The Taliban impose some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional burqa.
"Blade Runner" and "Chariots of Fire" composer Vangelis, the Oscar-winning electronic music pioneer whose distinctive musical style defined a generation of film soundtracks, has died aged 79, Greece's prime minister said on Thursday.
India's top court on Thursday ordered a one-year jail term for cricketer-turned-lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu for a road-rage assault case that killed a man over 30 years ago. Sidhu, who until recently served as the head of the main opposition Congress party in the state of Punjab, was accused by an eyewitness of pulling the deceased out of his car and killing him with a blow to the head in December 1988. The Supreme Court in 2018 ordered the former state lawmaker to pay a fine of 1000 rupees ($12.91) for voluntarily hurting a person.
Open markets must not become an argument to perpetuate inequity and promote discrimination, says India
Sri Lankan police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of students protesting outside the official residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the nation's capital Colombo. The students were calling for the resignation of the president as the country grapples with the fallout from its crippling economic crisis.
Iraq's Lake Hamrin, a once-vast reservoir northeast of Baghdad that is the sole source of water for irrigation across Diyala province, has nearly dried out, a senior official said Friday.
The ban on wheat exports highlights the effect a rapidly warming planet has on food security – and livelihoods Farmer Surjeet Singh. Photograph: Hannah Ellis-Petersen/The Guardian
Hazel McCallion, 101, was recently reappointed to the board of Canada's largest airport as she forges ahead with a career that has included being a city mayor for 36 years and playing professional hockey.
Filipino pool legend Efren Reyes suffered a second loss in two days at the SEA Games but that did not diminish him in the eyes of hundreds of fans who chased him as he left Thursday's defeat out a back door.
Ukraine's last soldiers still in Mariupol's besieged Azovstal steelworks have been ordered by Kyiv to stop fighting, says a commander of the far-right Azov battalion leading the trapped units. The soldiers, blockaded in the giant steelworks for weeks, have become a symbol of Ukraine's fierce resistance to Russia's invasion.
Latest discovery of a sinkhole housing an entire forest in Guangxi takes the number in a single county there to 30
From the make-up session in a bathrobe to the red carpet in a gorgeous designer gown, Indian actress and model Pooja Hegde says "her heart is in her throat" as she prepares for her first Cannes film festival.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino insists he has no idea where Kylian Mbappe will play next season as the striker's contract in the French capital comes to an end. Mbappe is expected to reveal in the coming days whether he will join Real Madrid or accept a lucrative offer to stay at PSG.
Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was inaugurated as East Timor's president on Friday, pledging to break a longstanding political deadlock in Southeast Asia's youngest country as it celebrated its 20th independence anniversary.
Singapore shooter Teh Xiu Hong got her second gold of the SEA Games in the women's 10m air pistol team event with Amanda Mak and Teo Shun Xie.
Taiwan's LGBTQ community celebrated the third year of gay marriage being legal this week, but for Vincent Chuang, it was a bittersweet reminder that he still cannot wed his partner because he fell in love with a foreigner. Under current rules, Taiwanese nationals can only marry those from the roughly 30 countries and territories where same-sex marriage is also legal.
French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected last month and is preparing the ground for parliamentary elections next month
Several cases of monkeypox have been detected in North America and Europe since early May, sparking concern that the disease, endemic in parts of Africa, is spreading.
The UN rights chief came under fire Friday for announcing a visit next week to China's Xinjiang, with the United States saying she was failing to stand up for the region's Uyghur community.
