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Losses top $2.2 billion as crippled Chennai seeks aid on Twitter 03 Dec 2015 - 11:13 am

A bridge is submerged in flood waters in Chennai, India, 02 December 2015. EPA By Anurag Kotoky Chennai: As the flood-ravaged Indian city...

IAF airlifts 200 stranded passengers from Chennai to Hyderabad 03 Dec 2015 - 11:08 am

Press Information Bureau on December 2, 2015, released an aerial view of the submerged Chennai airport taken from an Indian Air Force helicopter...

Modi has clear vision for India: White House 03 Dec 2015 - 10:24 am

Indian PM Narendra Modi with US President Barack Obama at the recent climate summit in Paris. Reuters Washington: White House heaped high praise...

Photos show new North Korea nuclear test tunnel: US think tank 03 Dec 2015 - 09:10 am

Missiles are displayed during a military parade at Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang, in October 2015. AFP Recent satellite imagery suggests North Korea...

California Muslims condemn 'horrific' mass shooting 03 Dec 2015 - 09:07 am

Los Angeles: California's Muslim community expressed its horror on Wednesday at the mass shooting that killed at least 14 in San Bernardino, after...

At least 14 dead in California mass shooting 03 Dec 2015 - 08:59 am

A police officer officer guards a police line as officers prepare to raid the home of one or more suspects of a mass...

San Bernardino, desert town stunned by mass shooting 03 Dec 2015 - 08:46 am

Los Angeles: San Bernardino is prey to regular gang violence, but the California desert town has never seen carnage of the scale that...

California shooting suspect identified as Syed Farook: media 03 Dec 2015 - 08:39 am

Los Angeles: One of the suspects in a mass shooting that left at least 14 people dead in California has been identified as...

Obama welcomes British vote to join Syria air campaign 03 Dec 2015 - 08:38 am

Washington: US President Barack Obama hailed a vote Wednesday by British lawmakers to join the air campaign against the Islamic State group in...

Britain launches airstrikes on IS in Syria 03 Dec 2015 - 08:33 am

British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic...

California massacre differs from lone-wolf shootings 03 Dec 2015 - 08:31 am

Police vehicles line the street around a vehicle in which two suspects were shot following a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California December...

Shooting rampage at California social services agency leaves 14 dead, 14 wounded 03 Dec 2015 - 01:55 am

Police officer and his canine walk the perimeter at the scene of the active shooting in San Bernardino,California December 2 SAN BERNARDINO: Fourteen...

France watchdog slams round-ups of migrants from Calais 'Jungle' 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

France's prisons watchdog condemned the government on Wednesday for locking up migrants in a bid to clear the notorious camp known as "the...

New Amazon legal drama to star Billy Bob Thornton 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

New York: Amazon announced Wednesday that it had commissioned a new legal drama series called "Trial" starring Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and...

France closes 'radical' mosque after big police raid 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

The Mosque of Lagny-sur-Marne has been recently closed as a result of the introduction of a state of emergency, in an eastern Paris...

Nigeria’s Buhari to ask China’s Xi for urgent infrastructure funding 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

ABUJA: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will ask China’s president at a summit this week to fund rail and power projects urgently needed to...

Century-old cake baked for Austrian empress sweetens museum collection 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Austria's Empress Elisabeth Vienna: This is one cake you can neither have nor eat: a tart baked 118 years ago for Austria's Empress...

China's Xi in S.Africa ahead of regional summit 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Johannesburg: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a two-day summit with regional leaders as Africa seeks further...