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Britain-based watchdog says clashes were still raging in south and east of town and dozens of soldiers had been killed

Trudeau unveiled a new-look cabinet, equally split with 15 men and 15 women

Sajjan will oversee an anticipated change in Canada's military involvement in battle against militants in Syria &...

The visit comes just over a week after a US guided-missile destroyer challenged the territorial limits

Bangkok's Supreme Court says Visuk Setsawat was found guilty of negligence over inferno at upscale Santika club

Suu Kyi has faced international censure for not speaking out in support of the Rohingya

Husein Bosnic known as an unofficial leader of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement in Bosnia was arrested last year

Both Britain and the United States said the crash might have been caused by a bomb

The police found the bloodied and battered body of Mohammad Hasmat Ali in a remote village

Both UK and the US also demanded the release of all political prisoners including former President Nasheed

Earlier around 20 people were blinded by free cataract surgeries in northern Punjab state in December last year

The ruling opens a broad debate on how to regulate the use of marijuana, says Mexican president

Nearly 500 people have died trying to cross Aegean Sea from neighbouring Turkey this year

A group of unknown men stabbed a police officer to death on Wednesday just outside the capital Dhaka

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has been all but invisible in Japan

Geishas are not allowed to eat fast food and are even barred from being on Facebook

Says Iran has begun work to remove uranium enrichment centrifuges as part of the landmark agreement

Suu Kyi has towered over Myanmar's politics after decades-long struggle for democracy

Some regions are expected to are suffer a 60% decrease in rainfall in December, January and February

Lieutenant Gliniewicz radioed in that he was pursuing three men on foot and then called for backup a few minutes later

Report says current racial discrimination laws might not protect Muslim Australians against religious vilification

Roy says she is 'proud' to join those who have returned their awards to protest against attacks on minorities

Carson says his personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain

Deutsche Bank will pay 8 million in fines for doing business with US-sanctioned countries like Iran and Syria

Trudeau kicked off his majority government with an equal number of men and women in a slimmed-down Cabinet

The 21-time Grand Slam singles champion detailed her adventure on Facebook with her wearing a Supergirl outfit

Islamic State insists it brought down the plane and challenges sceptics to prove otherwise

A video shared on social media which appeared to show a rape filmed by the attacker has caused outrage

Irish Aviation Authority concerned a Russian airliner that crashed in the area may have been downed by a bomb

The dismay people feel about Modi’s willingness to tolerate Hindu hard-liners has spread to the financial community

Fatima, 23, is now considering leaving Afghanistan as people tell her staying puts her family in danger

Facebook's profit in the third quarter jumped 11 per cent to $891 million as advertising revenues soared

There was no immediate information on the possible motives of the assailant

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut advises King Khan not to indulge in mudslinging over intolerance issue in the country

NASA is looking to bolster its corps, which currently consists of just 47 astronauts

Life expectancy at birth measures how long someone born today would live if current mortality rates continued to apply

Tehran is wary of the United States and Israel, some of whose commentators have called for military attacks on Iran

Security experts and investigators have said the plane is unlikely to have been struck from the outside

Most western European countries are yet to recognise the state of Palestine

Rater was jailed Monday on charges of abusing and abandoning a child

Book offers readers the Republican frontrunner's take on the problems facing America and why only he can fix them

Avramopoulos says EU will get tough on migrants who are simply seeking a better life rather than fleeing conflict

Over the past two years, the government has lifted bans on women and girls wearing headscarves in schools

Opponents fear it could mark the start of authoritarian one-man rule

The first lady's said that her own education had helped take her to places she could only 'dream of' as a child

The company says fewer than 21,000 bank account numbers and sort codes have been accessed

Ponta has been under growing pressure to quit as he's facing charges of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering

As many as eight unidentified men attacked a group of officers as they arrived at a police checkpoint at Ashulia

A victory for recreational marijuana in Ohio could have changed the national conversation on legalization

Volkswagen fell 8.2 per cent after it said it had understated the fuel consumption of 800,000 cars sold in Europe