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Bhutan`s rare form of polygamy, in which men or women take several sisters or brothers as partners, is dying out as ...

Bhutan`s hugely popular king married a 21-year-old student on Thursday in a colourful ceremony showcasing the rich ...

The number of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan has declined for the first time in a "welcome" trend in the ten-year-old ...

A seismograph near the top of Mount Lewotobi was damaged in a recent forest fire but has now been replaced, a local ...

Trash bank as part of efforts to overcome ubiquitous problem in Indonesia is also able to empower the people`s economy ...

Sitting in an area with wide unpopulated tracts of land, the Central Maluku district town of Masohi is currently ...

Thick smog from 85 newly detected hot spots is reported to be covering West Sumatera province. According to ...

Turkish war planes bombed Kurdish guerrilla positions in Iraq on Sunday, while in southeast Turkey insurgents killed ...

Mount Soputan in South Minahasa and Mount Karangetang in Sitaro, North Sulawesi, continue to be in an alert status, a ...

The United States urged southern Sudanese rebels Thursday to join a two-week truce in a contested border state where ...

Eight Turkish soldiers were killed in a suspected bomb explosion in Turkey`s southeastern Hakkari province on ...

A bomb attack on Monday wounded at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda hotspot of Waziristan on ...

A helicopter which crashed killing 30 US troops in Afghanistan was shot down after the Taliban laid a trap to lure US ...

Rebel commanders said their fighters captured the town of Bir Ghanam, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the Libyan ...

A grizzly bear attacked seven students on a backpacking course in a remote area of Alaska, injuring four including one ...