Bandits demand N145m ransom for wedding guests kidnapped in Zamfara and more

Lightning struck villages and left 23 families homeless in India. Footage shows the flames gutting 36 rooms of apartment and houses in Bhadrak, Odisha on April 28.

Members of the World Health Organization are starting a new round of negotiations to hammer out a global agreement on pandemics. Has Germany learned the right lessons from the coronavirus pandemic?

In the French overseas department of Mayotte, authorities have opened a second cholera unit. The number of confirmed cholera cases now stands at 26 since mid-March.

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has revealed that he has made significant lifestyle changes to prepare for his fight against Jake Paul. Tyson, 57, revealed in interviews that he has abstained from smoking for six weeks and refrained from sexual activity.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had called for Lisbon to find ways to compensate its former colonies, including canceling debt. The government says it has not initiated any process to that effect.

The Israeli media react to the news that the ICC could be preparing an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Also, pro-Palestinian protests continue on university campuses across the US and France. In other news, an Iraqi TikTok sensation is murdered outside her home, the third such killing in under a year. Finally, a 101-year-old woman is regularly mistaken for a baby due to a software malfunction.