A Russian court sentenced former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst into a news broadcast with a placard that read "Stop the war" and "They're lying to you", to eight and half years in jail in absentia on Wednesday.
A team of the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted searches at the residence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case.
At least 21 people including several children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near Venice and burst into flames, officials say.
A newly refined map of Zealandia was created by a small international team of geologists and seismologists who used the data from rock samples on the ocean floor as the eighth continent is majorly submerged in water.
Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, have raided the homes of several prominent journalists and authors in connection with an investigation into the funding of news website NewsClick.
Vedhapriya Ganesan is one of a handful of women snake rescuers in the Indian city of Chennai.
For decades mangroves had been disappearing from Sri Lanka’s coastline, where the salt-water-loving trees were often felled to make way for shrimp ponds and salt pans.
The government is to carry out a census of the elephant population after 13 years.
The ocean bed is a world of its own, with multicolored fish and other creatures, coral reefs and sea weeds giving it a unique beauty.