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Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves the Old Bailey courthouse in London in this photo dated November 1, 2013. LONDON: British...

The blaze is believed to have started on the ground floor before quickly spreading into the stairwell and then upper floors (AFP) PARIS:...

  ISTANBUL: At least 12 people believed to be Syrian refugees drowned as two boats sank after leaving southwest Turkey for the Greek island...

  BONN: Inadequate national targets for curbing climate-altering greenhouse gases meant emissions would be "far above" the level required to stave off disastrous global...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa at arrival to declare open Mattala Rajapaksa International airport, Mar 18, 2013 Colombo: Part of a vanity airport built by...

Representative image only  HYDERABAD: A class 10 student died after a clash with his classmate at a private school in Hyderabad, police said....

By Arun Kumar Washington: The trial of a former Alabama police officer who slammed down an Indian grandfather walking in his son's neighbourhood...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with South Korean President Park Geun-hye at The Great Hall Of The People on September 2,...

A Pakistani policeman who was injured in an ambush with suspected militants, receives medical treatment at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, 02...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Wednesday that the government will discuss whether it should set up private universities in Kerala. "Kerala...

NEW DELHI: A three-day coordination meeting of BJP and RSS leaders began here on Wednesday. BJP president Amit Shah, Home Minister Rajnath Singh,...

  PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia:  A global anti-corruption conference opened in Malaysia on Wednesday with a demand for the country's Prime Minister Najib Razak to come...

MADRID:  Spain registered in August its first a increase in jobless claims in seven months, data showed Wednesday, but with elections just months...

GUATEMALA CITY:  Guatemala's Congress voted Tuesday to strip embattled President Otto Perez of his immunity, clearing the way for him to be prosecuted...

BEIJING:  Almost all members of the Uighur militant group the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) have been eliminated from Pakistan, the country's president...

BERLIN:  Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives slipped for the second week running with Europe's unprecedented refugee crisis a major factor, a...

ANKARA: Eighteen Turkish workers were kidnapped from a sports stadium they were constructing in northeast Baghdad on Wednesday morning, the head of their...

DUBAI: Dubai International Airport saw a 29.6 percent jump in passenger numbers in July, reflecting runway maintenance the previous summer, the operator of...