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Tiruchirappalli resident Jagannathan Selvaraj, who has been living in a public park and has no money for even a bus ticket, has walked more than 1,000 kilometres over two years to attend court proceedings to obtain a flight ticket to return home.

Medellin's international airport said on its Twitter account that the aircraft had departed from Bolivia.

The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a large swathe of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold.

After months of wrangling, UK Parliament has passed a contentious new snooping law that gives authorities — from police and spies to food regulators, fire officials and tax inspectors — powers to look at the internet browsing records of everyone in the co...

The quake hit Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) as saying.

Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, U.K. officials have had one message: Brexit means Brexit.

An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit El Salvador and neighbouring countries on Thursday, although no damage or injuries have been reported yet, the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry reported.

Cat owner Sundus Hoorain, who is a lawyer, said she took her cat for a routine check-up to Dr Faisal Khan's clinic in Islamabad.

US president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped a scheduled meeting with The New York Times and within hours reversed his decision and rescheduled it, after chastising the "failing" daily for changing the terms and conditions of the interview and for...

Britain tomorrow delivers its first budget since the Brexit referendum, with economists expecting a slight shift away from years of austerity as the nation readies its EU exit strategy.

US president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday cancelled his meeting with the New York Times describing it as a "failing" newspaper which he alleged had changed the terms and conditions of the interview at the last moment.

The earthquake in northeastern Japan sent people in coastal towns scrambling for higher ground after tsunami alerts were issued in two prefectures, Fukushima and Miygai.

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden on Monday downplayed the importance of President-elect Donald Trump and again defended his decision to leak documents showing massive surveillance of US citizens’ communications.

"I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off," Obama said, amid concerns about Trump's administration picks and public statements.

The Defense Department and broader US government intelligence community have urged President Barack Obama to fire National Security Agency chief Admiral Michael Rogers, US media reported.

Iraqi troops faced stiff resistance Saturday from Islamic State militants as they pushed deeper into eastern Mosul, backed by aerial support from the US-led international coalition, a senior military commander said.