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Eight-year-old girl pulled alive from Taiwan quake rubble 08 Feb 2016 - 01:18 pm

A crane is used in the rescue and search operations that continue at the site where a building complex which collapsed in the...

Syria rebels lose new ground to Kurds, regime: monitor 08 Feb 2016 - 01:05 pm

Beirut: Syrian rebels have withdrawn from three villages threatened by Russian strikes in the northern province of Aleppo that borders Turkey, allowing Kurdish...

US trekker dies in Nepal, police say 08 Feb 2016 - 12:55 pm

Kathmandu: An American trekker has died of suspected altitude sickness after falling unconscious in Nepal, police said Monday. The 53-year-old was hiking with...

Spanish grave opened on order of Argentine judge unearths painful past 08 Feb 2016 - 12:27 pm

Guadalajara highlighted in Spain map. By Sonya Dowsett GUADALAJARA, Spain: A 90-year-old Spanish woman wrapped in a fur coat and woollen scarf stood...

Thai father murders 4 children following spat with wife 08 Feb 2016 - 12:12 pm

Bangkok: Police negotiators laid siege to a house in the country's south Monday after a man allegedly shot dead four of his children...

HRW condemns Hamas execution of own fighter 08 Feb 2016 - 12:08 pm

Jerusalem: Human Rights Watch has condemned Hamas' execution of one of its own fighters after the Palestinian militant group's military wing said the...

Headley bares two failed attempts before 26/11 08 Feb 2016 - 12:02 pm

Flames and smoke from the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel during Mumbai attacks in 2008. Mumbai: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) made two unsuccessful attempts before wreaking...

Freed Australian hostage returns to Burkina Faso 08 Feb 2016 - 11:33 am

A video grab made on February 7, 2016 shows former Australian hostage Jocelyn Elliott (L) beside Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, in Dosso, after...

China offers rewards for online "terrorist" tip-offs: Xinhua 08 Feb 2016 - 11:26 am

A hand is silhouetted in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Shanghai:...

Some Australian asylum seekers to be deported have cancer, terminal illnesses 08 Feb 2016 - 11:21 am

Michael Pezzullo, Secretary of the department of immigration and border protection, speaks during his appearance at an Australian Senate Estimates Committee in Parliament...

Suicide bomber in Afghan city kills 3, wounds 14 08 Feb 2016 - 10:45 am

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan: At least three people were killed and 14 wounded on Monday when a suicide bomber attacked a bus filled with Afghan...

Myanmar presidential vote to start on March 17 as transition talks drag on 08 Feb 2016 - 10:33 am

Myanmar's NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to journalists during her meeting with the media in her office at the parliament in...

Battling doctor shortage, Indian hospitals offer intensive care from afar 08 Feb 2016 - 10:21 am

Doctors remotely monitor live footages of patients inside an electronic intensive care unit (eICU) at Fortis hospital in New Delhi, India, January 20,...

Interview: In Aleppo, underground schools face bombardments and burnout 08 Feb 2016 - 09:51 am

Marcell Shehwaro, executive director of Kesh Malek, a Syrian activist group that runs schools in opposition-held areas of Aleppo, poses for a photograph...

Over 2,000 Pakistanis stranded in Jeddah as PIA strike continues 08 Feb 2016 - 09:41 am

Imran Khan head of opposition political party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf speaks with workers of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) during an anti-government protest, in Karachi, ...