1. Nearly 40 bodies were brought to a hospital morgue after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, as tens of millions gathered to bathe in sacred river waters.

2. Trump's attempt to freeze federal aid has been temporarily blocked in court.

3. Healthcare centres serving tens of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border have been ordered shut after Trump froze most foreign aid last week.

4. 85% of Greenlanders do not wish their Arctic island to become a part of the US.

5. ByteDance's TikTok will invest 126.8 billion baht ($3.76 billion) in Thailand in a data hosting service.

6. Sweden's central bank cut its key policy rate to 2.25% from 2.50% as expected to boost sluggish economic growth.

7. Alibaba released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 AI model that it claimed surpassed the acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.