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Child marriage is legal across the United States. While 18 is typically the minimum age, every state has legal loopholes or exceptions allowing children to wed at a younger age. (Representational Image)

Florida passes strictest US law: Doesn't ban, limits child marriage...

The Florida governor intends to sign the bill into law, a spokeswoman said.

10 March 2018 6:33 PM IST

Tensions between Muslim groups and the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community in the country have escalated since the end of the civil war in May 2009. (Photo: File)

Sri Lankan Prez Sirisena to appoint committee to probe anti-Muslim...

Anti-Muslim riots, since Monday, have left two persons dead and damaged several homes, businesses and mosques in the...

10 March 2018 5:26 PM IST

China, under President Xi Jinping, is making a major push to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and big data technology to track and control behaviour that goes against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in the wider world. (Photo: File)

Minority Report' comes to life in China, smart glasses launched to nab...

The AI-powered glasses, made by LLVision, scan the faces of vehicle occupants and the plates, flagging a warning sign to...

10 March 2018 4:50 PM IST

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. (Photo: AP)

Prez Sirisena India bound amid Sri Lanka state emergency, violence

Mr Sirisena will be in India to attend the first conference of the founding members of the International Solar Alliance...

10 March 2018 4:25 PM IST

Spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee said officers are now carrying out checks and studying all the circumstances of this event. (Photo: Representational/ AP)

Not in good hands: Russian Police discovers bag with 54 severed fists

Social media went ablaze with shocked and appalled people trying to sniff out a cover up.'

10 March 2018 2:35 PM IST

North Korean media appeared to have had no major coverage of Kims invitation to meet US President Donald Trump or South Korean President Moon Jae-in to discuss the future of Pyongyangs nuclear weapons programme. (Photo: File)

World raves about Trump, Kim's first meeting, N Korean media remains...

North Koreans appear to still be in the dark despite such a potentially historic achievement.

10 March 2018 2:25 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir has been an area of contention for both India and Pakistan ever since the nations were formed in 1947 with three battles having been fought between the two neighbours over it. (Photo: Representational/ AP)

Pak's violation of human rights in Kashmir raked up in UNHRC session

Why is Pakistan allowed to infringe international law and make a mockery of this august institution?'

10 March 2018 1:35 PM IST

The verdict is major victory of hardliners who were pressing that Ahmadiyyas working in government offices should be identified. (Representational/ AP)

Pak Hardliners win: Court says public office seekers must declare...

Justice Siddiqui further ordered that teachers appointed for Islamic Studies should be true Muslims.

10 March 2018 12:37 PM IST

According to officials dealing with genocide and religious leaders, she said, 3,154 Yazidis are missing including 1,471 women and girls and 1,200 Turkmen are missing including 600 women and 250 children. (Photo: Representational/ AFP)

IS pillage in Iraq leaves living corpses' in thousands of rape victims

Despite all humanitarian efforts there is a gross lack of both physical and mental health, psycho-social support.'

10 March 2018 11:46 AM IST

Arrested in December 2015, his bail was revoked in September after he offered a reward for anyone who would grab a strand of former presidential candidate Hillary Clintons hair. (Photo: AP)

America's most hated biotech genius' gets 7 years in jail for fraud

So great was the 34-year-old's notoriety that it was initially difficult to find an impartial jury for the trial.

10 March 2018 10:43 AM IST

Central African Republic descended into chaos after mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted president Francois Bozize in 2013, provoking a spate of killing by Christian anti-balaka militias. (Photo: AFP/ Representational)

In embattled central Africa, militia men have raped over 300 in 2018...

The hospital at Bossangoa has treated 56 rape victims since September, up from 13 in the previous eight months, MSF...

9 March 2018 7:24 PM IST

Trump has said he was prepared to meet Kim in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between the two countries leaders and potentially mark a major breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang. (Photo: File)

Trump decided himself' to meet with Kim when conditions were right':...

Trump has said he was prepared to meet Kim in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between the two countries'...

9 March 2018 7:03 PM IST