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Self-immolation is not that rare in South Korea and was particularly common during the pro-democracy movement of the 1980s

The deluge shortly after midnight swallowed 15 employee dormitories and three residential houses

The body was intentionally left in the middle of the road so that people could find it

Facebook earns 15 cents per user in India every quarter, compared to the $7 to $8 it makes on each US user

Taliban says IS released a video showing a group of Afghan prisoners being blown up with explosives

Callaghan established a GoFundMe page asking politicians to give his children the same travel entitlements their own receive

The project is not some guerilla graffiti campaign but comes with the blessing of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Pakistan made 6 requests to remove content specifying 6 accounts. It also made 3 requests for information about 3...

The Nepal earthquake alone accounted for $33 billion

Two alleged computer hackers who live in Ukraine have also been indicted

Indian deputy high commissioner was summoned to the foreign office on Tuesday and a protest was lodged

It is said the copy is from the era of Mughal ruler Akbar

Police officer says villagers threw rocks at police and chanted 'We want freedom!' during gun battle with separatists

Moscow has called for coordination between the Syrian govt and the international coalition fighting the extremist group

Official estimates have put the number of undocumented Rohingya in Bangladesh at between 200,000 and 500,000

The Indian PM plans to meet his UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum

Dutch prosecutors say some of the debris recovered from the site may belong to a Russian-made missile system

Uber has encountered a string of regulatory roadblocks as it grows around the world

The lack of drainage systems has created a rise in diseases like malaria and dengue in the city

Complaint says a child would be extremely traumatised if a pork cutlet was served to him and he was obliged to eat it

So far the website only contains a letter from Google co-founder Larry Page and a link to Google's existing investor relations page

Note in the middle of the restaurant’s menu states they ‘do not have WiFi’

Authorities say the reason for the crash remains unclear

Pichai will oversee the biggest company under that umbrella, which will still be called Google

Utility Kyushu Electric Power turns on reactor at Sendai, about 1,000 kilometres southwest of Tokyo, at 10:30 am

According to reports, Rakhi has been arrested for beating her son with a cricket bat after she realised he knew of her...

Internet Watch Foundation says Facebook, Google and others have agreed to adopt a system to identify and block images of child sex abuse

Finance ministry official says agreement has been reached but some minor details are being discussed

Myanmar state media says authorities handed over 159 people to their Bangladeshi counterparts

87-year-old king has been in Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital since being re-admitted in May

Police have made several arrests, including nine people, after a group of protesters briefly blocked roadway

Find out how to avoid game request notifications and 'seen' feature from messages

No individual or organisation is allowed to provide songs which promote obscenity, violence, crime

Customers demand eco-friendly idols now, says Pawar

Page says Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet

Foreign Office says that Pakistan was extending its full cooperation to Afghanistan to combat terrorism

Dr Abdur Rab helped turn the Health Services Academy into Pakistan’s premier public health institute

It is a free game created by three young developers seeking a way to 'criticise the corruption in a satirical way'

Premier offers Belarus land for opening embassy in Islamabad

Netanyahu has labelled the firebombing 'terrorism' and pledged to use all legal means to track down the perpetrators

Calls Rohingyas their "brothers", urges European countries to be more welcoming of migrants

Bangladesh's national police chief warned bloggers they faced jail for posting material deemed offensive

A third person is also wounded in the attack

The boy used a racially-offensive term before knifing the 50-year-old teacher in a pre-planned attack in June

Zimbabwean president says our wildlife, all our animals, belong to us & they should not be shot with gun or with arrow

Research institute reveals savings exceed costs of crisis — even if Greece were to default on entire debt

The isolated country recently announced more than 100 separate projects seeking foreign investment

President Petro Poroshenko says about "200 insurgents used tanks to storm" Novolaspa in pre-dawn raid

Rescuers say girl's father told them he prefers his daughter dead than being touched by a strange man

The general was found guilty of accepting bribes, embezzlement of public funds, paying bribes and abuse of power