The wall of an old and abandoned fort collapsed in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh, claiming three lives. While two persons have been rescued, at least six to eight people are still trapped under the debris.

Local police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team reached the spot and the rescue operation is underway. The incident was noticed by local residents when they were out for a morning walk around 4 a.m.

It is a century-old building known as 'Rajgarh Ka Quila'. The abandoned building was in decapitated condition for the last several years.

"Hearing heavy sound when I came out from home, I saw the wall has collapsed. People trapped under debris were screaming. Other people also came and we tried to rescue the victims. Two bodies were recovered so far," said an eyewitness.

At least six people died, and seven others were injured when a cargo truck going the wrong way collided head-on with a public transit minibus in western Bolivia, according to local authorities.

The accident occurred on Wednesday along a highway connecting the departments of La Paz and Oruro, 35 km from the city of La Paz, the departmental chief of police in La Paz, Edgar Cortez, told local media.

"Unfortunately, this accident has left six people dead, including minors, and several injured who were taken to nearby medical centres," said Cortez.

The minibus, which was headed to the city of La Paz, was carrying 13 people when the head-on collision occurred. The front of the bus was smashed, and the vehicle ran off the road, reports news agency.

A prison worker was killed and another injured in an armed assault outside a prison in southern Peru's Ica region, according to the National Penitentiary Institute (Inpe).

"Our Institution expresses its condolences to the family of the deceased and will provide all necessary support to the workers affected by this incident," the agency said on X.

The victims of the assault outside the prison in the city of Chincha were identified as Fanny Flor Hernandez Correa, who died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, and Manuel Ricardo Cervantes Cruz, who was injured and "is out of danger."

The assault took place around 7:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday when suspects riding a motorcycle ambushed the workers, as they were arriving by car at a security checkpoint several meters from the prison entrance, reports.

Children whose families use screens a lot tend to have weaker vocabulary skills, and video games have the biggest negative effect on kids’ brain development, according to a study on Thursday.

Scientists from Estonia surveyed the parents of more than 400 children about their screen use, their children’s screen use, and their children’s language skills.

The findings, published in the Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, found that parents who use screens a lot also have children who use screens a lot and that children’s higher screen time is associated with poorer language skills.

Two children have died days after suffering critical injuries in a house fire in Melbourne's northwest in Australia.

Police in the state of Victoria said in a statement on Wednesday that two girls, aged one and five respectively, died surrounded by family in hospital on Wednesday morning while their three-year-old brother remains in a critical condition, news agency reported.

The police said that emergency services were called to a house in Sydenham, Melbourne shortly after 9.30 p.m. local time on September 8.

Six members of a family were injured on Thursday when the roof of their two-storeyed house collapsed due to heavy rain in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district.

The incident occurred in Zaidpura village under the Tappal police station area, as intense rainfall lashed the district.

Brajesh, the local Community Health Centre in-charge, arrived at the scene with an ambulance to help the victims.

Among those trapped were three children and two women. All six were rescued and taken to the hospital, where the condition of a woman was stated to be critical, prompting her transfer to JN Medical College.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador celebrated the Senate's approval of his administration's judicial reform package.

At a regular daily press conference, Lopez Obrador said the bill's approval sets an "example for the world."

"I think it is very important to end corruption and impunity, and much progress will be made when the people of Mexico freely elect the judges, the magistrates and the ministers," he told reporters.

The Senate passed the initiative early on Wednesday with a vote of 86 to 41, applauding the result, which cemented a victory for the outgoing president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has championed the proposal, reports news agency.

Indian equity indices opened in the green on Thursday, following positive global cues from Asian and US markets.

At 9:54 a.m., Sensex was up 236 points or 0.29 per cent at 81,759 and Nifty was up 89 points or 0.36 per cent at 25,007.

Buying was seen in the midcap and smallcap stocks. Nifty midcap 100 index was up 361 points or 0.61 per cent at 59,299 and Nifty smallcap 100 index was up 107 points or 0.65 per cent at 19,238.

Deven Mehata, Derivative analyst of Choice Broking said: "After a gap-up opening, Nifty can find support at 25,000 followed by 24,900 and 24,800. On the higher side, 25,150 can be an immediate resistance, followed by 25,250 and 25,300."

The act of doxxing by releasing someone's personal information without consent will be made a criminal offence in Australia under new government privacy laws.

Mark Dreyfus, Australia's Attorney-General, on Thursday, introduced legislation to Parliament that would make doxxing illegal and entitle victims of serious invasions of privacy to seek compensation through the court system, news agency reported.

Under the laws, anyone found guilty of the malicious release of personal data online -- a practice known as doxxing -- will face jail time.

Electric vehicle (EV) company Ather Energy, aiming to raise more than Rs 3,100 crore via its initial public offering (IPO), saw its losses widen 22 per cent to Rs 1,060 crore in FY24, as its operating revenue declined 1.5 per cent to Rs 1,753.8 crore (year-on-year) in the last fiscal.

The electric two-wheeler firm spent Rs 2,674.2 crore in FY24. As per its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) filed with the markets regulator SEBI, the revenue decline was due to reduction in the subsidy provided by the government.

“As a result of the reduced subsidy, our customers faced an increase in the retail price of our E2Ws ranging from Rs 20,434 to Rs 30,285. This contributed to a slight decrease in our revenue from operations,” said the company.