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Pakistan bowl against England in rain-delayed second Test

News August 27, 2026

Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to field in the rain-delayed second Test against England at Lord’s on Thursday. Azam was absent as Pakistan suffered an innings and 103-run thras...

How a glacier collapse may have caused Nepal-Tibet disaster

News August 27, 2026

A huge piece of ice that fell thousands of metres from a glacier into a river below may have unleashed the disaster in Nepal and Tibet that killed at least 180 people. Here is what experts believe hap...

Search underway for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods

Business August 27, 2026

Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find more than 1,000 people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 165 and swept away entire villages. A terrifying clip ...

Massive Nepal-Tibet flood kills 160, leaves hundreds missing

News August 26, 2026

Nepali police said in an operational update on Wednesday they had recovered 157 bodies after a terrifying flood tore through the Tibet border region, taking the overall death toll to at least 160, wit...

Iran-Oman talks on Strait of Hormuz: What we know

News August 26, 2026

Iran and Oman are negotiating the opening of a temporary shipping corridor and the clearance of mines in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, which both nations border. They have yet to agree on the condit...

Bill Gates warns world dangerously unprepared for AI upheaval

Technology August 26, 2026

Bill Gates warned on Wednesday that the world is dangerously unprepared for the upheaval brought by artificial intelligence, with the technology destroying jobs and threatening human connection, espec...

Pakistan captain Babar Azam returns against England '90pc fit'

News August 26, 2026

Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Wednesday said he is “90 per cent fit” as he returns to lead his country in the second Test against England at Lord’s. Azam missed last week’s series opener at H...

Massive flood near Tibet border kills at least 95 in Nepal: police

News August 26, 2026

At least 95 people were killed in Nepal on Wednesday after a massive flood tore through the border region with Tibet, a police spokesman told AFP. “So far, 95 deaths have been reported,” spokesman...

Deadly flood hits Nepal-Tibet border; at least 19 killed and hundreds unaccounted for

News August 26, 2026

Massive flooding near the border with Tibet killed at least 19 people in Nepal on Wednesday, but hundreds of tourists were still out of contact hours after the disaster hit. A torrent of mud and debri...

19 killed, 384 travellers missing in Nepal floods at China border; 'major casualties' reported in Tibet mudslide

News August 26, 2026

Massive flooding killed 19 people in Nepal on Wednesday as Chinese state media reported “major casualties” from a mudslide at a Tibet trade hub on China’s side of the nations’ shared border. I...