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Babies dying at Nigerian army detention center: Amnesty 11 May 2016 - 01:53 pm

LAGOS, Nigeria: Children and babies are dying in appalling conditions at a military detention center hosting Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria's northeastern Maiduguri...

Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war 11 May 2016 - 01:04 pm

Bangladeshi police personnel stand guard at the Supreme Court premises in Dhaka on May 11, 2016. Thousands of police were deployed May 11...

Attacker shot dead after killing two in Massachusetts 11 May 2016 - 12:31 pm

A man stabbed at least four people, killing two, in the US state of Massachusetts before an off-duty security officer shot him dead....

London police say abandoned item on bus was non-suspicious 11 May 2016 - 12:17 pm

File picture used for representation. Reuters LONDON: London's Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday that officers had established that a suitcase abandoned on a...

Army, rebels trade fire in Syria's Aleppo as truce end looms 11 May 2016 - 12:14 pm

REUTERS/ File photo Aleppo: The Syrian army exchanged fire with rebels in battleground second city Aleppo even before the expiry at midnight on...

Baghdad market bombing death toll rises 11 May 2016 - 12:14 pm

People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Wissm...

In remote corner of Iraq, an unlikely alliance forms against Islamic State 11 May 2016 - 12:01 pm

Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), sit with an Arab tribal fighter (L)...

5 percent of Indian marriages inter-caste; in Mizoram, 55 percent 11 May 2016 - 11:40 am

By Prachi Salve & Saumya Tewari Christian-dominated Mizoram - 87 percent of the population is Christian - has the most inter-caste marriages in...

Rawat to return as Uttarakhand CM, government tells SC 11 May 2016 - 10:52 am

File photo of Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat. Reuters New Delhi: The central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that ousted Uttarakhand...

Car bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 16, sources say 11 May 2016 - 10:47 am

BAGHDAD: A car bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City neighbourhood killed at least 16 people on Wednesday and wounded more than 40 others, Iraqi...

Britain's queen caught on camera calling Chinese officials "very rude" 11 May 2016 - 10:40 am

Britain's Queen Elizabeth smiles during a reception with parliamentarians to mark her 90th birthday at Buckingham Palace in London, Britain May 10, 2016....

Bangladesh refugee dies of heart failure on protest-hit Nauru 11 May 2016 - 10:15 am

People protest outside an immigration office in Sydney, in February 2016. AFP By Matt Siegel SYDNEY: A Bangladeshi refugee died of heart failure...

N. Korea looks back to the future 11 May 2016 - 09:50 am

This picture taken on May 10, 2016, and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 11, 2016 shows...

Hiroshima hopes Obama visit will revitalise anti-nuclear push 11 May 2016 - 09:38 am

Tokyo: Barack Obama's trip to Hiroshima this month is a chance for him to see how the city suffered after its atomic bombing,...

New Zealand warns hikers away from "Lord of the Rings" volcano 11 May 2016 - 09:30 am

Rock formations on Mount Ruapehu WELLINGTON: New Zealand has warned hikers and climbers to steer clear of a volcano in a national park ...

Freed son of Pakistani's ex-PM 'looking forward' to family reunion 11 May 2016 - 09:27 am

Ali Haider Gilani, son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who is contesting in the upcoming general election, speaks during a...

'Social fridges' open in Argentina as poverty rises 11 May 2016 - 08:47 am

Poor and homeless people eat a lentil stew at Plaza de Mayo square in front of the Casa Rosada (Government Palace) in Buenos...

Clinton loses to Sanders in coal state of West Virginia 11 May 2016 - 08:44 am

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally in Salem, Oregon, U.S., May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart BY AMANDA BECKER...