Reuters At least 21 people have been killed and many others injured after a fire tore through a multi-storey building in south Delhi, police in India's capital say.
Many of the victims were foreigners - including people from South Asian and African countries - who had travelled to India for medical treatment or to accompany relatives undergoing care, local media reported.
The building in the Malviya Nagar area allegedly operated as a bed-and-breakfast catering
Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has advanced to November's run-off election to determine who will run California's largest city, Los Angeles.
With votes still being counted late on Tuesday night, Bass was first to go through, according to a projection by the BBC's US partner CBS News, but it remains unclear who she may face.
It could be either her fellow Democrat, city council member Nithya Raman,
Getty Images Celine Dion has said she is "heartbroken" by the death of R&B singer Peabo Bryson, with whom she sang the hit theme from 1991 Disney film Beauty and the Beast.
"His incredible voice and his kind spirit embodied the beauty of song and performance," Dion said .
The pair won a Grammy Award for their duet on the beloved movie's title song
Getty Images Seven people have been killed and 11 others injured in a drone attack on a passenger bus travelling through a Russia-controlled part of Ukraine, an official said.
Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-installed leader of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, said the bus was hit in the early hours of Wednesday as it was travelling between Moscow and Simferopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Russia downed more than
Simi Jolaoso / BBC British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years even though it knew it was causing widespread pollution - despite a warning from its own staff and its own technical standards, internal documents obtained by the BBC show.
The files, including emails and presentations, reveal that a senior Shell executive cautioned as early as 2008 about the risks of continuing
Getty Images Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has fired the head of the agency responsible for his flagship free meals programme, which has been plagued by mass food poisonings and corruption allegations.
The multi-billion-dollar scheme, a centrepiece of Prabowo's 2024 presidential campaign, aims to offer free meals to 80 million school children.
But tens of thousands of children across the country have fallen
Chitral Khambhati/ BBC Imagine if someone could carry your bags as you move from shop to shop. Or push your toddler's pram while you shop.
That's exactly what a new start-up is offering shoppers in a busy market in the Indian capital, Delhi.
Launched in April, CarryMen offers male and female assistants to shoppers in Lajpat Nagar market for up to four hours - starting at 79 rupees (
Reuters The sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months.
"It is really strange that everything looks normal outside, but people inside are not calm," says the Pakistani sailor, who doesn't want to use his real name.
Things may look normal in this part of