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New York: A gunman fatally shot a female New York City police officer in an unprovoked attack early on Wednesday in the city's Bronx borough, then was...

New Delhi: India is examining the use of private vehicles as shared taxis in an effort to reduce car ownership and curb growing traffic congestion in major...

Bangkok: More than a dozen members of an assembly appointed by Thailand's junta have resigned to be able to contest elections, one of the first signs of...

London: Manchester Airport's Terminal 3 is set to reopen after a police bomb team carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious bag that led to the...

Rome: Untreated wastewater from cities is used to irrigate 50 per cent more farmland worldwide than previously thought, leaving some 885 million people...

Beijing: China invited medical experts from the United States and Germany to help treat dissident Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo for cancer, a local government...

Paris: French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon called on Wednesday for a nationwide day of protest next week against government plans for spending cuts...

London: Britain said on Wednesday it was sending in a task force to help run the local authority struggling to cope with the aftermath of a deadly London...

Kiev: The Ukrainian software firm at the centre of a cyber attack that spread around the world last week said on Wednesday that computers which use its...