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Ilma HasanBBC Hindi, West BengalRubaiyat Biswas/BBCShe alleges that about a week after being detained by the Delhi police, her family and their neighbours were flown to the India-Bangladesh border and "pushed" across by paramilitary personnel from the Border Security...

Police have issued an arrest warrant for the suspect in a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two people and injured nine others, sources close to the investigation told the BBC's US partner, CBS News.Authorities are now searching...

Pope Leo has named Bishop Aldon Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York.Bishop Hicks, who - like the pope - is from the Chicago area and served in Latin America, will lead one of the Roman Catholic...

A former Nascar driver is believed to be among seven people killed in a plane crash at a regional airport in North Carolina, an official says.A spokesperson for the highway patrol said that people on the ground confirmed that...

Jessica RawnsleyandAnbarasan Ethirajan,Global affairs correspondentBangladeshi political parties have mourned his death and urged the interim government to bring the perpetrators to justice.Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who heads the caretaker government, called Hadi's death "an irreparable loss for the nation"."The...

An HR executive caught on the big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing her boss has described how "the harassment has never ended" following the viral moment.Kristin Cabot has spoken publicly for the first time about the video in...

Mircea Barbu,BucharestandAndré Rhoden-PaulGetty ImagesA Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage.The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please!...

Tiffanie TurnbullandTabby Wilson,SydneyOthers at Bondi rushed from the beach into the fire, their red-and-yellow lifesaving boards working overtime as stretchers. One lifeguard even dived back into the surf to save swimmers who'd been sent into a panic by the...

A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, as European Union leaders weighed a major loan to help the Ukrainian...

Sydney — Hundreds of people gathered in Sydney on Thursday to mourn the youngest victim of the terrorist attack that targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Australia's Bondi Beach. The 10-year-old girl, who has been publicly...