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A commercial vessel is seen off the coast of Dubai on April 20, 2026

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Life is slowly returning to Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Niles meet in the Sudanese capital, after close to two years of siege were broken last year

The tiny, defiant Nile island caught in the heart of Sudan's war

Islamabad's capital remained under tight security restrictions, despite the face that talks remained in limbo

Under tight security

Pakistan's capital holds its breath with US-Iran talks in limbo

Vietnamese Buddhist monk Bhikkhu Pannakara offers water to his pet dog Aloka, a stray rescued from India, at the start of the 'Walk For Peace' pilgrimage in Dambulla, in northcentral Sri Lanka on April 22, 2026.

Barefoot at the hottest time of the year

US-based Buddhist monks bring peace walk to Sri Lanka

The Roman telescope will blast into space aboard a SpaceX rocket in a launch planned for September at the earliest

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA unveils new space telescope to give 'atlas of the universe'

Fuel prices pushed up British inflation to 3.3 percent in March

Interest rate outlook

UK inflation jumps as Mideast war propels energy prices

Summer heat in the world's most populous nation can be brutal -- here a woman walks past India Gate in New Delhi in June 2025

Sweltering conditions ahead

India orders school water bells to beat heat

Lancaster Park damaged after the 2011 earthquake

Stadium that was symbol of NZ post-quake rebuild to hold first match

A plan to build a waste-to-energy incinerator on Fiji's main island has been described as 'waste colonialism', with critics raising concerns about its environmental impact

'Waste colonialism'

Fiji villagers reject plan for 'Pacific ashtray' in beach paradise

Raju Modiyam, who lost a leg in a landmine explosion, rests as his wife Jayamma and child look on at their residence in Lankapalli village

Maoist landmine legacy haunts India

Morning Roundup

Bettel warns of 'second Gaza', female genital mutilation persists in Luxembourg, and Sweden brings back textbooks

SoloNest founder Karen Dai preparing a coffee chat at a conference room in Shanghai

Fearing discrimination

Young Chinese use AI to launch one-person firms over job anxiety

Lynas has expanded its portfolio of rare earths refined in Malaysia as it hopes to boost its approximately 10 percent share of the market

Global pushback

Delicate extraction: Malaysia offers rare earths alternative to China

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system THAAD is designed to intercept short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles using hit-to-kill technology

Pillar of national defense

US military says key weapons system staying in South Korea

There is currently no public valuation of what LIV Golf teams are worth

Amid withdrawal rumours

PGA Tour mulls pathway back for golfers as LIV plots survival

Security forces are strangling the final remnants of the Maoist revolt

Bulldozed into submission

India strangles final Maoist bastion as mining looms

Industrial AI is seen as an area where Europe could compete against the United States and China

Blue-eyed humanoids

AI-powered robots offer new hope to German factories

Ravaged: an aeriel view of cleared and natural forest side by side on one of the Borneo plantations

Endangered species

Indonesia orangutan forest cleared for 'carbon-neutral' packaging firm

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has signaled plans to spend more than $20 billion in 2026 on new ventures, leading to quesitons ahead of earnings

Autonomous driving at scale

Questions about Tesla spending binge ahead of earnings

SpaceX says merging the coding expertise of startup Cursor with its supercomputer will enable it to train cutting edge AI models

Ahead of stock market listing

SpaceX partners with AI startup Cursor, may buy it for $60 bn

Madonna is offering a reward for the return of vintage costumes that went missing after her Coachella set with Sabrina Carpenter

'Part of my history'

Material girl: Madonna offers reward for missing clothes

The SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles will host eight matches at the 2026 World Cup, where the prospect of extreme heat at several venues is causing concern

New batch of World Cup tickets to go on sale

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was reportedly targeted with a slew of insults by a Russian TV presenter

'Nasty little woman'

Rome summons Russian ambassador over insults against Meloni

After the US withdrawal in 2021, evacuees from Afghanistan fled to escape the Taliban, seen here landing at Hamad International Airport in Qatar's capital Doha from Kabul

US tells Afghans to choose Taliban home or DR Congo: activist

Apple's annual developers conference set for June is expected to spotlight hardware team boss John Ternus taking over as chief executive

'Soul of an innovator'

John Ternus to lead Apple in the age of AI

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee for Federal Reserve chairman, was also considered for the position in the US leader's first administration

Nominated for fed chair

Kevin Warsh, a former Fed 'hawk' now in tune with Trump

Transit costs through the Panama Canal have risen due to the Middle East war and closing of the Strait of Hormuz

Strait of Hormuz blockade drives up costs at Panama Canal

Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet is one of four candidates to become the next UN secretary-general -- a position that has never been held by a woman

Former Chilean president

Michelle Bachelet hopes the world is ready for a female UN chief

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