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Have you ever wondered why a rupee is called a 'rupee'?

The Pentagon and the CIA have launched hundreds of strikes in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya

"Now, for the first time in decades, there's a chance for a different future" Obama

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for self-reliance and President Rouhani urges cooperation with the world

The deadliest aircraft disaster in history remains the collision in March 1977 between two Boeing 747s

The $81 million was stolen from the Bangladesh central bank's American accounts last month

Bangkok's refugees currently hail from nearly 50 countries with Pakistanis making up the biggest block

The epidemic has killed more than 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013

Obama tried out his comedic chops with some Spanish in a video he made with Cuban humorist Pánfilo

Obama's trip will reverse generations of US attempts to cut Cuba from the outside world

It was not immediately clear if the two Americans had dual citizenship or were additional fatalitie

The admission by Salah Abdeslam came a day after he was shot in the leg and captured during a police raid

Apple is widely expected to release a small-screen iPhone to encourage replacement of the 5S and 5C models

The estimated 50 protesters held a banner across the width of Shea Boulevard with the words 'Dump Trump'

The annual event kicked off in Sydney, where the Earth Hour idea originated in 2007

In Athens, police said 1,500 people took to the streets while media put the figure at 3,000

A "small number" of American troops are also wounded in the attack

Another 22 people were injured including some who were badly hurt, says official

The picture shows the pope kneeling down praying, on the third anniversary of his inauguration as Holy Father

The Dubai-based airline's chief executive Ghaith al-Ghaith describes such a suggestion as 'speculation'

Facebook CEO is in Beijing for a charm offensive in one of the few markets where the social network cannot be accessed

Abdeslam is believed to be the last surviving member of the 10-man extremist team that carried out the Paris attacks

The prince was welcomed at Kathmandu airport by Nepali government officials on his first visit to the country

Duncan Smith quit on Friday over planned reductions in welfare payments for people with disabilities

NATO's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has warned Russia of intimidating neighbours with talk about nuclear weapons

Protests by locals in Jhabbar village turned violent when police tried to take down the bodies

Oregon's marijuana tax receipts from January also surpassed the first-month tallies from recreational cannabis sales

It is unclear when it was shot, but Cantlie last appeared in an Islamic State video in early 2015

Abdeslam, 26, and four other suspects were arrested on Friday in the gritty Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek

Under the deal, all migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey as early as Sunday will be turned back

According to NASA, it orbited the earth four times in its approximately six-hour journey

Donald Trump's sick obsession with Megyn Kelly is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate - Fox

Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazon.com Inc

The last time a US president visited Cuba -- way back in 1928 -- he got a rock star's welcome

Netflix early this year significantly expanded its global footprint to 190 countries

To residents, the very idea is enough to raise the hackles on their fur coats

Paris will request Abdeslam's extradition from Belgium 'as rapidly as possible'

Quake occurred at 5:35 pm Anchorage time and was located at a depth of 6.2 miles some 45 miles south of Atka, Alaska

55 passengers and four or five crew were on board

The case weighed a celebrity's right to privacy in the Internet age against freedom of the press

Local officials have charged that IS used mustard agent in the attack

It was likely kept by Hitler for his own use or as a potential gift for an admirer, the auction house said

However, French president says there was no confirmation of the detention of Salah Abdeslam

The letter was addressed to the Manhattan home of Eric Trump

Sri Lanka has deployed troops and firecrackers to clear deer and wild buffalo from a sprawling airport

The United Nations on Friday echoed US concerns over non-military casualties in Yemen

The image showed the head of right-wing Hindu group dressed in a tight pair of women's trousers and black high heels

Masoomeh Jafari, Poundland supermarket worker, says how she was left terrified after up to 30 youngsters attacked her

Several other militants were wounded while seven militants and a soldier were killed

Amira Behari, 43, claimed that she faced verbal and racial abuse in the city's central train station