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Anthony Albanese vows to take the nation in a new direction, creating a renewable energy superpower.

In some countries, distinct factors are in play, such as Brexit and tax hikes in Britain. But a range of problems that cut across borders are driving inflation globally.

81-year-old Lucy describes the aftermath of an armed drug raid in her Tunhannock Township home.

Sri Lanka's giant neighbour is emerging as one of its biggest providers of aid, after years of mistrust.

An analysis by the U.K. Met Office suggests that high temperatures that used to occur about every 300 years in India and Pakistan may now occur about every three years.

Authorities say a wall collapse in a salt packaging factory in western India has killed at least 12 workers and injured another 13

Here's a list of countries that have banned food exports in the months after the Russia-Ukraine war started, according to the PIIE

A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.

A new study says pollution of all types is killing 9 million people a year.

New exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York takes a deep look at modernist architecture in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Officials in India say at least eight people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in the country’s remote northeast region

Nearly 80% of those who took part in a government survey said they wanted at least one son in their lifetime.

G-7 foreign ministers warned over the weekend that the war in Ukraine is increasing the risk of a global hunger crisis.

A spate of battery fires could complicate the country’s green agenda.

The NFL schedule is out. Mackenzie Salmon gives you the 10 must watch games of the 2022 season.

India has been under pressure to distance itself from Russia over Ukraine, including reducing defence ties.

The BBC investigates a network of Nigerian separatists outside the country urging violence online.

The remote Greek island of Tilos has pioneered a recycling plant that could act as a blueprint for other islands — including popular holiday destinations — that struggle with waste disposal. (May 11)

The colonial-era law permits arrest without warrant of anyone accused of speaking or acting against the government. More than 13,000 are said to be imprisoned under it right now.

The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.

A former Alabama jail official on the run with a murder suspect she was accused of helping escape shot and killed herself Monday as authorities caught up with the pair, officials said. The man she fled with surrendered. (May 10)

Northwestern Elementary students spent the day building and racing hovercrafts.

Social media accounts using pictures copied from famous and unknown people are tweeting in favour of Russia.

A new report says there's nearly a 50-50 chance that world will hit a key warming threshold in the next five years.

Pakistan and neighboring India have been sweltering amid an intense heat wave that has led to weeks of dangerous air quality and rampaging wildfires. Now, the early-season heat is to blame for causing the rapid melt of the Shishper Glacier in northern Pakistan, which led to destructive flooding downstream. The Hassanabad Bridge in Pakistan's Hunza Valley was completely destroyed on Saturday as the melting glacier sent torrents of water coursing through area streams in a phenomenon known as a gla

Case in point: India, which reported 481,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021. The World Health Organization found 4.74 million deaths there either directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic.

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the first two years of the pandemic.

Each summer in India is a fresh roll of the dice on whether a freak event will occur that leads to a vast number of deaths.

An unusually early and brutal heat wave is scorching parts of India, where acute power shortages are affecting millions as demand for electricity surges to record levels.

Bowling consistently at speeds above 90mph, Umran Malik has become India's newest fast-bowling sensation

Germany and India signed a series of bilateral agreements Monday focused on sustainable development that will see the South Asian nation receive 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in aid by 2030 to boost the use of clean energy. The accords were signed during a visit to Berlin by India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seeking to elicit India's support for the tough stance taken by Europe and the United States toward Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Prices rise 40% as an economic crisis bites, leaving some Sri Lankans cutting short treatments.

Experts say India is now recording more intense, frequent heatwaves that are also longer in duration.

As caste discrimination gains visibility in the US, Indian-Americans grapple with their privilege.

It happened when their truck, decorated as a temple chariot, touched an overhead electric power line, police said. The truck also caught fire.

Eleven people were electrocuted when their truck, decorated as a temple chariot, touched an overhead power line during a Hindu festival procession in southern India on Wednesday, police said. The New Delhi Television channel said the electrical spark also set fire to the truck, which was crowded with devotees. The 11 people died and three others suffered burns and were hospitalized in Thanjavur, a city in Tamil Nadu state, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

It follows reports that officials were fined for a garden party Boris Johnson attended in 2020.

OneWeb has found another replacement for the Russian-built rockets that used to launch its internet satellites.

Johnson said that Putin has made a "catastrophic blunder," but is likely to double-down on his approach to the war in Ukraine.

India’s hardline Hindu nationalists have long espoused an anti-Muslim stance, but attacks against the minority community have recently occurred more frequently.

Boris Johnson is hoping to strike a free trade deal with India within months.

The PM also pledges to bring up India's relations with Russia during talks on the final day of his trip.

The prime minister enjoys an enthusiastic welcome abroad as his troubles at home persist.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to set aside his political troubles and focus on economic ties and the war in Ukraine during an official trip to India.

Authorities in India have used bulldozers to raze a number of Muslim-owned shops in New Delhi before the Supreme Court halted the demolitions.

After coming out, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil faced public death threats, conversion therapy, and family dishonor. Now, he's fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.

