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    A Palestinian woman holds a copy of the Koran as she confronts an Israeli soldier outside the Al-Aqsa mosques compound in Jerusalem's Old...

BENGALURU:  Two women passengers died and eight other people were injured early Saturday when nine coaches of a speeding Mumbai-bound Duronto express from...

WASHINGTON: At a time when religious discourse is coming under friction, a new book by a Stanford University historian has revealed a cultural...

People gather around the site of an explosion at a restaurant in Jhabua district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on...

  PARWANOO, Himachal Pradesh:  Two foreigners were killed and 14 people were injured on Saturday when two coaches of a Kalka-Shimla toy train derailed...

By Mohit Dubey LUCKNOW:  In middle of last year's high-octane Lok Sabha campaign, Narendra Modi had thumped his "chappan inch ka seena" (56-inch...

  By Aroonim Bhuyan NEW DELHI: After having conquered the highest peaks in each of the seven continents in the world and having skiied...

  By Preetha Nair NEW DELHI: Contradicting reports of being forced to stop writing after threats from right wing groups, Malayalam literary critic M.M....

  JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Friday banned the slaughter of camels during this year's hajj pilgrimage, after a surge in deaths from the MERS...

NEW DELHI: A confluence of myriad colours, fabrics, hand-made embroidery and exquisite designs from across the border marked the second day of the...

  PESHAWAR:  Three people were killed and at least five others were injured in a gunfight in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar late Friday,...

TOKYO:  Tokyo on Saturday resumed work on a controversial new US military base in southern Okinawa following a month-long suspension, officials said, even...

  LONDON: The most left-wing of all the candidates, Jeremy Corbyn is odds on favourite to become the next leader of Britain's Labour Party,...

LAGOS: A senior Nigerian journalist who was seized from her home last month has been released, her newspaper and police said on Saturday....

Members of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) argue with Turkish police forces as they try to enter Kurdish town Cizre blocked...

  In this image released by the Saudi Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Civil Defense, Defense personnel inspect the damage at the Grand Mosque...

  YEREVAN:  Riot police in Armenia detained 48 people on Saturday as they dispersed protests near the presidential palace over soaring electricity prices, just...

  By Raushan Nurshayeva ASTANA: Kazakhstan welcomed the world's most experienced space flier and two rookie crewmates on Saturday, including Denmark's first-ever astronaut, who...