Delhi authorities carried out over 500 inspections and issued more than 9,000 vehicular challans in the past 24 hours as part of ongoing efforts to control pollution. As per official data, the city's Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 202 on Wednesday.

The world should watch out for three possible bubbles in financial markets, including artificial intelligence, the head of the World Economic Forum said on Wednesday, in comments that came amid sharp falls in global technology stocks.

With leaders from the Republican and Democratic parties failing to agree on a way out, the United States is now witnessing the longest government shutdown in its history.

Vladimir Putin ordered his top officials to draft proposals on possible nuclear weapons testing after Donald Trump said last week that the US would resume such tests.

In a meeting with Republican senators at a White House breakfast, US President Donald Trump recounted his bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and his officials. "I've never seen men so scared in my life," Trump said.

Pakistan has witnessed an over 46 per cent rise in overall violence in its security landscape for the third quarter of 2025, according to the latest security report released by Islamabad-based Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS).

France's government said it is suspending access to Shein's online platform until the company proves that its content conforms with French law.

Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Mira Nair turned down the opportunity to direct Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on the advice of her then 14-year-old son, Zohran Mamdani.

New York's newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani's choice to end his victory speech with Bollywood's iconic anthem "Dhoom Machale" may have set social media ablaze but for those who've followed him closely, his affection for the song is hardly new.

Before Zohran Mamdani became New York City's youngest mayor and the first Muslim to hold the office, he was an Assembly member from Queens who went on hunger strike for the taxi drivers in his city.

In a classic David vs. Goliath battle, backbench assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo to become New York's youngest mayor in more than a century, at age 34.

Zohran Mamdani has won the 2025 New York City mayoral election, by his side throughout the campaign and on election night was his wife, Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji, who has largely stayed out of the public eye.

Zohran Mamdani has defeated Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to become the new Mayor of New York City.

Mamdani's unapologetic leftism, his advocacy for tenants' rights, and his support for Palestine challenge the sanitised image of "model minority". Mamdani is more West Village than Wall Street, and this is what scares a section of NRIs in America.

A suspected strike by "tiny space debris" has delayed the return of the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-20 and three astronauts, Beijing's space agency said on Wednesday.

An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan's central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive.

A 35-year-old man Wednesday rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on the French Atlantic island of Oleron, wounding10 people, including four seriously, a prosecutor said.

An Iranian volcano long thought extinct may be showing signs of activity after thousands of years. The Taftan volcano, located near the Iran-Pakistan border, was believed to have been dormant for roughly 7.1 lakh years.

Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could soon reap a response - from faraway Paris.

Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy offered a candid message to Republicans after Democrats won in three key races in the US, including Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's mayoral election.