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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on Tuesday abruptly cancelled a coming visit to China, issuing a video address to explain that he had suffered a head injury and must remain at home. Rabuka said that he was looking at his phone when he tripped leading to an injury to his head, reported the Guardian. The prime minister was due to attend the opening of the World University Games in Chengdu, where he would have met China's President Xi Jinping. Rabuka showed his blood-stained shirt and a bandage in his video message post, where he announced his decision to call off the trip.

Police in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur were completely unaware of what they were stumbling upon when they followed a car that tried to run away from them at a police checkpoint.

There was a man who appeared to be ‘intoxicated’ and a girl sitting inside the car. Police stopped them after a short chase and discovered crystal meth and aphrodisiacs in the man’s possession, apart from alcohol and marijuana.

Further investigation revealed that the accused man worked chief security Officer at one of Pakistan’s prestigious Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), and the girl sitting with him was an undergrad student, who the accused had forcefully kept in his car in order to take her home for sexual abuse.

A few weeks ago, Google announced a significant update to its inactive account policies. The tech giant announced that it will start deleting Google accounts that have not been used or signed into for at least two years. Reportedly, Google is now notifying users about this change so that they can prevent their accounts from auto-deletion.

On Thursday, voters will go to the polls in three by-elections throughout England, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservatives bracing for defeat in all three as Britain’s economic difficulties bite.

The Conservatives are defending large majorities in London, Yorkshire in northern England, and Somerset in the southwest, but they look to be losing support as recent scandals and a bleak economic picture take their toll.

The races take place ahead of a general election next year, with the major opposition Labour Party boasting poll leads of about 20 per cent and prepared to seize power for the first time in more than a decade.

Prince William has reportedly told his father King Charles that he will have to pay if wants to stay at his holiday home in Wales. The much-loved house is in Llwynywermod near the Brecon Beacons National park where the monarch has stayed for a few weeks every summer.

The rural property was bought by King Charles in 2007 for £1.2 million. But as the house was bought through the Ducky of Cornwall, it's management and maintenance now falls in the ambit of the now Prince of Wales- King Charles' eldest son.