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US President Donald Trump has said the US will "run" Venezuela until a "safe, proper and judicious transition" can be ensured, after US strikes led to the capture of country's President Nicolas Maduro, BBC reported. 

US oil companies would also fix Venezuela's "broken infrastructure" and "start making money for the country", Trump said. 

The US launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday in which Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, were captured by US forces and removed from the country, according to BBC. 

At least seven people have died and more than 100 others have been hospitalised in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore over the past few days, allegedly after drinking contaminated water in the city’s Bhagirathpura area, the Indore mayor said on Wednesday, India Today reported. 

"Three deaths have been officially confirmed, but we have received information about four others as well," Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava said, accepting responsibility and assuring that strict action would be taken against senior officials too.

Bulgaria - the poorest country in the European Union - has become the 21st member of the eurozone - leapfrogging more obvious and prosperous candidates like Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, BBC reported. 

For mostly urban, young and entrepreneurial Bulgarians, it's an optimistic and potentially lucrative leap - the final move in a game which has brought Bulgaria into the European mainstream - from Nato and EU membership, to joining the Schengen zone, and now the euro.

For the older, rural, more conservative parts of the population, the replacement of the Bulgarian lev by the euro provokes fear and resentment, according to BBC. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to a state visit in Beijing, signalling China’s desire to reinforce relations with South Korea amid regional turbulence, Aljazeera reported. 

South Korea’s national security adviser, Wi Sung-lac, told reporters on Friday that Lee will meet Xi in Beijing on Monday before travelling to Shanghai to visit the historic site of South Korea’s provisional government during Japan’s 35-year colonial rule.

Wi said the leaders are expected to discuss “practical cooperation” in areas including supply-chain investment, tourism, and responses to transnational crime, according to Yonhap News Agency, according to Aljazeera. 

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration was removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland but he added in his social media post that federal forces will "come back" if crime rates go up, Reuters reported. 

Local leaders in those cities and Democrats have said the deployments, which have faced legal setbacks and challenges, were unnecessary. They have accused the Trump administration of federal overreach and of exaggerating isolated episodes of violence to justify sending in troops.

Trump, a Republican, has said troop deployments in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Memphis and Portland were necessary to fight crime and protect federal property and personnel from protesters, according to Reuters. 

Annapurna area will welcome 299,831 foreign tourists in 2025.

Of them, 177,628 tourists from South Asian countries and 122,203 visitors from other countries visited the area, said Chief of Annapurna Conservation Area Project, Rabin Kadaria.  

A total of 244,045 tourists had visited the area in 2024 while 181,000 in 2019. 

Annapurna basecamp, Mardi Mountain, Ghandruk, Tilicho Lake, Thorangla Bhanjyang, Upper Mustang, Muktinath Area, are major tourism destinations for domestic and foreign tourists in the Annapurna area. 

Chelsea parted ways with Enzo Maresca on Thursday, a dramatic fall from grace for the Italian who was named manager of the month for November before the club won just one of their last seven league games to fall out of the Premier League title race, Reuters reported ​​​​​​. 

The Italian, who joined Chelsea in 2024 after steering Leicester City to Premier League promotion, leaves 18 months to the day since he was tasked with reviving the club's fortunes after two years of failing to qualify for the Champions League.

Maresca eventually guided the London side to Champions League qualification with a fourth-placed finish, the Conference League trophy and the Club World Cup title in his first season with a young but expensively-built squad, according to Reuters. 

The past three Africa Cup of Nations finals were littered with giant slaying performances and shock results but the latest edition in Morocco has gone with form and assured a heavyweight line-up of teams for the knockout fixtures at the weekend, Reuters reported. 

The first round of matches concluded on Wednesday with only one former champion, Zambia, eliminated but the other 11 past winners reached the last-16, setting up potentially mouth-watering showdowns from now on.

Only Mozambique and Tanzania had never progressed to the knockout stages previously, squeezing through among the best third-placed finishers, while Sudan are past the first round for only the second time since they won the competition in 1970, according to Reuters.