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It is the highest-level contact between Kremlin and a Gulf Arab official since Russia's air strikes to support Assad

Chadian government says terrorist group Boko Haram has hit Baga Sola

Pope Francis asks thousands in Saint Peter's Square to pray in silence for victims after his weekly Angelus address

Claire Barnett was on her phone checking Facebook when her son fell into a pond while playing at home in March 2014

Human Rights Watch says photographs show cluster munitions were dropped on Kafr Halab village on October 4

246 people are wounded, with 48 still in intensive care

Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson says the woman killed was aged 30 and pregnant, her daughter was three

State news agency says Emad missile is able to strike targets with high-level of precision and completely destroy them

Robin Raphel is part of a federal counterintelligence investigation over allegations of spying for Pakistan

Dutch Safety Board says it will not assign blame nor say who pulled the trigger

Cheap, effective and quickly installed, ad-blockers reduce clutter on web pages, speed up performance

Indian govt asks people to lend gold to banks through Gold Monetisation Scheme to bring national stash into economy

Nato spokesman in Afghanistan confirms attack but says international coalition is still gathering further information

Even the London Film Festival's biggest stars seemed humbled by the teenager and her aspirations

The Palestinian casualties were the result of "barbaric and racist" Israeli military actions, the MPs charged

We have implemented Allah's ruling against them, which is the death sentence, says al Qaeda statement

The incident adds to a raging row over what is seen as rising intolerance towards Muslims, other religious minorities

Health Minister says 186 people were wounded including 28 who are in intensive care; rules out security shortcomings

Modi accuses opposition of failing to better the state's fortunes in their combined six decades in power

Report comes weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington

For Israeli security forces, stones and firebombs pose a potentially deadly threat

Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudais urgeS people to remember efforts Saudi Arabia has made to take care of Muslim pilgrims

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says training program was only part of the US effort

The deadly incident at NAU comes hours before Obama was to meet families of victims of last week's shooting rampage

Kejriwal uses televised press conference to announce sacking of food and environment minister Asim Ahmed Khan

The Nobel panel says award to the National Dialogue Quartet was intended as an "encouragement to the Tunisian people"

Clashes come as Hamas's chief in Gaza called violence that has hit the occupied West Bank an intifada

Police confirm incident, say Ramu Chavan killed his wife after suspecting her of having affair with their son-in-law

CIA official says Pakistan is similar to a bank or company that is considered too big to fail

At 1,453, death toll of disastrous stampede during Hajj this year has superseded previously recorded tolls

Incumbent prime minister Sushil Koirala had pledged to step down after the constitution

Ismail Haniyeh claims Gaza will fulfil its role in Jerusalem intifada and it is more than ready for confrontation

Centre for Science and Environment says thousands of trucks pour into Delhi every night adding to the cocktail of smog

Boy was found unconscious by a coast guard patrol boat

The child survived and later told investigators that he was attacked because 'he couldn't find the remote'

Diplomay says Indian ambassador was flown to Pindi in a RAW jet when negotiations reached an advanced stage

Facebook pledges to fight racism on its German-language network as Germany has become top destination for refugees

Motive for the shooting was not clear and Northern Arizona officials have not said if the dead victim was a student

Hamedani was a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and was made deputy chief commander of the elite forces in 2005

The US is 'closer to sending American astronauts to Mars than at any point in our history,' said NASA administrator

The scheme follows months of tensions over the more than 600,000 people who have flooded into Europe this year

Avic officials have made no secret of the fact that they are seeking foreign buyers for the aircraft

The pope, the German chancellor and a Congolese doctor were all tipped as top contenders

Police called the attack "nationalistic," indicating it may have been in revenge for at least eight stabbings

Step comes a year after Air Chief Marshal Raha said women are unfit to fly fighter aircraft for long stretches

Afghanistan's "Utopia" is about an Afghan woman who travels to Britain for artificial insemination

India lodges protest with authorities in Riyadh over 'brutal' attack

The 19-year-old had won a ticket to attend the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia

The state-run Singapore General Hospital says 678 patients, 273 medical workers were being contacted to be screened

Jabar, who killed a police worker while reportedly shouting religious slogans, was a regular at the mosque