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A suspected remote-controlled bomb went off in Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex near Somalia on Tuesday, killing one police officer and wounding three, the local police chief said. Kenya has been [...]

Greece may be forced to leave the euro if the country refuses to implement spending cuts agreed with the European Union, Angela Merkel warned yesterday (Monday). Raising the spectre of [...]

China on Tuesday took strong exception to British Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama and lodged diplomatic protests accusing UK of interfering in its internal affairs by [...]

Pedestrians in an American town are being fined if caught writing text messages on their mobile phones while walking in the street. Thomas Ripoli, the police chief of Fort Lee, [...]

President Asif Ali Zardari is sending a special aircraft to India on Tuesday to bring back Pakistan's ailing virologist Khalil Chishty, who has been detained in Rajasthan for nearly two [...]

Parents in Australia are outraged after their children were distributed explicit novelty chocolates at a school’s Mother’s Day function. Packets of chocolates shaped like penises, breasts and buttocks – as [...]

Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of the [...]

Diplomats of European countries have called on Nagaland Governor Nikhil Kumar and Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio amidst a controversy in New Delhi over their 'uninformed' visit to the North Eastern [...]

Karnataka High Court on Tuesday stayed for three weeks the proceedings against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala Natarajan in the disproportionate assets case against them in a [...]

The government on Tuesday said it is serious to the plight of 1,200 Indian workers stranded in Angola and will take all necessary steps for their return. "The government is [...]