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New Delhi: After legendary Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor passed away on Monday, news channels across India scrambled to break the news first, especially...

Washington: Facebook Inc on Monday rolled out Messenger Kids, an app that lets the world's biggest social media company expand into a so-far untapped...

Mumbai: Bollywood icon Shashi Kapoor -- a star of 1970s Indian cinema and a member of the Hindi film industry's famous Kapoor family -- died on Monday...

Cairo: Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik, who last week announced his intention of running for the presidency in 2018, has been taken from his...

Harare: Zimbabwe's former vice president, who was on a trip abroad during last month's military takeover that led to Robert Mugabe's...

New Delhi: Indian police arrested a man whose stinky socks caused a showdown on a bus as his fellow passengers protested the pungent odour, an officer said...

Dhaka: Pope Francis wrapped up a high-stakes Asia tour on Saturday after meeting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in a highly symbolic gesture of solidarity...

Mogadishu: As many as 512 died in an October truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an emergency committee investigating the terrorist atrocity has...

Tegucigalpa (Honduras): The Honduran government declared a state of emergency late Friday and imposed a 10-day curfew in an attempt to stop violent...

Damascus: Syrian air defences intercepted at least two Israeli missiles fired at a government "military position" in Damascus province early...