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Hundreds of people gathered at the world’s most famous zebra crossing on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the day the Beatles created one of the best-known album covers in music history and an image...

More than two million Muslims begin the annual hajj on Friday as the Saudi hosts seek to deter politicisation of the pilgrimage against a backdrop of simmering Gulf tensions. The hajj, one of the world’s largest...

Former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj passed away on Tuesday night, AIIMS sources said. She was 67. The senior BJP leader was brought to AIIMS around 9:30 pm and was straight away...

Bangladesh is grappling with its worst outbreak of dengue fever, with hospitals packed with patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely-populated country. At least 14 people have died and more than 17,000 have come...

Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male “guardian”, the government said Thursday, ending a restriction that drew international censure and prompted extreme attempts to flee the kingdom. The landmark reform...

Japan’s government voted on Friday to remove South Korea from a so-called white list of favored export partners, defying warnings from Seoul that the move would have “grave consequences” for security ties between the US allies....

The U.S. Senate on Thursday announced and sent to President Donald Trump a two-year budget deal that would expand federal spending on defense and an array of other domestic programs, significantly adding to rapidly escalating government...

The son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, Hamza Bin Laden, has died, according to US intelligence officials. Details of Hamza Bin Laden’s place or date of death remain unclear in the anonymously-sourced reports. In February,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called in the military to fight forest fires that have been raging across vast expanses of Siberia for days, enveloping entire cities in black smoke. Environmentalists have warned that the...

While the number of new cancer cases in children and adolescents (aged 0-19 years) is relatively low at around 416,500 globally in 2017, treatment-related ill-health and disability and fatal cancer are estimated to cause around 11.5...