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Geologists said on Monday a Japanese nuclear plant may be sited over an active seismic fault, indicating that it will probably be scrapped. All five ...

Indians are expected to rank as the largest ethnic minority group in the UK, in the latest results from the 2011 census, according to a media report.

The father of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for advocating girls’ right to education, has been named as the ...

Four Chinese navy ships sailed through a zone just outside Japanese territorial waters between Yonaguni and Iriomote islands in Okinawa Prefecture ...

US President Barack Obama and his Defence Secretary Leon Panetta have praised the special forces for conducting a successful rescue operation in ...

DM Healthcare, a leading healthcare conglomerate in West Asia and India, has launched the first mobile medical clinic in the UAE as part of its public ...

Japan will remain on the alert and continue to monitor a planned North Korean rocket launch, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said today as a 13-day ...

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China’s largest city Shanghai is set to follow capital Beijing to permit 72 hour visa free entry for transit tourists from 45 countries but not for ...

The UAE Cabinet has approved the extradition agreement that the Gulf nation had signed with India for facilitating the transfer of Indian convicts to ...

A new take on Chris Van Allsburg’s adventure book “Jumanji” is officially in the works at Columbia Pictures. The studio is developing the remake ...

A group of Iranian missile experts are in North Korea offering technical assistance with a planned long-range rocket launch condemned by the ...

In a dramatic U-turn, Egypt’s Islamist President Muhammed Mursi has annulled a controversial decree that had granted him Pharaoh-like powers, even as ...

US anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee filed another legal motion as he seeks to avoid deportation to Belize for questioning over his neighbour’s ...

A man suspected of fatally shooting three people and wounding three children, including his two daughters, has died from his injuries in a police ...

An Australian radio station, whose broadcasters made a prank call to a London hospital, today defended its staff, saying it tried to contact the ...

A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook the typhoon-hit southern Philippine island of Mindanao Monday, seismologists said, but there were no ...

Photographs of Lashkar-e-Taiba training camps in Sindh and motorboats used by the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai are among evidence presented to an ...

South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital in Pretoria for “medical attention“. 94-year-old Mandela, who was ...

One million wealthy families in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own investment assets worth about $1.2 trillion, a new report has said.

With an aim to save costs in troubled economic times, just 10 companies together have announced nearly one lakh job cuts worldwide since start of 2012 ...

Disclosure reports with US Senate show amount spent since 2008

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is stepping down, the president’s office has announced, just hours after the man he replaced, Silvio Berlusconi, ...