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An Indian court has upheld the ban imposed on wearing hijab to schools and colleges in the southern state of Karnataka. The court dismissed as many as five petitions filed by students against the ban.

The Russian oligarch has been forced to put the club up for sale following sanctions from the UK Government

A pregnant woman and her unborn baby both have lost their lives after Russia bombed the maternity hospital they were admitted in. The haunting image of the woman being evacuated from the rubble of the hospital in Ukraine's Mariupol had sent shock waves across the world last week.

Tesla founder Elon Musk who has been openly critical of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine has now challenged Vladimir Putin to "single combat." The tech billionaire further stated that it was Ukraine that is at stake.

Peter Pickering who was found guilty of raping a teenager and killing another minor girl almost 40 years ago had also managed to successfully escape the justice system for the murder of 14-year-old Elsie Frost in Wakefield in 1965.

Thousands of Indian students who were left stranded in war-torn Ukraine had to undertake a perilous journey on foot, go without food and water for days before they could safely reach their homes in India.

A 55-year-old nurse from England named Wendy Warrington has taken unpaid leave from the National Health Service (NHS) to travel to Poland and help Ukrainians in need of medical assistance.

The trade sanctions imposed by western nations along with the European Union on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have meant that one of the biggest oil and gas exporters is now left with additional stocks of the two resources with nowhere to send them to.

It's not just humans who are being made to suffer in the Russia-Ukraine war, but animals too have been bearing the brunt of the war initiated by Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has been trying to rescue animals kept in its zoos but has not been successful.

Imran Ahmad Khan, a Tory MP for Wakefield, is facing trial after being accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy 14 years ago. The trial which was earlier scheduled to start on March 21 will now commence on March 28.

Anthropologist Dr Jesse Casana says that he may have discovered an ancient city and believes that it could be older than the Egyptian pyramids. The area is called Tell Brak and the discovery has been made by analysing images taken by an old spy satellite.

Several people, including little children and women, have been left injured after Russia bombed a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The Russian strike has reportedly left at least 17 people injured.

Pakistani Police have launched a manhunt for a man named, Shahzaib Khan who allegedly shot dead his newborn baby girl because he wanted a son. The incident occurred on Monday in the Mianwali city of Pakistan's Punjab province.

A US woman failed to save her father's life despite alerting the police on time of her 74-year-old father's suicide attempt. The man, a resident of Mumbai's Matunga area, had consumed 30 sleeping pills in an attempt to end his life.

"No one should have to go home to their family with a black eye, a broken nose, or a cracked head."

A 28-year-old woman named Keegan Barnes allegedly stabbed a friend to death in an inebriated state. She also tried to cover the evidence by painting the blood-splattered walls, and hiding the victim's blood-covered phone under a mattress at her house in Thornaby, North Yorkshire last year.

After the takeover of Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban had promised they would respect the rights of women "within the limits of Islam," but things on the ground say otherwise.

A UK court has given a life sentence to a 17-year-old boy who stabbed a disabled teenage girl at least 99 times before leaving her alone to die in Sittingbourne, Kent in July last year.

An 18-month-old boy was killed in shelling by Russian forces in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday. The heart-wrenching visuals of his mother carrying his lifeless body as the shelling continued in the besieged city left people in tears.

The manager believes there is a proper time to show support for the club owner without disrespecting Ukraine and its people

Several people have come forward to help Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country, one such person is 36-year-old Avi Rosner who has decided to open the doors of his hotel in Florida, US to Ukrainian refugees.

A 27-year-old man from Lanarkshire, Scotland has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for neglecting and keeping his daughter without food for almost a day which eventually led to her death. The incident had taken place in December 2017, just five days before Christmas.

A nine-year-old boy who was allegedly raped by his 12-year-old batchmate could not get justice because the school botched up the investigation into the matter. The incident took place at Appletree Treatment Centre in Cumbria in 2006. The school caters to children who have been abused or neglected.

A court in Essex, England has acquitted a 60-year-old woman of murdering her 89-year-old mother suffering from dementia. The woman named Cheryl Banks was the primary caregiver of her mother Winifred Grover.

Despite the raging war between Russia and Ukraine, humanity has managed to prevail in many stances. In one such incident, a Russian soldier who was captured by Ukrainians in Novy Bug broke down after being treated kindly by the citizens of the country he had come to fight.

Several videos of anti-war protestors being detained by the Russian authorities have made it to social media platforms. One such video shows a visibly distressed 7-year-old girl crying helplessly for her mother when the duo is detained by the police officers in St Petersburg.

The Panama-flagged ship was being towed before it went under, but the efforts to retrieve it were hampered by the fire and the sea conditions.

Mikhail Watford, born Mikhail Tolstosheya in 1955 in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union, changed his name after moving to the UK.

The accused placed the victim's head and penis in a bucket, his upper torso in a bag, and legs in a box.