SOCIETY

An Indian woman's conversation with her father has gone viral on social media with many lauding the woman for what she did with a potential match that she found on a matrimonial website.

Amazon Inc. will now be reimbursing its US staff if they have to travel for non-life-threatening medical treatments, including abortions. The company in a message to its employees said that it will be pay up to $4,000 (£3,201) for such travel expenses annually.

A 23-year-old Wisconsin man, Chandler Halderson, had dismembered his parents' bodies before scattering some of the parts in a river and putting the remaining ones in the family fireplace.

A man from Germany who had served a jail sentence for having an incestuous relationship with his sister continues to call for the abolishment of laws that ban such relationships in the country. Both of them want incest relationships to be made legal.

Indian authorities seized nearly 90 kg of heroin worth $58m (£46m) from Pipavav port in the western state of Gujarat last week. It had been kept in bags containing heroin-soaked yarn bales.

As many as nine people have been arrested following the collapse of a building in the Chinese city of Changsha where several people are still trapped.

Domingo Zapata who is famous for his multiple depictions of the Mona Lisa has claimed that he shares a "romantic and sexual relationship," with the famous painting.

A woman suffering from locked-in syndrome was found dead at her parents' house sitting in an upright position, covered with insects and fused to the living room couch.

A probe has been launched by the UK government's chief whip into the reports that a Tory MP watched porn on his mobile in the House of Commons chamber.

A female suicide bomber has been accused of carrying out the attack in Pakistan that killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, on Tuesday.

A video that has gone viral on social media brought a cruel tradition to light wherein a person gets every strand of hair pulled from her head by hand until they go bald. The tradition is followed by people who follow an ancient Indian religion called Jainism.

At least eleven people, including three children, were electrocuted after a temple chariot they were travelling with came in contact with the overhead high-transmission live wire in Kalimedu village near Thanjavur district of India's Tamil Nadu.

Four people, including two children, died after a man opened fire at a kindergarten in Russia's central Ulyanovsk region on Tuesday.

Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman certified as the oldest person in the world by the Guinness World Records in 2019, passed away at the age of 119 at a hospital in Fukuoka city.

Four people, including three women and a man, were found stabbed to death at a house in South Bermondsey, London.

A body of a child has been discovered during search and rescue operations initiated after a boat accident in northeastern Japan. The death toll in the accident has reached 11 now.

An underwater camera was able to capture a tiger shark trying to swallow a camera. The video, which has now gone viral on social media, was recorded by a Switzerland-based photographer and conservationist, Nico Zimm.

A 49-year-old man accused of killing at least 18 elderly women in the Dallas area will have to face a trial all over again since the jury failed to reach a majority verdict in the case.

The Afghanistan Taliban have now banned TikTok and PUBG saying that the apps are "misleads the younger generation."

Ten people who were found by rescue workers after a tour boat went missing off Japan's northern coast have been confirmed dead by the coast guard.

An ultra-rare giant squid, measuring about 9.8ft, washed up at a beach in Japan. The squid was found stranded at Ugu beach in Obama of Fukui Prefecture on Wednesday.

The mother and stepfather of a five-year-old boy whose body was found dumped in a river in Sarn, Bridgend County, have been found guilty of his murder. A 14-year-old whose identity has not been revealed due to legal reasons has also been found guilty of the murder.

An Indian high court has now said that live-in relationships are responsible for a rise in sexual offences and for promoting "lascivious behaviour."

A man who forced his friend to kill himself after he found out that he had allegedly sexually abused his six-year-old daughter has been jailed for 18 months.

A Taiwanese news channel called CTS had to issue an apology after it accidentally aired a fictional news alert stating that Chinese forces had launched an attack on the country.

A man who bit off a former politician's ear and gashed another person during Hong Kong protests in 2019 has been sentenced to 14 and a half years in prison.

Japan's largest food chain Yoshinoya has fired its managing director Masaaki Ito following a backlash over his alleged sexist remarks.

A Pakistan anti-terror court has sentenced six men to death for their role in the mob killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of committing blasphemy.

A woman from West Sussex, UK has decided to donate her kidney to save her nine-year-old daughter's life after the latter suffered kidney failure upon contracting Covid-19 last year.