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Recurring explosions setting off fires continue to hamper attempts by nuclear and biological warfare experts to clear hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide stored at a warehouse devastated by twin powerful blasts which killed 114 in this Chinese...

The plane was flying between Jayapura's Sentani Airport and Oksibil, due south of Jayapura, the capital of Papua province.

"We in Pakistan sincerely hope to settle all our bilateral issues through a sustained and comprehensive dialogue and usher in a new era of mutual trust and cooperation," Sharif said

A pregnant 15-year-old Swedish girl is being held by the Islamic State group in Syria after running away from her foster home with her boyfriend to join Al-Qaeda, Swedish media reported on Monday.

Acknowledging India's "substantial sacrifice" to implement sanctions against Iran, the US has said there would be "no basis" for countries like India to continue with the curbs if the Iranian nuclear deal is scuttled by the Congress.

A new laws banning commercial surrogacy has come into effect in Thailand, a destination popular with foreigners and gay couples looking for cheaper surrogacy services.

The dreaded Islamist group - the ISIS - has reportedly put to death 19 young women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.

France, from Friday will deploy new air and maritime resources off the remote Indian Ocean island of Reunion in the search for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 flight, government officials said.

NASA has extended a contract with Russia's space agency for USD 490 million to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station amid a lack of Congressional funding, the US agency said.

Opinion remains divided over whether the twin attacks were justified.

In a landmark judgement, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed petitions against establishment of controversial special military courts in the country for speedy trial of terrorists.

The renewed push to unite the woman with her parents comes to light soon after the success of Bollywood film 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan'.

Tsipras, who turned 41 this week, is trying to regain control after a damaging mutiny by over 30 lawmakers in response to the austerity measures in the new bailout

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Taliban's newly-anointed chief, may have deceived fellow insurgents for the past two years by claiming to pass orders and messages from Mullah Muhammad Omar even though he would have been aware that his boss had died in 2013, a medi...

Heavy to very heavy rainfall at one or two places in coastal Odisha and adjoining Maurbhanj district would occur during next 24 hours, the MeT office said.

Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014, a US official has said.