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Hong Kong: A 62-year-old man travelling from mainland China died in Hong Kong from bird flu yesterday, the second such death this winter,...

Peshawar, Pakistan: Around a hundred women have gathered in a community centre in Peshawar, the heart of Pakistan's fabled northwest -- but they...

Islamabad: A Pakistani law allowing secret military  courts to try civilians on terrorism charges is set to expire today, but the government has...

Multan: A train crushed two motorised rickshaws on an unattended railway crossing in central Pakistan yesterday, killing seven schoolchildren and one of the...

Pakistani province Punjab’s top civil and military leadership has decided to intensify the ongoing operations under the National Action Plan against terrorism to...

Pakistani government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to announce an across-the-board tax amnesty scheme shortly. As per the draft being...

New Delhi: Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday said that India will help out sailors stuck in merchant ships at Ajman in United Arab...

Bengaluru: The New Year's eve sexual attacks against female revellers in Bengaluru may have generated nationwide outrage, but most such cases end up...

Turkey, together with Russia and Iran, appears cautiously engaged in an attempt to broker an end to the bloodshed in Syria through a...

Chicago: FOUR African-Americans accused of attacking an 18-year-old man with special needs while making anti-white racial taunts and broadcasting assault on Facebook were...

Cape Canaveral, Florida: Astronauts went spacewalking yesterday to hook up fancy new batteries on International Space Station’s sprawling power grid. Before venturing out,...

Chibok: The parents of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram in October  last year after two and a half years in...

N'Djamena: Chad, a key ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa, said it has closed its long...

Yangon: The United Nations yesterday said its human rights envoy for Myanmar will probe escalating violence in the country, including a military crackdown...

CHENNAI: The death of a housemaid who said she was abused by her New Delhi employers after being lured to the city with...

MUMBAI: India’s western Maharashtra state has passed a law requiring street hawkers to have lived in the state for 15 years before they...

DAR ES SALAAM: More than 800 girls were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in northern Tanzania last month, a local government official...

LONDON: Women in the Lake Chad basin have been forced to sell sex to survive due to a conflict that has driven millions...