Pakistan, India fight again
Reuters, Srinagar :Five civilians were killed and thousands took refuge in camps in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday after some of the most...
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India giving befitting reply to Pak at border: Army Chief
Zee Media Bureau, Jammu :As Pakistan continues to violate ceasefire along the Jammu and Kashmir border, Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Wednesday said...
Five Afghan men ‘executed for rape’
BBC Online :Five Afghan men have been executed for gang-raping four women, in a case that has sparked national outrage.Officials say the men were executed...
China quake leaves one dead
AFP, Beijing :A strong earthquake that hit southwest China’s mountainous Yunnan province has killed one person, and left more than 300 people injured as well...
Nobel prize for Physics
BBC Online :An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for inventing the new energy-efficient light source that...
Nobel Prize in Medicine
New York Times :A British-American scientist and a pair of Norwegian researchers were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for...
US army veteran in guise of aid worker
AP, Indianapolis :Peter Kassig first visited Beirut on a college spring break trip. What the former army ranger saw there prompted him to return, the...
Another British hostage beheaded by IS
TNN, London :British taxi driver Alan Henning, who skipped Christmas with his family to raise funds to purchase ambulances and medical equipment and join an...
Top N Korea leaders make rare visit to S Korea
Reuters, South Korea :Isolated North Korea sent its highest level delegation to South Korea on Saturday to attend the Asian Games closing ceremony amid a...
Rival protesters face off in gritty HK neighborhood
Reuters, Hong Kong :More than a thousand rival protesters, some wearing helmets, faced off in a densely populated, gritty district of Hong Kong on Saturday,...
First womb-transplant baby born
BBC Online :A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical first, doctors report.The 36 year-old...