India's stock market is hitting record highs. Here's why

India's stock market is booming as investors take a chance on one of the few bright spots in a fragile global economy.
http://dlvr.it/SrLc4Q

Curious whale follows kayak as Australia revels in bumper annual humpback count

Nearly 5,000 humpback whales have been spotted in Australian waters during a record annual migration census, a conservation group said, with one curious cetacean seen following a kayaker just off Sydney's famed Bondi beach.
http://dlvr.it/SrHlv9

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wins strong second term promising major reforms

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of Greece's center-right New Democracy party, has won a second four-year term as prime minister.
http://dlvr.it/SrDsg6

US officials saw signs Prigozhin was planning challenge to Russian military but surprised by rapid escalation

US intelligence officials believe that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the private Wagner military group, had been planning a major challenge to Russia's military leadership for quite some time, but it was unclear what the ultimate aim would be, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.
http://dlvr.it/SrBnPb

Wagner chief says troops moving against Russia's military leaders

Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has claimed he is moving against Russia's military leadership and that his fighters have entered the country's Rostov region ready to "destroy everything" in their way -- in a stunning series of developments that pits Moscow's security establishment against a militia leader whose forces have played a pivotal role in the invasion of Ukraine.
http://dlvr.it/Sr8nmn

These villages were liberated in Ukraine's grinding counteroffensive. They're little more than ruins.

The bangs of incoming and outgoing shelling are the soundtrack of Ukraine's frontline. But its president warned this week that the counteroffensive should not be seen through the lens of a Hollywood movie.
http://dlvr.it/Sr67jM

What it's like inside the Titanic-touring submersible that went missing with 5 people on board

Though it's roughly the size of a minivan, with five adults aboard, the Titanic-touring submersible that went missing Sunday may seem small and cramped. And on the dive thousands of feet towards the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean, life inside can go from hot to cold, too.
http://dlvr.it/Sr3FJN