British Airways (BA) on Friday admitted that personal and financial data of its nearly 380,000 customers who booked online on its website and mobile app has been compromised and is up for misuse.

A US Senator has said that it was time to use constitutional powers to remove President Donald Trump from office if top officials thought he was unfit for the job.

An Indian youth was among the three people who were killed when a gunman opened fire at a bank in the US state of Ohio.

The number of people killed in the powerful earthquake that struck the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan climbed to 18 while 24 people remain missing, the government said on Friday.

Brazil's front-running far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed during a rally while campaigning for next month's election.

An Indian-origin "serial prank caller" in Singapore who repeatedly made nuisance calls to the police, despite being jailed for the same offence previously, was jailed for three years on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump has once again threatened to shut down the federal government over border security this time.

"If it happens it happens. If it's about border security, I'm willing to do anything," Trump told the media at the White House on Wednesday.

As many as 100 passengers and crew reported feeling ill on Wednesday during an Emirates flight from Dubai to New York, and health workers were evaluating them as the airplane sat on the tarmac of JFK International Airport, authorities said. About 100 people complained of feeling sick on Emirates Flight 203, which landed with at least 521 passengers shortly after 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement. Their symptoms included cough and fever.