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Deceased include Ismail Awan, adviser in a power supply company and Abdul Sattar, manager at a construction company

Modi visited the World Heritage Site in the ancient Chinese capital of Xian

"Many of those retrieved were reduced to skulls and bones," national police chief Leonardo Espina says

Modi vows to make the 21st century India's century

Indian prime minister says attack was deeply saddening [and] utterly condemnable

USA Freedom Act passed 338-88 with broad bipartisan support

It makes good sense to join forces to fight the Taliban threat whatever its local brand-name may be

His centre-right Conservative government is to include a new law to "defeat extremism"

Officials say the attackers did not have a chance to detonate their suicide vests during the seven-hour long battle

The long-anticipated move by Facebook means it will host news items on its servers to give readers faster access

It will be the first time the Roman Catholic Church signs a treaty with the State of Palestine

Hyon Yong Chol charged with treason, including disobeying Kim and falling asleep during an event

Millions of children work as domestic servants and in factories

Ali Nawaz Chowhan was dismissed without an official announcement

NATO is currently leading the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan to train Afghan security forces

Video shows reactions of American Muslims to hateful comments on a story about a Mosque day-care fire

UN says several migrants are adrift in Southeast Asian seas in boats following a Thai govt crackdown

Says attack, which left 43 people dead, represents a senseless act of violence against a peaceful community

Fifty-nine-year-old also stood as a British National Party candidate

Group strongly disagrees with the view that a mixed congregational prayer can be led by women

Two attackers armed with RPGs and guns tried to enter the governor's building in Lashkar Gah

By midnight the fighting had stopped

The Australian-led team scours the southern Indian Ocean seabed in hope of finding the final resting place of MH370

Scores of activists, mostly university students, peacefully protested through the northeastern city

Philadelphia-area hospitals collectively report treating more than 100 patients from the wreck

Hundreds of officials watched Hyon's execution on April 30

Geologists are rushing to identify the valleys, villages and towns most at risk from rock and mud falls

Announcement comes a day after members of BJP opposed the resumption of cricket relations between two countries

The aircraft was conducting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations

"Planet has enough food for all, but it seems there is a lack of willingness to share it with everyone," Francis said

The defector did not belong to ISI but another intelligence branch and is now residing in the US, say sources

Chinese envoy in Delhi summoned and objection over the project was lodged

The Volkswagen Passat has been equipped with sensors, computers and special software

Boat abandoned by smugglers en route to Malaysia; trawler detained near Bangladesh's southernmost island of St Martins

High Court says any participants shouting racist slogans would be arrested by police

Opium poppy cultivation touched a record high in 2014 and this year is expected to yield another bumper harvest

Amnesty International ranks Saudi Arabia among the world's top three executioners of 2014

Judge turns down request, says many many Muslims serve as jurors, adding he must honour public duty

Ahmed has been found at an Indian hospital, close to the Bangladeshi border

Bodies of Norwegian ambassador, wives of Malaysia ambassador and Indonesia ambassador to be dispatched later today

Attackers wearing masks hacked Ananta Bijoy Das with machetes in Sylhet city at around 8.30am this morning

Modi will fly out for his first visit as premier to China before heading to South Korea

The Map Maker service will be "temporarily unavailable" beginning Tuesday, according to a message posted online

Justice Department said that in 2003, Sterling gave information about a clandestine program to The New York Times

Foreign Office holds meeting to prepare agenda for the trip on May 20-21

Airbus shares also hit following A400M crash in Spain

Basit said Pakistan and India had agreed to resume cricketing ties

Rajnath Singh says they will do everything to get Dawood back, including pressurising Pakistan.

Hersh's reports have recently become less and less credible, and this story seems no different

Seymour Hersh claims Pakistan's security agencies not only knew about raid but had been holding bin Laden since 2006