IBT Staff Reporter

Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world's highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday.

Thousands of security forces on alert ahead of Philippine polls

Northern Ireland in limbo after Sinn Fein triumphs

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday evil has returned to Ukraine as he gave an emotional address for Victory Day, when Europe commemorates the formal surrender of Germany to the Allies in World War Two.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that evil had returned to Ukraine but that Kyiv would prevail in an emotional address as Europe marks the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War Two.

Crowds jeer Sri Lankan PM on rare outing

The need to secure new sources of metals for the energy transition amid sanctions on top producer Russia has increased the Africa risk appetite for major miners, who have few alternatives to the resource-rich continent.

Xi warms up China's economy, but virus narrows options

Ukraine war puts EU 'at crossroads' on anniversary

Is Ukraine conducting a sabotage campaign inside Russia?

UK's first LGBTQ+ museum opens in London

Victims voice disbelief, anger as Philippine dictator's son nears power

Germany's conservatives look set to come first in a regional election in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday in a boost to former Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, which was ousted from national government in federal elections last year.

Germany's conservative CDU won an election in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, a boost to the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, which was ousted from national government in federal elections last year.

Rebuild or resist? Hamas's dilemma year after Gaza war

Evacuation efforts will focus on getting the wounded and medics out of Mariupol's bombed-out Azovstal steelworks after all the women, children and elderly trapped in the plant were brought to safety, said Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Russia's bombing of a school in the eastern Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka killed two people and left 60 in the debris feared dead, the governor of the Luhansk region said on Sunday.

As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.

As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed when a bomb struck a village school in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor said on Sunday while Russian forces continued shelling the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southeastern port of Mariupol.

Ukraine's Mariupol defenders face final showdown with Russian invaders

A Nepali sherpa scaled Mount Everest for a record 26th time, beating his own previous record set last year, a government official said on Sunday.

Three fathers relive nightmare on Gaza's Wehda Street

C.Africa's leap into bitcoin leaves its people bemused

Blooming shame: Pandemic, Ukraine war hurts Thai orchid industry

How Portugal became Europe's accidental 'bitcoin heaven'

Between searing drought and Ukraine war, Iraq watchful over wheat

Millions of Beijing residents queued up for another round of COVID-19 tests on Sunday, in what is becoming a daily routine as the Chinese capital races to contain a small but stubborn outbreak - and avoid a Shanghai-type prolonged lockdown.

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China's capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.

As supplies dwindle, Azovstal's fighters struggle to hold on