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A roundup of the best images from around the globe today

Alleges the attack was orchestrated by the foreign forces to tarnish the image of new Taliban leader

Khanna's app showed that users of Facebook Messenger could trace the exact locations of people they were talking to

Still radiating heat from its formation,40m years after dinosaurs became extinct, 51 Eridani b glows in infrared light

Says future generations of Japanese should not have to keep apologising for the mistakes of the past

Three retired Marines who last lowered the flag in 1961 participated in the ceremony

Recent reports spurred a national debate about the lack of diversity at Silicon Valley's tech companies

Police says restrictions are imposed to prevent miscreants from hoisting Pakistani flags

Euro zone finance ministers are expected to approve the vital aid for Athens later today

Both men had confessed to being members of the hardline Ansarullah Bangla Team, says police

German defence ministry says we have indications there was an attack with chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters

The move is aimed at keeping the South Korean giant atop the global smartphone market and countering its rival, Apple

Zhou Ti was being treated for chest injuries at a hospital in Tianjin and was in stable condition

Assange has been holed up since 2012 at Ecuador's embassy in London, which is under 24-hour police guard

Reformist alliance that rallied to elect President Maithripala Sirisena in January remains intact

Opposition has blocked flagship tax and land reforms with rowdy protests in parliament

US military spent an average of $4.6 million per day on bombs and other munitions between July 15 and July 31

The flag itself will not be the same one taken down 54 years ago, a State Department source said

Once aired on HBO, episodes will be made available nine months later to the PBS public television network

In his last two years, however, the same Obama is emerging as a statesman

Meteors will be visible every night from late July through August 24, however, fewer will be visible after the peak

Two of the four allegations against the WikiLeaks founder have expired because of the statute of limitations

No laws have been passed in upper house in its three-week session

The 22-year-old was quickly apprehended after inadvertently identifying himself to the victim

Alirline says carrier will fly daily to Panama's capital in a passenger flight operated by a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft

The agreement between Iran and six world powers could reset Iran's relations with the West

Ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party has been gripped by in-fighting in run up to November polls

Turkey last month made a dramatic shift in policy, sending warplanes to attack the Islamic State in northern Syria

Binhai New Area, where blasts occurred on Wednesday, is a giant logistics hub more than twice size of Hong Kong

A roundup of the best images from around the globe today

Bengali newspaper had questioned if it was ethical for judges to speak with appellants' families outside of court

Iran, desperate for funds and investment to help its economy, crippled by decades of sanction

Villagers and Israeli NGO Rabbis for Human Rights say no one was inside tent, which was housing food for livestock

The attacker used a long samurai sword to stab a French man and a Chinese woman

Asian shares and Asia-Pacific currencies suffered their biggest two-day selloff since 1998 this week

Mark Toner says US government raised this travel issue with senior Russian foreign ministry officials

The visit will mark rivals' first attempt in months to restart talks

The Swiss food giant has always maintained the product is safe to eat, and has continued to sell it in other countries

Uzbekistan Airways says passengers would be weighed in airport departure zones and results would be kept secret

Police say blast occured when people were coming out of mosque after morning prayers

A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside Jamila market at around 6am, police say

The initiative, 'la mixite’, calls for the adoption of secular laws to make schools ‘more French’

A crash in commodity prices as well as slowing global growth have made India a attractive bet for foreign investors

European benchmark Brent oil for September delivery gained 48 cents to $49.66 a barrel in London

Ban Ki-moon said that he, as UN secretary general, will not tolerate any action by people who replaced trust with fear

The official Xinhua says 701 people have been hospitalised, 71 of them in critical condition

Indian BSF inspector general says that neither will they give, nor will they receive sweets

There was no immediate reaction from Islamabad, which has in the past denied such accusations from Kabul

Taliban were in police uniform and had police vehicles and entered a police compound where they killed all 14 policemen

It had issued a 48-hour deadline threatening to kill him if Muslim women prisoners were not released from Egyptian jails