At least 27 children and a female teacher were killed and more than three dozen people injured when the roof of a private school collapsed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, as rescuers searched through the debris for...

Iran said Wednesday that a cargo ship sank after striking a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, as tensions continued to rise across the Middle East amid reports of attacks on shipping, Saudi oil facilities and Gaza. Me...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed that they struck a Saudi military aircraft, a Eurofighter Typhoon, with an air-to-air missile over Yemen’s Saada governorate. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a brief ...

Two leaders of India’s “Cockroach” youth movement have been sentenced to five days in jail after being detained during a protest in New Delhi demanding the resignation of the country’s chief election commissioner...

ISLAMABAD, October 15: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation with Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr Badr Abdelatty to discuss the latest regional deve...

The official social media platforms of the Nobel Prize have shared a rare, 114-year-old handwritten letter exchanged between literature laureates Rabindranath Tagore and Bertrand Russell, highlighting a historic intersec...

Dhaka, October 14, 2026: Brunei Darussalam is conducting a nationwide Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2026 to gather updated data on employment, unemployment and workforce characteristics, with selected households facing a fin...

Malaysia’s halal exports to Asian markets reached approximately $45.13 billion over five years, driven by growing demand for food, beverages, halal ingredients and other certified products across the region. Annual ex...

The growing adoption of AI is happening across multiple sectors and has also led to an increase in the number of vulnerabilities discovered within AI services. Kaspersky’s Quarterly Exploits and Vulnerabilities Report ...

Optogenetics, a revolutionary scientific method that uses light to control the activity of neurons, is opening up groundbreaking possibilities for treating complex neurological conditions such as dementia, depression and...

PESHAWAR, October 12, 2026: Pakistani authorities have detained 278 members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party following the imposition of emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a...

Two American economists, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, have jointly won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for their groundbreaking resea...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct 12, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 11 others, a day after a deadly attack claimed by the Yemeni group forced...

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Oct 12, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Flash floods hit central Nepal on Sunday, sweeping away houses and leaving at least five people missing, officials said, weeks after devastating flooding that killed hundreds. ...

Kaspersky and Best Telecom have expanded their strategic cooperation in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) through two agreements signed during Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky’s visit to Laos. The ...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday extended the closure of its main international airport and shifted schools in Riyadh to online classes as Yemen’s Houthi rebels threatened further attacks across the kingdom, a day after a missil...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned the reported Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, reaffirming its commitment to Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security under t...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has strongly condemned the attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, expressing condolences to the victims' families and solidarity with the...

WASHINGTON, October 10, 2026: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi have reaffirmed the strength of the US-Japan alliance, while discussing an investigation into the death of a...

ISLAMABAD, October 9, 2026 — Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar held a meeting with Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani at the Ministry of Foreign...