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TOKYO: Tokyo shares ended 0.75 percent lower on Friday, tracking a tumble on Wall Street stoked by disappointing corporate earnings results. The benchmark...

BEIJING: The new H7N9 bird flu strain has killed 45 people on the Chinese mainland since the first human infection was confirmed in...

SEOUL: South Korea's largest carrier, Korean Air (KAL), said Friday it had agreed to pay $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by...

MUMBAI: The Indian navy said Friday that divers had retrieved the first two bodies of 18 crew who are feared dead on a...

QUITO: Ecuador President Rafael Correa on Thursday said major oil exploration in an unspoilt Amazon nature reserve could go ahead after the failure...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police snipers shot and seriously wounded a gunman who was tackled live on television by a politician during a dramatic standoff...

WELLINGTON: A powerful earthquake shook major cities across New Zealand on Friday, sending terrified office workers diving under their desks but with no...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inspects a guard of honour on his arrival at the Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi...

Indian Navy chief Admiral D K Joshi talks with Defence Minister A K Antony as navy divers standing on the INS Sindhurakshak submarine...

New Delhi: Air India’s unexplained cancellation of a flight to Dubai has led to the Delhi Consumer Commission ordering it to compensate the...

  New Delhi: A Jharkhand woman attempted suicide last afternoon by consuming a pesticide near the Parliament House here as she could not get...

Supporters of Islami Jamiat Talaba rally for ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi, in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday. The Egyptian government has said about 525...

OLYMPIA: A military judge in the case of a US soldier who pleaded guilty to slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians declined to dismiss the...

LAHORE: Infrastructure and logistics are a major hurdle to growth of bilateral trade between Pakistan and India, said a commerce ministry official. This...

ISLAMABAD: The provincial government of Baluchistan has decided to test all its 2,50,000 employees for hepatitis and ensure their vaccination from the epidemic...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) yesterday said Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Roche has been declared guilty of dumping of Pegasys, a medicine...

ISLAMABAD: It appears the government of Pakistan has taken a complete U-turn on its anti-terror strategy at a time when the United States...

WASHINGTON: The US and its allies should immediately announce how many troops will stay on in Afghanistan after 2014, former Nato supreme commander...