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Evening school classes were cancelled on Wednesday and city’s education bureau announced schools would stay closed on Thursday

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country's largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, which critics say undermines Maori rights and threatens race relations.

An Air India flight from Paris to New Delhi was diverted due to smog in Delhi and the pilots' inability to perform low-visibility landings, according to reports.

Seoul Metro has apologised after an employee caused controversy recently by posting a derogatory online response to a public complaint about Chinese -language announcements in subway stations.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is facing criminal fraud charges in the US for allegedly orchestrating a $250m (£198m) bribery scheme to secure lucrative renewable energy contracts in his home country.

· 2-min read Caroline Darian, the daughter of main defendant Dominique Pelicot, shouted at him from the courtroom that he would “die alone like a dog” during the ongoing French mass rape trial.

At least 42 people were killed after gunmen opened fire on a convoy of vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in northwest Pakistan on Thursday in what

A transgender woman in China won a landmark legal case against a hospital that subjected her to a so-called “electroshock conversion therapy” without consent, receiving 60,000 yuan (£6,552) in compensation.

A 37-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Karnataka suffered severe injuries when a hair dryer exploded in her hand, police said.

This marks the first successful legal challenge by a transgender person in China against conversion therapy