The Ukraine war will "severely set back" global growth with the UK hit harder than most, the IMF says.

In recent weeks, after its attempt to storm Kyiv failed, the Kremlin declared that its main goal of the war was to capture Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.

The prime minister will meet his Indian counterpart after previous visits were postponed due to Covid.

A man in India has died by self-immolation after his boss reportedly demanded to have sex with his wife in exchange for a transfer. Gokul Prasad, a 45-year-old technical lineman, was feeling distressed after his boss, junior engineer Nagendra Kumar, offered to process Prasad’s transfer if he sent “his wife [over] for a night.” Both were employed at the Palia power station of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) in Lakhimpur Kheri, India.

Nepal relies heavily on neighbouring India for imports of almost all of its staples, including fuel.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for its first public appearance on March 17, 2022.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is urging China to use its “special relationship with Russia” to persuade Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

The leaders are meeting under the shadow of their differing stands on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

India has begun offering booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine to all adults but is limiting free shots at government centers to front-line workers and people over age 60

India has begun giving COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all adults but is limiting free shots at government centers to front-line workers and people older than 60.

Despite horrific images from Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken struggles to pull nations into the battle at NATO.

Russia's Bucha horrors are pushing India, Turkey, other studiously neutral countries to the brink of condemnation

The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality

Sri Lanka’s street protests over soaring inflation and lengthy power cuts have shaken President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s hold on power, with government ministers resigning while the opposition called for fresh elections in the South Asian nation. The political turmoil is complicating efforts to manage the island’s foreign exchange crisis and secure more funds to keep its tourism-reliant economy running, having already been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Negotiations between scientists and governments over a key United Nations climate report were going down to the wire Sunday.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street extended a rally into a third day on Thursday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has a commanding lead in crucial state polls, despite criticism of his government’s handling of the pandemic, soaring unemployment and farmer protests.

President Joe Biden and the prime ministers of India, Australia and Japan will talk Thursday in a virtual meeting of the Indo-Pacific alliance known as the Quad that comes a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Over the last decade, the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts has served the Latino population in the Bronx by hosting stars including José Feliciano, Gilberto Santa Rosa and La India, while attracting a wider audience with acts like Patti LaBelle and Smokey Robinson.

Members of the Philippines women's soccer team which recently qualified for its first World Cup have played down social media comments that most of the players with mixed American ancestry “were not Filipino enough.”.

Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by more than a billion people in South Asia, has died.

Spotify’s popular U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized after a video compilation surfaced that showed him using a racial slur in clips of episodes over a 12-year span.

Scientists say measuring climate change by temperature alone doesn't accurately reflect how bad global warming really is getting.

Welcome, Willow, to a long line of presidential pets.

Tata Sons, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, has regained ownership of the country’s debt-laden national carrier Air India.

Birju Maharaj, a legend of classical Indian dance and among the country’s most well-known performing artists, has died.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other heavyweights to go virtual for the second year in a row.

The fast-moving omicron variant is complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19 pandemic end and the world coexist with this virus.

Omicron caseloads have remained relatively low in many countries in Asia.

In Germany, a train passes a railroad crossing surrounded by floodwaters.

A United Nations report says the prolonged pandemic and surging prices are undermining food security for millions of people in Asia.

Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security.

Harnaaz Sandhu of India was crowned the 70th Miss Universe, topping a field of some 80 contestants in a pageant that was touched by politics and the pandemic.

The ritualistic smoking of marijuana brings Rastafari closer to the divine.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

Arbaz Mullah was a Muslim man in love with a Hindu woman.

The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has resumed exports of coronavirus vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program after halting most overseas sales in March.

After slow starts, vaccination campaigns in several countries in the Asia-Pacific region now boast inoculation rates that rank among the world’s best.

India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular flights, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions as infections fall and vaccinations rise.

In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history.

Officials say a fire in a newborn care unit in a hospital in central India has killed four infants.

The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5 million, nearly two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.

India and the U.K. will launch a project that aims to create a solar grid connecting countries in different parts of the world at the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.

Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son has walked out of jail and was greeted with dancing and firecrackers, over three weeks after his arrest during a drug raid on a cruise ship party in Mumbai.

U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down with a serious tropical disease, even though none had traveled internationally.

Nepalese authorities are searching for dozens of people missing in this week's heavy rains, floods and landslides, as survivors complain they are yet to receive any government help.

Floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential rains have killed at least 99 people in Nepal since Monday.

Celebrities have joined Prince William in London for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize.

India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday.

The number of people killed by tuberculosis has risen for the first time in more than a decade, largely because fewer people have got tested and treated as resources have been diverted to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

An energy crisis is looming over India as coal stockpiles grow perilously low, adding to challenges for a recovery in Asia's third largest economy from the pandemic.

India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections in April.

Officials say infections following monsoon rains have led to a fever outbreak in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, killing at least 114 people in the past three weeks.

Ford is ending auto production in India after logging accumulated operating losses of more than $2 billion over the past 10 years.