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Chennai: Superstar Rajnikanth, an Indian cinema icon, has announced his decision to enter politics in Chennai. Rajnikanth, who has kept his fans guessing...

New York: A 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building that killed 12 people, including...

Cairo: A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined him 2 million...

Moscow: Russia's FSB security service said on Saturday it had detained the individual suspected of organising and carrying out a bombing that injured 13...

Kiev: A man believed to be strapped with explosives has taken nine adults and two children hostage in a post office in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, police...

Dubai: Anti-government protests broke out in Iran for the third day running on Saturday as separate state-sponsored rallies were staged to mark the end of...

Berlin: Former German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Saturday urged quick formation of a new government by Chancellor Angela Merkel's...

Dubai: Annual nationwide pro-government rallies were held in Iran on Saturday to mark the end of unrest which shook the country in 2009, state media...

Moscow: Russia's Supreme Court on Saturday dismissed an appeal by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny against a decision by the country's...

London/Moscow: Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, according to...