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Istanbul: Turkey on Tuesday began a hugely controversial trial against a group of academics charged with terror offences for signing a petition almost two...

Beirut: An explosives-laden bus blew up Tuesday in a predominantly pro-government neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs that has been repeatedly...

Beijing: A senior United Nations official arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for a rare visit aimed at defusing soaring tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear...

Brussels: Britain is still "very confident" of a Brexit divorce deal with the EU, finance minister Philip Hammond said Tuesday, a day after...

Occupied Jerusalem: A US move to recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital would mean the end of President Donald Trump's peace efforts on...

Abu Dhabi: When you lose your job in a foreign land, you have very few choices left. The first thing that comes to your mind is to get money from some...

**media[783306]** Weighing at 400kg, Didier Silva from Colombia suffers from morbid obesity and psychiatric issues. A foundation has now helped to arrange...

New Delhi: After legendary Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor passed away on Monday, news channels across India scrambled to break the news first, especially...

Washington: Facebook Inc on Monday rolled out Messenger Kids, an app that lets the world's biggest social media company expand into a so-far untapped...

Mumbai: Bollywood icon Shashi Kapoor -- a star of 1970s Indian cinema and a member of the Hindi film industry's famous Kapoor family -- died on Monday...