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Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy, attends the last day. -AFP

Myanmar Army MPs bid farewell with song

Belting out the lyrics “dreams may come true” in a jaunty a capella, a former top general serenaded...

30 Jan 2016 5:23 AM IST

Babylon had all the angles a millennium before Oxford

Babylon had all the angles a millennium before Oxford

The methods in tablets from 350 to 50 BC were so advanced that they foreshadowed development of calculus

30 Jan 2016 12:39 AM IST

Kremlin slams White House over Putin corruption claim

Kremlin has already dismissed the US Treasury claim that it said amounted to an ‘official accusation’.

29 Jan 2016 5:53 PM IST

FBI and Oregon State Police stop a truck with Robert LaVoy Finicum and other members of an armed protest group. (Photo: AFP

FBI releases video of fatal shooting of Oregon protester

The video was shot from an FBI plane overlooking a highway on which two vehicles, one of which Finicum was driving, were...

29 Jan 2016 12:58 PM IST

Rescue workers and firefighters searching through the wreckage of TransAsia Airways flight GE222. (Photo: AFP)

Pilots blamed for TransAsia crash on Taiwan Island

Ill-fated Flight GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew when it slammed into trees and houses near Magong city...

29 Jan 2016 12:40 PM IST

Several Australian schools in lockdown over bomb threats

At least four Melbourne schools were also evacuated after receiving threatening phone calls.

29 Jan 2016 11:32 AM IST

Heartbreak as historic Hong Kong village demolished

There were once dozens of villages scattered across what became urban centre of the city they were built by Chinese...

29 Jan 2016 11:31 AM IST

Two cases hint at sexual transmission of Zika

In another case, Zika virus was found in semen about two weeks after a man had symptoms with Zika virus infection.

29 Jan 2016 11:29 AM IST

Refugees arrive at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany. (Photo: AP)

Germany reaches migrant deal, with restrictions on relatives

Coalition also plans to declare Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia safe countries of origin, Gabriel said, making it easier to...

29 Jan 2016 10:57 AM IST

Iraqi Security forces with national flag enter downtown Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

World too focused on fighting IS in Iraq to see humanitarian needs:...

Humanitarian aid should be scaled up in proportion to the escalation of military operations, says medical charity...

29 Jan 2016 10:56 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. (Photo: AP)

Pak accuses India of 'unsubstantiated terror allegations'

‘Terrorism is a problem for Pakistan and the world at large, not just India’, says Pak Foreign Office...

29 Jan 2016 10:49 AM IST

Freed, Reyat to stay in a reintegration house till Aug 2018

Reyat was found guilty of perjury in 2010 after he lied during trial of two men accused of bombing that killed all 329...

29 Jan 2016 10:36 AM IST