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From Auckland’s fireworks to ice plunges worldwide, communities from Sydney to Mumbai welcomed 2025 with vibrant celebrations, light shows, and tributes to local cultures

Syrians in Damascus celebrate a hopeful new year following Bashar Assad's fall, while Beirut remains cautious amidst ongoing crises. In Gaza, Palestinians face 2025 with little hope after enduring war and loss, highlighting the region's mixed fortunes

Slower growth despite recent stimulus measures and in the face of increasing trade risks

Traditional stores struggle to survive as the volatility of Zimbabwe's new currency, ZiG, pushes prices up

Trump's 10% tariff threat on Chinese goods has raised trade risks for China, the world's largest exporter of goods

Cricket Australia names India's premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah as captain, Yashasvi Jaiswal in the Men's Test Team of the Year 2024, which features players from six countries

A private jet carrying the Gonzaga University men’s basketball team nearly crossed a runway as another flight was taking off at Los Angeles International Airport

Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, likely suspect

Originating from the alien planet Czarnia, Lobo is the last of his kind after wiping out his race for fun

No details of the agreement were immediately revealed, and the couple's use of the private judge — an increasingly common move among splitting celebrities in recent years — has kept the proceedings largely under wraps.

Sunday crash, the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades, triggers an outpouring of national sympathy

More than 1,200 recipients are named on the list across all sectors, with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service

Pakistan gets balance and virtual veto power over sanctioning terrorists it harbours

Police believe the two shooters were aiming for people in a group standing outside the store on White Plains Road, a commercial thoroughfare in the Bronx, on Monday

The revelation comes as US officials are continuing to grapple with the fallout of a massive Chinese cyberespionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.

Many observers also worry how effectively the South Korean government will handle the aftermath of Sunday's crash as it grapples with a leadership vacuum

He was the third American leader to visit India during which a village in Haryana was named Carterpuri in his honour

Transport Ministry says the plane was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet that was returning from Bangkok and that the crash happened at 9:03 am

Quashes opposition to the programme for qualified professionals to work in the US that pitted right-wing fringe against Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy

Two Boeing airliners 737-800 were involved in two separate air disasters on the same day in Torp of Norway and Muan of South Korea. While Muan aircrash led to 47 deaths so far, none was injured in the bellylanding at Torp. Incidentally, both incidents happened ont the same day.

28 died when a Jeju airline crashed in Muan airport in South Korea

Expensive research budgets and promising technological advances provide an edge in certain circumstances, but the most effective spy techniques may still rely on the application of quick thinking and bold, fearless action.

They were smuggled into Lebanon and were trying to fly to Egypt when they were caught

The update is the latest development in a massive hacking operation that has alarmed national security officials, exposed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector and laid bare China's hacking sophistication.