A pair of brothers in rural India have married the same woman, upholding an ancient custom and sparking criticism from a women’s rights group after photos of the wedding went viral. Polyandry is banned in India but is legal in some of the tribal pockets, including Himalayan territories, allowing preservation of some ancient traditions. The…
Prosecutors in South Korea have apologized to a woman who was convicted for defending herself during a violent sexual assault more than six decades ago. Choi Mal-ja, now 78, was just 18 years old in 1964 when she bit off part of a man’s tongue as he allegedly tried to rape her. Despite being the…
A man shot and killed his son with a homemade gun during a birthday party he threw for his father, police said on Tuesday. The 63-year-old shooter was detained without a warrant after the police were alerted to a shooting at an apartment in Incheon, west of Seoul. The man is suspected of firing two…
South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Monday dismissed his embattled higher education minister, weeks after a key party in his unity government filed criminal charges accusing her of lying to parliament. Ramaphosa has faced mounting pressure in recent months as several ministers from his African National Congress (ANC) party have been accused of corruption, deepening…
A court in Madagascar has sentenced a man to surgical castration for the rape of a child in 2024, a judicial official said, in the first such measure on the Indian Ocean island. The case arose from the rape and attempted murder of a six-year-old girl in Imerintsiatosika, a municipality 30 km west of the…
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, says immigrants from countries whose cultures that do not align with the UK values should not be welcome. Badenoch spoke on Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. The UK opposition leader has been outspoken about her concerns over the countries immigrants come from and…
Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal Al Saud, popularly known as Saudi Arabia’s “Sleeping Prince,” has died at the age of 36, two decades after he fell into a coma following a car accident in London. According to TheSunUK, the royal, who suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2005 while studying at a military college in…
President Donald Trump signs the “Genius Act”, which will develop regulatory framework for stablecoin cryptocurrencies and expand oversight of the industry, at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 18, 2025. Over the last few years, Trump, once a crypto skeptic, has begun to tout himself as the most crypto-friendly commander in chief in U.S….
Lightning strikes during monsoon storms in eastern India this week killed at least 33 people and injured dozens, officials said Friday. The deaths in Bihar occurred during fierce storms between Wednesday and Thursday, a state disaster management department statement said, with the victims mostly farmers and labourers working in the open. More heavy rain and…
Police have arrested a woman who allegedly had sex with Thai monks and then used pictures and recordings of the encounters to demand money from them. According to authorities during a press conference on Tuesday, the woman, who they are dubbing “Ms Golf,” had sex with at least nine monks. Over the previous three years,…