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VSV-ZEBOV may become the first licensed vaccine against the disease for which there is also no approved cure

Scores of people die every year from flooding and landslides during monsoon season in Himalayan nation

The airline said no rodent had been found, but it had no choice but to turn back and fumigate the aircraft

Livetext enables users to send text based messages, emoticons and videos but without audio

A blue moon was last seen in 2012 and will appear again in 2018

Pregnant pandas are treated like queens by zoos, providing them with more buns, fruits and air conditioned rooms

E-visa service will allow Chinese nationals to apply and obtain travel visas for 30 days

A new law of paid leave has been passed in Iran yet there are no funds to pay its estimated 3.2 trillion rial

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has blamed supporters of former strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse for attack

One animal rights charity has called for Palmer to be hanged

Reports say Indian police allegedly arrested 27-year-old Fozia alias Chanda from Jalandhar

From the part number, it is confirmed that it is from a Boeing 777 aircraft, says official

Micro-financing through bitcoin may be ‘halal’ because cryptocurrency doesn’t incur interest

According to Taliban sources, Mansoor has effectively been in charge since 2013

US also passed on the acquired information to Australia, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand

Indian media reports that the IS group may be holding the teachers

Man claims he hurt his back after being seated next to a sick, obese passenger

David Bach creates a chart which specifies how much money one needs to save to become a millionaire

PM's senior aide rejects India's allegations of Pakistan's involvement in Gurdaspur attack

Google says no one country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access

In final hours before handover, villagers have been holding feasts and rehearsing their new national anthems

neighbouring house was also badly damaged but it had been empty and there were no casualties there

The violence has triggered terrifying memories of the 1990s, when arrests, murders and clashes made life a nightmare

The man punched the shark to scare it away and during the struggle, the shark bit his left arm and leg

The oil giant also announced a slide in profits, a further cut to investment and the sale of Japanese operations

The attacker had only recently been released after serving a 10-year sentence for a similar attack

Facebook it is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand access to the 10% of population offline

Observers say Mullah Omar's death will trigger a power struggle within the already fractious movement

Despite receiving the money, the would be 'jihadi brides' never never showed up in Syria

The statement said Washington would deliver four more F-16s to Egypt this autumn

Shop owwer says he will “not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots”

Incident has been confirmed by local fisherman, Buhari Dan-Malam, who lives in Doron Baga

Dr Amitava Choudhury says number of children suffering from depression has increased dramatically

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor appointed new Afghan Taliban leader

Move comes after Wenzhou authorities last year demolished large Sanjiang Church

The network included five Kuwaitis

So far 28 women have been identified, most of whom police said were from areas of Nepal

Britain-based monitor says group was returning from meeting in northern Aleppo province to their headquarters

Earlier, Taliban sources said group's leadership had arrived in Islamabad for talks

The idea has taken on urgency as water problems threaten to undermine food security, vital for political legitimacy

Local police chief Ataur Rahman says at least 150 houses of local fishermen were reportedly destroyed due to storm

India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh earlier claimed attackers came from Pakistan, a claim rejected by Pakistan

Taliban has taken control of pockets of territory across the country since NATO withdrew most of its forces

Residents of the islands can choose to live in India or Bangladesh and will be granted citizenship

A vehicle carrying the Taliban was hit overnight as it travelled through Wadi Dikha in Abyan province

Members of the anti-immigrant party Northern League removed prayer mats ahead of a Muslim conference

The discovery fuelled hopes across the globe that one of aviation history's greatest mysteries could be solved soon

Memon was the only one of 11 people convicted to have his death sentence upheld on appeal

Even though he had not been seen in public since 2001, Omar remained a unifying figure for Taliban forces

Spokesperson Eric Schultz refuses to comment on specific claims made by Afghanistan that Omar died in Pakistan