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German Chancellor Angela Merkel led a large delegation of ministers and businessmen to India on Tuesday, seeking ...

China`s safety watchdog has found nearly one in ten toys in the domestic market is unsafe, highlighting widespread ...

A UN envoy confirmed Monday that a video allegedly depicting Sri Lanka troops executing Tamil Tigers was authentic, ...

Two Australian soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the Defence Department said Tuesday, ...

President Barack Obama on Sunday called last week`s tornado that claimed scores of lives here "a national tragedy" as ...

Police shot dead four anti-regime protesters and wounded dozens more on Sunday in Yemen`s second largest city of Taez, ...

The head of Georgia`s rebel Abkhazia region, Sergei Bagapsh, died in a Moscow hospital Sunday, as analysts predicted ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and his son and heir apparent celebrated the "successful" outcome of his trip to China ...

The captain of a hijacked Taiwanese fishing boast was killed in crossfire between the US Navy and Somali pirates, the ...

At least 14 civilians were killed and six wounded in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities ...

Nepal`s prime minister has agreed to step down after less than four months in office to secure opposition support for ...

Costa Rican police seized 178 kilograms (392 pounds) of cocaine near the Pacific coast, bringing to over a ton the ...

Two British soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, defence officials in ...

German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Saturday said two German soldiers were killed in a Taliban suicide ...

The death toll from Typhoon Songda in the Philippines rose to three on Saturday as rescuers retrieved the body of a ...