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Muhammad Aqeeq Ansari, a 30-year-old software designer, arrested on Monday

The Bank has marshalled some $500 million to help battle the disease

Four BJP leaders, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Vice President Hamid Ansari have also been invited

Cook has never previously acknowledged his sexual orientation

WHO says more than 125 million women have been mutilated in 29 countries in Africa and Middle East

Compound closed to all visitors following the shooting of a Jewish hardliner

Private Yoon died on April 6 and investigators concluded death was caused by "crush syndrome"

US envoy says more resources are needed

Hundreds of troops claw through tonnes of mud that buried tin-roofed homes at a tea plantation

Foreign minister says it is an important step that confirms Palestinians' right to self-determination

DG ISPR alleges militants sheltering in Kunar, Nuristan carrying out attacks.

Pakistani-Briton Ayan Qureshi attained the certification at the age of five years 11 months

Pakistan secured 181 out of 193 votes

This funding will help rebuild the 65 schools damaged during the recent conflict

Disaster management minister says rescue operations have been suspended because of darkness and inclement weather

Foreign ministry condemns earlier killing; urges India to restrain its security forces from firing on civilians

Defendant fined $54,500, to be deported after serving sentence

Orbital's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship was carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies for 6 astronauts living at research outpost

Principals at more than 2,000 schools in Kashgar sign pledge to 'defend schools against the infiltration of religion'

Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, found guilty of murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh's 1971 war

Dan Feldman advises Islamabad, New Delhi to engage in dialogue.

Since 2008, Pakistan executed only a couple of prisoners while more than 8,000 prisoners are on death row

ISPR says Pakistani forces responded effectively to Indian firing

Modi’s ambition of putting India into big league can only happen if it's at peace with neighbours, internally stable

Malala becomes the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to be awarded the World's Children's Prize

Indian police say the militants were Bangladeshis and were using India as a safe haven to plan the attacks

Israel pledged to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem on Monday

Scientists fingered two genes which can cause a "substantially higher frequency" in violent offenders.

Xi's "vision" for the continent had opened "not just a new chapter for Asia, but an entirely new book", says Ghani

According to official handout, Cameron invited PM Nawaz via phone on Tuesday

Three other Pakistanis found guilty of heroin smuggling have also been beheaded this month

The last British combat troops in Afghanistan were airlifted out of Camp Bastion on Monday

Motiur Rahman Nizami could face death penalty if convicted on Wednesday

Inquiry by 4-member committee found Qadri prepared two other prison officers to hunt down blasphemy convicts in prison

Think tank of the US West Point military academy has called him the most influential living militant mentor

Australia has not recorded a case of Ebola but has had a number of scares

US CDC seeks voluntary isolation for those at high risk for Ebola

Pakistan is ranked 132 in terms of education attainment, 119 for health and survival and 85 for political empowerment

Punishing criticism of govt needs to be balanced as political processes take time

Officials say Iranian authorities would be asked to wait till the lifting of US sanctions on Tehran

Lawmakers also condemn bid on Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s life

Both sides to ensure effective border controls and frequent meetings of established mechanisms

US troops returning from west Africa were being placed under isolation at a base in Italy as a preventative measure

With a US pullout planned within months, Afghanistan must work with Pakistan in order to overcome militancy

Video shows children as young as 10 sweeping the college grounds in UP before the arrival of its chief minister

The 27-year-old was killed late Sunday at the home of his pop-star girlfriend Kelly Khumalo after an altercation

When protesting her innocence, relatives attacked her with sticks, punched and kicked her in front of her son

Chief prosecutor Amruddin Amin said gunmen went door-to-door in the court, shooting their victims at close range

BJP govt says it is committed to disclose names of persons holding illegal money

Rousseff is the first woman president of the world's seventh-largest economy