Spiritual tourism is seeing a boom in India thanks to the wide reach of social media and better transport connectivity.

Iran’s interior ministry has declared reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian winner of the presidential election.

A formerly banned Indigenous calligraphy is now being practised ‘joyfully’ in corners of Kathmandu and beyond.

Pezeshkian said to be winner of run-off election with 16.3 million votes to Jalili's 13.5 million, according to reports.

US president says his recent debacle in a televised debate with Donald Trump was due to 'exhaustion' and a 'bad cold'.

Rachel Reeves becomes the UK's first female finance minister while David Lammy is appointed as foreign secretary.

Israeli attacks continue in Gaza City and Khan Younis as delegation travels to Doha for ceasefire talks.

UK Conservative Party suffers its worst election defeat in more than a century.

Complaints to US government from travellers are the highest since the COVID pandemic when airlines were slow to refund.

US President Joe Biden left Washington, DC for a campaign rally and pivotal TV interview in the state of Wisconsin.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan tells Al Jazeera many countries remain silent over alleged crimes in Sudan's civil war.

Keir Starmer is the new Prime Minister of the UK ending 14 years of Conservative rule.

Hurricane Beryl crossed Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, dumping rain and lashing the region with wind.

SYDNEY — Australia said Thursday a $1.35 billion deal with U.S. technology giant Amazon to build three secure data centers for top-secret information will increase its military’s “war-fighting capacity.” The data centers are to be built in secret locations in Australia and be run by an Australian subsidiary of the U.S. technology company Amazon Web Service, the government said. The deal is part of Australia’s National Defense Strategy, outlining its commitment to Indo-Pacific security and maintaining “the global rules-based order.” The country has a long-standing military alliance with the United States and is a member, with the United Kingdom, U.S., Canada and New Zealand, of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. Australian officials said the project would create a “state-of-the-art collaborative space” for intelligence and defense agencies to store and gain access to sensitive information in a centralized network. Andrew Shearer, director-general of Australia’s Office of National Intelligence, said in a statement that the project would allow “greater interoperability with our most important international intelligence partners.” Similar data clouds have been set up in the United States and Britain, allowing the sharing of information among agencies and departments. Richard Marles, Australia’s deputy prime minister and defense minister, told reporters that highly sensitive national security data will be safely secured in the new system. “If you consider that any sensor which is on a defense platform, which in turn feeds that data to a high tech capability, such as the Joint Strike Fighter, which will use that to engage in targeting or perhaps to defend itself from an in-coming threat, or ... to defend another asset, such as a ship — all of that is top secret data,” Marles said. The government said the Amazon Web Services storage system will use artificial intelligence to detect suspected intrusions and to retrieve data. Richard Buckland, a professor in CyberCrime, Cyberwar and Cyberterror at the University of New South Wales, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the storage plan has risks. “Putting more data together in a central spot and sharing it widely as people intend to do obviously increases the risk of a data breach,” he said. In a statement, Amazon Web Services’ managing director in Australia, Iain Rouse, said the system would “enable the seamless sharing of classified data between Australia’s National Intelligence Community and the Australian Defense Force.” The so-called top-secret cloud is scheduled to be in operation by 2027.

Storm downgraded to Category 2 as it hits top tourist destination, knocking out power and putting authorities on alert.

Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn says he hopes the new UK government will "search for peace, not war" in Gaza.

Labour owes its landslide not to the electorate’s embrace of Starmerism, but its complete rejection of the Tories.

Netherlands and Turkey have both recovered their form at the right time with a place in the semifinal beckoning.

England head into the quarterfinal against Switzerland under pressure after a dire performance in the last game.

Key takeaways, from Starmer's Labour Party win and the Conservative Party's fall, to Reform winning seats.