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A 16-year-old girl has said that her virtual avatar was gangraped in metaverse by online strangers, the New York Post has reported.

Between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Monday, tsunamis of a smaller scale were also observed along the east coast

The earthquakes struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture at a shallow depth.

Fortunately, the 5.5-year-old aircraft, which made the heavy landing with a recorded force of 3.5 G, did not suffer any apparent structural damage.

The Telugu community celebrated Christmas in a unique way by felicitating a Muslim youth, who reached Saudi Arabia on foot covering a distance of nearly 7,800 kilometres to perform Haj

Central Japan may experience earthquakes with maximum intensity on its seven-tier scale system in the coming week, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Monday.

A succession of 21 quakes, all over 4.0 magnitude rocked Japan in just over 90 minutes. The strongest of jolts was measured 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale.

Torrents of water could reach as high as 5 meters and authorities urged people to flee to high land or a top of a nearby building as quickly as possible, according to NHK.

The Japan Meterological Agency reported quakes off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures shortly after 4 p.m., one of them with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6.

Two such families had met AICC leader Rahul Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Yatra and told him their troubles.

Xi said that while pursuing its development, China has also embraced the world and fulfilled its responsibility as a major country.

The quake that hit Java at 0452 GMT was epicentred at 8.19 degrees south latitude and 107.51 degrees east longitude, Xinhua news agency reported.

These effective anti-terrorism measures were taken for the sake of national defence and security during the ongoing unrest in the country, according to ARY News.

Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency said there was no danger of a tsunami but warned of possible aftershocks

Musk earned an additional $95.4 billion through Thursday's close, boosted by the success of Tesla and SpaceX, after losing $138 billion in 2022, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

The rise in US rates was the factor that prevented any upside for gold or rather limited it for almost one year now despite high global inflation, the report said

Maine Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, issued the decision on Thursday, acknowledging the unprecedented nature of such an action against a presidential candidate.

This amounts to an increase of 26 per cent compared to cases in October, the WHO said in its latest monthly update.

Gaston Glock developed a semi-automatic service pistol for the Austrian military in the 80s, in his garage where he used to manufacture curtain roads and knives.

Experts who have been researching on the Zombie Deer Disease have termed it as a "slow-moving-disaster" and have already alerted the government to prepare for its transmission to humans.

That decision has been paused till January 2 pending an appeal, media reports said.

The deceased were all relatives of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MLA from Mummidivaram, P. Venkata Satish Kumar.

Viral Patel and Priyanka Patel from Jersey City, and Pratik Patel from Ramsey were each charged last week with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft

UN Human Rights Office's spokesperson Seif Magango reported that more than 50 strikes occurred in central Gaza on December 24-25, targeting the refugee camps of Bureij, Nuseirat, and Maghazi, where two strikes hit seven residential buildings, killing at least 86 people