A teenager who was shown in a TikTok video doing a backflip inside a white rhinoceros enclosure at the Singapore Zoo was charged in a district court on Monday.

Police and wildlife officials initially raided the property on June 27, saying they were rescuing the animal after videos of it appeared on the social media app TikTok, and neighbours raised the alarm. 

It’s said in the music industry that exporting is key to gaining fame at home, and this also seems to be the case for locally made effects pedals that are making (sound) waves in other countries.

Surrenders of dogs to shelters have risen sharply in recent months as owners in poorer communities have lost income or their homes during the pandemic, said Allison Cardona, deputy director of Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control, which oversees animal shelters.

In its pink-walled interior, customers can purchase lattes dusted with cat silhouettes and accompanied by paw-shaped biscuits while cats lounge lazily in an adjacent room.

Italy's players were feted as heroes on Monday with a day of celebrations culminating in an open top bus ride through Rome after beating England in a dramatic penalty shootout to win Euro 2020 at Wembley.

Iran on Monday unveiled an Islamic dating application aimed at facilitating "lasting and informed marriage" for its youth, state television reported.

British billionaire Richard Branson flew into space Sunday aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel, a voyage he described as the "experience of a lifetime" -- and one he hopes will usher in an era of lucrative space tourism.

Malta said Friday it would be the first European country to close its borders to anyone who has not been fully vaccinated against coronavirus, following a spike in Covid-19 cases.

Nightlife fans across France can again crowd into clubs from Friday, despite warnings over a looming surge in Covid cases due to the more contagious Delta variant which looks set to become the dominant strain in the country as soon as this weekend.

The era of space tourism is set to soar, with highly symbolic flights by rivals Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin scheduled just days apart.

The recent COVID-19 case spike in Indonesia has not stopped several groups, including rock stars and government officials, from claiming that the virus is not as dangerous as people think.

"I have given birth to 15 children but I have no one," sobs Marie Ebop Ndjock, 77, her head buried between her arms on the table.

Rock stars are turning to YouTube to host their own talk shows. A permanent pivot or a pandemic pastime?

Between increasing house prices, income decline and the pandemic, many Indonesian millennials are deciding to put their dream of having a house on hold.

On June 30, the US Chess Federation announced that Mishra had secured the title at 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days old.

A lesbian coming to terms with her sexuality, a village covering up abuses and a dissection of the three-child policy -- an explosion of Chinese podcasts are wrestling with social issues considered taboo under the country's strict media controls.

The Taliban outlawed dozens of seemingly innocuous activities and pastimes in Afghanistan during their 1996-2001 rule -- including kite flying, TV soap operas, pigeon racing, fancy haircuts, and even playing music.

CERITRANS, a project that encourages trans women to share their experiences through art.

The owner-founder of Jtoku Indonesia redefines what it means to be a superhero through his atypical creations that focus on their "inner power" rather than physical attributes.

Rockers old and young cried, shared a drink and perhaps even a joint in a stylishly overgrown cemetery in Paris on Saturday, marking 50 years since the death of 1960s icon Jim Morrison. 

The Muslim no-strings-attached "misyar" marriage often done in secret is fast pervading Saudi society -- a boon for cash-strapped men unable to afford expensive traditional weddings, but deplored by critics for legitimising promiscuity.

The second part of global Netflix phenomenon ‘Lupin', released on June 11, sees our favorite "gentleman thief" navigate a tricky situation as he tries to avenge a family member without losing another.

Major versus indie, veteran versus newcomers, music versus pandemic; even the organizers predict this year’s AMI Awards the “most unpredictable ever”

London said they had been struggling with an identity crisis for the past eight years and had been born in the wrong body, as they felt more connected to Korean culture than British culture.

An openly transgender woman will compete in the Miss USA pageant for the first time this year after being crowned Miss Nevada last weekend.

Hundreds of thousands of salmon swim against the current in southeast Norway -- in massive indoor tanks away from the nearest river as the controversial industry increasingly embraces greener land-based facilities.

Thailand prepared Wednesday to reopen the holiday hotspot of Phuket to tourists quarantine-free, even as the country registered its highest single-day death toll from Covid-19.

In Indonesia, tennis is arguably less popular than the other racket sport, badminton, in which the nation has won gold medals in several Olympics. Since the pandemic started, however, tennis, perceived as a sport that applies social distancing, has suddenly enjoyed newfound popularity among Indonesians.