In Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, millions normally take part in raucous play with uninhibited splashing of water on friends and strangers.

Israel has struck a hospital in northern Gaza, forcing patients to evacuate as attacks intensified across the Strip. The pre-dawn strike on Sunday hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel ...

The amendment, which will almost certainly be passed on Monday by the two-thirds majority of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nationalist Fidesz party, would permanently codify a ban on public events ...

An animal sanctuary has confirmed that one of its snow leopards is pregnant after the endangered big cat underwent an ultrasound scan. The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent says it is “thrilled” that Laila is ...

Incumbent Daniel Noboa and challenger Luisa Gonzalez have promised voters solutions to violence which has hit the country since the pandemic.

The Great British Bake Off’s Stand Up To Cancer special continues tonight (April 13) and the celebrities who will be baking include ...

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi ‘briefly spoke’ together in Oman.

A major incident has been declared following an explosion at a home in Nottinghamshire. Nearby homes in Worksop have been evacuated as fire crews and the East Midlands Ambulance Service work to ...

Wera Hobhouse was not given a reason for Hong Kong’s refusal to allow her to enter the territory, where she intended to visit her son and grandson.

The Chancellor said thousands of businesses would benefit from a move to expand UK Export Finance’s backing for firms by £20 billion.

The First Minister has suggested the UK Government should drop the recently announced increase in employers’ national insurance contributions.

Al Hurra is the latest US government-funded news outlet — after Voice Of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and others — to cut staff and services amid what the outlets say is ...