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A sudden slump in India’s vegetable prices following a spike in farm production will keep the central bank from tightening policy until the end of the year, analysts say, with inflation now tipped to slow more...

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s path to the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street is not proving as smooth as the veteran socialist had hoped. In June, with membership of his Labour Party on the...

Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two women engineers who accused the ride-services company of gender and race discrimination. The settlement, disclosed in a filing in...

Hosts Bangladesh have won six gold medals in South Asian Archery Championship. The local archers also secured five silver medals and a bronze in the competition that ended at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan or BKSP...

The High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the government instructions on organising a singing competition of the national anthem at madrasas as well as schools across Bangladesh. The court says it is unacceptable that...

After days of speculation, it has been confirmed that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has visited China. The visit, confirmed by China and North Korea, was Mr Kim’s first known foreign trip since taking office in...

A yachtsman who fell overboard during a round-the-world race in the Southern Ocean is now presumed to be lost at sea, organisers say. John Fisher, 47, from Southampton, fell from Team Sun Hung Kai’s Scallywag yacht 1,400...

Thousands of people are protesting in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, angry at Russian officials over the leisure complex fire that killed at least 64 people, 41 of them children. President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kemerovo...

A judge on Monday denied a defense motion to dismiss charges against the widow of the gunman in the 2016 massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, saying that the gunman’s father’s work an FBI informant was not...

Stormy Daniels sued Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday for defamation, according to court documents, escalating a legal battle between the American president and the porn star that the White House was struggling to contain....