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Wellington: NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from New Zealand's South Island Wanaka Airport on Tuesday to conduct near-space...

Seoul: South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Monday for her novel "The Vegetarian", a dark, surreal...

Colombo: Flash floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, triggered by more than three days of heavy rain, have forced more than 130,000 people to leave their...

SHANGHAI: China must learn from the tumultuous, decade-long Cultural Revolution and never allow such an event to happen again, the ruling Communist...

BANGKOK: One of two ethnic Uighur Muslims from China accused of involvement in a deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine last year broke down in front of cameras...

Vienna: Major power talks on Syria aim to restore a truce across the country and get aid into besieged areas to encourage opposition groups to return to...

New Delhi: The much-awaited new education policy will be announced before May 26 when the Narendra Modi government completes its two years in office, Human...

New Delhi: Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have voted for change giving BJP its first government in the northeastern state dislodging Congress which also lost...

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of acting like a political campaigner instead of behaving as the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked parliament on Monday to form a commission to investigate allegations stemming from the Panama Papers...