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China makes male rape a crime amid increasing sexual assaults

China makes male rape a crime amid increasing sexual assaults

Sexual assaults on men in China will be treated as a crime punishable with a minimum five year jail term as an amendment...

2 Nov 2015 6:34 AM IST

12 killed, 16 hurt in Pakistan local polls

12 killed, 16 hurt in Pakistan local polls

At least 12 people have been killed and 16 others injured in clashes between rival groups during local body elections in...

2 Nov 2015 6:31 AM IST

Investigators probe aircrash, Russia mourns victims

Investigators probe aircrash, Russia mourns victims

International investigators on Sunday began probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in Egypt’s...

2 Nov 2015 6:12 AM IST

UK to update rules to monitor Internet, no ban on encryption

UK to update rules to monitor Internet, no ban on encryption

The British government on Sunday gave the first details of contested plans to update Internet spying laws in order to...

2 Nov 2015 5:52 AM IST

How airliner could have crashed in Sinai

Investigators probing the crash of a Russian passenger plane in the Sinai desert will be working on scenarios ranging...

2 Nov 2015 5:45 AM IST

ISIS takes over town in Homs

ISIS takes over town in Homs

ISIS fighters seized the Syrian town of Maheen in Homs province from government forces on Sunday, a monitoring group...

2 Nov 2015 5:37 AM IST

Ruling AKP set to win majority in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan casts his vote at a polling station in Istanbul on Sunday. — AP

2 Nov 2015 5:32 AM IST

Construction of British base begins in Bahrain

Construction of British base begins in Bahrain

Construction work has begun in Bahrain to build Britain’s first permanent military base in West Asia since 1971,...

2 Nov 2015 5:28 AM IST

Guenter Schabowski

Bureaucrat who ‘brought down’ Berlin Wall dies

Former East German bureaucrat Guenter Schabowski, who died on Sunday aged 86, went down in history for his improvised...

2 Nov 2015 5:25 AM IST

1 dead, 1 hurt in US university shooting

One person was killed and another was wounded in a shooting early on Sunday at a university in the US state of North...

2 Nov 2015 5:23 AM IST

13 migrants drown off Greece

Refugees and migrants abort their effort to travel from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Chios on a dinghy near...

2 Nov 2015 5:22 AM IST

‘7/7 blasts aimed at ruining Olympic bid’

‘7/7 blasts aimed at ruining Olympic bid’

The 7/7 bombings across London’s transport network in 2005 were originally planned to stop the city winning the...

2 Nov 2015 5:18 AM IST