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Efforts are underway to rescue people who are missing after massive landslide in China . (Photo: AP)

19 killed, 12 missing in landslides and heavy rains in China

At least eleven people were killed and a dozen remain missing after a massive landslide swept through a village in...

2 July 2016 12:58 PM IST

Pope Benedict (Photo: AP)

Vatican gay lobby tried to influence church affairs: Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict resigned following a turbulent papacy that included the so-call “Vatileaks” case.

2 July 2016 12:57 PM IST

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection for the 2013 Boston attack. (Photo: Screen grab)

Al-Qaeda warns of 'consequences' if Boston bomber executed

Zawahri, the new al Qaeda leader,urged Muslims to take captive as many Westerners as possible

2 July 2016 11:26 AM IST

Bangladeshi security personnel cordon off the area after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant in Dhaka. (Photo: PTI)

Hostage crisis in Dhaka diplomatic area restaurant

A group of eight to ten gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic zone of Dhaka on Friday...

2 July 2016 7:31 AM IST

UN appoints LGBT expert, India abstains

India abstained at the UN Human Rights Council voting in Geneva to appoint an independent expert with a three-year term...

2 July 2016 7:26 AM IST

Chinese soldiers during the Communist Party’s 95th anniversary celebrations in Mohe, China. (Photo: AFP)

China’s Communist Party turns 95

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Friday that the biggest threat to the ruling Communist Party is corruption, as he...

2 July 2016 6:44 AM IST

ISIS kills Hindu priest, Buddhist in Bangladesh

ISIS kills Hindu priest, Buddhist in Bangladesh

A Hindu priest and a Buddhist leader were brutally hacked to death by machete-wielding ISIS militants while another...

2 July 2016 6:38 AM IST

Istanbul terror attack: Bombers ‘planned hostage-taking’

In this grab from CCTV footage made available on Friday, three people (in foreground) believed to be the attackers are...

2 July 2016 6:37 AM IST

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Ayman al-Zawahiri warns US not to execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has warned the United States of the “gravest consequences” if Boston...

2 July 2016 6:26 AM IST

100 Nobel laureates to Greenpeace: Don’t oppose GMOs

More than 100 Nobel laureates called on the international environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday to end its...

2 July 2016 6:24 AM IST

Pope Benedict reveals how he stopped Vatican ‘gay lobby’

Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no one pressured him to resign but alleges that a “gay lobby”...

2 July 2016 1:30 AM IST

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'Bregret' after 'Brexit': Nearly 2.3 million Britons regret voting for...

The UK is just as divided post-referendum as it was pre-referendum with voters split on what the UK's relationship with...

1 July 2016 8:09 PM IST