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One parent expressed outrage that the school had “skipped over” Christianity

Students are angry over a 7.5% value added tax slapped recently on fees for private universities

Two women allege the diplomat beat and sexually assaulted them while they were imprisoned in his apartment

The mission will be launched before 2020 and aims to land a probe on a part of the moon never visible from earth

Fox will pay $725 million for a 73 per cent stake in the new entity called National Geographic Partner

Bol who set up the country's first independent newspaper printing press says his security, safety have been...

Dublin has agreed to accept up to 2,900 more refugees than currently planned, says Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald

Researchers say bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative

Rules that the request by the accused to cross-examine victim was an 'abuse of judicial process'

Region’s editor-in-chief says magazine has been banned owing to ‘cultural reasons’

The base is one of President Bashar al-Assad's last footholds in eastern Syria

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Pakistan is Russia's closest partner

A further 800,000 people across eastern Japan have been advised to evacuate

Police say Adem Karadag, one of two foreigners arrested, was found in possession of bomb-making paraphernalia

Defence analysts claim Burraq is a Chinese UAV or based on Chinese technology

Google declines to comment on reports it plans to ramp up its Play store in China this year

In the case of each man, it published an "advertisement" announcing that he was "for sale"

Dell announced it planned to spend $250 billion on procurement and other investments over the next 10 years in China

51-year-old Kaul charges two rupees ($0.03) a year per student and funding from locals NGOs is scarce

Islamic finance has boomed on the back of strong economic growth in its core markets of the Gulf and southeast Asia

General Assembly will vote on a draft resolution to allow the flag of Palestine to be hoisted at the UN headquarters

Two sides describe health security as an important element of national security

New iPhone series features a new touch function called '3D-touch' in addition to camera, screen and processor...

Authorities worry pilgrims will pick up the coronavirus, when they travel to the Kingdom and take it back with them

A flaw in the web version of WhatsApp made it possible for hackers to hide malicious code in "vCards"

Ayman al-Zawahiri says they would cooperate with IS to fight the "in killing the crusaders and secularists and...

The hostage-taker was identified as Fabrice Boromee

Britain is exempt from EU asylum and migration policy

At least 140,000 passengers were grounded and 1,000 flights were cancelled Wednesday

Alam is accused of promoting an intolerant and narrow faith-based ideology and imposing gender segregation

Japan accepted only 11 of a record 5,000 asylum seekers in 2014

Gujrat govt erects billboards with an alleged Quranic verse saying eating beef causes disease

107,000 people in Britain have signed an online petition for Netanyahu's arrest after last year's fighting in Gaza.

US Embassy in Pretoria advised its citizens to be on heightened alert against attack

After seizing oil and grain fields, Islamic State has taken control of three-quarters of production of cotton in Syria

Modi needs to win most state elections in the next four years to gain control of the upper house

Syrian state television effectively acknowledged the loss, saying troops had left the base

Iran was once the biggest oil supplier to South Africa, which boasts the continent's most industrialised economy

Teachers in Britain have a new legal obligation to keep an eye out for potential extremists

Using Bulgarian and Greek airspace allows Russian planes to bypass Turkey and Iran on their way to Syria

Afghans are the second largest migrant group besides Syrians, arriving in Europe

The Imam was known for preaching moderate traditional Islam and also ran an online television channel

If you think the dirtiest place on an airplane is the bathroom, think again

Community wants government to relax beef ban for three days

Bentley reveals the new car has undergone most comprehensive development programme in company’s history

Indian officials are in contact with local authorities to meet the owner of one of the boats to gain more information

Nine years ago, a similar study with GSK's older drug Advair, involving 6,100 patients, narrowly failed

The four-page guide includes a dictionary of basic German phrases, greetings, directions and the days of the week

River erosion alone claims about 20,000 acres of land in Bangladesh every year

Indonesian national park chief says one female calf and two males were spotted in recent months in Ujung Kulon park