An Indian voter has seemingly taken drastic measures after casting his ballot for the wrong party, by chopping off his finger. The man who meant to vote for the regional Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) cut off his finger after he […]
Catholics and tourists who can no longer approach Notre-Dame after Monday’s devastating fire will be consoled by an “ephemeral cathedral” made of wood until the stricken cathedral reopens, its chief priest has announced. Notre-Dame’s 12 million annual visitors will still be […]
Indonesia’s Joko Widodo said Thursday his reelection as head of the world’s third-biggest democracy was all but assured, calling for calm as his firebrand ex-general rival insisted he had in fact won the nation’s top job. Widodo, 57, said he […]
A humanoid robot has read the news on Russian state television after a high-level robotics conference, disquieting some viewers. During a Tuesday afternoon news segment on Russia-24, the robot “Alex” informed viewers of new microfinance legislation, the agriculture ministry’s 2018 […]
The Canadian government is being sued over plans to build a Google "smart city" after civil rights activists claimed it would amount to an invasion of privacy. Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is proposing to turn […]
Omar al-Bashir, the ousted president of Sudan, has been jailed by the country’s new military authorities. Mr Bashir, who was forced out in a military coup following massive street protests last week, was moved to Khartoum’s Kober prison on Tuesday […]
Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old presidential hopeful who has surged in the polls, had two campaign events in Iowa disrupted by homophobic heckles on Tuesday. One event saw a middle-aged white man repeatedly shout “Sodom and Gomorrah”, a reference to the biblical […]
The gleaming futuristic space base surrounded by otherworldly red soil may seem like a habitat on an alien world. But the facility is actually located in the middle of The Gobi desert, the latest indication that China is taking the […]
The first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing bout has cancelled plans to return home after an arrest warrant was issued for her in Tehran. Sadaf Khadem beat a French boxer, Anne Chauvin, in the match, which took place […]
Robert Mueller, who has been appointed special counsel to investigate possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team and Russia, is a former FBI director who took over the bureau just one week before the 9/11 attacks on the […]