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British TV comedian Ronnie Corbett dies at 85 31 Mar 2016 - 02:15 pm

File photo of veteran comedian Ronnie Corbett as he attends a memorial service at Westminster Abbey in London March 2006. EPA/Lindsey Parnaby LONDON:...

Syria regime strikes kill at least 10 civilians: monitor 31 Mar 2016 - 02:03 pm

A wounded man at a field hospital after air strikes in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on March 31, 2016. Samir Tatin/Anadolu Agency ...

Israel sees tourism growth from China, India 31 Mar 2016 - 01:53 pm

Al Aqsa mosque in Israel JERUSALEM: Israel is looking east to China and India to help drive tourism, as visits to the country ...

Pakistan city announces rat-killing bounty after infestation 31 Mar 2016 - 01:43 pm

Picture for representation only. Peshawar, Pakistan: Authorities in Pakistan's northwest announced a bounty for killing rats after receiving hundreds of complaints of rodents...

UN tribunal acquits Serbian firebrand Seselj of war crimes 31 Mar 2016 - 01:35 pm

Serbian nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj waves to his supporters from a balcony of his Serbian Radical Party headquarters in Belgrade in this November...

India flyover collapse kills 14, with scores feared trapped 31 Mar 2016 - 01:31 pm

A general view of the collapsed flyover in Kolkata, India, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/ Rupak De Chowdhuri By Supriyo Hazre KOLKATA: A flyover...

Can imams drive action on climate change in Pakistan? 31 Mar 2016 - 01:16 pm

Tahir Ashrafi, head of the powerful Ulema Council of clerics, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad December 13, 2013. REUTERS/MIAN KHURSHEED/FILES ...

French policeman detained over beating of teen protester 31 Mar 2016 - 01:14 pm

French highschool and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of a nationwide labor...

Russia's security service says detains Ukrainian agent 31 Mar 2016 - 01:01 pm

Moscow: Russia's FSB security service on Thursday said it had detained an alleged CIA-trained Ukrainian intelligence officer who was trying to become a...

South Africa's top court says Zuma must reimburse state 31 Mar 2016 - 12:58 pm

Kevin Malunga (L) deputy public protector and Mosiuoa Lekota (R) of opposition party Congress of The People (COPE) celebrate the ruling during the...

Islamic State urges attacks on German chancellery, Bonn airport: SITE group 31 Mar 2016 - 12:52 pm

An aerial picture shows the Konrad Adenauer airport of Cologne-Bonn near the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Cologne, Germany May 6, 2015. REUTERS/WOLFGANG RATTAY ...

French protesters return to streets in anger over labour reforms 31 Mar 2016 - 12:44 pm

Demonstrators hold a banner reading "together, we won't give in" during a demonstration against the French government's proposed labour law reforms on March...

Britain's remaining milkmen keeping tradition afloat 31 Mar 2016 - 12:43 pm

Neil Garner, a milkman for the Milk&More delivery company, works on his daily round in the Watford area, north of London, on March...

Rivers turn to dust as drought bites Somalia 31 Mar 2016 - 12:40 pm

File photo taken on March 29, 2006, shows a Somalian boy drinking water at a man-made dam in Bur Dhuxunle village in southern ...

Mass casualties feared as flyover collapses in Indian city 31 Mar 2016 - 12:30 pm

Photo credit: Twitter Kolkata: A partially built flyover collapsed in India's eastern city of Kolkata on Thursday, killing at least one person and...

Calls for French women's minister to quit over veil 'slavery' row 31 Mar 2016 - 12:24 pm

French families minister Laurence Rossignol sparked outrage on social media with her comment comparing women who wear the veil to "negroes who supported...

Japanese police raid elite 'tiger blowfish' supper club 31 Mar 2016 - 12:19 pm

Tokyo: A members-only Japanese restaurant serving the banned and deadly delicacy "tiger blowfish" liver has been raided, police said Thursday. Blowfish -- also...