South Korean actor Simon Lee was stunned when he saw his likeness -- at times as a gynaecologist or a surgeon -- being used to promote questionable health cures on TikTok and Instagram.

Americans are scouring Chinese e-commerce apps for cheap handbags, yoga pants and wallets as shoppers fear homegrown platforms will hike prices due to tariffs.

A recent cholera outbreak among British nationals is linked to contaminated holy water from Ethiopia's Bermel Giorgis pilgrimage site.

The ISIS group has claimed a bomb explosion targeting police in Pakistan's turbulent southwest that killed three policemen and wounded more than a dozen.

Cars were set on fire at a prison in Tarascon in southern France early on Wednesday, justice minister Gerald Darmanin said, as the government tackles a wave of attacks on jails.

Japan crossed the 10 million visitor mark at the fastest ever pace in March, official data showed on Wednesday, as the weak yen propelled a record tourism boom.

China now faces tariffs of 245 per cent on import of goods into the United States "as a result of its retaliatory actions", the White House said Tuesday afternoon (India time) as the trade war between the nations appears to be run further off track.

South Korean police raided Wednesday the office of former president Yoon Suk Yeol and his security detail, as part of a spiralling criminal probe into the impeached leader.

Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis.

Melinda French Gates opened up about being in a terrible relationship when she was younger that caused her years of body image issues.

Days before her death, Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Hollywood actor Gene Hackman, googled flu and COVID-19-like symptoms, according to a report.

India has called out attempts to introduce new parameters such as religion and faith as the basis for representation in a reformed UN Security Council.

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest astronaut, is set to return from space on April 19, his 70th birthday. Mr Pettit, currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has completed more than 3,520 orbits of Earth.

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet dropped a bomb near an Israeli community on the Gaza border owing to a "technical malfunction".

Hankering for a chiseled jawline, a male TikTok influencer strikes his cheekbones with a hammer -- highlighting the rise of "looksmaxxing," an online trend pushing unproven and sometimes dangerous techniques to boost sexual appeal.

Every day, as he has done for 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" -- a clandestine national lottery that provides a sliver of hope for Cubans struggling to make ends meet.

The Bahamas' government said on Tuesday it is suspending all SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landings in the country, pending a full post-launch investigation.

The US State Department is expected to propose an unprecedented dismantling of Washington's diplomatic reach, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday, shuttering programs and embassies worldwide to slash the budget by almost 50 percent.

A Russian court on Tuesday jailed a woman for more than five years for criticising the army on social media, allegedly after she was denounced by her neighbour.

An American fast food chain has taken a jab at pop star Katy Perry after her return from Blue Origins all-female space mission on April 14.

NASA has released some stunning images of dying stars, offering the most in-depth view of the planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date.

France has expelled 12 Algerian diplomatic officials in a "symmetrically" calibrated response.

Hamas said Tuesday that after an Israeli strike it had "lost contact" with the captors of an Israeli-American hostage in Gaza, whose release reportedly takes centre stage in Israel's latest proposal for a renewed ceasefire.

The unconventional competition, organised by a startup, will pit sperm samples against each other to raise awareness about declining male fertility rates.

Social media titan Mark Zuckerberg testified for a second day Tuesday in a landmark US antitrust trial, defending his conglomerate Meta against accusations it took over Instagram and WhatsApp to devour budding competitors.