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Russia's minister for telecom and mass communications Nikolai Nikiforov met Prasad and conveyed the proposal regarding the group on Information and Communications Technology in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping.

Meanwhile, a black box has been recovered from the scene and pulverized pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides.

The US has said India's resurgence under the new leadership was driving energy and optimism across South Asia.

The 10th grade students from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school were on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange programme at the Institut Giola in Llinars del Vallès near Barcelona.

"IS officials try to woo children with money, weapons and teaching them how to drive cars," the monitoring body said.

Lee, a British-educated lawyer, is credited with building Singapore into one of the world's wealthiest nations.

A bystander received a graze wound to the arm during the scramble to get out of the area and a few people received minor cuts from furniture.

Around 100 bodies were found in a mass grave on the outskirts of the town of Damasak in northeast Nigeria on Friday.

A woman in the US allegedly stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach and removed her unborn baby from the womb when the expectant mother had gone to her house to buy baby clothes advertised online.

The US military bases in Kandahar and Jalalabad are likely to remain open beyond the end of 2015, a senior US official said.

About another 100 Italians were in the area and had been taken to safety by Tunisian police, authorities said.

Netanyahu, 65, who has been in power for nine years over three terms, is pitted against 54-year-old Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog.

"He calls on the Government of Pakistan to swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice and to do its utmost to prevent attacks against places of worship and protect religious minorities," Haq said.

"There is a real sense of urgency to solve this matter once and for all," said Marzuki Darusman, the UN's independent expert on the rights situation in North Korea.

Trying to get perfect photos to earn 'likes' on your Instagram or Facebook may keep you from enjoying real-life experiences, a new study suggests.

Nasheed's election in 2008 ended the autocratic 30-year rule of Yameen's half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.