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India's Abhishek Sharma walks back to the pavilion after his dismissal for a duck against Pakistan

India target S.Africa top order, Abhishek to come good: bowling coach

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C), Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (centre L) and France's President Emmanuel Macron (centre R) and other world leaders and representatives at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026

AI summit statement delayed to 'maximise' signatories: India

A crane lifts a final piece of a cross atop the Sagrada Familia's Tower of Jesus Christ in Barcelona

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica hits peak height

It will be Friedrich Merz's first visit to China as German chancellor

Chancellor set for trade talks

Germany's Merz to visit China next week

The EU issued the fine against X in December for breaking its digital content rules

December penalty

X appeals EU's 120-mn-euro fine over digital content violations

The AI sector is 'totally male-dominated', warns top computer scientist Wendy Hall

Undermines pledges

'Alpha male' AI world shuts out women: computing prof Hall

Turkey and Saudi Arabia boost energy cooperation

Turkey, Saudi sign major solar power deal

In Laos, the candidates for the National Assembly are pre-selected by the ruling communist party

Called out corruption

Outspoken Laos lawmaker's election exit sparks rare dissent

Arnon Nampa, one of Thailand's most prominent human rights activists, is already serving time in prison

For monarchy reform activism

Thai activist's jail term for royal insult extended to 30 years

Roman Catholic priest Father Flavie Villanueva (R) talks to Mary Ann Pajo as they move the remains of her son Joewarski Pajo, a victim of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, into a body bag during an exhumation at a cemetery in Manila on February 16, 2026

Families of Duterte's drug war victims eye Hague hearing with hope

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) takes a group photo with AI company leaders at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026

At major summit

India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI

Baby macaque Punch was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth at Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo on July 26

Shot to social media stardom

Fans flock to Japan zoo to see viral baby monkey Punch

Israeli flags fly at a farm in Somaliland

Due to recognition as country

Somaliland, where Muslims love Israel

Cross-border smuggling

French police intercept €4,000 worth of Luxembourg tobacco

Workers on an aerial lift watch after installing a new banner featuring an image of US President Donald Trump on the facade of the US Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, DC

Continues to leave his mark

Florida airport to be renamed after US President Donald Trump

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech to mark the opening of the ruling Workers' Party congress.

Political spectacle

Kim Jong Un vows to boost living standards as he opens rare congress

The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad will be packed for India's opening Super eights clash against South Africa on Sunday

Zimbabwe surprise as T20 World Cup Super Eights begin without Australia

Trump says he's ordering release of data on UFOs and aliens

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her policy speech during the House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo

After landslide win

Victorious Takaichi promises 'strong and prosperous' Japan

Venezuela's National Assembly has delayed several sittings meant to pass an amnesty bill meant to free political prisoners, whose loved ones are clamoring for their freedom

Venezuela parliament unanimously approves amnesty law

Yoon attends court on February 19 to learn his fate on insurrection charges stemming from the December 2024 martial law crisis.

Sentenced to life in prison

Ex-S. Korea leader apologises for martial law crisis

Argentine labor unions plan to have a general strike to protest a proposed labor reform bill that would make it easier to fire workers, reduce severance pay, limit the right to strike, increase work hours and restrict holiday provisions

Budget-slashing president

Striking Argentine workers clash with police in protest over labor reforms

Arsenal face Tottenham in the north London derby on Sunday

North London derby

Arsenal aim to banish title jitters in Spurs showdown

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte takes an oath as he attends a senate probe on the drug war during his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024

Former president

Philippines' Duterte earned global infamy, praise at home

This undated photo provided by the US Justice Department on December 19, 2025 shows Jeffrey Epstein (L), who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, aboard a jet

Following ex-prince Andrew arrest

As European heads roll from Epstein links, US fallout muted

Ukraine's Paralympic Committee President Valeriy Sushkevych says the International Paralympic Committee has betrayed Ukraine in allowing Russian athletes to compete under their own flag at the Milan-Cortina Games

Competing under their own flag

Russian decision is a betrayal: Ukrainian Paralympics chief

The injuries Mariama Fatajo suffered during childbirth due to FGM were so serious she wants no more babies

Hope to overturn

'Everything was removed': Gambians share pain with FGM ban in balance

ICC prosecutors have charged Duterte with three counts of crimes against humanity, alleging his involvement in at least 76 murders between 2013 and 2018

Crimes against humanity

Ex-Philippine leader Duterte faces pre-trial ICC hearing

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