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Going from the the top of the esports world to the elite tier of pro snooker might not seem like the easiest career move. But Ishpreet Singh Chadha isn’t afraid to challenge himself. The 27-year-old from India had always wanted to be a top snooker player. But a leg injury in 2017 left him unable to compete. So he turned back to his other great love – video games. He started playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a massively popular team-based first-person shooter. “I got really good,” Ishpreet tells BBC Asian Network. “I was the best player in my country for two…

UPS has avoided its first US strike in more than 25 years as the union representing its workers said a new five-year contract has been approved. The two sides have been negotiating for months over demands including higher pay and better working conditions. In July, UPS and the Teamsters union agreed on a deal to raise the average annual salary of full-time drivers to about $170,000 (£133,440), including healthcare and other benefits. That is up from around $145,000. The deal also gives workers one more day of paid holiday, ends forced overtime and adds air conditioning to new models of…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is “subsisting on bread and water” in prison, according to his lawyer. The prison he is being held in ahead of his trial has not provided a vegan diet he requested, his lawyer says. Last year, Mr Bankman-Fried was charged with fraud after the failure of FTX. During the court hearing in New York on Tuesday Mr Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to seven criminal charges contained in a new indictment. The former billionaire’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, said a lack of adequate food was hampering his client’s ability to prepare for his…

A drone has hit a building in central Moscow that was under construction, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said. Air defences also shot down two drones in the Mozhaisk and Khimki districts of the Moscow region, the defence ministry added. There are no reports of casualties and it is not clear who carried out the attack. Russian officials described it as “another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack”. Ukraine does not usually comment on who is behind attacks inside Russian territory. All flights were suspended to and from Moscow’s airports early on Wednesday, a measure that…

A man believed to be a Chinese rights activist has been arrested in South Korea after an apparent attempt to flee there on a jet ski. The country’s coast guard said the man had travelled about 300km (186 miles) across the Yellow Sea using binoculars and a compass, but then got stuck. Local reports named him as Kwon Pyong, a critic of President Xi Jinping, but his identity has not been verified. The Chinese embassy in Seoul declined to comment. In recent years, Beijing has increased its use of exit bans at airports and other legal border crossings in order…

Few social scenarios will spark a debate more heated than wedding guest etiquette. Should dresses always be floor-length? Are plunging necklines considered inappropriate? And perhaps the single-most asked question: Can you ever wear white? Every June since 2014, Google searches querying the choice to wear white as a wedding guest increased on average by 46%. The controversial wardrobe decision has spawned countless opinion pieces online — some from disgruntled brides who felt upstaged, others from vanguard attendees defending their decision. Over the weekend, the conundrum was reignited when singer Lana Del Rey wore a white and pink mini dress to…

The Philippines on Tuesday said it had successfully delivered supplies to marines aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated military outpost in the contested South China Sea, despite attempts by Chinese vessels to block the mission. The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said in a statement that it successfully delivered supplies to the stranded landing ship on the Second Thomas Shoal in Manila’s exclusive economic zone, which China calls Renai Reef and also claims as its sovereign territory. The mission was carried out despite attempts by the “China Coast Guard and Chinese Maritime Militia to block, harass,…

After a 14-hour ordeal, all eight people, including six children and two adults, who were stranded on a cable car dangling hundreds of feet over a valley in northwest Pakistan have been rescued, the country’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar said in a statement. “Relieved to know that Alhamdolillah all the kids have been successfully and safely rescued. Great team work by the military, rescue departments, district administration as well as the local people,” he said in the statement posted on X, formerly called Twitter. The rescue began on Tuesday morning local time after six children and two…

The first two of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants surrendered at the Fulton County jail on Tuesday, while a pair of defendants sought to move their cases to federal court – signs of how the sprawling case will progress in multiple directions this week. And two former Trump administration officials – including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows – asked a federal court to intervene to block their pending arrests in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has charged Trump and 18 others of participating in schemes to meddle with Georgia’s election results. All 19 co-defendants are expected to…

All eight people who were stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of metres above a ravine in Pakistan’s north-west for many hours have now been rescued. In a slow and dangerous operation, a military helicopter rescued one child, while teams on the ground recovered the rest of the group after dark. They were helped to safety along a zip line, with a huge crowd on top of the hillside celebrating their rescue. The group were on their way to school when one of the car’s cables snapped. It was left hanging precariously across 274m (900ft) above the ground and…