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The 12 members of a religious group denied the girl medical treatment for six days, police say.

The trial is taking place five years after Xiao Jianhua vanished from a Hong Kong luxury hotel.

China's once-booming property market has been hit hard by the country's zero-Covid policies.

The new rules also say that customers who refuse to pay the charge cannot be denied entry or service.

Roads have been cut, houses are underwater and thousands have been left without power.

Avabai Wadia played a major role in India becoming the first country to officially promote family planning.

As fuel, food and medicines run out, Sri Lanka is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, the UN warns.

Better data and real-time software is allowing companies to improve the precision of flood warnings.

Teams have been deployed to rescue a cargo ship that is stranded off the coast of Australia.

A poster for director Leena Manimekalai's new movie shows her dressed as a goddess, smoking a cigarette.

Authorities in Manipur state say heavy rain and fresh landslides are hampering rescue efforts.

The crisis-hit country's next shipment of petrol is not due to arrive until later this month.

Officials in the region of Karakalpakstan say thousands of people are being treated in hospital.

An Indian man, pretending to be a missing son, deceived the boy's family for over four decades.

Roads have been cut off, with 18 evacuation orders in western Sydney alone and warnings of more to come.

Top US general Mark Milley says China clearly is developing the capability to be able to attack Taiwan.

Sarfaraz Khan's heavy scoring in domestic cricket has him knocking on the doors of Indian cricket.

Jasprit Bumrah's incredible all-round display puts England under huge pressure on the second day of the fifth Test against India at Edgbaston.

Seven months after the government repealed the farm laws, farmers say demands not fulfilled yet.

Mullah Haibatullah is said to have addressed a large gathering of around 3,000 religious scholars.