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Mystery still surrounds the motive for the attack, in which the majority of the dead were ethnic Chinese tourists

US Senate backed a plan to name the plaza after Liu Xiaobo, jailed for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges

Student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on Friday for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans

Gurez tunnel, if constructed, will be of 'huge help' not only to Indian defence forces but also locals in the area

Space tourism companies are employing designs, including winged vehicles and rockets, to make space tourism a reality

He has repeatedly denied knowledge of dual accounting and some 18 million euros in false invoices

Michelin's core business, passenger car tyre sales, saw healthy sales growth at 14.6 percent

Oil prices have tumbled about 70 percent since June 2014, hit by oversupply and sluggish demand

Belgium has one of the highest per capita rates of participation in militant groups such as Islamic State

Airbus's book for 2015 now stands at 1,080 aircraft orders, worth $141.6 billion at list prices

Police have charged Malik under the country's tough Internet law with publishing material that hurts religious beliefs

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Park said it was clear Pyongyang had no intention of discussing denuclearisation

Together, the four power plants supply electricity to about one quarter of homes in Britain

Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, nestled in Guizhou province, will start operation this year

One foot was also discovered earlier this week in Vancouver Island

Gay marriage is outlawed in the Philippines due to strong opposition from the Catholic Church

Nutrition experts disagree on the extent to which organic foods confer health advantages

Representative Mary Lou Marzian, a Democrat from Louisville who has been a lawmaker for 22 years

In the letter, which is full of fervour, the man assures his mother he is in good health

Republicans, say Obama should put off naming a replacement for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia

Officers found more than Aus$1 billion (US$712 million) of the lethally-addictive drug

Almost 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit five medical facilities, two schools in rebel-held areas of Syria

Saudi Arabia's oil minister Ali al-Naimi and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak will meet in Doha

Fossils of Homo floresiensis -- dubbed "the hobbits" -- were discovered on the island of Flores in 2003

Trump has long said that Cruz may not be constitutionally qualified as president because he was born in Canada

The 45 kilogram feline squeezed out of the narrow bars of an iron cage at the Bannerghatta zoo in Bangalore city

Fiza Farhan is CEO of Buksh Foundation and director of Buksh Energy

Sources said Gul hailed from Malik Din Khel clan and he was associated with Da’ish

They were arrested in the Shia town of Sitra on Sunday during clashes between security forces and protesters

Ahmet Davutoglu they will deliver an extremely decisive response if Russia continues behaving like a terrorist outfit

Cabinet Office says locally imposed boycotts can roll back integration as well as hinder Britain's export trade

Police did not identify the victim or give further details of his former security duties

Olmert's prison term closes a chapter in a long legal odyssey since he left office in 2009

China argues that THAAD deployment will trigger an arms race in the region

The 9,500-km journey through Kazakstan and Turkmenistan took 14 days to complete

Despite its long-standing semi-detached approach to Europe, keeping Britain was well worth the trouble, says d'Estaing

The raids also left dozens wounded, Observatory says

A university student was killed on Sunday as troops cordoned off Kakpora village, suspecting presence of militants

The documentary does not claim he broke his vow of celibacy

Bal is back! Only a personage of my stature can posthumously elicit such sustained vitriol or unashamed devotion

Emergency services warn people to be on their guard against brown snakes

Decision by the board aims at keeping religion away from the examination process

Threat posed by unmanned aerial vehicles still evolving as people are starting to discover potential of technology

Some 68 accidents occurred last year, compared with 77 in 2014 and an annual average of 90 over the last five years

Jakarta-based security analyst Sidney Jones believes Jemaah Islamiyah's membership is back to around 2000

A total of 29 vehicle assembly and parts plants resumed operations

The Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York continued over Ireland before requesting to return

Following aid agency warnings that human traffickers could prey on vulnerable survivors in the aftermath of disasters

The three sisters grew up in the desert village of Shaharut in southern Israel