Afghanistan's Taliban government has now dissolved the country's human rights commission along with four other key departments deeming them "unnecessary," as the country is facing a financial crisis.
McDonald's has decided to shut shop in Russia more than 30 years after it first opened its operations in the country. It has now joined the list of firms that have stopped offering their services in the country.
The US Coast Guard officials were able to rescue a dog that had gone missing after the owner reportedly lost her overboard in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina last Saturday.
A woman named Carol Hover has been trying to unravel the mystery behind the decades old letters she has been receiving at her house in New York.
At least 14 people lost their lives and 19 were left injured after the tourist bus they were travelling in crashed into a billboard in Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday morning.
A 65-year-old British woman, who was sentenced to death in 2013 for smuggling 10.6lb of cocaine from Thailand into Indonesia, is now awaiting her execution.
A Russian oligarch was secretly recorded saying Russian President Vladimir Putin has blood cancer, according to media reports.
A man in Kazakhstan risked his own life to save a toddler from falling off the window of an eighth-floor home. The man is being hailed as a "hero" after a video of the daring act went viral on social media.
The regressive Taliban government has now barred men and women from eating out at restaurants together in the western Afghan city of Herat. The rule even needs to be followed by married couple.
The family of a 10-year-old girl, who choked herself to death while performing a Tik Tok challenge, is suing the platform for its "defective product."
An Indian court failed to reach a decision on the question of criminalising rape within marriage, leaving the laws unchanged. The issue can now go to the Supreme Court of the country.
A man from Middlesbrough stabbed his ex-girlfriend 31 times in front of their son after he found a condom wrapper in her bathroom bin.
A 40-year-old man from Blurton stole from his own family to fund his alcohol addiction. Such was his craving for alcohol that he did not even spare his grandmother's wedding ring.
In a latest incident, a dog managed to save a two-year-old girl from being kidnapped when she was out with her mother in Ringwood, Hamphshire on Wednesday morning.
A former respiratory therapist has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of a patient 20 years ago at a hospital in Chillicothe, northern Missouri.
The police are carrying out an investigation into the death of a diver who was found unconscious in the water with nearly 50kg of cocaine floating around him in the New South Wales Port of Newcastle.
The residents of the Srikakulam district of India's Andhra Pradesh woke up to a pleasant surprise after a gold-colored chariot washed ashore at Sunnapalli Sea Harbour on Tuesday.
A woman accused of killing her three children with the help of her 16-year-old son has admitted to committing the crime, according to Los Angeles police investigators.
UK's advertising watchdog has banned sportswear brand Adidas's latest campaign that features a grid of women's breasts of all shapes, sizes and colours.
A woman in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide after she suffered an obstetric emergency and lost her unborn baby.
A power cut in an Indian village led to a "bride-groom swap," and two sisters almost marrying the wrong grooms.
An Indian airline has come under fire after it did not allow a child with special needs on board one of its flights at Ranchi airport over the weekend.
A 72-year-old man from Bang Khen district of Bangkok, held onto his wife's remains for more than two decades before he finally decided to cremate her.
Video footage from the scene showed fire and rescue workers combing through piles of rubble dousing still smoking wreckage.
Patron, a two-and-a-half-year-old mine-sniffing dog, has been awarded by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky for his services to the country since the beginning of Russia-Ukraine war.
A man who was reunited with his biological mother after 30 years of separation confessed to his wife that he was in love with his mother and that they enjoyed 'mind-blowing' sex several times.
British YouTube travel vlogger Benjamin Rich, famous for exploring some of the dangerous parts of the world, was arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to Russian authorities.
The Afghan Taliban in its latest decree has yet again attacked women and their freedom to choose what they wish to wear in public places.
A man accused of a double murder claimed that he committed the crime because the victims had a button for an atomic bomb.
The Taliban in its latest diktat have reportedly stopped issuing driving licenses to women in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan.