Britain's first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of history.. Much of the Anglican service at London's Westminster Abbey -- which will also crown Charles's second wife Camilla as queen -- would be recognisable to the 74-year-old king's forebears 1,000 years ago.
A manhunt was ongoing in Serbia early Friday as police combed the woods near the capital Belgrade, after state media reported a gunman killed at least eight people and injured 13, in the second mass shooting in the Balkan nation this week.. Worried relatives gathered outside the emergency medical centre in Belgrade, where at least eight injured people were hospitalised, N1 television reported.
India has become the world's most populous nation, and for the country's new mothers it is a moment of great hope but also anxiety as they face an uncertain future.. One of the reasons India overtook China as the world's most populous country was its northern neighbour's sometimes brutally enforced one-child policy.
Little is certain in Afghanistan -- armies invade and retreat, governments rise and fall -- but when the key of a Toyota Corolla turns in the ignition, the engine can be relied upon to roar to life.. But all their roads have led to Afghanistan, where "people have a special craze for Toyota", Nazar insists.
A few steps from a cliff-edge, Deusimar Batista is hanging clothes to dry in her yard.. "But now it's like this -- all destroyed," she told AFP, motioning to the gorge that now marks the edge of her yard, empty except for some trash at the bottom.
British pop phenom Ed Sheeran did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" when composing his 2014 hit "Thinking Out Loud," a US jury ruled Thursday.. The two wrote "Thinking Out Loud" at Sheeran's home in February 2014, he said.
Four members of the far-right Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy on Thursday for their roles in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, US media reported.. Tarrio was not in Washington on January 6, 2021 but was accused of directing the storming of the Capitol by members of the Proud Boys.
Pakistan's foreign minister arrived in India Thursday to take part in an international conference, the first official visit by a senior Pakistani official to the country's eastern neighbour since 2016.. The most recent visit to India by a high-ranking Pakistan diplomat was in 2016, when Sartaj Aziz -- then the senior foreign affairs adviser to the prime minister -- travelled there.
Kyiv and Moscow reported drone attacks Thursday including two that sparked fires in Russian oil refineries, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited The Hague to lobby for more support.. Russia on Thursday said a drone attack in the southern Krasnodar region's Ilsky settlement sparked a blaze at an oil refinery.
Gunfire and explosions gripped Khartoum for a 20th straight day Thursday leaving the latest ceasefire effort in tatters, a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres acknowledged the international community had "failed" Sudan.. "To the extent that we and many others were not expecting this to happen, we can say we failed to avoid it to happen," Guterres said.
