Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have arrested a woman in connection with the suicide of a man she had accused of touching her inappropriately on a bus. The arrest followed a complaint by the man’s family, who alleged that he faced online harassment after a social media video posted by the woman…
Watch: ‘I’m still shaking’ – Tourist recounts running from New Zealand landslide Two people have died and several are feared buried after landslides in New Zealand’s North Island. The deaths were reported at Welcome Bay, while rescue workers are still searching through rubble at a different site in a popular campground on Mount Maunganui. There…
Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition, the country’s main opposition, has split after a row over hate speech laws, casting the future of Liberal leader Sussan Ley into doubt. The centre-right Coalition, which has been on rocky ground since a resounding election loss last year, had been divided over how to respond to reforms moved by the government…
Three people have died after a reported shooting in a small town in New South Wales, Australia, police say. A fourth person has been taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition. Local police are now investigating the reported shooting which took place in Lake Cargelligo at about 16:40 local time (05:40 GMT). Police…
Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been found guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced to at least 12 years in jail. Cumpio, 26, was arrested in February 2020 after police and military raided her boarding house in the middle of the night and allegedly found a hand grenade, firearm, and communist flag in her bed….
Three activists who organised annual vigils to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have gone on trial in Hong Kong, facing charges under the city’s controversial national security law. Chow Hang-tung, 40, Lee Cheuk-yan, 68, and Albert Ho, 74, are accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced law. Ho has made…
Katy WatsonAustralia correspondent Reuters A makeshift memorial was created after the 14 December attack at Bondi Beach From the outside, the vacant shop on the corner of a busy avenue in central Sydney looks abandoned. Plastic sheeting is taped across all the windows and there’s a large padlock hanging on the door handle. Step inside,…
Getty Images The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant has the world’s largest installed capacity Japan has restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after a disaster at the Fukushima power plant forced the country to shut all its nuclear reactors. Reactor no.6 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant located northwest of Tokyo was…
Four shark attacks have occurred along Australia’s New South Wales coast in the span of 48 hours. They follow days of heavy rain, which local authorities say may have created a “perfect environment” for shark attacks. The BBC spoke to residents in Sydney, where three of the attacks occurred, to see how people are feeling….
A sightseeing helicopter carrying three people has gone missing near Mount Aso, one of Japan’s most active volcanoes. The aircraft took off from a zoo in Aso City at 10:52 local time (01:52 GMT) on Tuesday for a 10-minute tour but never returned, local reports say, quoting police. An object resembling an aircraft was spotted…