COLOMBO (News 1st); The cultural crossfire between cinema and global hip‑hop just found its sharpest edge. Akshaye Khanna’s riveting screen presence in the song ‘Fa9la’—featured in the upcoming film Dhurandhar—has sparked an international wave, propelling the track to the top of Spotify’s Viral 50 c...

(AJ); Prosecutors have indicted former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection, accusing him of seeking to provoke military aggression from North Korea to help consolidate his power.Special prosecutor Cho Eun-seok told a briefing on Monday that his team had indicted Yoon, five former c...

(NHK) The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says twin giant pandas at the city's Ueno Zoological Gardens will be returned to China by the end of next month. Japan will then be without the iconic bears for the first time since 1972.The deadline for returning the four-year-old pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei...

(BBC) Schools in Delhi and surrounding areas have moved classes online and construction has been banned as the Indian capital grapples with hazardous air quality.On Monday morning, a toxic haze engulfed the city, affecting visibility and delaying flights and trains.The city's air quality index (AQI)...

A Hong Kong court handed down a guilty verdict in the landmark national security trial of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon and pro-democracy activist whose case highlights shrinking tolerance for dissent in the city.Officials in Hong Kong and mainland China had cast Lai, aged 78, as the mastermind of antig...