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Islamabad: Pakistan must speed up reform of the energy sector and bring more women into the labour force if it wants to quicken economic growth that lags...

Pyongyang: North Korea said it would strengthen its defensive nuclear weapons capability, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, a decision...

Cape Canaveral: Tiny Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about once...

Beirut: A list backed by mainstream Lebanese parties has won Beirut municipality elections, its leader said early on Monday, seeing off a challenge by an...

Beirut/Paris: Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo on Monday and jets carried out raids around a nearby town seized by...

Arbil/Baghdad: Iraqi forces retook a northern village from IS on Monday, supported by artillery and air strikes from a US-led coalition, as they try to...

Dubai: Iran's minister of defence denied on Monday that the Revolutionary Guards had recently tested a medium-range ballistic missile but reiterated...

Brasilia: The acting speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress annulled the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on Monday and...

Washington: Scientists have gotten to the root of the carrot, genetically speaking. Researchers said on Monday they have sequenced the genome of the carrot,...

Lac La Biche (Alberta): Canadian officials on Monday planned to take their first look at the oil boom town ravaged by the nation's most destructive...