On May 7, 2025, the conclave to elect a new pope began.
World leaders and tens of thousands of faithful gathered at St Peter's Square in the Vatican City on Saturday to honor Pope Francis in a poignant farewell.
'Russia is aiming at demoralising Ukraine as a nation.' 'They want to bomb the infrastructure, the electric stations so that regular citizens will not to be able to live, to cook, to give comfort to their kids.'
Six-time World Champion Mary Kom, bronze medallist at the 2012 London Olympics, will be assisted by luger Shiva Keshavan, who has been appointed the deputy chef de mission.
Manchester City held their nerve to beat Sevilla 5-4 on penalties
Latest glimpses form the Ukrainian warzone.
The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia
The Sturgeon Moon is named after the sturgeon fish by the Algonquin tribe of north east USA.
A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar's national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games killed 12 and injured around 80.
Glimpses of the Ukrainian grit and determination in the face of Russian attacks.
Glimpses of rare snowfall in Jerusalem, Israel, and Athens, Greece.
Glimpses of the sorrow and suffering in Ukraine.
There is little food, little water and no electricity, still gritty Ukrainians in Kharkiv, Lviv and Mariupol are finding ways to survive.
A 29-year old man died on Tuesday after being seriously injured in violent clashes between fans of the AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb soccer clubs before a scheduled match in Athens.
A destroyed train, which according to residents was destroyed by Russian shelling at a train station in the Sumy region.
400 days and more, Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine continues.
Deeply disturbing images from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The latest glimpses form the Ukrainian battle zone.
King Charles III led the procession of the coffin from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament for her lying in state.
The latest from the War in Ukraine.
Raging wildfires have killed 74 people including small children in Greece, devouring homes and forests, in what officials are calling the worst fires the country has seen in a decade. Around 500 firefighters, aircraft and helicopters have been mobilised to tackle the fires, while a state of emergency was declared in western and eastern Attica. Take a look at the devastation the fires have brought on in Greece.
After a spectacular dressage round, he was placed 9th on Saturday.
Since September 2019, Australia's raging bushfire crisis has killed 24 people, reduced to ashes hundreds of homes and pushed many species towards extinction. The bushfires continued to pose serious threat in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.
Thursday, April 7, marks week 7 of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Relentless Russian shelling and bombing have devasted large swathes of Ukraine and reconstruction -- if it happens -- will take many years and thousands of billions of dollars.
They will not be followed by analysts and no fund manager can buy such small companies with low trading liquidity.
Large companies, those that are talked about in the media and tracked on social media, have already been discovered. They won't lead to extraordinary gains, Debashish Basu points out.
India's first Equestrian to qualify for the Olympics in last two decades Fouaad Mirza, astride his horse 'Seigneur Medicott', put on an exciting show on the first day of individual eventing at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
Sharath Kamal struggled in the first game but pulled himself up just in time to beat Portugal's Tiago Polonia 2-11, 11-8, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9 in 49 minutes.
Capturing the drama on Day 11 at the Tokyo Olympics.
Thousands lined the route to catch a glimpse as Queen Elizabeth II's coffin, seen in public for the first time, made its journey on Sunday from Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire to arrive at the late monarch's official Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse Palace in the capital city of Edinburgh.
'I want to be with the Ukrainian people and serve those I know here.'
In a televised address, Diab said endemic corruption was behind the deadly blast which devastated the Lebanese capital last week. "One of the examples of corruption has exploded in the port of Beirut," Diab said, adding that state was incapable of taking on the confessional system because the two were deeply intertwined.
The police also rescued two women, who were scheduled to go to Goa with dummy customers, after the racket was busted on Monday evening, a senior official said.
Switzerland's highest court rejected former European soccer boss Michel Platini's bid to overturn his four-year ban from the sport over ethics violations, the court said on Thursday.
Sex workers around the world are the hardest hit in these times of social distancing.
Mouma Das' Olympic appearance was short-lived as the Indian veteran lost to higher-ranked Romanian, Daniela Dodean Monteiro, in the first round of the women's singles table tennis competition in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. World No.150 Das failed to put up much of a fight against her 58th-ranked opponent losing 2-11, 7-11, 7-11, 2-11.
Swiss federal prosecutors are targeting former European football head Michel Platini in a widening of their probe into a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.1 million) payment arranged by former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Friday. Swiss prosecutors have been probing Blatter over accusations he arranged a payment of two million Swiss francs ($2.06 million) from FIFA to then UEFA president Platini in February 2011.
From the spread of coronavirus to International Women's Day, these 10 images sum up all the big stories from the previous week.
The Americans have expended a lot of diplomatic energy to coax India into toeing their line but India has refused to buckle under pressure. As Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said, India has not taken anyone's side but its own side, points out Virendra Kapoor.
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