Almost 90 drones fell from the sky over Sydney's Darling Harbour during a popular winter light show, with footage showing devices splashing into the water, close to crowds.
Organisers of Vivid Sydney, an annual three-week festival that features large light installations, said the malfunction on Monday evening, local time, was due to "unforeseen technical difficulties" and has cancelled several upcoming shows.
Footage of Monday's show captured dozens of drones
Rescuers are racing against time to free seven people who have been trapped for nearly a week in a flooded cave in Laos.
The seven were part of a group of villagers from the central province of Xaysomboun who had gone into the cave on Wednesday in search of gold and wildlife, but could not get out as rain and landslides blocked the cave's entrance.
Footage shared by the rescue groups show the cave divers crawling into the cave through narrow
Getty Images The US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats attempting to place mines.
US Central Command said in a statement the strikes were taken in "self-defense", and were designed "to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces".
Central Command spokesperson Capt Tim Hawkins said the US military "continues to defend our forces while
Delhi Gymkhana Club/Gallery In India's capital Delhi, power has long circulated through ministries, embassies and the parliament - but also through the shaded verandas of the Gymkhana Club.
For generations, the cream-coloured clubhouse located on Safdarjung Road has functioned as a discreet world of retired generals, senior bureaucrats and old business families conducting negotiations over whisky sodas and kebabs. Even those who have never entered its gates - which
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A school assistant will go on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of sexual mistreatment of young children in his care.
It is the latest case in a year-long scandal that has shaken the school system in the French capital, where some 15,000 such assistants
EPA Muslims have begun the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of a region deeply shaken by the Iran war.
Saudi authorities said last week that some 1.51 million pilgrims had arrived from outside the kingdom.
That is 11,000 more than last year, despite concerns in the region about a resumption of the three-month-old conflict between the US, Israel and
The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of strikes across Lebanon following an announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his country will intensify its attacks on Hezbollah.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had launched strikes against Hezbollah sites in the Bekaa Valley in the east of Lebanon and additional areas across the country.
It followed a video statement on Monday evening in which Netanyahu said Israel was "at war with Hezbollah" and that he had given