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Berlin: Germany's Angela Merkel agreed on Friday to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who read out a crude poem about...

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir continued to be on the boil on Saturday with one more youth getting killed and three others being injured in firing by security...

London: Mars Food plans to tell customers to eat some of its Dolmio pasta sauces and macaroni cheese only once a week to maintain a balanced diet because of...

Kunduz (Afghanistan): Hundreds of Taliban insurgents have launched an offensive to seize the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, which they captured and held...

Seoul: North Korea attempted and failed to launch what experts believe was an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday in defiance of UN sanctions and...

Tokyo: A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck southern Japan early on Saturday morning, triggering a tsunami advisory. The quake's epicentre was near the...

Tokyo: Chacha the chimpanzee made his own great escape on Thursday, fleeing from a zoo in northern Japan and leading authorities on a dramatic chase. The...

Paro Vallery (Bhutan): Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge trekked on Friday to a Buddhist monastery on a mountainside in Bhutan, going one better...

Aboard the USS John C Stennis/Beijing: The chief US defence official visited an American aircraft carrier transiting the disputed South China Sea on Friday,...

Washington: Two Russian warplanes with no visible weaponry flew simulated attack passes near a US guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, a...