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Singur (West Bengal):Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday handed over land 'parchas' and cheques to the farmers in Singur even as she sent...

San Francisco: Twitter Inc launched a new video streaming application for Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc TV platforms, as well as Microsoft Corp's Xbox...

Baghdad: The United States said on Wednesday it would give Iraq $181 million in humanitarian aid, anticipating a wave of displaced people when Iraqi forces...

London: Britain and Argentina have agreed to work together towards removing measures restricting the oil and gas, shipping and fishing industries around the...

Edinburgh: A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Sierra Leone was cleared on Wednesday of allegations that she had put the...

Occupied Jerusalem: Former Israeli president Shimon Peres remains in a critical condition 24 hours after suffering a massive stroke, but is showing signs of...

Paris: France's financial prosecutor on Wednesday sought a three-year jail term for former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who was forced to quit...

New Delhi: India has declared itself free from the highly contagious avian influenza (H5N1) or bird flu even as it stressed the need for continued...

Strasbourg: The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, sought on Wednesday to rally support for the European Union, saying the bloc...

Seoul: North Korea will have enough material for about 20 nuclear bombs by the end of this year, with ramped-up uranium enrichment facilities and an...