The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Washington is upset.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/un-adopts-new-world-map-resolution-with-aim-to-show-true-scale-of-africa-global-south-14043371.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Sikkim has 16 high-risk glacial lakes, which are now in focus after Nepal’s deadly flash floods. The state has installed sensors and early-warning systems. Is it enough to warn against a calamity?

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/this-week-in-explainers-can-a-nepal-like-flash-flood-hit-sikkim-14043007.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

India layers a drone-era Smart Border grid over its western and eastern frontiers, explores the S-500 and Su-57 with Russia as China's missile reach grows, and finally begins overhauling its Arjun tanks. Firstpost's Weekly Defence Dispatch has the full picture.

https://www.firstpost.com/india/weekly-defence-dispatch-india-builds-an-impenetrable-drone-era-border-grid-weighs-s-500-buy-arjun-tanks-overhaul-and-more-14043400.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

For literary tourists, visiting a city written about in a book they love is an act of homage. The problem, however, is the gap between the page and the place, which can cloud the reality. It’s a gap that widens with time, because books are fixed in a moment and cities constantly change.

https://www.firstpost.com/lifestyle/paper-cities-and-why-fictional-narratives-overtake-real-metropolises-14043335.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The reports of diminished US munitions stocks have not gone down well with the Trump administration. Government investigators reportedly subjected 50 members of the US military to polygraph tests over leaks to the media.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/iran-war-paranoia-why-did-the-us-order-lie-detector-tests-for-top-military-generals-14043438.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The Chinese national was rescued from a 225-metre-long tunnel at the hydropower project by a joint team of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster experts. In another dramatic rescue, Nepal Army personnel found a woman alive inside a house in Nuwakot, one of the areas badly affected by the floods.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/10-days-after-nepal-floods-rescuers-pull-chinese-national-and-woman-out-alive-14043447.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

What is concerning for Ukraine is its shortage of Patriot missiles, which Kyiv says leaves it with few options to protect its citizens, and due to which things may worsen during winters.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/why-the-coming-winter-could-be-ukraine-toughest-yet-russia-strikes-war-14043232.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Beating global economic uncertainties and estimates, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 7.8 per cent in the first quarter (April to June) of the financial year 2026-27. Here is why it has become the subject of intense political and economic debate. 

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/word-of-the-week-is-gdp-how-indias-economic-growth-figures-stirred-a-big-debate-14042947.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The fact that a Sri Lankan tea company is using Indian tea to introduce affluent, and increasingly curious, consumers to the theatre of fine tea points to a potential opportunity that India appears to have missed.

https://www.firstpost.com/lifestyle/can-a-sri-lankan-company-teach-india-to-love-its-own-tea-14043465.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Lots of us enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, especially if our busy schedules have made it hard to get enough sleep during the week. Now, research suggests that a few extra hours on a Saturday and Sunday could cut the chances of having a heart attack or stroke.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/no-alarms-please-how-sleeping-in-on-weekends-may-be-good-for-your-heart-14042426.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Racist and hateful comments targeting Singapore’s Indian community following the Nepal flood tragedy are “deeply troubling”, Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday while urging Singaporeans to reject hatred and stand together during difficult times,

https://www.firstpost.com/world/deeply-troubling-singapores-lee-hsien-loong-condemns-racist-hate-against-indians-after-nepal-floods-14043596.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The aircraft struck several vehicles, trapping some victims inside them. Firefighters had to conduct a complex technical rescue operation while searching for the pilot and co-pilot.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/five-killed-five-injured-as-amazon-cargo-plane-crashes-after-overshooting-miami-airport-runway-14043662.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Why did a five-storey student PG in Delhi’s Satya Niketan collapse? From basement work and waterlogging to alleged construction violations, here’s everything we know about the tragedy and the questions now facing authorities.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/delhi-satya-niketan-hostel-collapse-basement-construction-pg-building-14043692.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The AfD’s historic Saxony-Anhalt victory has upended Germany’s political landscape, putting the CDU under pressure and testing the country’s firewall against the far right. What happens next could reshape German politics and reverberate across Europe.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/afd-historic-saxony-anhalt-election-win-germany-europe-14043702.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The Mercator projection distorts the true size of India. Since the country sits relatively close to the equator, it undergoes very little distortion. Now, India has backed the UNGA resolution to use the Equal Earth projection, which is said to be more accurate.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/why-india-backed-the-un-bid-to-correct-the-world-map-14043715.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are widely expected to headline the September 9 event. More intriguingly, Apple could finally introduce its first foldable iPhone.

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/iphone-18-pro-launch-in-2-days-heres-everything-apple-could-unveil-on-september-9-14043687.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term “Bric” in 2001, reflects on the evolution and the future of the bloc.

https://www.firstpost.com/business/why-india-china-ties-could-change-the-world-economist-jim-oneill-on-brics-future-14043718.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

R-60, a Soviet-era short-range air-to-air missile that entered service in the 1970s. It was already considered outdated when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/r-60-why-ukraine-is-bringing-back-a-1970s-missile-to-hunt-russias-faster-drones-14043802.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Abhayrab is one of India's most widely used rabies vaccines. A batch of the life-saving drug sampled by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation from unlicensed residential premises in Delhi was found to be "not of standard quality" and misbranded.

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/why-india-is-scrambling-to-track-down-fake-rabies-shots-14043871.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

A delegation of about 100 people linked to BAPS, a religious group, visited the Eiffel Tower last week. Its representatives were in France for festivities related to the inauguration of a temple in the Paris suburbs.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/eiffel-tower-shuts-after-women-staff-sidelined-for-hindu-delegation-workers-protest-gender-discrimination-14043952.html?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social