David and Ally have yet to receive official confirmation from authorities that Marcus is one of the allegedly trafficked babies. But the BBC has found clear signs, which have been shared with the couple. Going through court documents, we found Marcus’s full Indonesian name listed as one of the allegedly trafficked babies. One woman on…
Seven students and a teacher have been killed in Bangladesh after a landslide hit a girls’ school inside a refugee camp. The Islamic study centre in the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar was buried by mud and debris on Wednesday afternoon, sparking frantic search and rescue efforts. It is unclear how many people were inside…
A major outage at Australia’s largest telecommunications company has led to cancelled train services, left thousands of customers without mobile coverage, and sparked an investigation into emergency calls that were not connected. Telstra’s chief financial officer Michael Ackland apologised for the issue which began at 04:30 local time on Wednesday and affected “some mobile calls…
The trial at the Senate started on 6 July. Ninety-two trial dates in total have been scheduled, spread thrice weekly. The proceedings are livestreamed by local media outlets, with tens of thousands of viewers tuning in to watch each one. Under Philippine law, officials like the president, vice-president and chief justice of the Supreme Court…
For eight days, a fire has been burning at a waste mountain in Indonesia. The blaze at Jatiwaringin landfill, on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, has spread across more than 15 hectares, smothering the area in thick, toxic smoke and displacing hundreds of local residents. Health authorities have reported a surge in respiratory illnesses…
Australian dock workers are demanding a 28-hour work week with no loss of pay as the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation expands across the country’s ports. The AI push is being led by port logistics giant DP World, which the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said has put workers’ jobs “in the crosshairs”….
Aviation officials in Pakistan say a search operation is ongoing after a cargo plane carrying five crew members went missing off the coast of Karachi, a city at the country’s southern tip. The Boeing 737 rapidly descended and lost contact with air traffic controllers on Tuesday at 21:21 local time (16:21 GMT), Pakistan’s airport authority…
Last year, Indian-American physicist Jainendra Jain, a co-recipient of the prestigious 2025 Wolf Prize and a figure well-known for his revolutionary research in quantum physics, was taken aback when he received a call from an Indian real estate tycoon. Abhishek Lodha of the Lodha Group, whose projects include the ultra-luxury, golden-hued Trump Tower overlooking the…
On Sunday, heavy rain began falling on Renhe village in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi. The villagers were used to it. But the rain didn’t stop – and the water suddenly rose. By the early hours of Monday, the water had reached their knees. By dawn, it had completely submerged the first floor of…
Days after the law was passed, the Akal Takht raised objections – not to the tougher punishments, but to provisions on terminology, the registration and custody of physical forms of the Guru Granth Sahib, and its administration. It argued these were matters of Sikh religious practice that should be decided by Sikh institutions, not the…