlash is growing in Japan over US President Donald Trump's use of popular anime and manga characters in his posts on social media. MORE..

The Trump administration has called on European nations to follow Washington's lead and impose travel restrictions on people who have recently been in Central African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak.

NASA named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut on Tuesday to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth's orbit next year that will test moon landers from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for the first time in space.

Donald Trump has been booed at a basketball match in New York as he became the first sitting US president to attend the NBA Finals.

Bitcoin has taken a sharp hit, falling around 20% over the past month and dropping to its lowest level since October 2024.

Emeritus Professor Prema-chandra Athukorala has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours List for significant service to tertiary education and to international trade and development economics.

Since opening its doors in 2020, Grand Park Arena has steadily established itself as one of Sri Lanka’s leading multi-sport venues. MORE..

FIFA has cancelled World Cup tickets issued to about 60 fans who mistakenly got them for free because of a website error. MORE..

A Nepali Sherpa guide has been rescued from Everest after surviving about a week on the ​slopes of the world’s highest mountain without food or ‌oxygen in a rare case of survival in such conditions, a hiking official said on Thursday. MORE..

An expedition to eastern Angola announced Wednesday it had found dozens of species potentially unknown to science in a location described by organizers as “one of Africa’s last great biodiversity blank spots.” MORE..

Bitcoin fell by four percent on Wednesday to trade at $64,721.39 dollars, marking its lowest level since 28 February.

A Royal Navy helicopter has crashed into a field in Devon, police have said.

India's information technology stocks were headed for their biggest single-day drop in over four months on Wednesday as investors assessed the impact of AI on demand for traditional software services.