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Seoul says North Korea is preparing to attack

Seoul says North Korea is preparing to attack

South Korea’s spy agency has told ruling party officials that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered...

19 Feb 2016 5:37 AM IST

‘Hairy panic’ paralyses Australia’s Wangaratta

This frame grab from a video released on Thursday shows a man clearing out fast-growing tumbleweed from a home in the...

19 Feb 2016 5:35 AM IST

Campaigning begins for Iran’s crucial elections

An Iranian woman walks past a poster depicting a portrait of the minister of intelligence Mahmoud Alavi, a candidate for...

19 Feb 2016 5:31 AM IST

Walesa was a Communist agent: Polish official body

Walesa was a Communist agent: Polish official body

A Polish institute responsible for prosecuting Communistera crimes said on Thursday that new-found documents showed Lech...

19 Feb 2016 5:29 AM IST

‘ISIS preparing crude nuclear bomb’

‘ISIS preparing crude nuclear bomb’

ISIS terrorists in Iraq may have stolen a case of extremely radioactive material which they could fashion into a...

19 Feb 2016 5:28 AM IST

‘Military action risks derailing Syria talks’

‘Military action risks derailing Syria talks’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that escalating military activity in Syria and threats of further use of...

19 Feb 2016 5:27 AM IST

EU leaders hold make-or-break Brexit talks

British PM David Cameron and European Council president Donald Tusk at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Thursday....

19 Feb 2016 5:26 AM IST

Republican President race erupts into four-way battle

Republican President race erupts into four-way battle

The Republican race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination erupted into a four-candidate crossfire on...

19 Feb 2016 5:24 AM IST

Ted Cruz overtakes Donald Trump in latest poll

Ted Cruz overtakes Donald Trump in latest poll

For the first time, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in national polls,...

19 Feb 2016 5:22 AM IST

Brilliant minds unleash visions of future at annual TED conference

Shonda Rhimes , creator of TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and author of the book Year of Yes, speaks at...

19 Feb 2016 5:15 AM IST

Afghan women read love poems at a poetry club in Kandahar. (Photo: AFP )

Secret lives of Afghanistan’s female poets

With her kohl-rimm martyr eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on...

19 Feb 2016 2:28 AM IST

Paramedics carry a wounded man from the site of the explosion into an ambulance in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo: AP)

28 soldiers killed in Ankara blast

Turkey PM blames Kurdish militants

19 Feb 2016 2:24 AM IST