The International Olympic Committee has stated it hopes that the British Government will respect the autonomy of sport after its Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Lucy Frazer wrote to sponsors urging them to back a ban on Russia and Belarus.

The death toll in Turkey from last month’s major earthquakes has risen to 48,448, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, as authorities rush to set up container cities to house for the longer term those left homeless by the disaster.

Iranian judicial authorities have pardoned 22,000 people who took part in anti-government protests, judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Powerful Cyclone Yaku has unleashed torrents of rain on Peru’s northern region in recent days, burying homes and cars in mud and leading to the deaths of at least six people.

One of the biggest developments in Indian cinema so far this year is that the third part of Hera Pheri is all set to roll very soon.

Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Lynda Tabuya has reaffirmed government’s role in ensuring women and girls have access to safe and productive online experience at an affordable cost.

HSBC (HSBA.L)’s rescue of the British arm of Silicon Valley Bank saved the heavily-exposed UK biotech sector from collapse, but the fallout could hamper funding in a sector the government sees as key to future economic growth, industry executives said.

A 40-year-old man has died at the Lautoka Hospital after being allegedly assaulted.

Edward Dion Fariñas watches the Academy Awards every year but the Filipino American didn’t expect to have such a visceral reaction when hearing Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh’s awards announced.

Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) battery needs are covered until 2028 by its three confirmed factories in Europe – the Salzgitter plant in Germany, Northvolt’s plant in Sweden and a planned plant in Valencia, board member Thomas Schmall said.

Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win best actress, as Everything Everywhere All at Once dominated at the Oscars.

U.S. officials stopped hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants entering the country from Mexico on Sunday after a large group broke through Mexican lines to demand asylum in the U.S., only to be thwarted by barbed wire, barriers and shields.