The family of Ranjit Singh, an Indian national abducted in Niger’s Dosso region, is pleading for the government’s help to bring him back home safely.

The 15-year-old girl set on fire in Odisha’s Puri yesterday was running on the road as the flames burned her skin away.

Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, is facing a severecrisis that could see it become the first modern capital in the world to run out of water, according to a report by Mercy Corps.