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The report comes after President Barack Obama ordered a review of all cyberattacks during the 2016 election cycle

Advocates call for Saarc nations to adopt a treaty and policies to help protect them

The deal values at £18.5b but the London-listed firm stressed there was no certainty that an offer would be made

Move comes as Coca-Cola and rival PepsiCo face rising trend of soda taxes in some key markets

The seizure was made following a tip off and with the help of anti-narcotic authorities in India

SP Tyagi held in New Delhi over his alleged role in bribing officials to swing deal in favour of Anglo-Italian firm

Half the world's species are failing to cope with global warming, says leading evolutionary biologist

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Changes to begin in first half of 2017

The gifts Nuzroul Islam Abdulkareem has received so far include a gold set and smart phones

Most Saudi casualties have been from retaliatory cross-border rocket attacks or combat

Mallya, a flamboyant former billionaire who made his fortune from a liquor and beer empire, moved to Britain in March

US Defence Secretary terms India rising military power

'Report a damning indictment on a broken system''

Inquiry committee finds the heist was essentially committed by external elements

Police carries out simultaneous raids across 12 provinces, targeting suspects

Who wouldn't want a boss like him?

Dozens of members of Park's own conservative Saenuri Party backed the motion to remove her

President Xi Jinping saus institutes of higher education must serve the rule of the Chinese Communist Party

The unit was shut down in October for inspections and maintenance under stricter rules

Carter is expected to meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and American troops

The traditional ceremony, Burning of the Devil is held ahead of Christmas every year

In Iran, many had been in contact with unrecognised churches in the Islamic republic, where conversion is prohibited

Team of police officers visits BBC's Bangkok office but finds it closed

A US-led coalition has trained and armed the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces, most of whom are Kurdish

Qatar, meanwhile, has requested eight C-17 military jets in a pair of contracts totalling $781 million

It is not however, because they think the popular cartoon series corrupts children

On February 20, 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth

The Nobel peace prize winner has faced growing international criticism for not stopping the military's campaign

A long-standing environmental champion, DiCaprio recently made the climate-change documentary "Before the Flood"

The crash on November 28 wiped out most of the Chapecoense football team from Brazil

John Glenn a pioneer in space travel

He was named Denmark's Sportsman of the Century in 1996

US Geological Survey said there was "a low likelihood of casualties and damage" from the quake

Cash accounts for 90% of transactions in India where millions rely heavily on notes for their daily transactions

The tech giant will purchase 2.6 gigawatts of wind and solar energy, globally

The population of the world's tallest land mammal dropped to below 100,000 in 2015

The case has laid bare the racial tensions that endure more than two decades after the end of apartheid rule

Johnson said absence of real leadership in the Middle East had allowed people to twist religion and stoke proxy wars

The paper is not part of the official state media, but has close ties to the ruling Communist Party

Is there anything he can't do?

Hasani for years suffered hostility, abuse from men unaccustomed to unveiled women dressed in figure-hugging ski suits

Wednesday's ruling could give more credibility to future attempts by the government to ban the full-face veil

Japanese firms are worried about protectionism in Trump presidency

His call through the Apple app FaceTime is seen as a crucial turning point in the coup

Boeing CE congratulated Trump on his election win and committed to working with the new administration

The Mars One consortium said its first manned mission to the Red Planet would now not happen until 2031

Israeli Prime Minister said told Francois Hollande he would not meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas

As many as 10,000 snow geese descended on the abandoned open Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana

City officials were considering destroying records of hundreds of thousands of municipal ID card holders