Zohran Mamdani has made history by winning New York’s mayoral election, becoming the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in more than 100 years.
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King Charles III has appointed Bishop Sarah Mullally of London as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, marking a historic moment for the Church of England.
There have been reports of protesters entering Singha Durbar and the Parliament building complex as of Tuesday afternoon (9)
Taliban interior ministry says that the death toll from the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan is 610 and More than 1,300 people have been injured.
An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale on Friday evening struck Iran's north-central province of Semnan.
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Several flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali have been cancelled or delayed after one of country's most active volcanoes erupted.
An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, operating as Flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on the afternoon of June 12, 2025.
At least 22 people have been injured and three remain in a serious condition after a Mexican Navy training ship crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.
The first Augustinian Pope, Leo XIV is the second Roman Pontiff - after Pope Francis - from the Americas. Unlike Jorge Mario Bergoglio, however, the 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost is from the northern part of the continent, though he spent many years as a missionary in Peru before being elected head of the Augustinians for two consecutive terms.
A sweeping power outage left millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of France without electricity on Monday, leading to chaotic scenes and widespread disruption.
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced.
North Korea has held the Pyongyang International Marathon for the first time in six years, welcoming some 200 foreign runners to the streets of the reclusive country's capital.
A strong earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, bringing down a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok and toppling buildings in neighbouring Myanmar’s second-largest city.
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