Month: October 2026

A truck drove into a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, leaving a ​six-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man dead, and 10 others ‌hospitalised with traumatic injuries, police said on Saturday. The injuries ranged from minor to severe, but none appear to be life-threatening, Wichita police Captain Aaron Moses ​said at a news conference. The two people killed were ​pronounced dead at the scene, he said. Moses said a 34-year-old ⁠woman was driving the truck, which ended up in a field ​at the west end of the Stryker Sports Complex.…

Yemen’s Houthi group claimed that it had shot down a Saudi Apache military helicopter near the Najran region in southern Saudi Arabia while it was conducting operations against Houthi positions. The group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, made the claim in a statement carried by the Houthi-run version of Yemen’s Saba news agency on Saturday, saying Houthi forces had targeted the helicopter as it carried out what he described as “hostile operations” along the Saudi-Yemeni border. Saudi officials had not immediately commented on the claim, and the reported downing of the…

Saudi Arabia’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles and several drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi militia, authorities said on Sunday, as emergency alerts warned residents in Riyadh and the southern city of Khamis Mushayt of potential aerial threats. The Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said two ballistic missiles fired toward Khamis Mushayt were intercepted and destroyed early Sunday. Coalition spokesman Maj-Gen. Turki Al Maliki later confirmed that a drone had also been intercepted over the Riyadh region, Arab News said in a report. The announcements…

Pakistan on Saturday extended its ban on the use of its airspace by Indian aircraft until November 24, 2026, at 4:59am, according to an official notice. The restriction covers Indian-registered aircraft as well as aircraft owned, operated or leased by Indian airlines or operators. The ban also prohibits Indian aircraft from using Pakistani airspace for military flights. Earlier, Pakistan had extended the airspace restriction on Indian-registered aircraft until October 24, 2026. Pakistan imposed the airspace restriction amid heightened tensions with India, following the Pahalgam attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu…

Shah Abdul Latif University in Khairpur has cancelled 1,184 LLB degrees from its three-year and five-year law programmes after finding the relevant documents unacceptable during a review of academic records. According to a university notification, the cancelled degrees include 658 from the three-year LLB programme and 526 from the five-year programme. The degrees revoked from the three-year programme belong to the 2016, 2017 and 2018 batches, while those cancelled from the five-year programme are from the 2017 batch. The university administration said an inquiry was conducted into the records, but…

Tesla’s rocket-powered Roadster has sparked a wave of hilarious memes on social media, with users in Pakistan and India imagining how the futuristic car would fare on their roads. Videos circulating online show the vehicle soaring over traffic jams, dodging potholes and even getting caught in overhead power lines, turning its high-tech features into material for jokes and AI-generated clips. The buzz follows a demonstration of the Roadster, which appeared to travel upside down on a track tilted at an angle of 170 degrees before rising into the air, passing…

The Pakistan Army has delivered a strong response to unprovoked firing by Afghan Taliban forces along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, destroying a Taliban base camp and damaging several border posts. Several Afghan Taliban personnel were reportedly killed in the retaliatory action, while the exchange of fire was continuing, according to security sources. The firing took place in the Taida sector, Upper Kurram and Ghozgarhi, the sources said. In Upper Kurram, Pakistani forces used artillery to target Afghan Taliban border positions and the Shipola base camp. The army also…

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that it had intercepted four drones, including over the capital Riyadh, as the country comes under repeated fire from Yemen’s Houthis. Riyadh leads a military coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognised government in its civil war with the Iran-backed Houthis. Since the conflict flared back to life in July after a years-long hiatus, the kingdom has faced sustained Houthi missile and drone attacks targeting its oil installations, tankers and airports. “We have intercepted and destroyed four drones over the past few hours in the regions of…